BIG X AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Samuel Morse
invention
6 Man-made
11 Moving staircase
16 Boston ___ pie
18 Sleepy
19 Smoldering coal
20 Say “yes”
21 Group of jurors
23 Pappy
24 Bruin great
Bobby
25 “A Boy ___
Sue”
28 Sound
30 Caesar’s
language
33 Abs exercise
(hyph.)
35 Absolute pits
37 On in years
38 Zodiac sign
40 At sixes and
___
42 Landing guess
43 Almost, but
not ___
44 Beige
46 Musical pace
47 Wrangler’s seat 50 One dropping
by
51 Dorothy’s ___
Em
54 Breadth
57 Go downhill fast
58 Sol
59 Whooping birds
62 What
opposites do
63 Spare hours
66 Gobblers
67 Sink stopper
68 Florida islets
70 Test grades
72 Slimmed down
74 Sign of a fire
75 Meryl in “The
Post”
78 AM/FM
receivers
81 Nuclear
83 Rulers
85 Quit formally
87 Big cat
88 Island guitar
89 Sock part
90 Honking
birds
91 Perfume
sampler
94 Vienna locale
97 Turn up
100 Calendar
pages
102 Biked
104 Gave a flip
105 Luxurious
106 Beatle with
the beat
107 Black Friday
event
109 Expressway
111 Answered
114 Throws
117 ___ of
commerce
119 Ball
121 Conger
122 Holstein’s
hello
123 Regardless
126 Near the
rudder
128 Uncle Sam’s
home
131 Spud
133 Stubborn
critters
134 Danson or
Turner
135 App buyers
136 Stately tree
137 Hurry
140 Shaving
cream
144 Pig
145 Safari
shelters
147 Grown-up
148 Alma ___
150 Customary
151 Split evenly
153 Scamp
154 “No ___ do.”
155 Makes money
158 Church
instrument
159 Dubliners
160 Stingy
161 Trade name
163 Caught
unawares
164 Cloistered
165 Unexpected
find
DOWN
1 Method
2 Fib
3 Jewel
4 Was present at
5 Valiant
6 Without warning
7 Compass pointer 8 Hard thing to
kick
9 Royal seat
10 Crude
11 White herons
12 Least
expensive
13 Standee’s lack
14 ___ Pan Alley
15 Kinfolk
17 Gorilla
22 Of yore
26 Like a good
cake
27 “It just ___
add up”
29 Least risky
31 ___ and crafts
32 “Small world,
___ it?”
34 Newborn
35 Overly diluted
36 Eternal City
resident
39 ACLU part
41 Poetry
45 Objectives
48 Have a go at
49 Floor plan
52 Jittery
53 Titanic sinker
55 Big shirt size
56 Aerie nester
60 Inquired
61 British isle
64 Pakistan
neighbor
65 Male relative
67 Belmont race
starts (2 wds.)
69 Postponed play
71 Battened down
72 Set free
73 Far-off
74 Creeks
76 “King Lear”
daughter
77 Mars neighbor
79 Furious
80 Perfect model
82 Harvest
goddess
84 Com partner
86 Eisenhower
92 Gets away
93 Wood eater
95 Page of stamps
96 Arrive at
98 Tenant
farmer
99 Gymnast
101 “Been ___,
done that!”
103 Tote
108 Swiss peak
110 Memorabilia
112 Cleans the
slate
113 Kind of floss
114 Seedling
115 Antidote
116 Brainy
117 Duplicates
118 Sufficient
119 Now and
then
120 Singer Reddy
124 “___ of
Fortune”
125 Born ___
(naive)
127 Guacamole
ingredients
129 Sicilian
volcano
130 Not working
132 Olympians,
e.g.
137 Embraced
138 Bee bites
139 Holy Roman
___
141 Bowman
142 Tracked deer
143 Sturdy
146 Vietnamese
holiday
149 Dance of the
‘60s
152 Televise
156 Neither’s pal
157 Knight’s title
161 Ghostly
utterance
162 Untouched
serve