THE BIG X-WORD
ACROSS
1 Pickles 5 Ill at ease 10 Like a judge 15 Something fluid 18 Leave-taking 19 The Great and
The Terrible 20 Act 21 Blackjack 22 Store of a kind 23 Pirogue 24 Corrupt 25 Like the White Rabbit 26 Start of a quip by
anonymous: 3 wds. 28 Steel 29 Where Napoli is 31 Coeds 32 Child’s cry of delight 34 Gurus 36 Outpouring 38 Part 2 of quip: 3 wds. 43 Disturbances 44 Filmmaker — Lang 45 Seasons 46 Visualize 47 — Stanley Gardner 48 Confidence 49 Old flames 50 Beginner 51 Sputnik, e.g. 53 Score in golf 54 Pancetta 55 Actor — Caesar 56 Lira replacement 57 Flivver 58 — Lomond 59 Part 3 of quip: 5 wds. 65 Had been 66 Putrefies 67 Schoolroom event 68 Raggedy — 70 Suits for tall fellows 72 Backslide 74 Today 76 Weaponry 77 Clean up 78 The “C” in C.S. Lewis 79 Blue flag 80 Girl in a song 81 Start for gram or
meter 82 Substantial 83 Pimpinella 84 Part 4 of quip: 2 wds. 87 Chosen 88 Least desirable 89 Hastens 90 Pate de foie — 91 Famed Florentine
family 94 Shape — — ship out 96 End of the quip 101 Indigo 102 Record low 104 Cold 105 Done with 106 Alma mater: Abbr. 107 Inexperienced 108 Coeur d’— 109 “— 911!” 110 Wing 111 Cheeky 112 Explanatory note 113 Danube tributary
DOWN
1 “Star Wars” heroes 2 Fired 3 Venus de — 4 Tropical flat fish 5 Amuse 6 Mary Ann — (aka
George Eliot) 7 One-billionth: Prefix 8 Juvenile heroine:
2 wds. 9 Compass pt. 10 Critique 11 Lag b’— 12 Serf 13 Travel concern:Abbr. 14 Pleasures 15 Game event 16 Sparkling wine 17 Kind of butter 21 Buckle 27 Makes lace 28 Jazz great Stan — 30 Receptions 33 “Thirty days —
September ...” 35 Passage 36 Artist anagram 37 Missing-link hoax:
2 wds. 38 — — habeas corpus 39 Plane figure 40 Kind of social worker 41 Mr. Saarinen 42 Rare gas 43 Meeting: Abbr. 44 Puck, e.g. 48 Theme park ride 49 Yoga position 50 Sew 52 Lascivious looks 53 Hill of a kind 54 Firewater 57 Came to be 58 French department 60 PC memory units,
for short 61 Oracular 62 Fairness 63 Winding 64 Get, as support 69 Wall St. acronym 70 Secular 71 Church calendar 72 Nations 73 Concern of pollsters 74 Box for a burger 75 One hundred and
eighty: 2 wds. 77 Awareness of
whereabouts 78 Yield 81 Gator cousin 82 Israel’s Golda — 83 Oh, woe! 85 Fabric weave 86 Troublesome 87 Destroys 90 Shows great pleasure 91 Spiked club 92 Chemical compound 93 Flavoring plant 95 Tarts 97 Butterine 98 Kiln 99 Robert — Warren 100 Desire personified 103 Macaw genus 104 Joke