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BIG X AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

- By JOHN McCARTHY

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

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