THE BIG X-WORD
ACROSS
1 “— Needs Moms” 5 Print measures 10 Milan’s La — 15 Gong 19 Morphology branch: abbr.
20 Plant seed-to-be 21 Dial-up device 22 Toward the sheltered side 23 Something obvious about this answer: 6 wds. 27 Publisher’s error 28 Supporter
29 Emu or moa, e.g. 30 Dollar bills 31 Marsh birds
33 — noire 34 Decamps 37 Dawdle
38 Piece for a drill 39 Paper quantity 43 Presque —, Michigan 44 Tractor-trailer 45 Seaman
46 Actor — Butterfield 47 How best to read this answer: 6 wds. 54 Tennis term 55 Concert hall
56 Kind of orange 57 Fjord
58 Word in a palindrome 59 Circular edges 60 Pilfer
61 Make a judgment about 62 Chooses 63 Albright and Montez 64 Stain
65 Gets with difficulty (with “up”) 68 Actor — Farrell 69 Dart
70 Avena sativa 73 Troubled 74 Yellow finch 75 Signified 76 Exclamation
77 How far this answer extends: 6 wds. 81 Old French coin
82 Scraps
83 One of the Olympians 84 Tuscany river
85 Ohio players 87 Sports org. 88 Blanched 90 Throughout northern regions
92 Bulk
94 Woody stems 95 Pitfall
96 Of a mountainous place
99 Saharan 100 Mariner
104 Do this when you know the answer: 5 wds. 108 — vera
109 Malice
110 Ripple pattern 111 School in England 112 Rends 113 Facilitated
114 Turkic language 115 Harangue
DOWN
1 Injure severely 2 Opposing one 3 Tattered duds 4 Journey’s interruption 5 Flowers
6 Pavlov and Turgenev 7 Kooky religion 8 Totality 9 Harden 10 Malodorous 11 Hooded robes 12 “What a difference — — makes” 13 Field
14 Almond liqueur 15 Trade
16 “Time Machine” race 17 For fear that 18 — majesty
24 Irish river
25 Word in a forecast 26 Mouser
31 Instant noodles 32 First Arabic letter 33 Nonsense 34 Cotton thread
35 Lab compound
36 Having wings 37 Greek island 38 Sheriff’s star 40 Score in golf 41 Silent butler contents 42 Dillon and Damon 44 Checks
45 Breaks unexpectedly 48 Underwater projectile 49 Mine entrances 50 Rope for pulling a vessel 51 Chinese, e.g.
52 Rice dish
53 Part of MIT: abbr. 60 Unbroken
61 Skirt shape: hyph. 62 Utah city 63 Arboreal animal 64 Down-in-the-dumps feeling
65 More secure 66 Homeric sorceress 67 Audibly
68 Jai alai basket 69 Honored with a party 70 Yellow pigment 71 Hippodrome 72 “Sound of Music” setting 74 Eastern Europeans 75 Ethics 78 Poppycock
79 Yarn
80 Roofing material 86 Beams 88 Arranged by twos 89 Actor — Garcia
90 Ink roller 91 Lummoxes 93 Cuckoo
94 Minos’ island 95 Aquarium fish 96 Remotely
97 “— Marleen” 98 Drop into a chair 99 Rara — 100 Narrow peninsula 101 Pro —
102 College subj.
103 Let
105 Clean-air org. 106 Paramedic 107 Extinct bird of NZ