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1 Post-vacation pileView answer 5 Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects, e.g., in briefView answer 8 Historical Dutch settlerView answer 12 ___ guisado (Caribbean stew)View answer 13 VapidView answer 15 Campaign manager?View answer 17 Puzzle type that was the Oxford Dictionaries' 2005 U.K. "word of the year"View answer 18 Metallurgist's evaluationView answer 19 Butterflies, so to speakView answer 21 Actress Zosia ___ of "Girls"View answer 22 "Zip it"View answer 25 AccommodatesView answer 27 Mountains where St. Bernards were originally bredView answer 28 Former Portuguese colony on the Malabar CoastView answer 29 Chemical essential to cellular metabolism, for shortView answer 30 ___ feed (news reader)View answer 32 ___ Sea, Kazakh/Uzbek body of waterView answer 33 Spiral-shelled molluskView answer 35 Org. for Penguins and DucksView answer 36 "Enough already"View answer 38 Make some callsView answer 39 "W" on a light bulbView answer 40 Three-way intersectionView answer 41 Coin collector?View answer 42 Singer with the 2014 #1 album "1,000 Forms of Fear"View answer 43 Dealer's managerView answer 45 In checkView answer 47 Nuclear restraint pactView answer 49 ___ Castorp, protagonist of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"View answer 50 Summa cum ___View answer 51 "Hold this"View answer 52 College voter?View answer 55 Ancient drinker of the fermented beverage chichaView answer 56 Taxes levied during trade warsView answer 59 Chop house?View answer 60 Cancer research agcy.View answer 62 Locale for dronesView answer 63 Preposition that can be represented by a numberView answer 64 Matador's opponentView answer 65 Gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, for oneView answer 68 Beat badlyView answer 70 EnergyView answer 71 Sarge's bossView answer 72 Knighthood, for oneView answer 73 "When r u getting in?"View answer 74 Mantou or bao, in Chinese cuisineView answer 75 "Awwww!"View answer 79 "Awesome!"View answer 81 LethargyView answer 84 Grammy-winning Paramore hit of 2014View answer 86 Actress Thompson of "Sorry to Bother You"View answer 90 Bok ___View answer 91 DearieView answer 92 Co-star of 2025's "Kiss of the Spider Woman," to fansView answer 93 Break down in tearsView answer 95 Aquiline : eagle :: cygnine : ___View answer 96 Lenape people from whom a New Jersey river gets its nameView answer 98 Egypt/Sudan border regionView answer 100 Noodling in a jazz tuneView answer 102 AnnoyingView answer 103 In the majority?View answer 104 Core-sculpting beltView answer 105 Utter chaosView answer 106 1994 co-Nobelist ShimonView answer 107 Greasy spoon, e.g.View answer

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1 Self-effacingView answer 2 OodlesView answer 3 StrainView answer 4 Baseballs that are hard-hit but then caught, in lingoView answer 5 Bottlefuls for a summer look, perhapsView answer 6 Skirt responsibilityView answer 7 Proverbial cure-allView answer 8 Basketball attempt that uses the backboardView answer 9 Martín Espada's "___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence"View answer 10 Leaves the straight and narrowView answer 11 ExposeView answer 12 First Eurodance hit in the U.S. (1989)View answer 13 Ending with mammal or MendelView answer 14 Good quality for an artistView answer 16 With 87-Down, idiom about wasting one's efforts … as seen in four columns in this puzzle?View answer 17 Italian sub ingredientView answer 20 Diamonds can sometimes be found in themView answer 21 "Quit whining, dude!"View answer 23 Malt-drying kilnView answer 24 "O, had I but followed the ___!": "Twelfth Night"View answer 26 John who painted "Backyards, Greenwich Village"View answer 28 2022 sequel to "Knives Out"View answer 31 RefugeView answer 34 "You can't make me!"View answer 37 Arm of the police departmentView answer 44 Essayist FrancisView answer 45 Comedian WongView answer 46 Cash on the GinzaView answer 48 OverdoneView answer 52 1999 Ron Howard film about a reality showView answer 53 Actress Petty of "A League of Their Own"View answer 54 Anti-mob law acronymView answer 56 Animated character, informallyView answer 57 Act the worrywartView answer 58 ___ fountainView answer 61 Sauce served with Peking duckView answer 63 Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, in briefView answer 66 Indistinct speechView answer 67 It's a gasView answer 68 "Yes, ___!" (phrase popularized by the restaurant drama "The Bear")View answer 69 Young miscreantView answer 74 Like some charmView answer 76 Patron of lost causesView answer 77 Literary runt of the litterView answer 78 "L'___ du Nord" (Minnesota motto)View answer 80 Dictatorial figureView answer 81 Open-weave fabricView answer 82 New York School poet FrankView answer 83 "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" speakerView answer 84 First-rateView answer 85 Flare up?View answer 87 See 16-DownView answer 88 More prudentView answer 89 About to explode, sayView answer 91 Pink character in the "Toy Story" moviesView answer 94 Farmer Hoggett's entrant in a sheepherding contestView answer 97 Turf ___ (football injury)View answer 98 Part of a day care scheduleView answer 99 @ @ @View answer 101 Inits. at Grand Central TerminalView answer
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