THE BIG X-WORD
9/12
ACROSS
1 Fosse
5 Prevailed
uncontrolled 10 Oarsman 15 Strikebreaker
19 Post hoc —
propter hoc
20 Spry
21 Deportation 22 Marine growth 23 Start of a quip by
Milton Berle: 4 wds. 26 Fretted instrument 27 Told
28 — and dash
29 Part of Roy G. Biv 31 Dir. letters
32 Smirk
35 Pitched
36 Lathe operator 39 Part 2 of quip: 4 wds. 44 Drops
45 Lectures
47 Chew the scenery 48 Strive
49 Taylor or Reinhart 50 Cannon and
cotton
51 Alarm
52 — praetexta
53 “— — Land”
54 Cry at sea 55 Basketball player 56 Sinker
57 Supportive
structure
59 Ruined
60 Most meager
61 Part 3 of
quip: 4 wds.
65 Plant exudations 69 — Deo gloria
70 Tired from a hike 75 Sinus
76 Time of life
78 Burg
79 Rara —
80 Ordinary fellows 81 Angry exchange 82 Do a gardening job 83 Monocle
84 Rap sheet abbr.
85 Gem weight unit 86 Caulks 87 Intrinsically: 2 wds. 88 Part 4 of quip: 3 wds. 91 Attaches a
certain way 92 Roundup
93 Annoyed
95 Part of Eur.
96 Nigher
98 Loser to VHS
100 Develop
105 Ship part
106 End of the
quip: 4 wds.
110 Competent
111 Fluorescent dye 112 Della or Pee Wee 113 Goose
114 Plague
115 Some compositions 116 Birch relative
117 Hatstand
DOWN
1 Spiteful
2 Whale
3 Substitute for
gelatin
4 Like heavy rainfall 5 Roof support
6 Old diagnosis 7 Beautifies
8 Antiquity
9 “— Ring des
Nibelungen” 10 Critique
11 Farm denizens 12 Filament
13 Man in Wheeling 14 Unwavering 15 Brainiac
16 Kind of peach 17 Worked up 18 Bundle
24 Moves with care 25 Runs in neutral 30 Stratagem 33 Aquarium fish 34 Signs
35 Inlet among cliffs 36 Sounds
37 Simple boat 38 Crack on the lunar
surface 40 Greek goddess 41 Abu Bakr
successor 42 100-eyed giant 43 Lawman — Earp 45 Border lake
46 “— came a spider ...” 50 Sponge and sitz
51 Popular rice dish 52 Hill
55 Ends
56 Bonkers
58 Europe’s highest
volcano
59 French city: var. 60 Noted pioneer 62 Accustomed: 2 wds. 63 Run — of the law 64 Swallows
65 Prince
66 Kind of mushroom 67 Overwhelms
68 Tax org.
71 Black Friday
tradition: 2 wds. 72 Obvious
73 Wash
74 Letters
76 Trunk
77 Part of QED 78 Business deal 81 Flotation
mattress
82 Look
85 Yield
86 Jack in a rhyme 87 Word of mouth
89 A waterfowl
90 Gear for
mountaineers 91 Claw
94 Chopped
96 Become dry and
cracked
97 Garage service 98 Ignoble
99 Release
101 Wall St. org
102 Genus of trees 103 Note
104 Fencing sword 107 “— name it!”
108 — pro nobis
109 Kinsman: abbr.