INITIAL IMPRESSIONS
Dan Schoenholz, of Walnut Creek, Calif., is the community development director for the city of Fremont. Like many crossword constructors, he got his start after watching the 2006 documentary “Wordplay.” The idea for this puzzle occurred to him one day whe
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Advantage
Tony, e.g. Plunder
Weighed in
Cow : herd :: ____ : troop
One with a discerning palate C-Span?
Start brawling Drink-name suffix
Earth goddess Going from Point A to Point B
Miss piggy? Class acts? Actress Gershon Put back on the market, as real estate
Feel bad Champagne name
P-trap?
G-force?
Union concern Setting for
C. S. Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
NPR host Shapiro
Words said in passing? Deliberate betrayal
Butt
Father figures? Guam or the
U.S. Virgin Islands: Abbr. Surgeons’ professional org. 2012 Best Picture winner Anastasia ____, protagonist of “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Make mention of
Top supporter? Susan who portrayed the youngest child on “The Brady Bunch”
G-flat? Deodorant type 72 73 74
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Be short
Make music
Like Crater Lake, compared with any other U.S. lake
LeBron James in his N.B.A. debut, e.g. Anheuser-Busch InBev’s stock ticker symbol Avocado pit, for one
Cause for revolution, perhaps
Escort’s
offering
83 “Yep, that happened!”
[And like magic ... it’s gone!]
First of ten? Compete in pursuit of
Abbr. on a flight board
D-Con?
E-bond? Conversely, in brief
Worry for a
Great Depression bank
Ladybug, e.g. Cereal box abbr.
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specialists?
105 See 106-Across 106 Out of
105-Across
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109 Bird of legend 110 Fast-food chain with Famous Star burgers
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116 Black-and-white
dessert
117 Take care of some personal baggage
118 Word after green
or smoke
119 Things consumed for psychedelic trips
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say
121 Deck originally known as “carte da trionfi” (“cards of triumph”)
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Kind of news often aired at 6 and 11 p.m. Classical poem form
Drives home, say French article Floral archway Pop group with a dedicated museum in Stockholm
“____ is mainly a catalog of blunders”: Churchill
Means
“The Burghers of Calais” sculptor Cruella de Vil, for one
Beat oneself up over, say
Mimic
Little beef
____ kicks (ab exercise) Pitch-correcting devices
Tribe of southern Montana
Range of knowledge School administrator French for
“born”
Appalls Aesthetically pretentious, informally
____ card
Ruby, e.g.
Carter who portrayed Wonder Woman Noncommittal response to “You coming?”
Load off one’s mine?
Homonym of 39Down 42 43 44
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Trace of color Wore
Gallivants (about)
Part of Q.E.D. Ralph who founded the American Museum of Tort Law
Got ready (for) Mosque leader Launched Product once advertised with the line “The splendor of your skin”
Datum for a chauffeur, for short
Take in, maybe Supporter of Roosevelt’s agenda
Actor whose breakout role came as a shirtless cowboy in “Thelma and Louise”
Singles
Hardly cheery Hoppy request at happy hour Enlighten
Wine barrel strip
Climate change, e.g.
Looked back on
Alphabetized, say
Wind farm output: Abbr. Stink
Split open Lorelei’s lure May honorees Mad (at)
____ Hill (‘90s R&B group) Decoration at el Palacio Real de Madrid
Where livestock eat
Mastered
Divide into three parts
No. 0509
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Pattern that’s hard to break
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100 Lento or allegro 102 Retreats
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competition
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slang
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108 Doesn’t just
assume
110 The Rockies, on
scoreboards
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bowsprit
114 “Darn!” in
Dortmund
115 Baseball’s deadball ____ (around 1900-20)