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1 Diplomatic assignmentView answer 5 Weighs downView answer 10 Infectious bugView answer 14 One might get tippedView answer 17 Contrail makeupView answer 19 Vengeful swordsman MontoyaView answer 20 Potatoes, in Indian cuisineView answer 21 Parcel (out)View answer 22 Long-necked swamp speaker?View answer 24 Honey-based drinkView answer 25 Around 314, for a circle of radius 10View answer 26 Alamo optionView answer 27 Final glimpse of a forbidding silhouette?View answer 30 Precocious “Family Guy” characterView answer 32 “That had to hurt!”View answer 34 Dreyer’s partnerView answer 35 Imposes (upon)View answer 36 Used to beView answer 37 1982 movie with 2010 and 2025 sequelsView answer 39 One of 265 in the Bronx ZooView answer 41 Regional flora and faunaView answer 42 Two things that meet when applying balm after a workout?View answer 45 Losses in a ledgerView answer 47 Cynical crime genreView answer 48 Injures badlyView answer 49 Latin for “load”View answer 51 Yao in the Basketball Hall of FameView answer 53 Having the most pepper icons on the menu, perhapsView answer 56 Result of a burning desireView answer 58 Strung alongView answer 59 Take inView answer 60 Fawn’s kinView answer 62 Genesis creatorView answer 64 Memorable spanView answer 65 Salon choice without waves or curls?View answer 70 Drone-based delivery vehicle?View answer 73 Nintendo avatarView answer 74 “Whiskey in My Water” country singer TylerView answer 75 Place to grab a mochaView answer 77 ___ LingusView answer 78 North Pole workersView answer 80 Factory workerView answer 82 “You doubt me?”View answer 87 Garden with a snake problemView answer 88 SurrenderView answer 89 Saharan stopoversView answer 91 ModernistsView answer 93 Genre for Björk and Kate BushView answer 95 Two-wheeler with cables pulled taut?View answer 99 Bargain hunters’ findsView answer 100 Home of Iowa StateView answer 101 Memo starterView answer 102 Receipt lineView answer 103 Climbing expertView answer 105 Bestie, in BordeauxView answer 106 Youngest king in the Valley of the KingsView answer 108 Capital on the HudsonView answer 110 Easy scores during a casual round?View answer 113 SnitchView answer 115 Initial costView answer 116 Snore-inducingView answer 117 Perfectly negotiated agreements?View answer 121 Xmas, for Jimmy BuffettView answer 122 Southernmost Great LakeView answer 123 Liquefy in a blenderView answer 124 Sonata sectionView answer 125 ___ admin (IT pro)View answer 126 Dirt road tracksView answer 127 Microscope insertView answer 128 Drei squaredView answerDown
1 Piping plastic, for shortView answer 2 Crew memberView answer 3 Enterprise, e.g.View answer 4 Thus farView answer 5 Old Milanese moneyView answer 6 World’s heaviest snakesView answer 7 “Likewise!”View answer 8 Braggart’s attributeView answer 9 Put in orderView answer 10 They may include only the first levelsView answer 11 Mournful poemView answer 12 Stadium soundView answer 13 TweaksView answer 14 “How about this...”View answer 15 Really botheredView answer 16 Drops from ductsView answer 18 Sends, as paymentView answer 21 SeafaringView answer 23 Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Hugh the Drover,” e.g.View answer 28 Daughter of CronusView answer 29 State of mindView answer 30 Pond gliderView answer 31 Some food truck fareView answer 33 Growing business?View answer 38 “Put your wallet away”View answer 40 France’s film awardView answer 41 Sultanate on the South China SeaView answer 43 Gospel singer CampbellView answer 44 Named as a sourceView answer 46 Bouillon brandView answer 50 Like a busybodyView answer 52 Pest in a cloudView answer 54 Salon offeringsView answer 55 “Young Frankenstein” roleView answer 57 Elizabethan collarView answer 58 Cold-fermented beerView answer 61 Pixar film set during el Día de los MuertosView answer 63 Chew like a capybaraView answer 65 Hook’s sidekickView answer 66 Swinton of “Michael Clayton”View answer 67 Big mouth featuresView answer 68 Corp. benefits expertsView answer 69 Stepped (on)View answer 71 Home page, in a wayView answer 72 Partner in crimeView answer 76 Priest’s adviceView answer 79 ATM featureView answer 81 Fellows who followView answer 83 Practiced mindfulness, sayView answer 84 Bookstore IDView answer 85 Smooth fruitView answer 86 Ancient city that lent its name to a Middle Eastern plateauView answer 88 Utensil that’s full of holesView answer 90 Mgr.’s underlingView answer 92 Hot, in a wayView answer 94 Daddy, in DurangoView answer 96 Doha dignitaryView answer 97 Really steamedView answer 98 Where losers dwellView answer 103 DNA lab itemsView answer 104 Good around the houseView answer 105 Challenging H.S. English courseView answer 107 Ultrasound targetsView answer 109 Back with bucksView answer 111 Revered adviserView answer 112 Easy victimsView answer 114 Hazel or oliveView answer 118 ___-de-sacView answer 119 End of an academic addressView answer 120 Heir, oftenView answerYour puzzle stays a surprise. Answers appear only on the individual clue pages.
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