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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 getting-to-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”
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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