THE BIG X-WORD

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ACROSS

1 Fodder for smelters 5 Defense acronym 10 Cousin to PETA 15 Look over

19 Stoma

20 Wind: Prefix 21 Swindle

22 Aboriginal

Japanese

23 Extensor muscle 25 Musical groups 27 Closed again

28 Tricky feat

30 Chews the scenery 31 Itinerary: abbr. 32 Energy 34 Monarchical title 35 Annoyed

38 Knowing look 39 Sewing technique for

decoration

43 Not exact

44 Crotchet: 2 wds. 47 Pickup truck 48 Morphology branch:

abbr.

49 Rotates

50 Appends

51 Move with a gliding

motion

52 — -Atlantic States 53 Posh

54 Savoir —

56 Like some fries 57 Fails suddenly

59 — -et-Loire 60 Raucous sound 61 Open boat 62 Ill-humored

63 Purple shade

64 Set off

65 Places of egress and

ingress

66 Weight room item 68 Dusty deposit 69 Diced

70 Yields

71 Vast part of Russia:

abbr.

73 Leftovers

74 Feu de —

75 Healed

76 Emblem of peace 77 Literary collection 78 10 to the 15th power 81 Send

82 Word part

84 Helix

85 Break away 86 Redding or Skinner 87 One of the

Barrymores

89 DHS agency

90 Of a heart chamber 93 Saguaros

94 Ghostly quality 99 Ornament found in

architecture

101 Isolate, in a way 103 Compulsion

104 A-listers

105 Loosen

106 The “E” in QED 107 Remotely

108 — Spider-Man

Universe

109 Alleviated

110 Rules’ partners

DOWN

1 N-S link

2 Dissolute fellow 3 Ages

4 Prolonged session for

discussions 5 Fastened

6 — bitten, twice shy 7 Orchestra members 8 Intensify (with “up”) 9 Files

10 Come into

possession of 11 Surgical bypass 12 Earthy fuel 13 Roadster

14 Gives it a go 15 Buddhist

enlightenment 16 Singer Eartha — 17 Arrow poison 18 Tousle

24 Made the grade 26 Henri — Benoit

Matisse

29 Weight allowance 33 Board

34 Lyric poem 35 Baby carriage, in

London

36 Column order 37 Four-footed

39 Agassi of tennis 40 Argumentative

41 Of service 42 Wriggling 44 Hypothetical

particle

45 Samovars

46 Pluvious

49 Fine-tune

51 Debonair

53 Starts to move

54 Got along

55 Sickens

56 Billy, book and

baseball

58 Pile up

59 Not talking

60 Brought to light 62 Item for a fencer 63 Hotshot

64 Boxer — Liston 65 Baedeker

66 British ballpoint 67 Black-and-blue 68 Grasslands 69 Glowing pieces 70 Cunning

72 — noire

74 Special anniversaries 75 Skin care brand 76 Bottle of a kind 78 Former OPEC

member

79 Frozen stalactites 80 Plunder

81 Plant secretion

83 Be about idly 85 Beachfront

87 The non-clergy 88 Springs

90 — vitae

91 Surf and —

92 Music for the sitar 93 Invent 95 Pennsylvania port 96 The Emerald Isle 97 Catch

98 Hardens

100 Early ’80s sitcom 102 — corda