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1 Titleholder, for short 6 Small piece 11 Washed-out 16 Acute 21 Shakespearean lover 22 Hiatus 23 Express a belief 24 Danger 25 Lacking sense 26 Shaw or Lange 27 Send payment 28 Last letter 29 Drunken one 30 Sch. org. 31 Acknowledge 33 Gloomy 35 Collapsible bed 36 — Charming 39 Revere 43 Foot part 44 Exist 45 Merited 47 Before deductions 49 Reply (abbr.) 51 Gusts 54 Famed Texas landmark 57 A flying reindeer 59 Gabor and Longoria 63 Destiny 64 Go wrong 66 Relocate 68 Mild expletive 69 — and rave 70 Diner sign 72 Literary collection 74 Ripple 76 Abominable snowman 78 Russian girl’s name 79 Relative by marriage 82 Allows 84 Lycanthrope 86 Playing card 87 Former student, for short 89 Function 91 Edge 92 Game official (abbr.) 93 Driver’s compartment 95 Surmounting 97 Ibsen character 99 — passim 101 Jan., Feb., etc. 104 Mayday! 106 “Annie Get — Gun” 108 Flooring piece 110 Site 114 Release a certain way 117 Sketch 119 Peppermint stick (2 wds.) 121 Greek portico 122 Performs 124 Street disturbance 126 Crete’s Mount — 127 Stake 128 Mountain lake 129 Butter squares 131 Condemn 133 Relative of 92 Across 135 — and abet 136 Raced 137 Weasellike animal 139 Monk 141 British — 143 Mineral spring 145 Four (prefix) 147 Ingenious 149 Printer’s measures 152 Play part 154 Lab animal (2 wds.) 157 Smells 161 Daddy 162 Action word 164 Hip joint 165 — of hand 167 Curved path 168 Thoroughbred 170 Cry of woe 173 So long, amigo! 175 Box-lid hardware 177 Willow 178 Wall painting 179 Chili con — 180 Chekhov or Rubinstein 181 French painter 182 Gab 183 Tire surface 184 Very little
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1 Crunchy 2 Treat with respect 3 Violin maker 4 Dudes 5 American poet 6 Petty quarrel 7 Old sailing ship 8 Furrow 9 Chinese, e.g. 10 Annoy 11 Basketball player 12 Mimic 13 Shadowy 14 Town in Oklahoma 15 Coup — 16 Uttered 17 Skirt border 18 Betel palm 19 Strictness 20 Full-page illustration 30 — capita 32 Assoc. cousin 34 Bellow 37 Fresh 38 Set of circumstances 40 Cheese variety 41 An amphibian 42 Elia’s specialty 46 “The Chronicles of —” 48 Mole relative 50 Asian goat 51 Sanctified 52 Unwilling 53 Aquatic mammal 55 Cut 56 Racetrack shape 58 Inscribe 60 Bravery 61 Fish with hook and line 62 Kind of sergeant 65 Go team! 67 Perpetually 71 Design detail 73 — breve 75 English school 77 Rainbow 80 End 81 Tax 83 Opening for coins 85 Post or Dickinson 88 Mental state 90 — the Red 94 Agent 007 96 Sound of contentment 98 Jai — 100 Drug-yielding plant 101 Essential things 102 Available (2 wds.) 103 Twenty 105 Range 107 Police action 109 Tolerate 111 Man-made waterway 112 Release, in a way 113 Kernels 115 Settles after flight 116 Change of — 118 Canine cry 120 Stop up 123 Scatter 125 Rocky hill 130 Third son of Adam 132 Isinglass 134 Jetty 137 Turn toward 138 Flow slowly 140 Town in Pennsylvania 142 Marquee announcement 144 Cousins to bricks 146 From —— Z 148 Cistern 149 Old Hebrew vestment 150 Loop in a rope 151 Shoot 153 Trudge 155 Precise 156 Speeder’s undoing 158 Sea devil 159 Inert gas 160 Perfume 163 Make indistinct 166 No longer new 169 Caspian or Baltic 171 Macaw genus 172 Popular pet 174 Wrath 175 Owns 176 Abbr. in bus.