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TURNS OF PHRASE
By Nancy Stark and Will Nediger/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 19
Across
1 Web site?
6 Browser window
9 Streaming service acquired by
Fox in 2020
13 Civil rights grp. once led by
M.L.K.
17 Fictional character who says,
‘‘I will take the ring, though I
do not know the way’’
18 Scorpion, for one
20 Wasn’t overturned on appeal
21 Artists sketching pectorals?
23 Stays out all night?
24 Glowing or shining
25 Work rotations
26 French ‘‘I like’’
27 ‘‘Right on!’’
28 Spot at a casino
30 Either side of a beaming grin,
in a phrase
31 Tony winner McDonald
32 Something to make after you
wake
33 Vow to remain mum about
hotel guests’ secrets?
37 Hoops org.
40 Possibility
41 Scoffi ng sound
42 Driver of fi lm
43 Nonbinary people, informally
47 Declined
49 Over-poetical?
50 Modern-day ‘‘carpe diem’’
51 Early times in verse
52 Small distance covered by a
naval armada?
56 First sitting prez to fl y in an
airplane
57 Words after walk or cash
58 Hyperbolic wait time
59 Like climates where cactuses
thrive
60 Pointy part of a charger?
62 Group of followers
64 Willem who played Jesus
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in ‘‘The Last Temptation of
Christ’’
66 Some pianos and motorcy-
cles
68 2000s Fox teen drama
69 Playwright Simon
70 ‘‘Emotion in motion,’’ per Mae
West
71 Thomas ____, British
general at Bunker Hill
72 Sweetie
73 Boxer lacking a left hook?
77 One of the boxing Alis
78 Gumbo ingredient
80 :-) alternative
81 Below par
82 Something unleashed in a
denial-of-service attack
83 Destination for a return fl ight
84 Himalayan humanoid
86 ____ eyes
88 ‘‘I’m a frayed ____’’ (punch-
line of a classic joke)
89 What brass-band music has?
92 Court
95 Groups of Greeks, informally
97 Watcher of the skies, for
short
98 Old ____ (motherland,
aff ectionately)
99 Announced
100 You can count on them
101 Beat in a race
104 Very productive
106 Not even a little off
107 Tree feature in winter?
109 Quaint bathroom sign
110 Galosh
111 Lumberjack’s favorite kind
of beer?
112 ‘‘What are the ____?’’
113 Audience for “Cocomelon,”
the most-viewed YouTube
channel in the U.S.
114 Omega’s place
115 Columns with angles
Down
1 Home with a pointy roof
2 Worked on Wall Street
3 Bring to a repair shop, say
4 Creative springboard
5 Cereal once advertised by
Woody Woodpecker
6 Subject for Laozi
7 Sounds from a lab
8 ‘‘The Art of Fugue’’ composer
9 One’s kin, casually
10 Loosen, in a way
11 Some zeros and ones
12 Bar necessities, at times
13 It has several steps
14 What a dog walker and a
strong-willed pooch might
vie for?
15 Run easily
16 Makeup of some music
libraries
19 Main
20 Huge quantity
21 Lacking color
22 Brief period of work
26 ‘‘Easy ... everything’s going
to be OK’’
29 Bottle marked with a skull
and crossbones
31 Cost for a spot
33 Garden-shed items
34 Caramel-fi lled candy
35 ‘‘You can leave this to me’’
36 Declaration by one who’s
done playing
38 Benjamin Franklin famously
considered it ‘‘a rank coward’’
with ‘‘bad moral character’’
39 ‘‘Te quiero’’ sentiment
43 Mideast V.I.P.
44 Response to ‘‘No off ense’’
45 The Bee Gees’ Barry, Robin
and Maurice Gibb?
46 It might gather lint
48 Somersault
52 Adversary
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53 To’s opposite
54 Old-timey reproach
55 Scottish cap
58 Aromatic trees
61 Really bother
63 Jacqueline or Jacques
64 For sure, for short
65 Something a snowboarder
catches
66 Last word of ‘‘Ulysses’’
67 Goal in musical chairs
69 Nick of ‘‘48 Hrs.’’
70 Beer brand whose name
spells an article of apparel
backward
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74 Carolers’ repertoire
75 ____ dancer
76 Minotaur’s foot
77 Bird known in the U.K. as a
diver
79 Draws
82 Red-light district establish-
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85 Like some vodkas
87 Fly into a rant
90 Spuds
91 Tall tales
92 Dispensed with
93 N.H.L. team with fi ve cham-
pionship-winning seasons in
the 1980s
94 Praising poetry
96 Ballet sections
99 Play station?
100 Got rid of
101 ‘‘Duh,’’ in modern slang
102 Pine
103 Like the Radio City Music
Hall sign
105 Harvest
106 Something swollen on a pro
athlete?
107 Totally fi ne
108 Alternative to Webster’s, in
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