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BIG X AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 Teacher

6 Part of ATM 11 Previous 16 Musical solo 17 “The Marvelous

___ Maisel” 18 Tube type 19 Eight ounces 20 Painter Moses 21 Dumbo’s

“wing”

22 Desk wood 23 Had feelings for

25 Lucky number 27 It fits into a nut

30 Bounding main 32 Serious play

33 Intention 34 Subject of a will 36 Empty a truck 38 Cyclone center 39 Civil War side 41 Lock horns 43 Movie theater 46 Homework 47 Par for the ___ 50 Brunch hour

53 Potpie veggie

54 Nursery “piggy”

55 Vigil light 58 Newspaper

story

59 Nuns

63 Kind of TV

show

64 Nest sound 65 Singer ___

Gaga 67 Carrots on

snowmen 69 Got on the

train

73 One more

time

74 Divides up 77 Painting

surface

80 Ship

82 Titanic sinker 84 Fish to take

home 86 Call up 87 Finish 88 Uncooked 89 Magazine

copy

90 UN member 93 “Farewell!” 96 Entry 99 Evenings

101 Quizzed

103 Mace, for one 104 Leaves on

base

108 Not as humid 109 Make jaws

drop

111 “And ___ we

go!”

113 Mix in

116 Baseball

position

120 Not for

122 Globe

124 June bug

125 Country

lodge

126 Showed

shock

129 Grownups

131 Permitted

132 Norway

neighbor

134 Silky fabric 135 Armani

creation

136 Neon, for one 137 Shirt part

140 Mideast land 144 Hot tub

145 Lasso loop 147 Lock of hair 148 Fess up

150 Goody

151 Mailing sticker 153 “Open ___

midnight”

154 Scoundrel

155 Be a copycat 157 ___-jongg

158 Join forces 159 Henhouse

find

160 Euphoria

162 “Ladies and

___ ...”

163 Much-admired 164 Hemmed and

hawed

DOWN

1 Skydiving must 2 Hollywood

award 3 Partake 4 Telemarket­er,

e.g.

5 Cart off

6 Not in class 7 Desire for drink 8 Coal digger 9 Unhorsed

10 Clock bird 11 Pinned a balloon 12 Train driver 13 Epoch 14 Mumbai locale 15 Buyer’s

protection 24 Chorus girl 26 Get away 28 Knocks off 29 The Continent 31 Zodiac sign 32 Beat

35 World holder 37 Endures 40 Eisenhower 42 The Almighty 44 Deeply felt

45 Allows to leave 48 In the dark 49 School subject 51 Whopper 52 Fog or mist, e.g. 56 Fishline

material 57 Kettle cover 60 Bride’s

response 61 Asphalt 62 Lawn grass 64 Puts off 66 24-hours ago 68 “___ is golden” 69 River

crossings 70 Gorilla

71 Expire 72 Thermomete­r

markings 73 Ungraceful 75 “I knew it all

___!” 76 Happening 78 Crop up 79 Drop in on 81 Boozer 83 Future flower 85 Bakery buy 91 Took for granted 92 Monogram

member 94 “They’re Playing ___ Song”

95 Ballerina’s

hairdo 97 Prevailing

weather 98 Bizarre

100 Therefore 102 Arena row 105 Mad Hatter’s

drink

106 Joan of ___ 107 Stag’s mate 110 Gratuity

112 Beer

114 Rainbow

color

115 Ford flops

116 Whooping

bird

117 Like Pisa’s

tower

118 Aloha State 119 Jockey

120 “Jeopardy!”

question

121 Caesar’s

shoe

122 Dwindling 123 Mr. Ed’s bed 127 “The Raven”

poet

128 Showed

publicly

130 How salmon

run

133 Cause for an

SOS

137 Pulpit talk 138 “Sanford and

Son” aunt

139 Holds dear 141 Map line

142 Make the

meeting

143 Duration

146 Fried ___

rings

149 Pine Tree

State

152 Beauty’s

friend

156 The

works

161 Stop the

bidder

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