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CROSSWORD SETTER: Alex Vratsanos
THEME: Four-Letter Words … we have four four-letter words as across-answers in the corners of the grid (OVER, HEAD, LONG, SHOT). These “key words” are then combined to form the clues for the long answers in today’s puzzle:
1A. Key word #1 : OVER
15A. Key word #2 : HEAD
122A. Key word #3 : LONG
125A. Key word #4 : SHOT24A. 1-Across + 15-Across : EXPENSE TYPE (OVER + HEAD)
43A. 1-Across + 122-Across : BEYOND THE TIME LIMIT (OVER + LONG)
65A. 1-Across + 125-Across : WENT TOO FAR (OVER + SHOT)
70A. 15-Across + 122-Across : RECKLESSLY (HEAD + LONG)
91A. 15-Across + 125-Across : YEARBOOK PHOTOGRAPH (HEAD + SHOT)
114A. 122-Across + 125-Across : NOT A GOOD BET (LONG + SHOT)
BILL BUTLER’S COMPLETION TIME: 22m 06s
ANSWERS I MISSED: 0
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Apologies for this very tardy and abbreviated post. Yesterday was our “Thanksgiving”, when we had the whole family together at the house. As a result, I could not get to the crossword, and am only posting the basics for today’s puzzle.
Everything will be back to normal tomorrow, I promise.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Bill
For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Key word #1 : OVER
5. Plants with intoxicating leaves : COCAS
10. Mosque no-no : SHOES
15. Key word #2 : HEAD
19. Bon ___ : JOVI
20. Songwriter Carmichael : HOAGY
21. Minor snafu : MIX-UP
22. Capital known for 300 years as Christiania : OSLO
23. Ill-fated seducer in “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” : ALEC
24. 1-Across + 15-Across : EXPENSE TYPE (OVER + HEAD)
26. Erupt : SPEW
27. What a driverless car drives : ITSELF
29. Pageant V.I.P.s : EMCEES
30. Like some soldiers in the American Revolution : HESSIAN
32. Farmyard call : BAA!
33. You may leave when it’s up : LEASE
34. Endnotes? : CODA
35. Portland, Ore.-to-Boise dir. : ESE
36. Egg producer : OVARY
38. The “e” of i.e. : EST
39. ___ Olshansky, first Soviet-born N.F.L. player : IGOR
41. Villainous : NASTY
43. 1-Across + 122-Across : BEYOND THE TIME LIMIT (OVER + LONG)
48. Workers on the board : IRONERS
49. It covers everything quite clearly : SARAN
50. Decepticon’s foe in “Transformers” : AUTOBOT
54. Sewing case : ETUI
55. Clio nominees : ADS
57. S.U.V. alternative : WAGON
59. Moolah : DINERO
60. Benchwarmer : SCRUB
62. Final Four round : SEMIS
64. ___ cards (items used in ESP tests) : ZENER
65. 1-Across + 125-Across : WENT TOO FAR (OVER + SHOT)
70. 15-Across + 122-Across : RECKLESSLY (HEAD + LONG)
72. Acronym on the S&P 500 : ALCOA
73. Galileo, by birth : PISAN
75. Take off, as a heavy coat? : SHEAR
76. Venice tourist attraction : RIALTO
78. S.U.V. alternative : SEDAN
80. Golfer Ernie : ELS
81. Acted like : APED
85. Goldeneye or harlequin : SEA DUCK
87. Paul who won a Nobel in Physics : DIRAC
89. 1962 Paul Anka hit : ESO BESO
91. 15-Across + 125-Across : YEARBOOK PHOTOGRAPH (HEAD + SHOT)
94. Coat fur : STOAT
97. Ammonium and others : IONS
98. Subj. for Bloomberg News : IPO
99. Puts in stitches, say : DARNS
100. Food that’s an anagram of 98-Across : POI
101. Washing the dishes, e.g. : TASK
103. Plantation device : BALER
105. Subj. with many irregularities : ESL
106. Shabby : ILL-KEPT
108. Sound in “Eleanor Rigby” and “Yesterday” : VIOLIN
110. Disdainful sounds : SNIFFS
113. “Little” visitor to Slumberland, in old comics : NEMO
114. 122-Across + 125-Across : NOT A GOOD BET (LONG + SHOT)
117. Holder of small doses : VIAL
118. Former British crown colony in the Mideast : ADEN
119. TurboTax option : E-FILE
120. As old as the hills : HOARY
121. Petro-Canada competitor : ESSO
122. Key word #3 : LONG
123. Looking for : AFTER
124. Go well together : AGREE
125. Key word #4 : SHOT
Down
1. California resort town : OJAI
2. V, in physics : VOLT
3. 1997 Samuel L. Jackson film : EVE’S BAYOU
4. Pilaf-like product : RICE-A-RONI
5. Pot user? : CHEF
6. Tic-tac-toe failure : OOX
7. “Understand?” : CAPEESH?
8. Fellow students, generally : AGEMATES
9. Brings together : SYNCS
10. “Hook” role : SMEE
11. Successes in the game Battleship : HITS
12. Sister brand of Phisoderm : OXY
13. Elation : EUPHORIA
14. It helps you get ahead : SPEED
15. Pardner’s mount : HOSS
16. Glimpses : ESPIES
17. Orioles’ div. : AL EAST
18. He played Chaplin in “Chaplin” : DOWNEY
25. Date : SEE
28. QB Bobby who purportedly put a curse on the Detroit Lions : LAYNE
31. Germophobe’s need : SANITIZER
33. Doesn’t pursue : LETS DROP
34. Mustard, but not ketchup: Abbr. : COL
36. Stage prize : OBIE
37. Old TV adjustment: Abbr. : VERT
39. Radiologist, e.g. : IMAGER
40. Biological blueprints : GENOMES
42. Makes up (for) : ATONES
44. Lucius’s son, in Harry Potter : DRACO
45. Fancy marble : TAW
46. Fidelity offerings, for short : IRAS
47. Political insults, so to speak : MUD
51. Uncle ___ : BEN’S
52. Hershiser who was Sports Illustrated’s 1988 Sportsman of the Year : OREL
53. Major ally? : TORY
56. Islamic mystics : SUFIS
58. Place for a bust : NICHE
60. Figurine : STATUETTE
61. Stemming from : BASED ON
63. Archenemy of Mattel’s He-Man : SKELETOR
65. General interests? : WARS
66. Author Wiesel : ELIE
67. Tournament organizer since ’39 : NCAA
68. “Ha! I was right!” : TOLD YA!
69. Says “Read you loud and clear … over,” say : RADIOS
71. Rope in : LASSO
74. Informer, informally : NARK
77. South American tuber : OCA
79. Recharge midday : NAP
81. Sandpaper and such : ABRASIVES
82. Creatures that may live inside oysters – hence the name : PEARLFISH
83. Cable’s ___ Classic : ESPN
84. Springfield exclamations : D’OHS
86. Male lead in Disney’s “Frozen” : KRISTOFF
88. Messy food order at a carnival : CHILI DOG
90. Witty Nash : OGDEN
92. ___ choy : BOK
93. Common wedding reception feature : OPEN BAR
94. Kind of column : SPINAL
95. “Holy ___!” : TOLEDO
96. J. Paul Getty and others : OILMEN
102. Literally, “breathless” : APNEA
103. [You stink!] : BOO!
104. Ho hi : ALOHA
107. Beast on Skull Island, informally : KONG
108. Low-lying area : VALE
109. Robert who oversaw the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm : IGER
110. Ophthalmologist’s concern : STYE
111. Burkina ___ (African land) : FASO
112. Vending machine feature : SLOT
115. Small songbird : TIT
116. Burns’s “before” : ERE