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ACROSS
1 Greek letter that’s a
symbol for torque
4 Done without foresight
8 Small samples
12 Chocolatier’s unit
15 Holding areas in Capture
the Flag
17 Thoughtless mode
19 Declares confidently
22 Novelist/ short- story
writer ____ Bender
23 “The Rise of ____’’
( 2019 film subtitle)
24 Coat with small droplets
25 Mrs. or Sra. equivalent
26 Prepares to deal,
perhaps
28 Western ____ ( coll.
course)
29 Name repeated in a
nursery rhyme
31 Item sometimes made
with wiliwili seeds
32 Flaky, syrupy pastry
34 Divisions represented by the answers to starred clues in this puzzle
36 Livestream, e. g.
38 Worry- free
39 French for “between’’
40 Small fox with unusually
large ears
41 University of Cincinnati
athlete
44 ____ Command ( Atari
game of the 1980s)
47 Abbr. in a birth
announcement
49 Longtime
50 Invitation in a therapist’s
office
51 Minecraft block with
a fuse
54 Designer of Doha’s
Museum of Islamic Art
55 Analogy words
57 “Yes, that spot right
there ... ‘’
60 Added streaks to, say
63 Honey ____! ( ringshaped cereal)
65 Young bloke
66 Ruin
67 Last word in “America
the Beautiful’’
68 Anna of Arendelle’s elder
sister
69 Festival with lion dances
70 Mobile ____
71 Ultimatum word
72 Pitch 73 Part of a gas- mileage
rating
74 Start- up loan agcy.
75 Damascene’s country
77 What “gladiator’’ literally
translates to
80 Beer brand with
mountains in its logo
82 Jessica ____, astronaut who participated in the first all- female spacewalk
83 Not the same
84 It “sounds like a clarinet with a cold,’’ per Victor Borge
85 Battery in a Wii Remote
88 Stinging pests
89 Some residents of the
eastern Mediterranean
91 Banks
93 Lung or brain segments
94 Like a dirty film
95 Chlorophyte, e. g.
96 Org. for D. C. United and
the L. A. Galaxy
97 Impediments to team
productivity
98 Get in a knot
101 “Thou God ____ me’’
( Genesis quote)
103 Fred who co- created
“Portlandia’’
107 Campus part
108 In a scuffle
110 Hopping herbivore
112 Captain of fiction
113 Address that’s often
shown in blue letters
114 With 116- Across, procedures in which drivers take turns joining a single stream, as demonstrated five times in this puzzle
116 See 114- Across
118 Crow’s cry
119 Backside
120 Air Seoul’s parent
airline
121 Hubbub
122 Actress Mowry of
“Sister, Sister’’
123 Green expanse
124 Commander for Joe
Biden, e. g.
125 Pass judgment on
126 Tricksy
DOWN
1 * Person with a stopwatch
2 Drink that may be spiced
3 Potential scenario
in which a piece of software might be helpful
4 Person who worships Jah
5 Puffins, e. g.
6 Total dump
7 *” Is it even possible?!’’
8 * It’ll take a second to
get it
9 Similar group
10 Elegy, e. g.
11 Boba tea is often served
with a wide one
12 Miniature- cheese- wheel
brand
13 “____ Maria’’
14 * Chinese New Year
decoration
15 * Meat- and- vegetables dish with Creole and Cajun varieties
16 Target
18 Coat that may take
awhile to put on
20 Witherspoon of
Hollywood
21 * Electrical wiring nexus
27 Pigmented eye layer
30 Lower- interest deal, for
short
33 Blood work, colloquially
34 Start of a detective’s
trail
35 Uno + dos + tres
37 Site with gadget reviews
42 * Revolutionary cooking
device?
43 Conflict over seceding from the Galactic Republic, in sci- fi
45 Some brandy cocktails
46 * Hair- salon goo
47 * Many a presidential
election occurs in one
48 Prospective ebay
buyer’s figure
52 “Better than I thought’’
53 * Where hip- hop
originated
54 State of matter in the
sun
55 * Theoretical substance for which a chemistry law is named
56 Fifth in a scale
57 Stadium with the first
animated scoreboard 58 * Where newlyweds are typically seated at a wedding reception
59 Severity
61 Latin “is’’
62 * Toddler drop- off locales
64 Equilibria
76 Home to the sport of
hurling
78 Americans usually spell
“cancelled’’ with this
79 Queens players
81 Enters like slime
86 Grammy- winning
Mexican singer Downs
87 * Exercise that
strengthens hip flexors
89 * Compilations of
laughably bad takes
90 Bit that bonds
92 Mineral collection site
94 Motion to ____ ( court
request)
98 Are
99 Certain essential worker
100 Taco topping
101 Job increasingly replaced by speech- totext programs
102 G7 member, informally
104 Some offshoots
105 What might have
attachment issues?
106 “You’re kidding!’’
109 Tablet you might take in
the bathroom
111 The Hindu god Ganesha is often depicted with four of them
114 Ray- gun sound
115 Makeshift towel
116 N. Y. C. commuter rail
overseer
117 Pedestrians cross them:
Abbr.,