INEVITABLE CHANGES

Across

1. ___ Vegas Raiders 4. Salvador of art 8. Introverted genius

12. Complain

17. ___-Loompa (fictional chocolate factory worker)

19. Many or much

20. India with Grammys

21. Demolished, as a house 22. “Word has it ...”

23. Western string tie

24. Opera set in Egypt

25. Came to light

26. Best Actress Oscar winner for “The Blind Side” (2010)

29. Loved to bits

31. Made beloved

32. Chip’s target

33. South Asian wrap

34. “___ be an honor!”

35. Author Rand (“Atlas

Shrugged”)

36. Musical slide

41. Ukrainian pastries

45. Understand, in slang 46. Nautical prefix 47. Mottled horse

48. Beginning of a count of

seconds

51. Settles down

52. Sound of relief

53. Possessed, formerly

54. Some TVs

55. Scarcity of food

56. UFO crew

57. Mythical human/goat

creature

59. Retail promotion

61. Maximally weird

62. Sources of aromatic boards used in making chests

65. Sports crawler info

68. Idiomatically

untrustworthy

69. Cunning

70. Gentle-lamb connection 73. Poor, as a choice

74. Chicken-king

connection

75. Girl in the fam

76. Org. founded in

Baghdad in 1960

77. Largest deer family

member 114. Gaze without blinking 115. Comic deliveries

116. Mideast monarch 117. Unspecified power

Down

1. Actress Lindsay

2. Tweak, as a contract 3. Digger’s tool

4. Applied gently

5. Audibly

6. Lounge around

7. “Listen to me next

time!”

8. Major civil rights org. 9. French composer Satie 10. Clear, in a sense

11. Radio station dilemma 12. At no charge

13. Hard to spot

14. Sportswear brand

scrambled in “trapezoid” 15. Mexican coin

16. Biblical garden

17. French river that’s a

78. British nobleman homophone of “was” credited with the Charge in court invention of a ubiquitous menu item Clarinetist and

bandleader Shaw

83. Dudes

Pigpen sounds

84. Mail routing abbr.

“Approximately”

86. Calendar entry, in short

Luges, essentially

87. Lavishly decorated

Nickname in baseball

88. Symbol found on the 7 stardom and

key commentating

90. “The Simpsons” Teamed (up) for a fight neighbor

One of Dumas’

91. Texter’s “Enough musketeers details!”

38. “I’m not kidding!”

92. Links org.

39. Condemns

93. Veggie container

94. Ills

99. Multi-deck card game

103. Metaphor for change

(as illustrated in this puzzle’s six other long answers)

105. Up in the air

106. Bowling assignment

108. “Dies ___” (Latin hymn)

109. Remove, as a medal

110. Opponent

111. Heavy burden

112. Kind of bean

113. Does some sulking 18. 27.

28. 30. 33. 35.

36. 37.

MIX UPS SOLUTIONS

EDOVI: TPMOS: RDUOHS: LPEPOE:

VIDEO STOMP SHROUD PEOPLE

ROGAC: CARGO ATLPN: PLANT UYPRMG: GRUMPY VEADNI: INVADE 40. First sign

41. Sit for a portrait

42. Still contending

43. Rules, informally

44. Fireworks show sound 45. Its capital is Accra

49. Dull sounds

50. Blend of metals

51. Singer/actress Mariah 55. Tactile quality

57. True counterpart

58. Poker hand opening

59. Pledge under oath

60. Early day ISP

61. Pension plan law, briefly 62. France neighbor, in

French

63. First name of Stanford’s

founder

64. Cap removal verb

65. Music/dance of Cuba 66. Huge, to a poet

67. Sudden descent

70. Capital of Samoa

71. Religious offshoot

72. Dull pain

74. Insurance giant 75. Nob Hill force, briefly

76. Possess

79. Hawaiian island or porch 80. Dataset available to

read or edit

81. Chinese menu notice

82. Gets desiccated

84. Title abbr. for many

profs

85. Language spoken in the

Philippines

89. Make a fluttering sound 91. Musical ineptitude

93. Game with rooks

94. Florida metropolis

95. Talked too long

96. Friendly advice

97. Mrs. Bunker in “All in the

Family”

98. 3-2-4 IDs

99. Train units

100. Settled to earth

101. Stellar blowup

102. Way over yonder

103. Warm and comfy

104. Fit and slender

107. SNL alum Gasteyer