THE BIG X-WORD
11/21
ACROSS
1 — -leaf cluster 4 Jokesters
8 Kind of Mexican
yellow bean 13 Caliber
17 Take flight
19 Thomas or Stanfield 20 Firth or Powell 21 Medication type 22 Fiber plant
23 Bay window 24 Expressed meaning 25 Glaciarium
26 Start of a quip by
50-Down: 4 wds. 30 More to eat
33 Flip
34 Opp. of WNW 35 Niche
36 Japanese healing
practice
38 Force out
43 Desired reviews 44 Soapstone
45 Money in coin 47 “Oedipus —”
48 Class of orbiting
asteroids
49 Black Sea peninsula 51 Book of Mormon
prophet
52 “— Ha’i”
53 Some students 55 Burr or Copland
57 Of blood
58 Slight
59 Scope of action 60 Pivot
61 — de coeur
64 Part 2 of quip: 2 wds. 68 Turf
69 Live
71 Description on a
business card
72 Fish sauce
74 Solely
75 Stoneware mug 76 Troubled: hyph. 81 Hen-pecks
82 Kind of iris 83 Generated
85 Unlikely event 86 WWII abbr. 87 Less fearful
89 “Idylls of the King”
character
90 Madness
91 Lady of Spain
93 City in Germany 95 Champion 96 Intelligence
97 Molokai neighbor 98 Dance dramas
99 End of the quip: 5 wds. 106 Hardy girl
107 Eldritch
108 In a snit
109 False
113 Rights org.
114 Juan — Jimenez
115 Say
116 Spy
117 Fly up and around 118 Bias
119 Witnesses
120 Mountain —
DOWN
1 Not quite right
2 Totality
3 NZ parrot
4 Buckles
5 Seed appendage 6 Delight
7 Summer and winter
celestial event 8 Molting
9 Norse goddesses
of fate
10 Miscellany
11 T-bar
12 State of full bloom 13 Kalimantan
14 First: abbr. 15 Prince’s wife
16 Part of BPOE 18 Advocates
19 Sullen
27 Danube tributary 28 All right: hyph.
29 — of Skye
30 Ort
31 One of nine sisters 32 Submits
36 Police action 37 Shade trees
38 Be a sign of 39 Picture
40 Works of literature 41 Frozen treat 42 Banished
44 Disney’s “Lady and
the —”
46 Risk
49 Something shameful 50 Winnie-the-Pooh
creator: 3 wds.
52 “You — your life!” 54 Go effortlessly 56 French cleric
57 Letter between Gulf
and India
59 Wine city
60 Held sway
61 Marsh creatures 62 Associate 63 Equiangular figure 65 — rima
66 Round Table’s
— Perilous
67 Revealed
70 — and outs
73 Disaster
75 Bed-frame part 76 Strobile
77 Analogous
78 Famed poet
79 George or T.S. 80 Approaches 82 Deep-fried food 84 Destroyer of Pompeii 87 Verve
88 Active substance in
chemistry
90 Uris novel “— 18” 92 Admits: 2 wds. 94 Haggard title
95 Darth —
97 Edible bulb
98 Units of computer
data
99 Type style: abbr. 100 Art —
101 Capital city on a fjord 102 Mend
103 “— la Douce”
104 AKA Romain de Tirtoff 105 Grade
110 Coal scuttle
111 Porter
112 Cat’s cry