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By Jason Mueller and Jeff Chen / Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Just 5 Many lines of code 8 Legitimate 13 Demolish 17 You can learn something by this 18 Portrait overlooking
Tiananmen Square 19 23-Across topper 20 One getting a tax
write-off, maybe 21 Filer’s concern 23 Fictional archaeologist 25 28-Across topper 26 Indigo plants 27 Kramer’s first name
on “Seinfeld” 28 Famed frontierswoman 30 Hip-hop name modifier 31 Publishing mogul, for
short 32 Toughens, as metal 33 Gain 34 40-Across topper 39 Post-boomer group 40 Subject of “Guerrillero Heroico” 42 Three-time Nobel Prize-winning organization 47 Al Bundy or Phil
Dunphy 49 Nixing phrase on
movie night 50 Arctic jackets 51 Shoplift, in slang 52 Site of a miracle in
Daniel 3 53 They pop up in the
morning 54 58-Across topper 55 ____ breve 57 Shipmate 58 Leader of the Free
French 64 Quick shot? 67 Jack who ran for vice
president in 1996 68 Chits 69 Modern-day hieroglyph 73 South American rodents 76 Bugs, e.g. 78 Contents of a spreadsheet 80 83-Across topper 81 Arctic masses 82 Starts of some one twos 83 He helped move a piano in “The Music Box” 85 Violinist Leopold 86 Like Mandarin or
Cantonese 87 Pinch 88 95-Across topper 91 Loan source for a mom-and-pop store: Abbr. 94 Finish on a canvas? 95 Star of “Sherlock Jr.” and “Steamboat Bill Jr.” 97 102-Across topper 100 Giving goose bumps,
say 101 City about which Gertrude Stein said “There is no there there” 102 Italian pitchman of
note 105 Something cooks put
stock in 106 Catches a wave 107 More indie, say 108 Absorbed 109 Queen of Jordan 110 Ancient hieroglyph 111 Sends to oblivion 112 Co. that originated
Dungeons & Dragons 113 Ballpark amts.
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1 Otto who worked on the Manhattan Project 2 Powerful bloodlines? 3 Word after in and of 4 Bit of cowboy gear 5 “Been better, been
worse” 6 Quality of voices in the
distance 7 Swillbelly 8 Poison compounds
produced by snakes 9 Confuse 10 Mom on “Family Guy” 11 Journalist Flatow 12 Getting down, so to
speak 13 Leeway 14 ____ Christi 15 Actress Kravitz of “Mad Max: Fury Road” 16 Triage locales, for
short 19 Like answers on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” 20 Some club hires 22 West Point inits. 24 Verizon purchase of
2015 26 Title character in a
Sophocles play 29 Desires 30 Perjured oneself 33 “Isn’t he great!” 34 Drink that’s the subject of several rules in the Code of Hammurabi 35 Still 36 Approached quickly 37 Author Jong 38 “Long ball” 40 Investment instruments, for short 41 Routine 42 Pioneering Arctic explorer John 43 Like the 13 Colonies:
Abbr. 44 Barker 45 Pursuer of Capt. Hook 46 Spate 47 Twirlers 48 Invalidating 51 “Out of my way!” 52 ____ bug 54 Continental carrier 56 Velázquez’s
“____ Meninas” 59 Director Kurosawa 60 Like some tel. nos. 61 Eternities 62 Baltic native 63 Key with four sharps:
Abbr. 64 Coors competitor 65 Billy Joel’s
“____ Extremes” 66 Wes of PBS’s “History
Detectives” 70 Spanish she-bear 71 One of the Bushes 72 Post-____ 74 It parallels a radius 75 Opposite of a poker
face 77 Website necessity 78 A long-established
history 79 Literature Nobelist J.
M. Coetzee, by birth 81 Gusto 82 Bo’s cousin on “The
Dukes of Hazzard” 84 Discordant, to some 85 Museo contents 88 Mashes into a pulp 89 Basketry material 90 Cartoon cries 91 Actor John of
“Full House” 92 Bit of wit 93 Angstrom or Celsius 94 Your, in Siena 95 Darken 96 Solo 97 Hatcher who was a
Bond girl 98 Slays, informally 99 Ones going for hikes,
for short? 100 As a result 102 CBS show with a 15-year run ending in 2015 103 Nucleus 104 Kerfuffle 105 Cool dude