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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Get Out Of Here!

- BY TONY ORBACH / PUZZLE EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS 1 Impromptu musical gettogethe­r, informally 8 Counting tools 13 Most up to the task 19 Not much 20 Oddball 22 Commotion 23 Archaeolog­ist’s assertion about a finding? 25 Jackson not in the Jackson 5 26 Benchmark: Abbr. 27 Members of the genus Lepus 28 Some overseas seasons 30 Common vinaigrett­e ingredient 31 Russian pancakes 33 Swim-team guru? 36 Geri ____, late jazz pianist 38 Authority 39 Used to be 40 Hire Phil Collins’s longtime band for a gig? 44 Brand that comes out a head? 45 Explosive sound 49 Curtain-call actions 50 One of 32 in the Thai alphabet 51 The Serengeti, e.g.? 54 TV journalist Curry 55 Long 56 Press 57 Covers with goo 58 Speck 59 Quits 62 Shadow during an eclipse 63 Knowing everything that’s available to view on Netflix? 67 Look forward to 68 Clay-based 69 Unpleasant 70 Clishmacla­ver or bavardage, to use some fancy language 72 Trim 73 A/C measures 74 Hwy. offense 77 Amenity offered at an internet cafe? 79 Nickname for baseball great Ernie Banks 81 Gets out in dodgeball, say 82 Sticks in 83 Yes, in Brest 84 Bit of reading at a bar mitzvah? 86 Director Lee 87 Entertain 89 Deconstruc­t for analysis 90 Stand-up’s bombs? 95 Keys near G’s 98 Actor Rutger of “Blind Fury” 99 Keister 100 Less friendly 101 Assistance 104 Peninsula shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia 106 Art-shop worker’s manual? 110 Urbanize 111 Spit it out! 112 Part of a canopy 113 The plus side 114 Cuisine that specialize­s in beef barbecue 115 No-parking-zone fixture DOWN 1 Pokes 2 Bushels 3 “Whoa!” 4 Geneviève, for one: Abbr. 5 Imprinting indelibly 6 M.I.T.’S business school 7 Mathematic­ian Poincaré with a famous conjecture 8 Flabbergas­ts 9 ____ E. King, singer and co-composer of “Stand by Me” 10 River islet 11 Ye olde news announcers 12 “Same here!” 13 Knee part, for short 14 Fan group? 15 Like “alter ego” and “alma mater” 16 Prayer hands, for one 17 “... or ____ think!” 18 Part of L.G.B.T.Q. 21 Short race, for short 24 Your: Fr. 29 “When the country was fallin’ apart, Betsy Ross got it all ____ up” (“Maude” theme lyric) 32 Albanian coins 33 Something that’s often rigged 34 TV’S Burrell and baseball’s Cobb 35 Looks longingly 36 Band that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest 37 Minnesota’s state bird 38 Orlando-to-miami dir. 41 Role for Patti Lupone and Madonna 42 Brand X 43 Flock member 44 Spotted bean 45 “Well, I’ll be,” to a Brit 46 Offspring of a 43-Down 47 Taiwanese PCS 48 Big butte 51 A dime a dozen, say? 52 It can help you get a grip 53 Drops (down) heavily 55 Beautifull­y worded 56 Joe Jackson’s “____ Really Going Out With Him?” 58 Van Gogh painting that once fetched a record amount at auction ($53.9 million) 59 Hair-pattern protector 60 ____ nous 61 Get in gear? 63 Dubbing need 64 Used a stun gun on 65 ____ pants 66 Take a dive, maybe 67 Digital-imaging company that used to make film 71 Apt rhyme for “baloney” 73 Dating notation: Abbr. 74 Start of a seasonal request 75 “Fluff Yeah” slipper sandals, e.g. 76 “Gotcha” 78 Helical bit 79 Be off the mark 80 GPS calculatio­n: Abbr. 81 Exam for H.S. jrs. 84 Original tale of robot rebellion 85 Boxed a bit 86 Untethered 87 Biblical mount 88 Team spirit 90 Spanish term of affection between young women 91 Spring in northern Africa 92 Many rescues 93 Gooseflesh­inducing, maybe 94 Some coin tossers 95 Serve well? 96 Liquor-store purchase 97 Suspicious 100 Where Shiraz is located 102 Pic to click 103 Corp. division 105 Exclamatio­ns of regret 107 Combine 108 Green of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” 109 Always, in verse

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