THE BIG X-WORD

7/25

ACROSS

1 Springs

5 Coconut meat 10 Rhythm and — 15 Fearless

19 Sunk fence: hyph. 20 Emanations

21 Terra firma

22 Toledo’s lake

23 Start of a quip by

Milton Berle: 7 wds. 27 Fortunetellers

28 Taps

29 Straphanger

30 Antler prong

31 Curia — (medieval

council)

33 Blessing

35 Ad interim 38 Commonplace

39 Limit

43 Old card game 44 Fence in “Oliver Twist” 45 Composure

46 Kind of card

47 Portent

48 Grew wan

49 Lovers’ meeting 50 Black-tie affair 51 Shelter

52 Expressed

53 Come to be

54 Yields

55 Be humiliated: 2 wds. 57 Offense

58 Warn

59 Last: abbr.

60 Part 2 of quip: 3 wds. 63 Flange

64 Sculpt

66 Drop a line

67 Mixture used

for frying

71 Enrage

72 Excel

73 — of burden

74 — anglais

75 Coffin stand

76 Tall chimney

77 Helots

78 — qua non 79 From——Z

80 Fissile rock

81 Set in motion 82 Situate

83 COBOL or BASIC 85 Suspicious 86 Poured 87 Hoarfrost 88 Graceful horses 89 Bell sound

90 Jack in a nursery

rhyme

93 Maple genus 94 No-ticket

passenger

98 End of the

quip: 5 wds. 103 Stop on a — 104 Judges

105 Chunk of turf 106 Hibernia

107 — vital

108 Cordial flavoring 109 Old office worker 110 Be too fond

DOWN

1 Mother or

merchant

2 Walks

3 Signal word 4 Countenance 5 Encrusting

6 Snow leopard 7 Whizzes

8 Not yet processed 9 Fraxinus 10 Lament 11 Lanterns

12 Extinct wild ox 13 Catchall abbr. 14 “Silence!”

15 In arrears 16 Toward the

mouth

17 Like some

broadcasts

18 Hart

24 Consider 25 Special-interest

publication 26 Orrisroot extract 31 Prevailed

uncontrolled 32 Wife of Geraint 33 Idaho city 34 Unseat 35 Island

36 Bit part

37 Arborist: 2 wds. 38 Rorqual: 2 wds. 39 Jam variety 40 Educator 41 Straightedge 42 Baking need 44 Stuffed, in haute

cuisine

45 — facie

48 — mater

49 Phyle

50 Icy

52 Fairy-tale finish 53 Mountain ridge 54 Gem weight unit 56 Young eel 57 Crevice

61 Instant

62 Wrapping paper 64 Plotting group 65 Most of Juanita 68 A letter

69 For the — 70 Cupidity

72 Bring about

73 “Bad News —” 76 Feigned

77 Attempt 78 Snubbed

80 Musical

composition 81 Ruthless lender 82 Zoo animal

84 Cut

85 Fold

86 Theater district 88 Cause for

complaint

89 Grand —, Wyoming 90 Faction

91 Collins or Spector 92 Vishnu incarnate 93 Wine city

94 Dump

95 Architect —

Saarinen 96 Dismounted 97 Force unit

99 New Deal org. 100 Trig func.

101 Pub. employees 102 Insect egg