THE BIG X-WORD

9/19

ACROSS

1 Paddy plant

5 The “Divine Miss M” 10 Buccaneers’ town 15 Pip

19 Kiln

20 Inbox items

21 Call to arms

22 A friend in need 23 From———

(downhill)

25 From

— — — (occasionally) 27 Weaken

28 Follower of Dionysus 30 Horse cart

31 Hibernia

32 Pied-a- —

33 Virginia willow 35 Gaseous fuel

38 Ditty

39 Moral sense

43 In a snit

44 From

— — — (thoroughly) 47 Manning of

football

48 Cacophony

49 “Da Vinci Code” role 50 Heron

51 Paroxysm

52 Means justifier 54 POTUS, for short 55 Moved with effort 56 Lusterless 58 Pensioners

60 Tendon

61 Showed

displeasure 62 Portents

63 Place of shelter 64 Very, in music 65 Scotland’s Loch — 67 Dealt with

68 Island in the

Mediterranean 71 Orris root derivative 72 Errors

73 Inlet

74 Men of rank

75 — Bakr

76 Overflowing

77 Mary Janes, e.g. 78 Understand 79 Insect egg

80 From

— — — (completely) 82 Muslim messiah 84 Olympic hopefuls 86 War deity

87 Tailor

88 Border on 89 Beverage on tap 91 Flat-bottom boat 92 Wine Country city 94 Absconds 96 Underived

100 From———

(comprehensive) 102 From———

(laterally)

104 As to

105 Pasta al —

106 Notched

107 Et — (and others) 108 Globule

109 Fringes

110 Beer hall game 111 Earns as profit

DOWN

1 Terry garment

2 Form of “John”

3 Give over

4 Beseech

5 Word of warning 6 Act, though badly 7 Vetch

8 “My Country, —

of Thee”

9 Euclidian treatise 10 — tots

11 Adjust: var.

12 Mum

13 Known beforehand 14 Qty.

15 Old Persian governor 16 Mr. Kazan

17 Like a well-shaded

place

18 Tint

24 Of sheep

26 Concert hall

29 Ship of myth

32 Novel by Uris

34 Run

35 Down source 36 Threefold 37 From———

(in poverty)

38 Shoe parts 39 Scatter 40 From———

(how to read)

41 The cream

42 Placed

44 Bores

45 Hit on the noggin 46 Salt Lake neighbor 49 Pay out

53 “— says ...”

55 Better halves 56 Defoe’s Flanders 57 SUVs

59 Coty or Descartes 60 Old Greek poet 61 Varsovians

63 Haul up

64 Hotshot

65 Tropical vine 66 Electron’s path 67 Shellfish

68 Secures with cables 69 — ut intelligam 70 Up

72 Made more

attractive 73 Hearten

76 Alaskan island 77 Accented

80 Hebrew month: var. 81 Wise

82 Oval fruit 83 Craftsperson 85 Drank

87 Musical

compositions 89 Actress — Lenya 90 Church recesses 91 Kind of old money 92 A pronoun

93 Air

95 Body part 96 Bouquet

97 — green 98 Underground

passage 99 Grasslands

100 Blood relative 101 Pindaric

103 Polynesian

goddess