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AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 Mistletoe

season 6 Quiver

11 Shade of brown

(2 wds.) 16 Summary 17 Poisonous

shrub

18 Golf clubs 19 Himalayan

land

20 Lid

21 Tiny amount 22 Debtor’s note 23 Salad plant 25 Five-alarm

dish

27 Former

Microsoft CEO 30 Direct to a

specialist 32 Diamond

weight 33 Architect I.M. 34 Lumberjack

shout

36 In a class by

___

38 Hot tub 39 Solomon’s

queen 40 Draws close 41 Sense of right

and wrong 44 Ford SUV 47 Vocation 49 Witchcraft 52 Flock of

geese 53 Earthy

pigment 56 Enticed 58 Topple 59 Lease

60 ___ Dhabi 61 Cross letters 62 Did away

with 65 Cilantro 68 Empty 71 Scholastic

stat 72 Gondolier’s

pole

74 Sixth sense 75 Worthwhile 78 Undo a belt 80 NY hockey

team

81 Part of PTA 83 Surprise win 84 Suffix for ball 85 Lupino of

film

86 Fit out 88 Goldfinger

baddie

91 Died

94 Lessen 97 Yellow fruit 99 Guitarist Paul 101 Wide shoe

width

102 Suffix for

Siam

104 W. Texas city 106 Held in

107 Mars

(2 wds.)

108 Paquin in

The Piano

109 Collection 110 Sandwich

shop

111 Party invitee 113 True-blue

115 Peachy-keen 118 Wipe clean 120 Pub

122 Auto repair

shop

124 Telescope

user

127 Made

smaller

129 Dame

Mirren

130 Oasis fruits 132 Sky mystery 133 Turn

indicator

136 Eye part

140 Bar none

141 “This ___

war!”

142 Norse dwarf 143 “When pigs

fly!”

145 Tacked on 146 Mr. Fudd

147 Suffix for

direct

148 Yankovic

and Gore

149 Sail fabric

151 Diner

152 Start

153 Cheers

waitress

154 Photo finish 155 Bat of Dodge

City

156 ___ Graham

Bell

157 Muttonchop­s

DOWN

1 Venezuela

capital 2 Gangster 3 Maple fluid 4 Band member

5 Mountainto­p 6 Injured party 7 Bidding game 8 Roughly

9 Be firm about 10 Mother ___ 11 Blunt

turndown 12 Do a lake

sport 13 Business abbr. 14 Peter Pan’s

home 15 Oxygenates 24 Sissy in

Carrie

26 Sex drive 28 Rule, Britannia! composer

29 Emerald Isle 31 Evaded

capture 32 Dyan in

Deathtrap 35 Pew 37 Top-notch 42 Pasta sauce

herb

43 Yale class 45 Storm

warning 46 Swarm over 47 Large

reindeer 48 Perfume

compound 50 Swan Lake

swan

51 Bay window

54 Zodiac

border 55 Cellar gas 56 “Filthy”

money 57 Strife

goddess 63 Vile 64 Pacer’s gear 66 Dwelled 67 Clothing 69 Bow rub-on 70 John who

sang Daniel 73 Texas A&M

student 76 Knight’s

horse

77 Trey beaters 79 Ancient

82 Aussie bird 87 Almond

candy 89 Grows dim 90 Saturn

neighbor 92 Go by bike 93 Encored a

sitcom 95 Ballroom

figures 96 Country

house 97 Explosion 98 Saying

100 Canadian

gas brand 103 Cup of tea 105 Duck

down

112 Neptune

neighbor

113 Soup

bean

114 Mideast

land

116 Leg bone

117 Pulled

out

119 Cowboy’s

seat

121 Safe contents 123 Cockpit

gauge

125 Hambletoni­an horses

126 Part

127 Casino cubes 128 Promontory

129 Similarsou­nding word

131 Roads

133 Get

mushy

134 Attorney

Allred

135 “Tennis,

___?”

137 Gave a

speech

138 GEICO

500 org. 139 Festoons 144 Mountain

view

150 Born

154 Unruly

crowd

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