THE BIG X-WORD
3/5
ACROSS
1 Funfair attraction 5 Pearly stuff
10 Stead
15 Fawn
19 Goddess of discord 20 Everyday
21 Goods thrown
overboard
22 Magical character 23 Ticket of a kind 24 Follower of Haile
Selassie
25 Gouge
27 Break away
29 Bristly
31 Start of a quip by
89 Across: 2 wds.
32 — daisy 34 Supermarket section 35 — Krishna
36 Dog type
38 Joins
40 — de la Plata 41 Dimple
45 Part 2 of quip:
2 wds.
49 Pot
50 Like some pastries 51 Dressed
52 — gratia artis 53 Diagonal spar 55 Italian isle
56 James or Kett
57 Class
59 Espresso drink
60 Ne plus —
62 Start for gram or
logue
63 Wanness
64 Ripken Jr. or Sr.
66 Part 3 of quip: 4 wds. 71 Being, in philosophy 72 Like farmland
74 Bog material
75 — State (Little Rhody) 77 Bright
78 Knifes
79 Coptic bishop
81 Do a farm job
84 Line for an actor 85 Stone
86 Bedstead 87 Chekhov’s “— Vanya”
88 — volente
89 Speaker of the quip:
2 wds.
93 Earthworms
96 Serv. branch 97 Ending for talk or fun 98 Grimalkin
99 — cava
100 Midterm event 102 Nixon’s Veep
— Agnew
104 End of the quip:
2 wds.
107 Stages
109 Well-being
112 Semiconductor 114 Hippodrome
116 Wild — yonder 117 Kinswoman
118 Garlicky sauce 119 Fish basket
120 Outbuilding
121 Fragrant garlands 122 Rattler
123 Kind of magical card 124 Bothers
DOWN
©2023 Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication for UFS 1 Weightlifting moves 2 Dies — 3 Bewilderment 4 County in England 5 Famed Russian
dancer
6 Gray or Butterfield 7 Swear
8 Deemed
9 Click beetle
10 Burst: var.
11 Wash
12 Mature
13 Draft animal: 2 wds. 14 Set, said of gems 15 Check writer 16 Ireland money 17 Railroad worker:
abbr.
18 Tall grass
26 That girl’s
28 Huey, — and Louie 30 Hodgepodge
33 Of a proclamation 36 Young attendant 37 Greek coin
39 Sodium chloride 41 Rut
42 Garment feature:
2 wds.
43 Son of Poseidon 44 Inscribes
46 Extremely
47 Marvel’s Galactus’
planet
48 More reasonable 53 Blackboard
54 “— Joey”
56 Irish Gaelic 57 Endowments
58 Tokyo, years ago 61 Diacritical mark 63 Spotted rodent 64 Kind of goose 65 Ascended
67 PR concern 68 Opposite of “o’er” 69 Yak
70 Spare-time doings 73 Command
76 Wild water
buffalo
78 Swordsman 79 “Exodus” hero
80 Hit
82 Inter — 83 Troublesome
insect
86 Something top-notch:
2 wds.
87 Release
89 Flowers
90 Singer Woody or
Arlo
91 On the main
92 Paving material 94 Incidents
95 Grassy expanses 101 — incognita
103 Religious leader 104 Type style: abbr. 105 Genuine
106 — -pedi
107 Between Tyler and
Taylor
108 Prophet
110 Ottoman
111 Farm birds
113 Done — — tee
115 Reeves role