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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 62 minutes. ACROSS
1 Work force 6 Swallowed up 14 Beautiful 20 Popular type
option 21 Wedlock 22 Idolize
23 Organ knob imparting a striking sound 25 Napoli’s country 26 Quarterback
Manning 27 Boundless 28 Suffix with
12-Down 30 Jungle lairs 31 Age, as cheese 33 Hidden way out in a haunted house
36 Orlando locale 40 Singer Reba 42 Ratio of a stock share’s return to its price
45 Shell games 50 Persona 51 Studio stand 52 Hold in check 55 Animation
frames 56 Neophytes 58 Blackish wood 60 Pisa’s river 61 Actor Wilson 62 Illinois town
west of Chicago 64 Worker finishing
furniture 68 Savage sort 70 Deeply felt 71 Popularity boost after appearing on satirist Stephen’s old show
73 Iris’ layer
74 Is in debt 75 Fallback
strategy 76 Singer Mariah 78 UPS deliveries:
Abbr.
82 Did a 180
84 Willy Wonka
creator Dahl 86 Capital of Egypt 87 Kagan of the
Supreme Court 88 At a snail’s pace 91 Quark or pion 95 “The Newlywed Game” host
Bob
96 PC program tool for automating batches of invitations, say 100 Actress Irene
102 Streamlined, in
brief
103 Africa’s Amin
104 “Canvas” for a
tattoo
106 Artificial cave 111 Zoned (out)
113 Like people heeding seven key words in this puzzle 117 Mongol invaders 118 Brazilian rain
forest region
119 Make — for
oneself
120 Lace-receiving
hole
121 Crescent-like
objects
122 Plays spiritedly
DOWN
1 Defensive tackle
Warren
2 Willow or oak 3 Ethereal 4 Almanac item 5 Drinking water
additive
6 Long dashes 7 Innocent 8 Reaction to an
awful pun
9 Big vases 10 Enumerate 11 Chubby 12 Inflated sense of
self
13 Portray
14 First coat of
paint
15 Like many a sr.
citizen 16 Sidestep 17 Old-style
messager
18 Pop singer
Lopez 19 Brewer’s fungus 24 Snarky
29 Lanka lead-in 32 Lousy review 33 Vendors
34 Finale
35 Final, e.g. 36 Savings acct.
protector
37 Tart pie fruit 38 Track shape 39 Road semis 40 Fail to catch 41 Passing mark 43 “Wilson” actress
Laura 44 Basketballer
Ming
46 Shipping box 47 Hitter Hank 48 Negative 49 Sleep sound 52 “Backdraft” director
Howard
53 Salad green 54 Biggest city in
Australia 56 Nudniks
57 Turtle in a Dr.
Seuss title 59 Belfry dweller 61 Small bill 62 Hiatus 63 Homer’s H 64 Win a point 65 Sauna wrap 66 Tylenol rival 67 “Peer Gynt”
dramatist 68 Sloppy Joe
holder
69 Hug
72 Defective 73 Pakistani
language 76 Walking stick 77 ’80s sitcom 78 “Qué —?” 79 Brick-baking
oven
80 Totally understand, informally 81 Plants seeds 83 Absorbed 85 OPEC liquid 86 Big hack attack 88 Sty dweller 89 Mystery writer
Deighton 90 Sudden forward
thrust
92 In the thick of 93 Cardinal, e.g. 94 Clan-related 96 Sticky stuff 97 Reimburse 98 Hopping mad 99 Like ultra-lite
food
100 Failed to
101 Remove, as a
105-Down
104 Medium, e.g. 105 Shoelace
problem
107 “How awful!” 108 Cardinals, e.g. 109 Office fill-in
110 Corrida calls 112 Sooner than
114 Big bush bird 115 Flying Solo
116 — -been