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PARDON MY FRENCH
By Victor Barocas/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
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1 Tobacco plug
5 Manipulate
10 Graduates of Quantico,
informally
14 Taller roommate of 15-Down
18 Showgirl in the 1978 hit
‘‘Copacabana’’
19 Boomer’s kid, maybe
20 Declare
21 Snack item with approxi-
mately 53 calories
22 Positive thinker’s motto?
25 Textbook section
26 FireWire alternative
27 Letter between November
and Papa in the NATO
alphabet
28 It might be set at sea
29 When a prime-time drama
might air
31 Reason-based belief in God
33 Repeated sound that’s hard
to get rid of
34 Means of becoming a god?
36 ‘‘Call the Midwife’’ network
38 Had something nice
40 Nonsense
41 Place in danger
45 Ernst and Young, e.g.: Abbr.
46 Peroxide ____
47 It’s an aff ront
51 Where Rapunzel let down
her hair?
53 Quarrel
54 It matures quickly, in brief
55 Angled to get attention:
Abbr.
56 Suffi x with serpent or opal
57 Off ed
60 Reach quickly, as a conclu-
sion
61 Perhaps
62 Doc. to ensure secrecy
63 A pupil may grow in it
64 United group, e.g.
65 Holy water?
70 Excites
72 ‘‘Salus populi suprema lex
____’’ (motto of Missouri)
73 Charade
74 One of 17 in Monopoly: Abbr.
77 One with pressing work
78 Feed the guests, maybe
79 Dish that’s cooked under-
ground
80 Feb. 14
81 673 parts of the Louvre
Pyramid
82 ‘‘Old man’’
83 Answer to ‘‘What is Roque-
fort or Brie?’’
86 Off ed
87 Go the wrong way
88 Green-lit
90 Like drunken speech
91 Announcement on National
Coming Out Day
93 Inappropriate
95 Early bird?
96 Spilled milk?
100 Front of a semi
102 Ubiquitous advertiser with
an acronymic name
106 Seeing as
107 Weight of an empty
container
108 What’s clothed in summer
and naked in winter, per an
old riddle
110 China’s largest ethnic group
111 What BankAmericard
became in 1976
112 The queen with her pets?
116 School where some of
‘‘Shakespeare in Love’’ was
fi lmed
117 Annual Memorial Day race,
informally
118 Red Sox’ div.
119 Bit of sports equipment
that may be electrifi ed
120 Casino tool
121 Philippine money
122 Fleas and fl ies
123 What’s left on a map?
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1 Obscure
2 Windsor, e.g.
3 A criminal’s may be unbe-
lievable
4 ‘‘Time ____ ... ’’
5 Big name in jelly
6 Like mosaic tiles
7 Lose possession?
8 One of the books of the
Torah: Abbr.
9 Where Wagner’s ‘‘Tannhäus-
er’’ was fi rst performed
10 Prima ____
11 Word that becomes more
dramatic when you add an
‘‘R’’ in front
12 Caribbean land, at the
Olympics
13 Administer an oath to
14 Echoes
15 Shorter roommate of
14-Across
16 Control, metaphorically
17 Completely, in slang
19 Pedal on the right
23 Man of La Mancha
24 Late-night trips to the
fridge, e.g.
30 Shirt or blouse
32 Bit of magic
35 Projecting front
37 Temporarily replace
39 Most likely to win at Trivia
Night, maybe
41 Long-billed wader
42 Parent company of Facebook
43 Game starter
44 Home for Holmes
48 One who sees what you’re
saying?
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49 Berliner’s ‘‘old’’
50 Sight on winter roads
52 Sign of overuse
53 ‘‘All ____!’’
54 Prefi x that’s mega mega?
58 Not merely annoyed
59 Split
60 BuzzFeed staple
64 Wide ties
66 Netfl ix series set at Green
Gables
67 Manipulates
68 Place to go on a ship
69 Them’s the breaks!
70 List in ‘‘The Idiot’s Guide to
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71 Neighbor of Siberia, in Risk
75 Common still-life prop
76 Looked at
78 Architectural columns in
the form of sculpted female
fi gures
80 Threshold
82 Gunslinger’s command
84 Schools
85 Held tight
87 A narcissist may go on one
88 Shockingly bizarre
89 What the quadriceps muscle
connects to
92 N.Y.C. commuting inits.
94 Bugs
96 Where bile is produced
97 Loos who wrote ‘‘Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes’’
98 Casual response to an
apology
99 Panasonic subsidiary
101 Orchestra section
103 ‘‘If my luck holds out ... ’’
104 Pens
105 Beginning
109 Rhinitis treater, in brief
113 Phoenix-to-Albuquerque dir.
114 Bottle labeled ‘‘XXX’’ in the
comics
115 ‘‘Do the ____’’ (soft drink
slogan)
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