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ACROSS
1 Villains’
antagonists
7 “Uh, sure”
13 Power project
16 Real mess
19 2007 Lil Wayne song that opens: “Young Money! You dig?”
20 Subject of clip
art?
22 “What do we
have here?!”
23 Word before the year on U.S. paper currency
24 Small thing to
keep on track
25 Human rights activist Xiaobo, the first Chinese citizen to be awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize (2010)
26 Presses CTRL+P + ______ + Easter egg coloring
28 ______ + Scroungy mutt + Parent’s sister, in some regions 30 Active Sicilian
volcano
31 European river that’s an anagram of
REED
34 Promise to pay
35 [I’m frustrated!]
36 Fragrant noodle soup made with beef
39 Like Captain James T. Kirk, by birth
41 Número de “Años de Soledad” in a Gabriel García Márquez novel
43 Follows
44 ______ +
Golfer’s cry + “Ugh!”
46 Column crossers + Sentry + ______
49 “Encore!”
50 Irks
52 Crossed off
53 Gangster-film
prop 56 “Holy” city
58 Nongendered
possessive
59 Insult that’s also a measurement device
61 “The landlords of New York,” once
63 One cast in a
fantasy movie
65 Digging
66 French festival, familiarly + ______ + Actor Michael
70 Punching tool + Chopping tool + ______
72 Cherubic archer 73 Foil lookalikes
75 Seoul-based
carrier
76 Influential sorts
78 Rod with seven A.L. batting titles
80 Athlete’s cup
85 Flattering verse 86 In the manner of 87 Demonstrate extreme flexibility, as an acrobat
89 Opposite of
neo
90 Tandoor bread + Harlem music venue + ______ 93 Word of obligation + ______ + Punxsutawney name
95 Some origin
stories
97 Response to
“Shall we?”
98 H.S. science class for some college-bound students
99 Rocky Mountain
bugler
100 Move, in real
estate lingo
101 Pioneered
103 Immediately
105 Couple of
llamas?
107 Rug rat + Magic
stick + ______ 110 Soccer score + ______ + Scottish inlets 115 Resistor unit
116 Iconic 1984 movie vehicle that was a combination ambulance/ hearse
119 “Anything for
you!”
120 Actress de Armas 121 Annoyances when trying to make change
122 Challenging,
informally
123 Corleone, for
one
124 Toilet-paper spec 125 Most likely to
offer solace, say 126 Calm
DOWN
1 Fastener used
with a padlock
2 The “E” in FEMA:
Abbr.
3 “Diamonds”
singer, to fans
4 QB protectors,
collectively
5 Time to decide
who’s in or out
6 Polite Spanish
assent
7 ThinkPads, e.g.,
once
8 “Doc” in the Mets
Hall of Fame
9 Removed, as a
knot
10 Language suffix 11 Spanish
seasoning
12 Hindu goddess in
the “Ramayana” 13 Serpentine
constellation
14 Ambidextrous
features?
15 It may have just
desserts
16 Converter of natural heat energy
17 Doohickey
18 Tweens, e.g.
21 Making level
27 Welcomed at the
door
29 Broccoli follower 32 Intestinal
bacterium
33 Choir platforms 36 Boggy stuff 37 Literary award shaped like a rocket
38 Milky gemstone 40 Common
solvents
42 Some R.P.I. grads 43 Chances
45 Hurry
46 Waze suggestions: Abbr.
47 Armpit,
anatomically
48 Move to a larger
pot, say
51 More than a
couple
54 Doesn’t just sit
there
55 Boxing stats
57 Influential leader of the Seminole people
59 Burrito-shaped lunch counter item
60 Part of X-X-X
62 [Is this thing on?] 64 Scenic stroll, from
the Spanish
66 Baja Peninsula
resort, for short
67 In the thick of
68 Hardly Mr. Nice
Guy
69 Hippocratic oath
takers: Abbr.
71 Path covered with
diamonds
74 Vamooses
75 Pretentiously
affected
77 “Frozen” villain
79 Existential
emotion
81 Goofus
82 Dance squat
83 Where 95-Down’s Wild Ride ends, at Disneyland
84 Key ingredient in
Key lime pie
87 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame city: Abbr.
88 Floated down a
river, say
91 “Hmm, gotcha” 92 Unteachable sort,
in a saying
94 Tessellations
95 “The Wind in the
Willows” squire
No. 0115
96 “Nice try, but I
don’t think so” 98 Islands that form atop underwater volcanoes
101 Making all the
stops
102 Portion of a log 104 Quick to think or
act
106 [Grrr!]
108 “Eh, what can
you do?!”
109 Black cat,
classically
111 For fear that
112 Michael of
“Superbad”
113 Wraparound
garment
114 Eye affliction 117 Belt worn with a
yukata
118 Company that
owns Wite-Out
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