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BIG X AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 Land Down Under 6 Band members 11 Kind of park 16 Hour fractions 18 Vincent ___

Gogh

19 Like Siberian

winters 20 Bleacher bum,

e.g.

21 Home of the Bills 23 Bathwater

tester

24 Borax or

stannite 25 Witchy town 28 Third from the

Sun

30 UFO spotter 33 Frighten 35 Holey cheese 37 Cozy stopover 38 Hoops score 40 Kind of floss 42 Ignited 43 Clubs for Tiger 44 Guild 45 Bull’s-eye site 48 Sources 49 Look upon 52 Had to have 55 Clean a plate 56 Seesaw number 57 Crazy ___

(card game) 60 Chose from a

menu 61 Alcott’s little

women 65 Farm vehicle 66 Vend 67 Dobbin’s dinner 69 Precise 71 Taboo in

airplanes 75 Wedding figure 76 Moves in neutral 79 Turn up 82 Viewpoint 84 Box with a bow 86 Utters,

Biblical-style 88 Furry Star

Wars creatures 89 Seaport in

Scotland 90 ___-haw 91 Wrath

92 “The ___ of

victory ...” 95 Illustrati­on 98 Muscle

spasms

101 MBA, for one 103 Kindergart­en

break

105 Try for a job 106 Drains

110 Seasoning

111 Facts

113 Hotel employee 115 Swabbies

118 Made to fit

122 Skull

124 Spin-the-___ 126 Suffix with

musket

127 Ostrich

relative

128 Appetite

ruiners

131 Upward climb 133 Helps

remember

134 Pitches

136 OPEC vessel 137 Faux pas

138 Fellows

139 Not so fast 142 Published

146 Golfer Trevino 147 Takes a cloth

to

149 Ballot caster 150 “Last, but not

___”

152 Lion group 153 Sail fabric

155 Assist

156 Uncooked

157 One more

160 ___ Tin Tin

161 Remove

entirely

162 Blonde shade

163 Bulletin

166 Last century 167 Approximat­ed 168 Conviction

results

DOWN

1 Right to enter 2 Family member 3 Sewer rodent 4 Fan of talk radio 5 Adjective

modifier 6 Calendar pages 7 Orb

8 Was concerned 9 On dry land 10 Least risky

11 Yearly 12 Rainy-day item 13 North Pole

worker

14 Gay Nineties,

e.g.

15 “A cast of ___!” 17 Hawaiian lute 22 A ___ Good

Men (1992) 26 Baggy

27 What “senor”

means

29 Made lace 31 Junk rooms 32 What Dr. Phil

dispenses 34 Snowman nose

35 MGM, for one 36 Notre Dame

team

39 Sailing speeds 41 Tree homes 46 Label data 47 Compost

material 50 Isaac Newton

discovery 51 Bugle call 53 Lamb’s

parent 54 Barbie and Ken 58 Crowd 59 Egyptian king 62 Doctrine 63 “Naughty!”

64 Perlman in

Hellboy 66 Pulled it off 68 Caught

unawares 70 Completely 71 Highest court 72 Grand ___

Opry

73 Hockey rink 74 Rakes up 75 Splits evenly 77 ___ for the ride 78 Sample the soup 80 Part of a lunar

cycle

81 Rockies bird 83 Golf score

85 American

uncle

87 Tall tree 93 Movie villains 94 Upgrade 96 Swiss peak 97 Honolulu dish 99 Zoo stars

100 Spot-on

102 Friars’ fete 104 Semicolon part 107 Kind of puddle 108 Summit

109 First mate

112 Fanfare

114 Squid’s squirt 116 Bedside

buzzers

117 Colonize

118 One-way sign 119 Think highly of 120 Wimbledon

sport

121 Classroom

furniture

122 Coast Guard

boat

123 Invisible

124 Televise

125 Yarns

129 Kind of reef 130 Unfamiliar

faces

132 Talk

135 Peddler

139 Collar stiffener

140 Syracuse U.

team

141 First-born

143 Avenue

144 Onward

and ___

145 Cupboard

contents

148 Kiddie

151 “Old MacDonald had ___ ...” (2 wds.)

154 “By all

means!”

158 Poem

159 Sizzling

164 Female

165 Curve

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