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Interpreting All The Signs

ACROSS

1 Friendly and cheerful 7 Custard apple relative 12 Peevish state 16 Air gun ammo 19 With no secrecy 20 Caribbean resort island 21 Physiques, for short 22 Suffix with east 23 Door-bashing device 25 Working hard 26 Grazing field 27 Politician Alexandria — -Cortez 28 Bud Light mascot Spuds Mackenzie, for one 31 A verb often follows it 34 Vex 36 Winning tic-tac-toe row 37 “Hoarders” channel 38 “Full House” acting pair 41 Sideways-moving arachnid 43 Judo teacher 44 Test taker 46 Sailors, informally 47 “The Villain” actor Jack 50 Gain’s offset 51 Ignited 53 “If I Only Had the Nerve” singer 59 “KA-POW!” 60 Me, in Lyon 63 On — with (equal to) 64 One of the Kennedys 65 Org. with merit badges 67 Leaning 69 Mother of Jesus 71 Things to step on in washrooms 73 Moon that’s home to the Ewoks 74 Top-secret U.S. org. 75 Dialect of Aramaic 76 Ad biz award 77 French article 78 CEO’S deg. 80 Flashy, diving soccer move 82 Put a flaw in 83 Dog in “The Thin Man” 85 Hockey’s Phil, to fans 86 Manufacture 89 Leaned back 93 Negev’s land 98 “Fatal Attraction” Oscar nominee 100 Feta, for one 103 Official order 104 Prevarication 105 Spiral-shelled mollusk 106 Rep on the street 107 Luxury writing implement 110 Eye ring 113 Rhinoplasty doc 114 Nastase of tennis fame 115 Halibut, sole and flounder 120 Beatified Mlle. 121 Madams’ counterparts 122 Eldest of the Musketeers 123 1998 Masters champ Mark 124 One of the Kennedys 125 Hug’s partner 126 Century’s 100 127 All 12 of its symbols are featured in this puzzle

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1 Dollop 2 Clean air org. 3 Court divider 4 Chants 5 Actor Baldwin 6 Vega’s constellation 7 Grill-marked sandwiches 8 French forest region 9 Brand of faucet filters 10 Cry like — 11 Bank bought by Chase, for short 12 Govt. advances for mom-and-pops 13 Opposite of destined 14 “And When —” (1969 hit) 15 Certain high-heel feature 16 Go-go’s singer Carlisle 17 Offspring producer 18 Ones entrapping 24 “Vidi,” in English 29 “Slow” primate 30 Bonnie of blues rock 31 Antis’ votes 32 Corrida cry 33 Sailor’s org. 35 It runs on a 52-Down 39 — -do-well 40 Bill of tennis 41 “Hurry it up!” 42 Actress Ward 45 Balm additive 48 Female grad 49 Chatty birds 52 Apple buy 53 Went spelunking 54 Think aloud 55 Prison units 56 2012 Ben Affleck thriller 57 Turkish money unit 58 Bitterly cold 59 Adherents of an Iranian religion 60 Thousand: Prefix 61 — acid (fat product) 62 “There, there” 65 Georgia politician Bob 66 Michael of the band R.E.M. 68 Small nail 70 “— la Douce” 71 Drink-related party abbr. 72 Suffix with microor kaleido75 Read quickly 79 “I’m c-c-cold!” 80 Start to wake 81 Light snack 82 Small rodents, jocularly 83 Sore feeling 84 Slumber 86 Star of “I’m No Angel” 87 Slower than allegretto 88 Like bootees 90 Cream-filled pastries 91 Big head 92 Contributor 94 Covered anew, as a book 95 — Lingus 96 Suffix with Senegal 97 Guided 99 In harm’s way 101 Transversely 102 Those people 105 100-buck bill 108 Roman 1,052 109 Auction website 111 “The Wizard —” 112 Celeb’s ride 116 Radio host Charlamagne — God 117 “Bali —” 118 Epoch 119 Small pouch