THE BIG X-WORD
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ACROSS
1 Ka-BOOM!
5 Scintilla
10 Feelings of mental
distress
15 Boundless 19 One-billionth part of:
Prefix
20 Hippodrome
21 — savant
22 Faberge’s Necessaire
Egg, e.g.
23 Wine city
24 Chairs
25 Biblical Mount
26 Stir up
27 Start of a quip by Jonathan Swift: 5 wds.
31 Journey
32 Elevator name 33 Dernier —
34 Rise in rank 37 “Bolero” composer 39 Bettered
44 Water birds
45 Agues
46 Pipe fitting 47 Nest-egg letters 48 Advantage 49 Employee on the run 50 Part 2 of quip: 2 wds. 53 Chinese dynasty 54 Prefer 55 Snowboarder’s
destination
58 Choice or prime, e.g. 59 “Spiny” creature 61 Competent 62 Ceremonies
63 Being, in philosophy 64 Part 3 of quip: 4 wds. 68 Pickled fish
69 Word with umber or
sienna
71 Miami- —
72 Armlet
76 Happen as a
consequence
77 A pronoun
79 Some stage shows 80 “Matrix” protagonist 81 Part 4 of quip: 3 wds. 83 Shameful thing 84 “Let it stand!” 85 Hotel in Vegas 86 Weapon
87 Straight man
89 Give up
90 Crumbling material 93 Nutrice
94 Foilist
95 — and aah
96 Steel drums 97 Variety
98 End of the quip:
4 wds.
107 Grain, soaked and
dried
108 Contender
109 Old Greek anatomist 110 Man of rank
111 Lazy
112 The cream
113 Proceeded
carefully
114 Degree-holder, for
short
115 Duplicitous fellow 116 Removed
117 Pinnipeds
118 Bettor’s concern
DOWN
1 — B’rith
2 Persist
3 One opposed
4 Makes a little less dry 5 Talked back to
6 Stream
7 Authentic
8 — meridiem 9 Disregard: 2 wds. 10 Parts of flowers
11 “See you later, amigo!” 12 Foch or Simone
13 Billy, or his kid 14 Garment worker 15 Pests
16 On the summit of 17 Accord with
18 Sesame 28 Columbarium contents 29 Brit. money
30 Sports stat.
34 — Centauri
35 Gannet
36 Return volley 37 Straighten out 38 Assert
39 Diminutive suffix 40 Inert gas
41 On the near side of the
“pond”
42 Undermine
43 Odense natives
45 Part of the retina 49 Gangster’s gun
51 Act of exiting 52 Celestial ram
54 Attach
55 Home
56 Move uncontrollably:
var.
57 Favorite
60 Boredom
61 Genus of dabbling
ducks
65 Fuss
66 Make indebted 67 Characterize
69 Stubble
70 Let loose
73 Always
74 Female of the
sandpiper
75 Overfond one
77 Word on a traffic
sign
78 — and haws
79 Experts
82 Convened
83 Floral ornaments
84 CA county: 2 wds. 87 Tangled
88 Make adjustments 89 Direct one’s way
91 Roll
92 Free electron 94 Monstrous ones 96 Tittle-tattle
97 Crouch, in a way 98 Streambed in Africa 99 — prima
100 Reprehensible
101 Wicked
102 Marquis de —
103 Saint — of Kiev
104 Ointment of old
105 Jazz type
106 Former GM marque 107 Thickness measure