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1 Europe’s “City of Light”
6 Part of NEA: Abbr.
10 Kailua Bay’s island
14 Evil being
19 _ acids
20 Greet the day
21 Muscat’s country
22 Maine university city
23 Bisquick or Betty Crocker product
25 Be deemed acceptable
27 Capital of Turkey
28 _ -Free (contact lens solution brand)
30 Floor of a fireplace
31 _ Cruces
32 Iranian money unit
34 “Tortilla Flat” co-star Hedy
37 Apiary buzzer
40 Mardi _
42 Singer Duane or
Gregg
44 Steel-gray element
47 Jazz guitarist with 20 Grammys
51 Dessert named for soprano Nellie
53 Big online brokerage
54 Took off
56 _ Na Na
57 Brilliance of success
58 Makes diluted
59 Social-climbing whiz kid
61 Letterman’s rival, once
63 Recognize
64 Actress Kosarin or skater Ivanova
66 Yule songs
68 Clumsy sorts
72 1950s-’70s legal drama
76 Hitter in a horseback sport
78 Besides that
79 False name
81 “Hamilton” face-off
82 Grassland
83 “Sula” author Morrison
85 Athlete like Simone Biles
88 Miss Daisy player Jessica
90 Eyeliner flaw
93 “La Cage aux Folles” actor Tognazzi
95 Rooney or Kate of film
96 Warship with two banks of oars
97 What letter carriers carry
100 Grass cutter with an engine
102 Epoch of the first horses
103 Entraps
105 Meg of “I.Q.”
106 Genetic helix
107 Little sister of Bart and Lisa
109 Poet Pound
111 Sit-up targets
114 Mexican inn
117 Divan, e.g.
119 Like smooth orange juice
122 “Yeah, that’s about right”
126 Newspapers, magazines, and such
128 As a result of
129 Huge heads
130 Shredded
131 Newsy notes
132 Fable writer
133 Pond critter
134 Henchman helping Hook
135 Appropriate time to solve this puzzle?
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1 Like Vatican affairs
2 Kitchen range brand
3 Skating sites
4 Ancient Andean
5 Fly like a kite
6 Amazement
7 Pago Pago’s place
8 Aircraft that can land on snow
9 Following
10 “Alley _”
11 Docs’ gp.
12 Rosh _
13 Auto racer Al
14 Full of gloom
15 Formerly, archaically
16 Insect-repelling pellet
17 Dollar bill
18 And not
24 Dojo activity
26 Windy month
29 With 45-Down, bad sign
33 “Sort of” suffix
35 Piece of gig gear
36 Baton-waving director
38 Actor Idris
39 Coup d’_
40 Govt. agent
41 Morning warning for sailors
43 Rival of Uber
45 See 29-Down
46 “Don’t lose your head”
47 Where pooches get pampered
48 Close behind, as a dog
49 Judges evaluating cases, e.g.
50 City on the Rio Grande
52 Shout
55 Tic- _ -toe
59 Element with a 235 isotope
60 Knock sound
62 J.D. Salinger title girl
65 Somalian-born supermodel
67 Long-used maxim
69 Totally original
70 “I want some grub!”
71 Obedient dog, at times
73 Spin
74 In progress
75 Big Apple team, on scoreboards
77 Longtime Nissan model
80 “So yummy!”
84 Algerian port
86 Neck’s scruff
87 Had as its source
89 Elvis _ Presley
90 Went fast
91 Earth orbiter
92 Those who’ve broken free
94 Dashboard fuel indicator
96 Journalist Gumbel 98 Air Force officer Curtis 99 Chou En- _
101 Blunder
104 Home: Abbr.
108 Guys writing jingles, say
110 African nation renamed in 1997
111 Poet W.H. _
112 Airship type
113 Muscle twitch
115 Bus driver for Bart and Lisa
116 Go no further
118 Chooses
120 Fail to include
121 Buttigieg of Biden’s Cabinet
122 BlackBerry, e.g., in brief
123 Really regret
124 Female seal
125 FDR follower
127 Born as