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PLAYING THE HITS
By Derrick Niederman/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
Across
1 Symbol of authority, infor-
mally
7 Compañero
12 Delhi issue
16 Reaction to puppy pics
19 Water buff alo, for one
20 French ____ (trick-taking
game)
21 Land of blarney
22 Pass during the N.F.L.
playoff s
23 THE LADY VANI__ __ __ __
(No. 2, 1964)
25 Who infamously boasted
‘‘They can’t collect legal
taxes from illegal money’’
27 Luxurious
28 Suffi x in some pasta names
29 BILLE (No. 3, 1972)
31 He gave Starbuck’s orders
34 NATO members, e.g.
35 Adorable sort
36 x 0 (No. 1, 1985)
41 Barnyard baby
42 Keep one’s mouth shut?
43 Porky Pig’s girlfriend
44 It cost 5¢ in 1965
47 Home of Iowa State
49 Help with a crime
50 Google web browser
53 Laser-pointer chaser
54 Like the Balkans in the 1990s
57 Certain peaceful protest
58 Country singer McEntire
59 Captivate
60 VAUDEVILLIAN (No. 2, 1988)
65 Become more complicated,
say
66 Getting together
67 Sheen
71 LOST, E.G. (No. 1, 1984)
73 Glacier-scaling tool
74 Yard tool
77 Private student
78 Figure it out
79 ____ Lilly (pharmaceutical
giant)
80 ‘‘Jeez!’’
82 Actress Garr
85 Beach shaper
86 Only player to win the U.S.
Chess Championship with no
losses or draws
88 Darling
91 Harbor helper
92 ____ story (tale of a car
company’s bankruptcy?)
93 CHAN__E __PPEA__ANCE
TO CONCEA__ __ __D
MISLEA__ (No. 1, 1968)
97 Islamic spirit
99 Brand of insecticide strips
100 Madhouses
101 TITTLE-TATTLE (No. 16,
2011)
103 Opposite of post-
105 Airline posting
109 Furnace for calcium oxide
production
110 ENT I CEMENT (No. 1, 1983)
114 Big club in Las Vegas?
115 The fi nal word
116 Give a lift
117 Know-it-all
118 ‘‘____ Como Va’’ (Santana
hit)
119 Female Olympian of note
120 Palindromic battlers
121 Place of worship whose
third, fourth and fi fth letters
are appropriate
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1 One of eight in a stick of
butter: Abbr.
2 Jolly laugh
3 Dec. 24 and 31, e.g.
4 Minor accident
5 Mary ____ Evans a.k.a.
George Eliot
6 Opposite of paleo-
7 Memo abbr.
8 When doubled, Hawaiian
food fi sh
9 Pique
10 Terk in Disney’s ‘‘Tarzan,’’
e.g.
11 Opera with the aria ‘‘Ave
Maria’’
12 Naval engineer
13 Air traveler’s accumulation
14 Quint’s boat in ‘‘Jaws’’
15 Enclosure for a bike chain
and sprockets
16 180
17 Arthur who invented the
crossword puzzle (1913)
18 Overgrown, say
24 Kind of terrier
26 Young chicken, e.g.
30 Actress Tyler
32 Move barefoot across a
scorchingly hot beach,
maybe
33 Shock’s partner
34 Throw ____ (rant and
rave)
36 No longer frozen
37 Kind
38 Crop up
39 Chafe
40 Out of gas, informally
41 Internet ending that’s also an
ending for inter-
44 Part of the brainstem
45 Chatter
46 Greek letter that might
follow ‘‘z’’
48 Affi x, in a way
50 Eyelashes
51 Ketchup brand
52 ‘‘One ____-dingy’’ (Ernes-
tine the operator’s catch-
phrase on ‘‘Laugh-In’’)
55 Arch type
56 Landlord’s due
57 Petrol unit
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58 Surgically remove
60 Unearthed
61 Mi, in a C major scale
62 Number twos
63 Pelvic bones
64 Air carrier
68 Island where Paul Gauguin
painted
69 Book that’s the source of the
phrase ‘‘a land fl owing with
milk and honey’’
70 Go back (on)
72 Instruction in an oatmeal
recipe
74 ‘‘Zebra’’
75 Slugger from Louisville
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76 Florida City whose name has
three pairs of doubled letters
78 Upscale watch brand
80 Annual eight-day celebration
81 Basketball stat: Abbr.
82 Numbskull
83 Poetic dusk
84 Color of traffi c on a GPS
87 Craft carried over a portage
88 Rhythmic part of a heartbeat
89 Same: Prefi x
90 Sense of self
93 Protagonist in ‘‘The Stepford
Wives’’
94 FedEx competitor
95 Clears for takeoff ?
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96 Old Glory
97 1964 Tony Randall title role
98 Like oranges and some gossip
99 Duck or Penguin
102 Frost
103 Davidson of ‘‘S.N.L.’’
104 Richard and Jane in court
106 Commercial prefi x with
postale
107 Out of offi ce?: Abbr.
108 One-named Irish hitmaker
111 Tops
112 Madrid’s country, in the
Olympics
113 Song lead-in to ‘‘Believer,’’
‘‘Loser’’ or ‘‘Survivor’’
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