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1 First lady McKinleyView answer 4 Common saltwater baitfishView answer 8 Letters before QView answer 12 Become crunchy in the ovenView answer 19 Image of Mickey, maybeView answer 20 ___ NostraView answer 21 Lake that's largely fed by the Detroit RiverView answer 22 "Red telephone," historicallyView answer 23 Breakfast order requestView answer 25 [London Herald, 4/16/1912]View answer 27 [The New York Times, 8/9/1974]View answer 29 "Scarface"View answer 30 ScheduleView answer 31 Drives offView answer 32 "Catch ya later!"View answer 33 Wee oneView answer 34 Frankincense or myrrhView answer 36 T-E-A-M doesn't have one, so they sayView answer 37 Plantain lily, by another nameView answer 39 [Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948]View answer 47 Company once called the California Perfume CompanyView answer 48 Wrap one's head aroundView answer 49 Popular Hawaiian dishView answer 50 Driest country in sub-Saharan AfricaView answer 54 They're below parView answer 56 Choice wordsView answer 57 Footwear for a sharp dresser?View answer 59 "___ Mouse," Chick Corea jazz standard of 1972View answer 60 Toward the opposing goal, in hockeyView answer 62 Geometry calculation: Abbr.View answer 63 "How ya doin'?"View answer 64 [Variety, 10/30/1929]View answer 70 ___ DhabiView answer 73 Alliance since 1948, in briefView answer 74 Golf's Slammin' SammyView answer 75 BouquetView answer 79 Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believedView answer 83 PoorlyView answer 84 Headwear that's stereotypically redView answer 86 Breakout performer?View answer 87 It's blowin' in the windView answer 89 ___ thruster (physics lab device)View answer 90 Corrin of "Nosferatu"View answer 91 [New York Daily News, 10/30/1975]View answer 95 "The rubber people," in NahuatlView answer 98 "Biting" characteristicView answer 99 Big name in health careView answer 100 TroubleView answer 101 FleetView answer 104 Where people typically go to the mat?View answer 106 Attempt to tearView answer 111 Fool aroundView answer 113 With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983]View answer 115 See 113-AcrossView answer 117 "Jeez Louise!"View answer 118 BoilsView answer 119 Latin "Look"View answer 120 Filmmaker JohnsonView answer 121 Degree held by only one U.S. president (George W. Bush)View answer 122 Drink after a race, sayView answer 123 SignaledView answer 124 Wraps upView answer 125 The Second vis-à-vis the First, sayView answerDown
1 Cher and Madonna, e.g.View answer 2 Old Scratch, with "the"View answer 3 Baby name whose popularity plummeted after 2015View answer 4 It might be chewed in a theaterView answer 5 FrostView answer 6 TaxpayersView answer 7 9 to 5, e.g.View answer 8 ReleaseView answer 9 BeamsView answer 10 Parts of comedy routinesView answer 11 Serving at a Chinese restaurantView answer 12 Carolina Reaper, for oneView answer 13 Good name for a geologist?View answer 14 "How sad"View answer 15 LapseView answer 16 Some red or white winesView answer 17 Pull some strings?View answer 18 Old Spanish coinView answer 24 Waste awayView answer 26 BottomView answer 28 Actress SkyeView answer 32 Payments made at a tableView answer 35 Leg upView answer 36 QueryView answer 38 "I'll get to work right now"View answer 39 DollopsView answer 40 ___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023's "The Lost Bookshop"View answer 41 ThreadbareView answer 42 Fund, as a collegeView answer 43 They're known to open with some jokesView answer 44 Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony OrchestraView answer 45 The "U" of 60-DownView answer 46 "Damage" director LouisView answer 51 K-pop septetView answer 52 Short note?View answer 53 Creature in the final scene of "Cleopatra"View answer 55 Long-term deposit, in briefView answer 56 Go (for)View answer 58 Certain spotView answer 60 It once shared a land border with 16 countriesView answer 61 Drawstring placeView answer 65 Hardly the social butterflyView answer 66 StowedView answer 67 ___ sodaView answer 68 NeedlefishView answer 69 Monopolist's traitView answer 70 One-pointer in cribbageView answer 71 Some undergrad degs.View answer 72 Trojans' sch.View answer 76 "Jeez, I can't catch a break"View answer 77 Call from a cribView answer 78 SlightlyView answer 80 Umpire's rulingView answer 81 Writings of dubious authenticityView answer 82 EschewView answer 84 "Victory is mine!," in modern lingoView answer 85 Privy toView answer 88 Make a sceneView answer 89 "My heavens!"View answer 92 They can support a nest eggView answer 93 48-oz. beer glassView answer 94 Service providers?View answer 95 Wise-appearingView answer 96 ___ TunesView answer 97 Like the cheese in a grilled cheeseView answer 102 Protective tip on a laceView answer 103 Bel ___ cheeseView answer 104 Informal goodbyeView answer 105 Made some waves?View answer 107 Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbolView answer 108 Some have metersView answer 109 Mexican marinadeView answer 110 "The Seduction of Joe ___" (1979 Alan Alda film)View answer 112 Tolkien trilogy, for shortView answer 113 Morehouse or Howard, in briefView answer 114 Whole bunchView answer 116 InstantView answerYour puzzle stays a surprise. Answers appear only on the individual clue pages.
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