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WATCH YOUR STEP
By Ross Trudeau/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 19
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1 Rock subgenre named for its
vocal aesthetic
8 Like some space-saving beds
14 Styles that are picked,
informally
18 Amateur
20 Disinclined (to)
21 Royal fi gure of sci-fi
22 Grammy for Kendrick Lamar’s
‘‘DAMN.’’ or Cardi B’s ‘‘Inva-
sion of Privacy’’
24 Shuts down
25 American, abroad
26 Apt name for a worrier
27 Moving toward equilibrium,
in biology
29 Legerdemain
31 Horse color
34 Prepares for a Ms. Olympia
competition, say
36 Tiny foragers
37 ‘‘Here’s an example .?.?. ’’
41 Insect with distinctive
pincers
44 Without stop
45 Subj. for some future
bilinguals
46 Sources of music in musicals
50 Splinter group
51 Brewing brothers
54 Capital of Japan’s Hyogo
Prefecture
55 It might be broken in
overtime
56 Waits to publish, as an article
59 Second-rate
61 Pronoun pairing
63 Loop trains
64 Hornswoggle
67 De-creased
69 Luxury Hyundai
70 ‘‘Still da ____’’ (Trina title
track of 2008)
72 Fluster
74 Kind of squash
77 One using cloves or garlic
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79 What gets fi lled at a shell
station?
80 Monthly condition, for short
83 Hairstyle protectors
85 Tabbouleh topping
87 Build, as interest
89 Kind of test
90 Board fi gure, informally
92 Recipe unit
95 Goddess in a peacock-drawn
chariot
96 Marilyn Monroe wore a
fuchsia one while singing
‘‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best
Friend’’
99 Beverage that was a medie-
val source of nutrition
100 ____ President
101 Literary protagonist raised
by wolves
102 ‘‘The Sound of Music’’
household
105 ‘‘Horned’’ creature
107 Turn one’s back on
109 Laces (into)
110 Apelike
112 University of Montana city
115 Weasel word?
118 ____ Fielding, co-host of
‘‘The Great British Bake Off ’’
beginning in 2017
119 Suff ering from a losing
streak, in poker slang
122 Secret exits represented fi ve
times in this puzzle’s grid
125 ‘‘Bus Stop’’ playwright
126 Camping shelter
127 Advocates
128 Romanov ruler
129 Vulnerable
130 Most likely to inspire ‘‘thirst’’
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1 Twins, e.g., for short
2 Site with tech tutorials
3 Gets out of a grave situation?
4 Scores for place-kickers
5 Mental health org.
6 They’re thumped at super-
markets
7 Balls
8 Overly simplistic
9 Bake-off equipment
10 Major-____ (pro ball-
player)
11 OB/GYNs, e.g.
12 Application
13 Royal pain
14 Circus apparatus
15 Laugh or cry, say
16 ‘‘Old MacDonald Had a
Farm’’ sounds
17 N.Y.C. retailer with a famed
holiday window display
19 Rum ____ Tugger (cat in
‘‘Cats’’)
23 Like a romantic evening
stroll, perhaps
28 [someone else’s error]
30 Cause chaos
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33 ‘‘That’s it?’’
35 Camping shelter
37 Only person to win an
Oscar, Emmy and Tony in
the same year (1973)
38 Kitty ____, stunt per-
former once known as the
‘‘fastest woman in the world’’
39 Four-limbed animals
40 ‘‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’’ biter
42 Plato’s P
43 Halloween decorations that
can be made with cotton
balls
46 Heavy metal’s ‘‘Prince of
Darkness’’
47 ‘‘Am ____ only one?’’
48 Level
49 Some skin-care products
52 Power up
53 A.L. East squad: Abbr.
57 Slice, for one
58 Give the ____
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66 Put on ice
68 Traffi c control org.
70 Disco ____ (iconic garment
for Lady Gaga)
71 ‘‘Chandelier’’ singer, 2014
73 Longtime record label
74 Annexes
75 Rube Goldberg machines,
e.g.
76 Like some vaccines
78 A, in Berlin
80 Incline
81 Expansive work of art,
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82 Disreputable
84 Annual Austin festival,
familiarly
86 ‘‘This is too much’’
88 One to be dethroned
91 One being coddled, maybe
93 Lacking any adulteration
94 Zing
97 One who may have attach-
ment issues?
98 Small Nintendo console, once
100 Spring month in France
102 ____ 1, Yuri Gagarin’s
spacecraft
103 Cries in a tattoo parlor
104 Frothy coff ee invented in
Greece
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106 Sign of resistance
108 Some bank deposits
110 Foul mood
111 Pelicans’ home, informally
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114 Girl in a tartan
116 Miner discoveries
117 Relative of ‘‘Hey!’’
120 March Madness ‘‘trophy’’
121 Road goo
123 Maliciously reveal personal
info about online
124 ‘‘Mais ____!’’
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