THE BIG X-WORD
The French Connection by James Barrick
ACROSS
1 Dove feet first into second
5 Set off
10 Bus.: abbr.
14 They bookend intermissions
18 Metallic fabric 19 Bandleader — Glenn Miller
20 Backsword
21 Scut
22 Like 1920s Dadaism: hyph.
24 In-town home: hyph.
26 ’90s dance craze 27 Wood color
29 Tried to get 30 Backsplash material
31 Read
32 Stuffs
34 Keep busy
37 Tip jar contents
39 Divides into equal parts
43 Something bothersome
44 Finishing blow: 3 wds.
46 Island
47 Prong
48 Unhinged speech
49 Stratagem
50 Indigenous Canadian
51 Tiny colonist
52 What’s trending now
54 Take out
55 — Quarter of Paris
56 Historical period of decline: 2 wds.
58 Hoist
60 Regret
61 Take the stage
62 Where votes can be cast
63 With — breath
64 Rooms upstairs
66 Shanty
67 Farm building
70 Choppers
71 Example
72 Heats to the boiling point
74 Kind of session
75 Caps
76 Wine variety
77 Paint in tubes
78 Stir (Hyph.)
79 Killer animal
80 Siren: 2 wds.
84 What is yielded
85 PC-problem panacea
87 Manners of speaking
88 Party
89 Moose genus
91 Athena’s sibling
92 Wrongdoer
93 City in Denmark
96 A tylopod
98 Set about
102 Assumed moniker: 3 wds.
104 Shared delusion: 3 wds.
106 Cullen of “Twilight”
107 Perugia’s river 108 Online flamer
109 Opposing
110 Line of stitches
111 Bridge
112 The —, Netherlands
113 Fearing that
DOWN
1 Hit
2 Molten material
3 Apple computer
4 Make (alcohol) unfit to drink
5 With knowledge
6 Carpentry tool
7 Razor brand
8 Pole
9 Patella
10 First fratricide
11 Complies
12 Alert color
13 Usual way of doing
14 Worry-free: 2 wds.
15 Model T’s
16 Makeshift swing
17 Flexible Flyer
20 Loofah
23 Nonsense
25 “We hold — truths ...”
28 Stripe
31 Seals
33 Humble
34 Sequence of eight
35 Porcelain 36 Inopportune event
37 Strobiles
38 Way out
40 Menu: 3 wds.
41 Related marketing product: hyph.
42 Artery insert
44 — -corner
45 Precept
48 Prevails uncontrolled
50 Small part for a star
52 Doorlock
53 Treasure —
54 Pickles
55 Wood strips behind plaster
57 Heals
59 Part of IPA
60 Touches down
62 Made public
63 Girl at a ball
64 Rose oil
65 Annoy, in a way 66 Disservice
67 Rains ice
68 — Hawkins dance
69 Chew the scenery
71 French philosopher
73 Embers
76 Sense-data
78 Three-footed
80 Bogus
81 Any of the Founding Fathers
82 Swiss river
83 Fractional part
84 Pro —
86 Two-seater
88 Mother of Dionysus
90 Aqua-Lung
92 French soldier
93 Singles
94 What’s taken
95 Madame Bovary
97 Word of agreement
98 Clunky shoe
99 Hawaiian goose
100 Meat portions
101 Departure
103 Cup edge
105 “... — — mouse?”