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ACROSS

1 Lawn game similar

to pétanque

6 iPad download 9 Tear 13 Old-Fashioned

option 17 Post-surgery

regimen

18 In close combat 20 Ton o’ 21 Southwestern

snapshot gallery? 23 Like Chartres

Cathedral 24 Drummer Ringo 25 Inert gas

26 Diver’s need 27 “Cool your jets” 30 Alerts to some party planners that their guests have arrived? 33 Red tide bloom 34 Drag show

accessory

35 Puts in

36 __ tie

37 Skating biopic starring Margot Robbie

40 Ending for sub- or

ex

42 “Nailed It!” host

Nicole

43 “Over the Rainbow”

composer

44 One searching for

a river crossing? 47 __ blues: genre that originated in Mississippi

49 Actor Mahershala 50 Yale grads

52 “Look on the bright

side!”

56 Troves of gettingto-know-you questions?

64 Audio giant 65 Passage cleared

by a neti pot 66 PBS-funding org. 67 Play-__

68 Like lechón asado 69 “No ifs, __, or buts” 70 Flipped bar tables? 75 Private aye 77 Daredevil Knievel 78 “Beach House” singer Carly __ Jepsen

79 Fawned (over) 82 Veto a very large

corsage?

89 Some IRAs 92 Vampire’s curfew 94 Nursery cry 95 French star 96 Pointless event at

the Olympics? 97 Napa product 98 Small slitherer

100 Last president to keep a White House cow

101 Entertainment at a

tailgate party?

107 __ mitzvah

108 Guarantees

109 Meat salad in Lao

cuisine

110 Pontificate

112 Lay into

113 Political movement against free enterprise, or a way of reading this puzzle’s long answers?

118 Rummikub pieces 119 Familiar turf

120 Hyper

121 Rich rocks

122 Agape

123 Many OCS grads 124 Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir “Just As I Am”

DOWN

1 Wireless support,

maybe 2 Ref. that could be

considered hi-def.? 3 Comedian Margaret 4 Taxi waiting area 5 “Likely story” 6 Pulsating

7 Wretch

8 Veterinary patient 9 Thorny flowers 10 Set of values 11 When the sun is

highest

12 Bank acct. addition 13 “I’m normally more

humble than this ... ” 14 Gas additive 15 Excited

16 Includes

19 Color quality 20 Epithet for Shiva 22 Oom-__

23 Tour stops

26 Tennis great Agassi 27 Oliver Twist, for one 28 Palo __, California 29 Assistant with a

hunch?

31 __ chips

32 Picked out of a

lineup, briefly 38 Quite a spell 39 Wheel shaft

41 Male title derived

from “brother” 42 Hat edge 43 Supped

45 Steinway instrument 46 Above-the-street

trains

48 Scale divs.

51 Pro or con 53 Basketball commentator Rebecca

54 w/o delay

55 Cozy spots 56 “Mercy me!” 57 French film 58 Winds down 59 Plans to go public? 60 Actor Watanabe 61 Roof overhang 62 Japanese drama 63 __ party

68 Storage box 70 __-Magnon 71 Tony-winning musical “Dear __ Hansen”

72 Nero Wolfe creator

Stout

73 Oodles

74 “Mercy Mercy Me”

singer

76 Apple platform 80 Takes care of a

draft

81 Great __

83 Sheep trills 84 “You’re too kind!” 85 Rotund stove 86 “Glass Onion”

filmmaker Johnson 87 __ Romeo: sports

car

88 Hairy legend

89 Cite

90 Like many summer

concerts

91 __ strength: measure of tolerance

93 “Let’s see ... ” 97 Noisy bird in a

dome-shaped nest 99 Hazards

102 Bow-toting deity 103 Tempting words in

Wonderland

104 Bawled

105 School basics

106 Lab rodent

111 Stretched thin

113 Cry of discovery 114 IM pioneer

115 “__ Raining Them”: Mila Jam remake celebrating the gender spectrum 116 Sign for a crowded

house

117 Guy