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1 Mars, e.g.View answer 8 Barriers to progressView answer 14 Organism with pseudopodsView answer 20 WatchfulView answer 21 Perfect placeView answer 22 Namesake of Australia’s smallest stateView answer 23 Nancy’s tour merch designer?View answer 25 Filling fullyView answer 26 Maximizing suffixView answer 27 Took, as an examView answer 28 Mud puppy cousinView answer 30 Fraternal order that began as the “Jolly Corks”View answer 31 A pilot may start oneView answer 33 Meghan really cut loose in her performance?View answer 37 ClosesView answer 39 Book reviewer, of a sort: Abbr.View answer 40 Squeeze (out)View answer 41 Random quantityView answer 42 Barbra’s habit of starting her sets fashionably late?View answer 50 Nottingham’s riverView answer 51 Summer signView answer 52 Lasting markView answer 53 Painful rebukesView answer 57 Have another go atView answer 58 Zeros, essentiallyView answer 60 Home of the NBA’s MavsView answer 63 Cosmonaut GagarinView answer 64 Sheena sets things right for missing a show?View answer 68 “Your Highness”View answer 70 ___ AvivView answer 71 Showed the wayView answer 72 BeatdownsView answer 74 Prone to prattlingView answer 76 ___ generisView answer 77 Minimal musical groupsView answer 79 Ariana’s favorite Manhattan arena to perform in?View answer 81 Drops the ballView answer 83 Stuck-up sortView answer 85 Repeated bit of “She Loves You”View answer 86 “___ No Way” (Aretha Franklin song)View answer 87 RevealView answer 89 Official markView answer 92 Preceding timeView answer 93 Noisy kissView answer 94 Sara’s trustiest roadies?View answer 99 ApieceView answer 102 PopView answer 103 Bat woodView answer 104 Golfer MickelsonView answer 105 Gwen’s online tribute?View answer 111 Milano of “Charmed”View answer 115 High placeView answer 116 Slow-cooked supperView answer 117 1970s avant-garde movement that rejected the period’s pop musicView answer 119 Work wk. starterView answer 120 Result inView answer 122 Avril’s act when the encore’s over?View answer 126 Where the One Ring was forged and later destroyed, in “The Lord of the Rings”View answer 127 Uncommon batting featView answer 128 “That isn’t so!”View answer 129 Public outburstsView answer 130 IntuitsView answer 131 ApproachedView answerDown
1 Tablets, sometimesView answer 2 Biscotti flavorView answer 3 Ray of the seasView answer 4 ImitatingView answer 5 Buckles downView answer 6 Gofer’s workloadView answer 7 Baseball card bitView answer 8 Person coming out of the poolView answer 9 DrawView answer 10 Word of feigned innocenceView answer 11 Company with brown trucksView answer 12 Upright, e.g.View answer 13 More reasonableView answer 14 In danger of being lostView answer 15 Goat callView answer 16 Major name in blendersView answer 17 Clarke of “Game of Thrones”View answer 18 Place one’s confidence inView answer 19 Like emo musicView answer 24 Backward, to boatersView answer 29 Bird on South Carolina’s state quarterView answer 32 [Check below for details]View answer 34 Some craft brewsView answer 35 DEA employeeView answer 36 Storied lochView answer 38 Surrealist DalíView answer 42 Muffin top?View answer 43 Buccaneer’s scoreView answer 44 College athlete held aside for a yearView answer 45 OrderlyView answer 46 Sorrowful stateView answer 47 Bit of paintView answer 48 Colorful diaphragmView answer 49 Like LokiView answer 54 Ring up, as a telemarketer mightView answer 55 What great actors have on stageView answer 56 Knickknack parts?View answer 58 Do better thanView answer 59 Lock lips, in LeedsView answer 61 Lend supportView answer 62 Unwanted leftoversView answer 65 Chi hub lettersView answer 66 It.’s placeView answer 67 RemainView answer 69 Time spanView answer 73 Unfavorable lookView answer 75 Overgrown, in a wayView answer 78 “Of course!,” in OaxacaView answer 80 Winfield in the Baseball Hall of FameView answer 82 Weep openlyView answer 84 Stuff in a tubeView answer 88 ZilchView answer 90 Rickman of “Die Hard”View answer 91 One might do more with itView answer 93 Return home, as Columbus didView answer 95 Recovering costs?View answer 96 Shorten a sentence, sayView answer 97 Roof itemView answer 98 “It’s my duty”View answer 99 Book before ProverbsView answer 100 “...and much, much more of the same”View answer 101 Like many Disney animated classicsView answer 106 ConsumedView answer 107 Pool table toppersView answer 108 Paying attentionView answer 109 Musical soundsView answer 110 Woolly motherView answer 112 Happy signView answer 113 Colleague of KetanjiView answer 114 FuryView answer 118 Sacha Baron Cohen personaView answer 121 Low extremityView answer 123 Coq au ___View answer 124 Numerical internet addresses: Abbr.View answer 125 Hauling vehicleView answerYour puzzle stays a surprise. Answers appear only on the individual clue pages.
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