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AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

ACROSS

1 Fast trains 6 Makeup items 11 Man-made 16 Wipe clean 18 Saturn

features 19 “Daniel”

singer John 20 Automaton 21 Strength 23 Hot springs 24 Epoch 25 Bulldog

warning 28 Angry look 30 Cook clams 33 Lady Gaga

plays one 35 Office team 37 Henhouse

find

38 ___ of two

evils

40 NFL 2-pointer 42 Republican 43 Goody

44 Pen filler 46 Celestial

being

47 Noon

50 Bank

transactio­n 51 Race-related 54 Zodiac sign 57 “A Boy

Named ___” 58 Bar none 59 Nothing more

than 62 Sources 63 Numerous 66 Equip

67 Stalk

68 Killer whale 70 It’s no lie 72 Cherished 74 Met staging 75 Turned into 78 London river 81 “Certainly!” 83 Sewing items 85 Java 87 Batman’s pal 88 Henna, for

one

89 Timber tree 90 “No way!” 91 Worth having 94 Plume 97 Northern

circle

100 Not finegraine­d

102 Breakfast

food

104 Zodiac sign 105 Places of

worship

106 Car gear

107 Shock

109 Couch

111 Beijing

citizens

114 Put on a

show

117 Most downy 119 Technique

121 Island guitar 122 Eden mom 123 Quit formally 126 Apricot drink 128 Red-faced

131 Journey

133 Cheek

cosmetic

134 Before this

time

135 Crazed

136 Hit the

slopes

137 Magnetism 140 Fit in

144 Wonder

145 Cairo locale 147 Sauna wear 148 School group 150 Typical

151 Pub game

153 Rainbow

154 Folding bed 155 Regularly

158 Like April

159 Additional 160 Niagara ___ 161 Delhi locale

163 Flight of

steps

164 Laundry

soap

165 Recent past

DOWN

1 Full of zip 2 Black-eyed ___ 3 Cyclone center 4 Uphill battle 5 Beach shoe 6 Defeats

7 The “magic

word”

8 Book spine info 9 Movie house 10 Knee boo-boo

11 Metro

12 Most of

the air 13 Hip-___

14 Ski lift 15 Cautiously 17 Mother bear 22 Ump’s call 26 Bounding

main 27 Scrabble tile 29 Adjourn

briefly 31 Voyage 32 Starts the

Q&A

34 In a class

by ___

35 Parking lot

spots 36 Quarrel 39 A pentagon

has five 41 Deadly 45 Alaskan

seaport 48 On paper 49 Off hours 52 “She’s just not ___ today” 53 Mimic 55 Singer

Garfunkel 56 There’s

one in 1,000

60 Valerie

Harper role 61 Inc. cousin 64 Worth 65 Competitor 67 Deducts 69 Land Down

Under

71 NFL powwows 72 Charity event 73 Defuses a

bomb

74 Fruit grove 76 Snake in a

basket 77 Math sign 79 “As a

result...”

80 Flick 82 Fiddle-de-___ 84 I topper 86 Obese 92 Oceanfront 93 Superlativ­e for

Snow White 95 Knight in

shining ___ 96 “Hi, there!” 98 For the most

part

99 Titanic sinker 101 One-story

house

103 Takes a

break

108 Tic-tac-___

110 Ground cloud 112 Like Abe

113 The Continent 114 UN goal

115 Pennant

116 Purple Heart,

e.g.

117 At sixes and

___

118 Looked like 119 Terrific

120 Very ___

yours

124 Tube type

125 Essential

127 Standards

129 ___ of fame 130 Crowds

132 Psychother­apy 137 For a short

time

138 Got in the

game

139 Southern

drawl, e.g.

141 Slip away

142 Gear

143 Jury verdict 146 Dessert item 149 Thespian

152 Raggedy doll 156 Orange

pekoe, e.g.

157 Hide ___ hair 161 Anger

162 Pop

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