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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 65 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Like photons and gluons
9 Exercise machine with steps
21 Part of Turkey in Asia
22 Money from work
23 Getting wider
24 Three-under-par scores
25 Actors Epps and Sharif
26 Scrape (out) 28 Prefix with monthly or annual
29 Refrain bit 30 Distant
31 Gives voice to
34 Study of visual imagery
39 Angler using artificial bait
42 Suffix of sugar names
44 Feels fretfully discontented
45 Looking for
47 Dog pest
48 Geezer
51 Rival of Gmail
52 Gridiron player recruitment event
56 Pit- — (heartbeat sound)
57 “Etc.” for “et cetera,” e.g.
60 Kerfuffle
62 Vetoing vote
63 Start of a question in a Snow White story
71 Influence of a country in other countries
72 Explanation of a text based on its exact wording
73 Mauna —
74 After taxes
75 Letters after pis
76 Apple debut of 2005
77 Charming
82 “... boy — girl?”
84 Truck fuel
86 Prefix with monthly or annual
87 Some hairless felines
91 Mafia initiate
94 China’s Mao — -tung
95 Maestro’s group
99 Area with a pond and fountains, perhaps
101 Attack
103 Partakes of
104 Trot quickly
105 Conger, e.g.
107 “Listen up!”
108 Rises quickly
110 Vehicle tag
116 War prisoner
119 Not merely figuratively
120 Quality of being close
121 Like a certain branch of geometry
122 Schmoozing sessions
DOWN
1 Financial scammer Bernard
2 Zoo resident
3 Wage
4 Polaris or Sirius
5 Oodles
6 Gin inventor Whitney
7 Evil deed
8 Certain steeped herbal drink
9 Passover meal
10 Chinese “way”
11 In — (stuck)
12 For short
13 Saintly artifact
14 B-F link
15 Recline
16 Pig — poke
17 Director of
2000’s “Charlie’s Angels”
18 Ballad singer Michael
19 Materialize
20 States again
27 Deborah of “The King and I”
31 Pre-’91 empire
32 With 66-Down, Mr. or Mrs. Right
33 Arty NYC district
35 German composer Carl
36 “Little” Dickens girl
37 Pundit’s paper piece
38 Fibster
40 Source of Adam and Eve’s leaves
41 Suffix with Carol
43 Linked collection of photovoltaic panels
46 Redheads
48 Composer SaintSaëns
49 Personal view
50 Once-popular Nerf game with blasters
52 Amateur player
53 38-Down in the Bible
54 “Enough Said” actor Ben
55 Aleve rival
57 Human rights lawyer Clooney
58 Chomping down on
59 Ocean water
61 Actor Lundgren
64 Hockey legend Bobby
65 Stranded cell stuff
66 See 32-Down
67 Very, to Yves
68 In a tizzy, with “up”
69 That, in Chile
70 Liquid quality
78 On the ocean
79 Pricey stones
80 Apple debut of 1998
81 Ship of 1492
83 Ostrich kin
84 Writer Roald
85 Ending for Bronx
87 Strengthened
88 Sniffing organ
89 Getting an inside look at?
90 Roman 201
91 Florida majorleaguer
92 Mother-or-son president of the Philippines
93 Big name in yo-yos
96 Macbeth and Macduff
97 Most scarce
98 Take stock of
100 Coke rival
102 Glossy look
106 Alleyway
108 Feudal peon
109 Writer Sarah — Jewett
111 Poetic “prior to”
112 Modern, in Germany
113 Plant pouch
114 Building addition
115 Airport screening org.
117 Org. for teachers
118 Indenting key