THE BIG X-WORD
5/15
ACROSS
1 Crisp cookie 5 Aquatic plants 10 Born and — 14 Pungent taste 18 Prank
20 Under an evil spell 21 Stir up
22 Part of QED
23 Very, in music 24 Lend — —
25 Start of a quip by
Jay Leno: 3 wds. 27 Chinese “way” 28 Barbados native 30 Competent
32 Extend
33 Hard-rind fruit 34 Countermand
36 Old Roman cloak 38 Part 2 of quip: 6 wds. 44 Contains 45 Co-worker
46 Abbr. in timetables 47 D.C. org.
49 Doctrine
50 Makes bored
52 Park ranger’s
concern
55 John or Jane
56 Abbr. on a map 57 Dihydrogen
monoxide
58 Slices
59 Female ruff
61 Tears in pieces 63 Coup d’—
64 Collect
65 Part 3 of quip: 5 wds. 69 Theater curtains 72 Some paints 73 Loving touches
77 A pronoun
78 Gem
80 Cook’s creation
81 — Pasha
82 Islet
83 Hotel chain
85 “Age of Anxiety”
poet
86 NATO mem.
87 “It’s cold!”
88 Fort —, N.J.
89 Both: Prefix 90 Calumniate
93 Part 4 of quip: 5 wds. 99 Garden figure
100 Della or Pee Wee 101 — vera
102 Diagonal spar
104 “The King and I”
setting
105 Tested
107 Rds.
110 End of the quip: 2 wds. 113 Nightstick
115 George or T.S.
117 Move carefully
118 Cocoyam
119 Perfect
120 “Death Be Not Proud”
poet
121 Battle fatigue: abbr. 122 Peruse
123 Fairground huckster 124 Abound
DOWN
1 “Beat it!”
2 Space Shuttle org. 3 Lhasa —
4 Toy-gun projectile 5 Cashew nut
6 Kind of moth
7 Soldier with
“pineapples”
8 — Hutchinson of
Arkansas
9 Unfamiliar
10 S.O.S rival 11 Widespread
12 Isle of —
13 Pro — et patria 14 Smear
15 Heavy metal
band: 2 wds. 16 Piquancy 17 Diminutive suffix
19 — — steak
26 Exhort
29 Turncoats
31 Except for
33 Liq. measures 35 Gives assent
36 Fills
37 Actress Gardner et al. 38 Attempt
39 Place in NW Italy 40 Spiritual force 41 Most pink 42 Medicinal plant 43 Propelled 48 Crystal-gazer 51 Virginia willow 52 Foibles
53 Swear word 54 Engaged in barter 57 More affectionate 58 Scarf
60 Figure in Greek myth 62 “Sacred” bird 63 Minneapolis suburb 64 Ornate candle
holder
66 Head covering 67 National park
in Maine
68 Yarn
69 Gore
70 “Cheep!” 71 Degenerate
74 Long stories 75 Tropical resin 76 Homeric temptress 78 Beam
79 1970s sitcom 80 Tenant of a kind 84 Not know from — 85 ISU city
89 Old distillation
apparatus 91 Undermined 92 “Ugh!”
94 One
95 Old printing process,
for short 96 Poseidon’s son
97 — tree oil
98 Without success 102 Walk
103 The tops, as said
in the ’90s
104 Antitoxins
106 Horse of a color 107 — die
108 Musical sound 109 Check
111 Common
contraction
112 Insect secretion 114 AMA cousin
116 Destiny