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ACROSS

1

Aid for a small business

10 Dev of “Slumdog

Millionaire”

15 Part of a prairie

skyline

19 Strict commitment

20 Sidestep

21 “Way ahead of you” 22 Compliment to a

runwaymodel?

24 Low card in Texas

hold’em

25 Some donations

26 Stable supply

27 Starting piece on a1 or

h8, say

28 ____ Slam (tennis

feat)

30 Drain

31 Easily offended by

foul language?

34 Kind of high ground

37 Trial

38 Breaks down

39 Spanish “sun”

40 Axel ____, protagonist

of “Beverly Hills Cop” 41 X

42 Japanese roadster

since 1989

44 Residence thatmight

be named for a donor 45 Question to a tantrum

thrower?

49 Costly cuts

51 First twowords of “Green Eggs and Ham”

52 ____ fixe

53 Malbec and syrah, e.g. 54 Role model

55 Wet-Nap, for one

57 Friend with a rhyming

description

59 Sighting aptly found

in “Are you for real?” 61 “Anything you’d like to

____?”

63 Relics proving how Noah steered his boat?

68 Something to do for

recovery?

69 Pacific island ring

70 Neil with the hit “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”

71 Carries out

73 Actor Elwes of “The

Princess Bride”

75 Trade blows

77 Mild

79 Driver’s org., no matter howyou slice it?

80 Relent

83 Prepared for a field

trip?

86 Interjections akin to

“Yeah, su-u-ure!”

87 Bygone forensic

spinoff

89 Android alternative 90 Quits at the last

minute

91 Org. that awards the

Safer Choice label

92 World capital

established in 1535

93 Jackanapes

94 Rap producers’

favorite vegetables? 95 Masters of

slapstick?

100 Retinal receptor

101 Drink after drink?

102“To livewithout ____ is to cease to live”: Dostoyevsky

103Sign 104Stow 108 109Title

of summer cargo

Get into gear

for an oral surgeon’s handbook? 113 Certain sexual

preferences

114 Italian automotive

hub

115 Subject of many an off-season rumor

116 “Young Frankenstein” character played by Teri Garr

117 Tee type

118 4th order?

DOWN

1 ____ Rudolph, portrayer of Kamala

Harris on “S.N.L.”

2 Role model

3 Amigo

4 Rules’ partner, for

short

5 El Dorado

treasure

6 Like apple seeds, if eaten in huge quantities

7 Fresh froma keg

8 Sore 9 Org. that sponsored the design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

10 MXN, on a currency

chart

11 Adele and Cher, e.g.

12 ____ and Caicos

13 Part of a dean’s

address

14 “I’d rather pass”

15 Shooting sport

16 All together now

17 Farm-to-table

consumer

18 Word that sounds like

its first letter

21 Elba who played Macavity in 2019’s “Cats”

23 One end of the

PolitiFactmeter

29 Willing subject

30 “Don’t be rude ... greet

our guests!”

31 Loonie or toonie

32 Some are named for

kings and queens

33 Stately street liners 34 Coat froma goat

35 High point of Greek

civilization?

36 Emeritus: Abbr.

37 “It’sme ... duh!” 40 “Just sayin’,” in

shorthand

41 Needless to say

42 Mississippi ____ pie

43 Released

44 Thingamabob

46 Brink

47 World No. 1 tennis player between Navratilova and Seles 48 Lived in a blue state? 50 One might be hard to

sit for

54 Pipes at some bars 56 Brings out

58 Downfall in many an

Agatha Christie novel 60 Buzzed hairstyle

62 Stops harping on

something

64 Like a sparsely

attended party

65 See 66-Down

66 With 65-Down,

“Ditto”

67 Pelvic exercises

72 Give attitude

74 Instruction for a

course?

76 Earnings

78 Drewback

80 “Sorry to intrude …”

81 Certain monkey … or

monk

82 “Jackpot!” 83 One needing new,

unburned pants?

84 De-lights?

85 Oil-rich state, for

short

88 Appliancewith apps 92 Yearns (for)

93 Fashionable pair

94 Cover for “little

piggies”

96 “Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk” is the last short story he wrote

97 “Take that!”

98 Kind of chemical

bond in salts

99 Vivacious quality

100 What ameta clue

might do to itself 103Chicagomayor Lightfoot

made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

104Brick

105New____ 106Showy 107Lifesavers,

basket

for short

108 Piece of equipment for goldmedalist Lindsey Vonn

110 Marauder of old

111 Lifelong bud, slangily 112 Partner of hem