THE BIG X-WORD
LAST LETTER LAST
ACROSS
1 River in Arizona 5 Cream 10 Turns 15 Word on a road sign 19 Rounded 20 Steppe 21 Benefit 22 Moon goddess 23 Put into words 25 Spellbound 27 Liturgical vestment 28 Tropical tree 30 Dedicate 31 Of songbirds 33 — card 34 Man of La Mancha 35 Make proximate 36 Jefferson Finis — 37 Mood 40 Catafalques 41 Like a dairy product 43 Clunker 46 Condition: Suffix 47 Rising star 48 Brute 49 Temple 50 Fragrant garland 51 Brandished 52 Jason’s wife 54 Kind of weave 55 Was mad about 57 A primate 58 Softer anagram 59 Idle conversation 61 Helen’s abductor 62 Illusions 63 Redacted 64 Unspoken but made clear 65 Rented duds 66 Baker’s — 67 Culet 68 Fill with tears 69 Van Winkle 72 Not yet up 73 Ending for gab or slug 74 Discharged 75 Beget 76 Lamp of a kind: Abbr. 77 Like jet planes 80 Flattens 81 Creator of Holmes 82 Old Roman date 83 Mum 84 Brook 87 Room of a kind 88 Rest 89 Yemen’s waters: 2 wds. 91 Shouts 92 Consumed 93 Stunted 95 Sang with others 100 Golda — 101 Choleric 102 Moves very slowly 103 Raced 104 Root veggie 105 Got along 106 Blackmore character 107 Antiquity
DOWN
1 Brit’s boss, for short 2 Common contraction 3 Roman god 4 Fish in a tin 5 Wood strip 6 “Honeymooners” name 7 Be idle 8 Eau-de- — 9 Undertaking 10 Go quickly 11 Charity ball, e.g. 12 Not strict 13 Felly 14 Jumper 15 Very little bit 16 Philippines island 17 —— a customer 18 Leggy bird 24 Haywire 26 Spruce up a lawn 29 Sailing vessel 31 State a view 32 Custom-designed 33 Subdued 35 Genesis name 36 Like Sacre-Coeur 37 Paper — 38 OT book 39 Wedding-notice word 41 Hang 42 Complication 43 Classified 44 Pfeffernusse flavoring 45 Lets 47 Had concerns 49 Electrical unit 51 Interlaced 52 Worth 53 Send forth 54 More angry 56 Like yesterday’s fashions 57 Spike 58 Unchanging 59 Piano part 60 Sun-dried brick 61 Treaties 62 Toned down 64 Plate armor piece 65 Biblical weeds 67 Perceive, in a way 68 Dry up 70 Dunne or Ryan 71 Gadfly 73 Small — 74 Brought to ruin 75 Brininess 77 Fireside item 78 By oneself 79 Belted garment 80 Ascended 81 Abandon 83 Having bristles 84 Little bit 85 Girl in the Pyrenees 86 Murphy or Bauer 87 Minotaur’s island 88 Instant noodles 90 Seemingly: 2 wds. 91 Old monarch 92 Cogito — sum 94 Nest-egg letters 96 Bother 97 Park of a kind 98 Blunder 99 Tweedle- —