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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 64 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Sci-fi zapper
10 “Flashdance” star Jennifer 15 1,152, to Caesar
20 Stateside
21 U-shaped bend in a river
22 Protest shout
23 Gave spirit to
24 Chicago airport
25 See 42-Across
26 Bad grade
27 Causes wonder in
28 Subcompact car of the 1980s
30 Naughty kid
31 Saroyan’s “My Name Is —”
32 Mex. miss
33 Abate
34 Harpercollins or Simon & Schuster
40 — Antonio
41 Suffix with Brooklyn
42 With 25-Across, Czech tennis great
43 Crude dude
44 Gallery stuff 46 Film director Preminger
47 Holiday song
49 Optimistic attitude
55 Give and take
57 False appearances
58 Flaky dessert
59 Restricted entry
62 USMC rank
63 Frat dude
66 Soon-to-be adolescents
67 Inquire into
69 One of 100 in D.C.
70 Monk’s title
71 Stuff applied to the wall of a room
76 School org.
77 Certain Ukrainian
78 Fine riverbed sand
79 Athlete’s advantage
84 1836 Texas siege site
87 Abbr. on a phone dial
88 Sgt., e.g.
89 Must-have
91 In a bit, to bards
92 “— a snap!”
93 Took a chair
95 Features of many limos
100 Sue Grafton’s “— for Noose”
101 Movie-rating org.
103 Defendant’s opponent
104 Part of LAPD
105 “Necktie,” “bathrobe” or “jumpsuit”
108 College bigwig
110 Furry foot
113 Taken together
114 Great values
115 Subsequent stage
117 Coup —
118 Omit, as a syllable
119 Balsam or turpentine
120 Blissful spots
121 Doles (out)
122 Maker of the eight programs that are the theme of this puzzle
DOWN
1 Told a fib
2 Hathaway of “Ocean’s 8”
3 Store lure
4 Bygone U.K. record label
5 Make over
6 Bar with beermaking facilities
7 Berlin article
8 Masters
9 Ticked off
10 “Awright!”
11 Dig out from the ground
12 Impose — on (outlaw)
13 Some nobles
14 Affirms solemnly
15 Suburb of D.C. in Virginia
16 Wheat — (cereal)
17 Judge of the O.J. Simpson trial
18 Owing
19 “Don’t worry, things are going to work out”
28 60-min. periods
29 “Give — whirl”
30 “You’re preaching to the choir”
31 Lung cell
34 Pen maker
35 Egg cells
36 Boat-rowing guys
37 Style of jazz
38 Bathtub sponges
39 Great reviews
45 Scale notes after dos
46 Bullring cheer
48 Library penalty
50 Old railroad watchdog agcy.
51 — Bo (exercise system)
52 Age-verifying cards
53 Top dentures
54 Food fish from Africa
56 Eye squintingly
59 A DJ might spin them
60 Furiousness
61 Gene stuff
62 Co. big shot
63 Gold-winning figure skater Brian
64 Hotfoot it
65 Slugger Mel
67 Burned a bit
68 Sentimental pop songs
71 Dostoyevsky novel, with “The”
72 Ida. neighbor
73 China’s Lao- —
74 Suffix with Brooklyn
75 Comedian Gilda
76 “Ask Me Another” airer
77 Available without an Rx
79 Occur at the same time
80 Acquired the film rights to
81 Army meal companion
82 As a team
83 “So yucky!”
85 Do some lawn work
86 Add- — (peripherals)
90 Pupil-widening drug, e.g.
93 Young salmon and sea trout
94 Clerk on “The Simpsons”
96 Tristan’s love
97 Surgery assistants
98 TV magnate Turner
99 Olympic athlete, e.g.
102 She sang “Hello”
106 Strategize
107 Stand by
108 Sub shop
109 Part of 62-Down: Abbr.
110 El —, Texas
111 Almost like
112 Departed
115 — de plume
116 “— So Shy”