SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
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1 Hotel chain operated by Hilton 4 Banned insecticide 7 Big voices with big egos 12 Some users of Cyrillic script 17 Antique furniture expert, perhaps 20 Like bills in arrears 22 Freak out 23 100 percent 24 Sight at a checkout counter 26 Golfer who won the 1998 Masters (Italy) 28 Attach, as a patch 29 “Baa, baa” ma 30 “Rosy-fingered” Greek goddess 31 Snitch out 34 Zip 35 World’s end? 36 Grp. led by Mahmoud Abbas beginning in 2004 39 Apples and pears, botanically 41 Seethe (Norway) 44 Queen Latifah’s given first name 46 Playwright ____-Manuel Miranda 47 Benefit 48 Pipsqueaks 49 Give up all at once (Ecuador) 53 Org. with a Summer League 54 Churn 55 Response from a therapist 56 Were, for one? 58 “If we don’t end ____, ___ will end us”: H.G. Wells 61 Calculus expert? 63 “Inventing ____” (2022 Netflix hit) 66 Die-hard 70 Gate in digital logic 71 Major player in U.S. economic policy (Egypt) 74 Retired jersey number for the 76ers’ Moses Malone 75 Post-it notes, e.g. 77 Cousin of a plum 78 It’s good for three points 80 Where you might get into hot water 81 ____ Hortons (Canadian chain) 83 Statistician Silver 85 Land with an accent over its first letter 86 Big inits. in TVs 89 Boarding group? (Switzerland) 94 Causes for pauses 97 God: Lat. 98 Stephen of “V for Vendetta” 99 Except for 100 Activity for Santa (Rwanda) 102 Scouts B.S.A. members since 2019 104 Marks, as a ballot 105 “OK, you get it,” for short 106 De ____ (freshly) 107 Used room service, e.g. 109 Hamm of women’s soccer fame 111 Nickname that’s three consecutive letters of the alphabet 112 Torus-shaped gasket 114 One who walks to work? (Qatar) 119 What this puzzle’s circled letters are with respect to the surrounding shaded squares? 123 Quite eccentric 124 Noted underground adventurer 125 Sad ass 126 Burger topping that jacks up the cholesterol 127 Rich sources 128 Kidney-related 129 Asphalt component 130 Daily ____ (news blog)
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1 Disneyland ride 2 McEntire of country music 3 Old map inits. 4 Certain coding snippet 5 Special collection of musical hits? 6 “Je te plumerai la ____” (line from “Alouette”) 7 Old gold coin 8 ____ spot 9 Seconds, in brief 10 Open-mouthed responses 11 Temptresses in the “Odyssey” 12 Create an elaborate series of deceptions 13 Part of L.V. 14Got in the game, perhaps 15 Watch parties? 16 Focus for 15-Down 18 It’s a drag 19 Seats 21 Big name in power tools 25 Fail 27Monitors at school, briefly 32 ____-Eaters 33 Kindle competitor 36 “ASAP!” 37 Sondheim and Bernstein’s collaborator on “West Side Story” 38 Pungent party bowlful 40 Ultra-aggressive 42 Freshly 43 Quite a fight 45 Fighting 47 “____ días!” 50 Instantly get along well 51 Rush 52 Home of the David Geffen School of Drama 57 Laundry product 59 Like some 401(k) contributions 60 It’s touchy to hit 61 “____ Rheingold” 62 “The Chi” channel, familiarly 64 It has a devoted following on Sundays 65 Expiates, with “for” 67 “____ out!” 68 Formal farewell 69 Modifier in digital logic 72 “Oh, really?” 73 Catch a few waves? 76 Lloyd of women’s soccer fame 79 Talk smack about 82 Skirt style 84 Getting bored with 87 Suggests 88 Kind of cat or rabbit 90 Flat top? 91 Target of a joke 92 Region of Croatia associated with a canine breed 93 “Did you ring?” 94 Hybrid farm animal 95 Site acquired by Match.com in 2011 96 London’s ____ Row 100 Liquor from Mexico 101 Like em dashes visà-vis en dashes 102 Benitez of TV news 103 Fuse by heating below the melting point 108 Bomb produced in the 1950s 110 Ritalin target, for short 113 Marvin who sang “Sexual Healing” 115 Offended 116 Food that’s a national emblem of Wales 117 “Thus ... “118 Standard operating procedures, for short 120 Clinch 121 Plasma particle 122 Ambrose Burnside was its first president, for short