Spring in bloom!
Use the letters highlighted in the finished puzzle to spell shrubs that bloom in spring
ACROSS 1 Sales force 5 Contract negotiator: abbr. 8 Broadway souvenir 12 Tea Leoni show — Secretary 17 Clapton or Estrada 18 Dairy farm sound 19 Chaplin prop 20 The Brady Bunch housekeeper 21 Place for a shower 23 Final notice 24 Trades jabs 25 Blow away 26 Salesperson’s minimum goal 27 Medium and extra-large 28 Chair part 29 Continental currency 30 Trash container 31 Water colors 34 “Act your —!” 35 R in a car 39 Engine sound 40 Bicker 42 Frigid finish 43 Exclamations of surprise 44 Porky of cartoons 45 A Nightmare on — Street 46 Bad thing to give away 48 Move, as wings 49 Utters words 51 Kennedy and Koppel 52 Down and out 53 Feline line 55 Directional ending 56 Change one’s story? 58 Passengers 61 Voting “no” 63 Seas 67 Brio 68 Finishes second 70 Antlered animal 71 Honey maker 72 Ariz. neighbor 73 Light bulb unit 74 Watchdog’s warning 76 Cole — 77 “Golly!” (2 wds.) 79 Rower’s requirement 80 Keats and Shelley 81 Dusk, to Donne 82 Hooded snake 85 Stick-in-the-— 86 Walkie-talkie word 89 Coffee break snack 90 Folic acid 94 Conscious 95 Decomposes 96 Put off 97 Bloke 98 — vera 99 Bestseller 100 Admits, with “up” 101 Cafeteria stack 102 Cough syrup amts. 103 Driver’s lic. and others 104 “Check this out!”
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1 Country singer Mcentire 2 Elizabethan and Victorian 3 Brad of Hollywood 4 Professor, usually 5 Honor — thieves 6 “Well done!” 7 Male cat 8 Use elbow grease on 9 Prohibited 10 Condos, e.g. 11 — carotene 12 Huge 13 Like Swiss peaks 14 Actress Cameron 15 One of 100 in Winnie-the-pooh’s wood 16 Bungle, with “up” 22 Regrets 26 London line 29 Bird-to-be 30 Floating ice mass 31 Computer programs, for short 32 Wisecrack 33 Suggest strongly 34 Pitcher’s pride 35 Washer setting 36 Lady Macbeth, e.g. 37 Certain herring 38 Catch a glimpse of 40 In addition 41 Diary jottings 42 Help out 45 Barely gets, with “out” 47 Man cave, maybe 48 Big bash 50 Hymn finish 52 Actor Nolte 54 Ballroom dance 55 And so on, for short 57 “Mama” speaker 58 — shui 59 On the safe side, at sea 60 **** review 62 — King Cole 64 —-bodied 65 “Cool!” 66 Puts in stitches 68 It hurts 69 Bull’s sound 70 “To — is human . . .” 73 Legal term 75 Battery size 76 Fizzy drink (2 wds.) 78 Every seventh day 80 Short shot 82 Puts on ice 83 Good way to go out (2 wds.) 84 They move pupils 85 Sprays 86 Flat floater 87 One in debt 88 Apple variety 89 “Dang!” 90 Cancel 91 Cuts grass 92 Quaint accommodations 93 Tree home 96 — Beta Kappa