NO COMMENT By Daniel Mauer, edited By David Steinberg
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1 Banana ___ (UC Santa Cruz mascot)
Tiny terrors
Green space in Paris
Painter Frida
Remove from office
Grim
Where Nebraska’s largest zoo is
From the top
*Educated (hint: look down after this answer’s sixth letter) Swanky hotel offering Pumpkin ___
Shed tears
Brooklyn ___, N.Y.
Not behind the times
Fearful
Take hold of
Orcas, octopuses and such Unfreeze
More reserved
Perlman of “Cheers”
Make, as money
Genetic messenger
*Infringe on a copyright, say (... eighth letter)
Utterly destroys
Prefix for some music genres 107-Down and others Vexation Memphis-to-Chicago dir. Powerful Apple computer *___ vice president (... third letter)
“Hold your horses, horse!” Diva’s solo
Swung wildly
Number before tres Alternative to speaking? Lead-in to “mater”
Fish that are snaky
*Certain athlete (... sixth letter) Cash and stocks
Natural ’do
Much-hated synonym for “damp”
Venetian waterway
One of 10 “piggies” Conference handouts *Widespread attention
(... sixth letter)
96 Opposite of full, moon-wise 99 Disappearing Asian sea
100 Rombauer who wrote
“The Joy of Cooking”
101 Kind of acid in proteins
102 Strictness
104 Fill to capacity
106 Cut crystal feature
108 Jumper’s cord
109 Unchallenging courses
111 Remote control brand
112 Group of computational fields, informally
El ___ (Castilian knight) Factory
Avoiding journalists’ 5
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