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SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

FINAL OFFER

- By MaryEllen Uthlaut /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Curse

5 Unit of current 8 Developer of

1982’s E.T., a video game so bad that hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges were secretly buried in a New Mexico landfill 13 Stealing attempts on the diamond? 19 Look extremely stylish, slangily 20 ____ People’s Democratic Republic

21 Classic actress Sophia

22 Lacking freshness

23 Always glad to be seated in the back of the boat?

26 Printed cotton fabric

27 Think of together 28 Perfectly placed “Batman” punch? 30 Behind the line of scrimmage

32 Pried, with “in”

33 Look ahead

36 Unfilled spaces

40 Part of New York City’s Museum Mile, with “the” 43 Charlatans

46 “Catch you later!” 47 Buddhist temple structure

50 Penny going through the wash once again? 53 Subject of Walter Lord’s “A Night to Remember”

54 Epson product 55 Facebook profile feature

56 Soup served at the church social?

58 Persuade by force 61 Sheep’s kin 63 Commenceme­nt 64 Church officer 65 Grape-Nuts maker

66 Ark groupings 68 Feudal workers

72 In a lively manner 74 What a pointless meeting probably should have been handled by 76 California in San Francisco, e.g. 77 Afternoon gatherings of Mensa?

81 Force at sea

83 Monk’s title 84 Withdrew

85 Having no feeling in one’s texting hand? 89 Assumed name

90 One of the so-called “Three Crowns of Florence,” along with Petrarch and Boccaccio

91 Source of the idioms “fat of the land” and “fire and brimstone”

92 As we speak

93 Small anatomical opening, as in a bone

96 These can go for a lot of bucks

97 Check for mistakes 100 Party tray meat 103 Ad for heartburn medication?

109 Puts forward

114 State you’ll never get to

115 “Quit your snickering, Damon!”?

117 Hitting the floppy disk icon, say 118 Islamic rulers

119 Hill resident

120 Soup pod 121 Dangerous fly 122 Dividing membranes

123 ____ flour

124 “No man hath ____ God …”

DOWN

1 Labor-regulating

org.

2 “Such a pity!” 3 Bugs

4 Doc’s needle 5 Without reserve 6 Yucatán natives 7 Fancifully

worded

8 Drink rarely drunk

with a straw 9 ____ Bora, area of Afghanista­n

10 ____ American Heritage Month (April)

11 Foul rulers

12 Says without feeling

13 Start of a magician’s phrase 14 Send over the moon

15 Waited at a red light, say

16 FedEx, maybe

17 Order by the border 18 “Please ____ your tray tables” (plane request) 24 World-renowned 25 Sanskrit scripture 29 Part of many California place names

31 Get out of Dodge, so to speak

33 Caustic compound 34 Needing a passcode, maybe 35 Even one

37 Latin clarifier 38 Easy-to-bend metal

39 Greek vowel 40 Lead-in to rail 41 Computer menu with Undo and Redo

42 Dash gauge

43 Word with freeze or fixing

44 Choice word

45 “Don’t just ____ there!”

47 Digital passcodes 48 Viewed optimistic­ally

49 ____ snake 51 Japanese city where Lexus is headquarte­red 52 Classic muscle cars

53 Cards with the most pips

57 Bread

59 Map section 60 Irascible

62 Some Hollywood up-and-comers 65 Responded in court

67 Cowardly sort

69 Turn down

70 Units of distance in physics

71 Sticks a fork in 73 Piece of news 75 Drinks usually drunk with straws 76 Compos mentis 77 Stark who was crowned king in the “Game of Thrones” finale 78 Eight-year member of Clinton’s cabinet 79 State

80 Glance at, as headlines

82 Animal for which the Canary Islands are named 86 Opposite of WSW 87 -s or -ed

88 Modern prefix 90 Practices lexicograp­hy

93 One vain about his looks

94 “You ____?” 95 Greetings to some mainlander­s 97 Ground-dwelling songbird

98 Bit attachment­s 99 Old enough

101 Kind of acid

102 Like most mouthwashe­s 103 Brownish shade 104 Greek vowels 105 Classic pop-art sculpture with a slanted “O” 106 “Personally …”

107 Cut out

108 Male deer 110 Singer/songwriter Lee

111 Appropriat­e

112 “Suis” is part of its conjugatio­n

113 Comic book publisher Lee 116 Where to find MA and PA

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