IS THERE AN ECHO IN HERE?
John Kugelman, of Gainesville, Va., is a software engineer and musician. His puzzles often have a playful sense of humor to them, a style he attributes to his crossword-constructing ‘‘North Star,’’ the great Patrick Berry. About Patrick, he writes, ‘‘He doesn’t have a flashy gimmick behind every puzzle; it’s just how well he pulls off the simple themes.’’ This puzzle likewise has a simple concept, pulled off quite cleverly. ACROSS
1 Loses one’s shirt, say
10 Primarily studies
18 City with a cowboyhat-wearing replica of the Eiffel Tower
20 Videography option on a smartphone
21 ‘‘Tsk, tsk’’?
23 Buddy-buddy?
24 Resistance units
25 What ‘‘Ten-four’’ and ‘‘Over’’ are used in
27 ____-liver oil (dietary supplement)
28 Honnold who was the first to free-solo climb El Capitan
30 Exploit
31 Sight at Sydney’s yearly Festival of the Winds
34 ‘‘You’re on!’’
38 Paper-saving invoice
40 They keep people in the dark
44 [Knock, knock]?
45 11?
47 First-tier, as a celeb
48 Thudding noise
49 Diamond authorities
50 Go (for)
51 Word used three times in the Postal Service creed
52 Sen. or rep., e.g.
53 Up to
56 N.W.A.’s ‘‘Straight ____ Compton’’
58 Owl or whippoorwill, e.g.
62 Big step for a startup, for short
63 ‘‘Now I get it!’’
64 Pooh-pooh?
69 Wrap up
70 Sch. with campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai
71 Places to let out anger by smashing objects
73 Built (on)
76 Core exercise done lying down
79 Queer identity, for short
80 Output of some refrigerators
82 Word often followed by a Roman numeral
83 Helping hand
84 Show up, perhaps
86 Else
88 Tut-tut?
93 ‘‘Ow! Ow!’’?
94 Buccaneer’s buddies
95 Park worker?
96 ‘‘That much is obvious’’
97 Ran out of juice
98 The Lincoln Memorial appeared on it until 2008
99 Tangled masses of hair
100 One of the Mannings
102 George Lucas’s original surname for Luke Skywalker
106 Shock proof?
110 ‘‘OK, OK’’?
114 ‘‘Hubba, hubba!’’?
117 Outpouring of ideas
118 Seasonal workers in suits
119 Official beer of the Boston Red Sox, familiarly
120 On the comeback trail
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1 Swept style
2 Chemical formula for lye
3 Oil container
4 Needles
5 Night-school subj.
6 Basilica of ____ Anne de Détroit (historic Michigan landmark)
7 ‘‘Three may keep a ____, if two of them are dead’’: Benjamin Franklin
8 Over-the-counter brand that promises ‘‘Guaranteed relief every time’’
9 Put forth
10 Flaky mineral
11 Wild
12 ‘‘Friends’’ star, to friends
13 Antediluvian
14 Run into
15 Carnival attraction that propels its riders sky-high
16 ‘‘:’’ in analogies
17 Call for
19 Half a rhyming genre name
20 Steaming, with ‘‘off’’
22 Alaskan salmon hunters
23 Hulled wheat
26 Mirror image? 28 Be next to
29 MGM’s aptly named mascot
31 Nine credited roles in ‘‘Barbie’’
32 Texter’s hedge
33 Bit of ink, familiarly
34 Home of Kurdistan’s easternmost regions
35 Raven claw
36 Vital spark
37 Plugs
38 Brian in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
39 Big name in allergy medication
40 Humorist Bombeck
41 Talks incessantly
42 Didn’t spoil
43 Mlle. of Madrid
45 Basic skateboarding trick
46 Jovian moon
48 Kind of salad with hard-boiled eggs
52 What cognitive behavioral therapy can treat, in brief
54 It bears no etymological relation to ‘‘conifer,’’ surprisingly
55 Camera opening
56 State with a five-sided flag
57 ‘‘That’s just ... wrong’’
59 Clarified butter
60 Rear
61 Park worker
63 Por ____ lado (on the other hand: Sp.)
65 Fashion designer Anna
66 ‘‘By Jove!’’
67 Lead-in to nautical
68 Key of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40
72 Glower
73 Part of a baby’s nighttime routine
74 Hurt
75 Filming innovation used in ‘‘The Shining’’
76 Choice for a twist
77 Häagen-Dazs shelfmate
78 Ball that just grazes the bat, perhaps
81 Online crafts marketplace
83 Betwixt
85 Explosive inits.
86 Corsica and Réunion
87 Part of 115-Down: Abbr.
89 PET scan alternative
90 Uintah Basin people
91 Word in the mnemonic E-G-BD-F
92 Deliberately try to fail, informally
93 Key near Ctrl
96 ‘‘O Tannenbaum’’ and others
98 ‘‘Li’l Abner’’ cartoonist
99 Haggard fellow?
100 Abates
101 ‘‘Good Morning America’’ co-host Spencer
102 Dirty film
103 Some turkeys and tabbies
104 Hasty getaway
105 ‘‘Success has always been the greatest ____’’: Nietzsche
106 Group of buffalo
107 Payment before a deal
108 Big supporter, in modern slang
109 Quiet ‘‘Hey!’’
111 Telluride maker
112 Sturm ____ Drang
113 Initialism for exhibitionism
115 Seminoles’ sch.
116 Tiger’s target