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- BY DAVID W. TUFFS / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ David W. Tuffs, of Pacific Grove, Calif., is a fourth-year linguistic­s student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In his spare time he writes for his school’s satirical newspaper, Fishrap Live! This is

ACROSS

1 Sexy one

10 Treat that’s dangerous to fillings

15 It has cameras set up around

the House

20 Home of the

Hittite Empire

21 Novelist Zola

22 Word with box or

gloves

23 Unwavering

24 Bit of cinema

décor

26 Latin verb that’s a letter off from 9-Down

27 Sagelike

28 Get ready for

dinner

29 Man-eaters

30 Demeanor

32 Puts the pedal to

the metal

34 Outbursts of

megalomani­a

39 Boglike

40 Educator Khan who founded Khan Academy 43 -esque

44 “Ugh, we have so much to sort out”

47 You might come

to one suddenly 50 Winston

Churchill gesture 52 They’re out on

their own

54 “Word on the

street is ... ”

55 Antiquated

source of light

58 Toy brand with colorful rods and gears

59 Partner of dark 60 Starts a course,

with “off”

61 Where you might see scrolling credits?

64 Heidi of TV’s

“Making the Cut” 66 The Arthur Ashe Courage Award and others 67 Spectators taking potshots, collective­ly

70 Will Smith’s

actor/rapper son 73 Quickly join

hands?

74 G or K

75 “Roll Tide!”

school

79 Relishes

80 Eats

82 Feature of a

healthy dog

84 Fjord, e.g.

85 Like Hathor, goddess of motherhood

89 Film character who shouts,

“You are a toy!” 90 Fish with a

prehensile tail

92 Primitive time

95 German article 96 Instagram hashtag accompanyi­ng a nostalgic photo

97 Two-fifths of a

quarter

99 Birthplace of three major world religions 101 What an agoraphobe avoids

105 Uber offering

106 Group email

greeting

108 Class

109 “That so?”

111 It’s not light

reading

115 Advances in a baby’s cognitive developmen­t

117 Demonology and

such

119 Show vanity, in a

way

120 Face-planted

121 Cocktail often made with Tennessee whiskey, ironically

122 Looks long and

hard 123 Class

124 Not get tense

DOWN

1 March madness

figure?

2 Animals in

hibernació­n

3 Twitches

4 “Please, I’ll go

with you”

5 Friend abroad

6 Home of many

schools in the Big Ten Conference

7 Uses chrism on

8 Chuckles online

9 Language that’s a letter off from 26-Across

10 Tantalize

11 “… that’s ____” 12 When many

commutes begin 13 Converse

14 “____-haw!”

15 Favorite dog breed of Queen Elizabeth II

16 Where bats and birdies are found

17 ____ the Frog

(internet meme) 18 God with a

helmet

19 Rapper with the platinum albums “Street’s Disciple” and “God’s Son”

25 Skater Harding 31 The third of Chekhov’s

“Three Sisters” 32 Iota

33 Valuable

deposits

34 Turning point

35 Actor/activist

Davis

36 Stretch

37 Woman’s name that’s part of the body backward 38 Contacts quickly,

in a way

41 Imitation

42 Fertile mixtures 45 Finished the golf

hole

46 One might be

cold or dry

48 Scatterbra­ined 49 Shot, so to

speak

51 Plot device, in

brief?

53 Rejoice (in)

56 Debt holdings

57 Bouts with payper-view events,

for short

59 Transition

62 Left-leaning

organizing grp. 63 Like pronounced

muscles

65 Feeling described by this: :|

67 Australia’s “City

of Light”

68 Covers for

campers

69 Spat

70 Former Fed chair

Yellen

71 Classroom with cameras, for short

72 Executes

perfectly

75 “That’s just

awful!”

76 One end of a cell 77 ____ circus

78 To now

79 Beyoncé, to Solange, informally

81 Tundra or

savanna

83 Fabric in a flat

cap

85 Leprechaun’s

home

86 Idaho, with “the” 87 Nickname in

“Star Wars”

88 Country code for Holland in the Olympics

91 N.F.L. star ____

Beckham Jr.

93 Supermodel

Lima

94 Like many a beta

release

No. 0417

98 Reaction

reducer

100 Tackles

102 “I have other

____, sorry”

103 Norse pantheon 104 Birthplace of

Zeus

106 Female figure in

the “Iliad”

107 Name akin to

Agnes

109 Many

mainframes

110 Blind sight

112 Number between

sette and nove 113 Some pettingzoo noises

114 Seaside bird

115 Dash fig.

116 Twitch user’s

bane

118 Comic Penn

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