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BIG X AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 In a tizzy

5 Fearing Friday the 13th, e.g.

12 Rather than

16 TLC dispenser

18 Perfect model

19 Cloudless

20 Farmland units

21 Root veggies

23 Mad Hatter’s drink

24 Revolver

25 Once more

28 Use a pencil end

30 Pigeon perch

33 Microsoft founder

35 Glucose

37 Corn spike

38 All over

40 “Do unto ___ ...”

42 Summit

43 Stooges number

44 Pitching stat

45 Weighty

46 Pull

49 Windy blasts

50 Smallest amount

51 Run in neutral

53 Menorah light

56 Pressed pants

59 Said “no”

60 Legal advisors

63 Transforme­d

64 Notion

65 Mafia bosses

67 Not smooth

69 Defect

71 Menswear item

72 Spar verbally

75 Pooh’s wise friend

76 Curve

77 Hen’s work

80 Unveil

82 Porridge

84 Bothers

86 Garlic segment

87 Electees

88 Egyptian king

89 Rashness

90 Show up

93 Highest court

96 Tortoise

99 BLT ingredient

101 Bygone

102 Golf course grass

103 Feature

105 Stallone’s boxer

106 Ties the knot

107 Puts in peril

108 Evil Disney lion

110 Termite’s dinner

112 Like spandex

115 Parmesan and cheddar

117 Furnish

119 Oleo, e.g.

121 Jitters

124 Fling

126 Not sharp

128 Rocking ___

129 Advantage

131 Colossal

132 Sick

133 Maze passages

134 Scrambled item

135 Come to terms

138 “Gilligan’s ___”

142 Gorilla

143 Thespian

145 Perhaps

146 Take in a foundling

148 Drinking tube

149 Blue ___ Mountains

151 Acorn, e.g.

152 Ooh and ___

153 Top berth

156 Famous

157 Devoured

158 Bach’s instrument

159 Goatee 161 Broadens

162 Malta’s sea

163 Like zebras

DOWN

1 Phenomenal

2 Melody

3 Ball holder

4 Standards

5 Teeter-totter

6 Threw snowballs at

7 Remember

8 Political shift

9 Objective

10 Citrus fruit

11 Walks pompously

12 Demanded firmly

13 Big sandwich

14 Eden evictee

15 Demolished

17 Enjoy Aspen

22 Aussie bird

26 Chef’s garb

27 Compass pointer

29 Burned

31 Spud buds

32 Objective

34 Polar ocean

35 Globe

36 With a ___ of salt

39 Picasso’s stand

41 Coin toss call

47 Soccer official

48 Motion to

51 Kind of dressing

52 Softly

54 Assistance

55 “Hamlet” is one

57 In a strange way

58 Eternity

61 Source of bran

62 Best of the best

64 Points to

66 Hinted at

68 Cause of a bank closing

69 Flower

70 Bikini tops

71 Disperse

73 Witchy transport

74 Goody

78 Bonfire remains

79 Offspring

81 Doc for Mr. Ed

83 Tarnish

85 Not in the closet

91 Twister

92 Arouses

94 Handbag

95 Departs

97 Make good as new

98 Durable

100 Shake hands on

104 Potency

109 Eight ounces

111 Corrida cheer

113 ___ Day Saints

114 Spider snare

115 Woo

116 Tiny

117 PTA member

118 Farther down

119 Autograph

120 Jerk the knee

122 Marked a ballot

123 Postponed

125 Newscast portions

127 Deadlocked

128 Cut coupons

130 Sketches

135 Nervous ___

136 Watched over

137 Most recent

139 Song verse

140 On dry land

141 St. George slew one

144 ___-cent sale

147 Playful swimmer

150 Skating surface

154 Bust a balloon

155 Sprinted

159 Saloon

160 Cleo’s pet

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