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By Miriam Estrin/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
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1 Dinosaur in the Mario games
6 Titular fi lm character opposite
Harold
11 Something off ered in tribute
16 ____ Martin DB5 (‘‘Bond-
mobile’’)
17 Knock-down-drag-out fi ghts
21 Nudge
22 Barack, Michelle, Hillary and
Bill took them, for short
23 Yann Martel’s baking
memoir?
24 Have heart eyes for
25 Member of Britain’s upper
house
26 Tone-____
27 Shunned, with ‘‘out’’
29 ‘‘Don’t get ____!’’
30 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s chivalric
tale?
36 Just like that
38 Zaps, as leftovers
39 Brainstorms
42 Messes (with)
43 Follower of ‘‘Je m’appelle’’
44 What a fi gure skate has that
a hockey skate lacks
45 ‘‘____ you seeing this?’’
46 Voltaire’s sweet novel?
50 Scan that excites hydrogen
atoms, for short
51 Can’t keep one’s mouth shut?
54 Alternative to de Gaulle
55 Debussy’s ‘‘____ d’Étoiles’’
57 Prepare to go next
59 ‘‘You’re making me blush!’’
61 Lived (with)
63 Marcel Proust’s kitchen
mystery?
70 Trouble
71 I
72 ‘‘That’s ____!’’ (director’s
cry)
73 Halloween vis-à-vis Nov. 1
74 ‘‘Yeesh!’’
76 One of six parked on the
moon
78 Nasty, in a way
79 Author Ferrante
81 Neutral paint color
82 Break
85 Societal problem
86 ‘‘When They See Us’’ director
DuVernay
89 Big e-commerce site
90 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s
pet story?
95 Guarantees
97 [Doh!]
100 Semibiographical source for
‘‘Citizen Kane’’
101 Small trunks
105 Certain red wine
107 Trap
109 Had a friendly relationship
(with)
110 ‘‘____ is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn
one’s living at it’’: Einstein
111 ‘‘Revenge ____ dish …’’
112 William Shakespeare’s
historical romance?
115 Gives one’s seal of approval
116 Woman’s name that’s a
piece of furniture backward
117 Classical singing venue
118 Beat
119 Call to reserve?
120 The fi nal installment of ‘‘The
Godfather’’
121 Bit of coff ee
122 Sierra Nevadas, e.g.
123 Word that can precede or
follow ‘‘run’’
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ing of a pump-up jam by 2
Unlimited)
2 Part of an Italian veal dish
name
3 Go back to Square 1
4 Share a workspace, in mod-
ern lingo
5 Helpful connections
6 Breakfast order
7 Long period
8 What a weather balloon
might be mistaken for
9 Letters on the ‘‘3’’ button
10 Catches a glimpse of
11 What Mrs. Potts and Chip
serve in ‘‘Beauty and the
Beast’’
12 Brit’s term of aff ection
13 ‘‘Finally!’’
14 Resolve, with ‘‘out’’
15 Precious, to a Brit
17 Goes undercover?
18 Heated accusation
19 Sound eff ect during a
bomb defusing, perhaps
20 ‘‘I watched that episode
already’’
26 Critical time
28 Queen who made Carthage
prosper
31 Pittsburgh-to-Buff alo dir.
32 Fair forecast
33 Beat in a boxing match, in
a way
34 Corral
35 Command for a right turn,
in mushing
36 ‘‘It’s possible’’
37 ‘‘You’ve Got Mail’’ director
Ephron
40 Neutral paint color
41 Sound like a broken record
46 Shoe with holes
47 Top dogs
48 Subject of Rick Steves’s travel
guides
49 God, in Guadalajara
52 Bullet alternatives: Abbr.
53 Utter
54 Como ningún ____ (unique,
in Spanish)
56 Pledge-drive gift
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57 Giggle
58 Dreyer’s ice-cream partner
60 ____ Harbor, fi rst offi cial
port of entry to the United
States
62 Channel that aired ‘‘Daria’’
and ‘‘The Hills’’
63 Fan-mail recipient
64 Exploding star
65 Take pride in something
66 Ruffl e
67 What can take a punch?
68 ____ & Chandon (Cham-
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75 Wray of ‘‘King Kong’’
77 Nonresident doctor
80 Lead role on ‘‘Parks and
Recreation’’
82 Writer Stein
83 Green and others
84 Sets (against)
86 The Amazons were the
daughter of this god, in myth
87 By way of
88 Director’s cry
91 Is employed
92 Movie with the line ‘‘I feel the
need … the need for speed’’
93 Dials
94 Some concert tour merchan-
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95 Martial arts master
96 Sushi condiment
98 Traitor in the Revolutionary
War
99 Warehouse employee
100 ‘‘S.N.L.’’ cast member
Gardner
102 Lover of Orion, in myth
103 8-Down pilots, in brief
104 Forest grazer
106 Full of spice
108 Where Zeno taught
110 Children’s poet Silverstein
113 ____ beam
114 Place for a shvitz
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