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THAT’S A MOUTHFUL ACROSS
1 Parabolas, essentially 5 Part of a
wedding 9-Across 9 See 5-Across
13 Trophy winner
18 He planned
for a rainy day
19 Sled dog with a statue in Central Park
20 Jewish month before
Nisan
21 Corolla part
22 Result of a foul on a long basketball shot 25 Bandleader Shaw 26 Start of Euripides’
signature 27 Bargain-basement 29 See 92-Across
30 Took off the board 32 Popular jeans
33 Does, as an animated
character
35 A, B or C,
in Washington 38 Albino orca, e.g. 41 “You’re on!”
and others 42 Skedaddles
45 Country
singer Chesney
46 “It was all ____” 48 Chops down
49 Places for toasters and
roasters
51 Word after
sock or bunny 54 Subjects of some New
Year’s resolutions 56 Deli order
57 Reddish
59 When repeated, emergency cry to a fighter pilot 60 Wise-looking
63 Pub orders
64 On base, say
67 Part of a department
store where people sit 70 Legally confer,
as a power
71 Opulent
73 Kind of joke
74 Lilac color
76 High regard
78 Certain intersection 79 Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee home, with “the” 83 Family-reunion
attendee, informally 84 One taking inventory? 87 ____ Pueblo (World
Heritage Site)
88 Polite
89 Expensive outing 90 Philadelphia art museum, with “the”
92 With 29-Across, source of a famous smile
93 Home of the world’s only 14-lane suspension bridge 98 “Atonement” author Ian 100 Old barracks
decorations
101 Catches up to
102 Bollywood instruments 105 Man Ray’s genre
106 Ham it up
109 Wine orders
112 Good servers
114 Timekeeper on
the Emerald Isle
117 “Free ____”
118 Text-message status 119 Assists in a way one
shouldn’t
120 One getting the redcarpet treatment
121 Diary passage
122 Avant-garde
123 Father
124 Scottish caps
DOWN
1 Hill and
tunnel builder 2 Architect
Mies van der ____ 3 Complain
4 What a dairymaid does
all day long
5 Poi plants
6 Chaiken who co-created
“The L Word” 7 Printemps follower 8 Source of a deferment
in the 1960s draft 9 Syndicate
10 Big fan
11 Yamaha competitor 12 Formerly, once 13 Figurehead?
14 Tim ____, frequent collaborator with Adam Sandler 15 Ancient Greek state
with Athens 16 “The Marvelous Mrs. ____” (award-winning Amazon series)
17 “I beg of you”
19 A sharps
23 Aer Lingus destination 24 Performances
for Hawaii tourists 28 Plane, e.g.
31 Column in
soccer standings 34 Confesses
35 Picket line crosser 36 Hobbes’s favorite food in “Calvin and Hobbes” 37 Text-message status 39 Leading characters in
“Mad Max”
40 Matter in court 43 Pretentious
44 1984 Olympic
gymnastics sensation 47 ____ Boston
(noted hotel)
49 ____ de leche 50 Somewhat
51 Put an edge on 52 Loopholes
53 “Hey you!” 55 Wanna-____
56 Writer Stieg Larsson,
e.g.
58 Hard way to say the answers to the italicized clues in this puzzle (good luck!) 60 Willow twig
61 San ____, Calif. 62 Having a frog in one’s
throat
64 Building
direction, briefly 65 What “btw” means 66 Mess (with)
68 Spanish direction 69 Book before Deut. 72 Extend a hand
to after a fall, say 75 London’s Old ____ 77 Beyond that
79 Listens attentively 80 Declare
81 “Jane the Virgin” actress
Rodriguez
82 Pizazz
85 Wine: Prefix
86 Was on the
verge of collapse 87 What “light” cigarettes
are lower in
89 Not so hip
90 “The Garden of Earthly Delights” painter
91 Cleverness
93 App release
94 One of the
B vitamins 95 Underwater 96 Electrician’s concern 97 Like the smell
of some bread 99 Where something annoying might be stuck
103 Less welcoming
104 Sample
107 What a headache
might feel like
108 Start of a classic
Christmas poem
110 James of jazz
111 Ponzi scheme, e.g.
113 Wilbur’s home in
“Charlotte’s Web” 115 Box-score inits.
116 Time-sheet
units: Abbr.