Crossword: Exercise your brain
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ACROSS
1 Sadistic feline character in a Scott Adams strip
8 Out 14 Concern for a P.R. team 20 Trembling 21 Land, as a fish 22 The Red Baron, for one
23 ‘‘The operation was a success!’’ e.g.?
25 Unimportantsounding dessert
26 Novelist/poet Cisneros
27 Posthumous award?
28 Cause of death in many a murder mystery 29 Lampoon 31 Kidney-related 33 Montana, in the 1980s
34 ‘‘Let’s get going!’’
36 People who start arguments out of nowhere?
40 Metal in galvanization 41 Comes after 42 Embedded design
43 Stud fees? 45 Lighthearted movie
46 Painter Velázquez
48 Network that once advertised its prime-time block as ‘‘Must See TV’’
51 Bygone car company that bore its founder’s initials
52 City with views of the Mediterranean and Mount Carmel
54 Officers who woke up on the wrong side of the cot?
57 No longer plagued by
58 The ‘‘R’’ of the Bay Area’s BART
59 Material for some suits
60 One who’s unfaithful?
63 They’re written in chess notation
64 Loose and flowing, as a dress
66 Unit of stamps 67 Felt bad 68 What’s the holdup?
69 Soirees where people are dressed in their finest board shorts?
72 ‘‘Holy guacamole!’’
73 Response to a breach of movietheater etiquette
76 Airport monitor, for short 77 Supports 78 Island whose name rhymes with 72-Across 79 Chef’s topper 81 ____ kebab 83 Tailors’ measurements 85 Be awesome 86 Got 101 percent on an exam, say?
91 ‘‘Don’t touch that ____!’’ 92 Really bothered 93 Stuntwoman Kitty known as ‘‘the fastest woman in the world’’
94 One of a pair on the table
96 Hotheaded ones?
98 Site of a noted oracle
101 How a tandem bicycle is built
104 ‘‘Well, all right then’’
105 Why someone might practice deep breathing every five minutes?
107 ____ Mae 108 Multiparagraph blog comment, maybe
109 Nit pick? 110 Celsius with a namesake temperature scale 111 Knit pick? 112 Intrigued by
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1 Mama ____ 2 Shade similar to turquoise 3 Makes aware of 4 March Madness tourney, with ‘‘the’’ 5 Flip inside out 6 Put a bluffer in a tough spot
7 Give a whirl 8 Son of 62-Down 9 Muppet who sings ‘‘I Refuse to Sing Along’’ 10 Humorist David 11 One-percenters and the like 12 ____ Creed 13 Demolition material
14 Like some granola bars
15 Amazon predator
16 Dublin alma mater of Oscar Wilde
17 ‘‘Don’t worry, that only looked painful!’’
18 Early accepter of mobile payments? 19 Haughty looks 24 Doesn’t go straight
28 Requiring a lot of attention, say
30 Go on a rampage
32 Off the beaten path
34 Industry magnate 35 ‘‘Hands off!’’ 37 Adidas competitor 38 A.O.C., e.g. 39 Grab (onto) 44 Any member of the Twelver branch of Islam 46 Hornswoggled 47 Author Murdoch played onscreen by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench
48 Faux pas 49 Begin to develop 50 Quartet that performed at Woodstock, for short
53 Revenue sources for podcasts 54 Squirrels away 55 ‘‘Good to go!’’ 56 Stand up at the altar
57 Biodiverse habitat
58 Gets going, so to speak
60 Abbr. that begins some entrylevel job titles
61 Start of a conclusion
62 Goddess who cursed Echo to just repeat the words of others
63 Ingredient that turns a Black Russian into a White Russian 64 Entrance 65 Roman triumvirate?
67 German city where Charlemagne was buried
68 Do a favor for a vacationing friend, maybe
70 Four for a grand slam, briefly
71 They often end on a low note
72 Many a Dickensian child
73 Water heater?
74 Polynesian performance
75 Last-eaten part of a loaf, often
78 Women’s History Month: Abbr.
80 ‘‘Supplies are limited!’’
81 Paste used for home repairs
82 Frequent result of wearing a bike helmet
83 Getting three square meals a day
84 Office worker 86 Appetizer often served with mint chutney
87 Pioneer Day celebrant
88 Like urban legends, again and again
89 Figure out 90 Only state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state
95 Animal whose genus name, Phascolarctos, means ‘‘pouch bear’’
97 What contacts contact
99 Zest 100 Cache 102 Direction for one who’s been in Benin to go to Togo
103 Popular name for a
black-and-white pet 105 W-2 ID
106 ‘‘How ____!’’