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The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 64 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Sci-fi zapper 10 “Flashdance”
star Jennifer 15 1,152, to Caesar 20 Stateside 21 U-shaped bend
in a river 22 Protest shout 23 Gave spirit to 24 Chicago airport 25 See 42-Across 26 Bad grade 27 Causes wonder
in 28 Subcompact car
of the 1980s 30 Naughty kid 31 Saroyan’s “My
Name Is —” 32 Mex. miss 33 Abate 34 Harpercollins or Simon & Schuster
40 — Antonio 41 Suffix with
Brooklyn
42 With 25-Across, Czech tennis great
43 Crude dude 44 Gallery stuff 46 Film director
Preminger 47 Holiday song 49 Optimistic
attitude
55 Give and take 57 False
appearances 58 Flaky dessert 59 Restricted entry 62 USMC rank 63 Frat dude 66 Soon-to-be
adolescents 67 Inquire into 69 One of 100 in
D.C.
70 Monk’s title 71 Stuff applied to the wall of a room
76 School org. 77 Certain
Ukrainian
78 Fine riverbed
sand
79 Athlete’s
advantage 84 1836 Texas siege
site
87 Abbr. on a phone
dial
88 Sgt., e.g. 89 Must-have
91 In a bit, to bards 92 “— a snap!” 93 Took a chair 95 Features of
many limos
100 Sue Grafton’s “—
for Noose”
101 Movie-rating
org.
103 Defendant’s
opponent
104 Part of LAPD
105 “Necktie,” “bathrobe” or “jumpsuit”
108 College bigwig 110 Furry foot
113 Taken together 114 Great values
115 Subsequent
stage 117 Coup —
118 Omit, as a
syllable
119 Balsam or
turpentine
120 Blissful spots 121 Doles (out)
122 Maker of the eight programs that are the theme of this puzzle
DOWN
1 Told a fib 2 Hathaway of
“Ocean’s 8” 3 Store lure 4 Bygone U.K.
record label 5 Make over
6 Bar with beermaking facilities
7 Berlin article 8 Masters
9 Ticked off 10 “Awright!”
11 Dig out from the
ground
12 Impose — on
(outlaw)
13 Some nobles 14 Affirms solemnly 15 Suburb of D.C. in
Virginia
16 Wheat —
(cereal)
17 Judge of the O.J.
Simpson trial 18 Owing
19 “Don’t worry, things are going to work out” 28 60-min. periods 29 “Give — whirl” 30 “You’re preaching to the choir”
31 Lung cell
34 Pen maker
35 Egg cells 36 Boat-rowing
guys
37 Style of jazz 38 Bathtub sponges 39 Great reviews 45 Scale notes after
dos
46 Bullring cheer 48 Library penalty 50 Old railroad
watchdog agcy. 51 — Bo (exercise
system) 52 Age-verifying
cards
53 Top dentures 54 Food fish from
Africa
56 Eye squintingly 59 A DJ might spin
them 60 Furiousness 61 Gene stuff
62 Co. big shot 63 Gold-winning figure skater Brian
64 Hotfoot it 65 Slugger Mel 67 Burned a bit 68 Sentimental pop
songs 71 Dostoyevsky novel, with
“The”
72 Ida. neighbor 73 China’s Lao- — 74 Suffix with
Brooklyn 75 Comedian Gilda 76 “Ask Me
Another” airer 77 Available
without an Rx 79 Occur at the
same time 80 Acquired the
film rights to 81 Army meal
companion
82 As a team
83 “So yucky!”
85 Do some lawn
work
86 Add- —
(peripherals) 90 Pupil-widening
drug, e.g. 93 Young salmon
and sea trout 94 Clerk on “The
Simpsons” 96 Tristan’s love 97 Surgery
assistants
98 TV magnate
Turner 99 Olympic athlete,
e.g.
102 She sang “Hello” 106 Strategize
107 Stand by
108 Sub shop
109 Part of 62-Down:
Abbr.
110 El —, Texas
111 Almost like
112 Departed
115 — de plume
116 “— So Shy”