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I was driving for most of the day today. So, quite frankly, I just managed to summon up enough energy to solve the Sunday puzzle, and then write up this abbreviated post. I will get to the full post just as soon as I can.
Apologies, but thank you for your understanding.
Bill
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Across
1 Say “Another great thing about me …,” say : BRAG
5 Baltimore squad, casually : THE O’S
10 Turkic tongue : TATAR
15 “I’ll return shortly,” in shorthand : BRB
18 Experience : FEEL
19 Shapeshift : MORPH
20 Emirati’s neighbor : OMANI
21 Feast often concluded with haupia (coconut pudding) : LUAU
22 Getaway driver’s plan, obviously? : FLOOR IT, DUH (from “Florida”)
24 Desires : WANTS
25 Octopus’s octet : ARMS
26 Staple of ’80s pop : SYNTH
27 Graphing calculator button : COS
28 “She sure runs fast!”? : MISS IS ZIPPY! (from “Mississippi”)
30 “Human beef” and “Chicken pox pie” on a menu, one hopes : TYPOS
32 Preps for framing, as a photo : MATS
33 Where fairy tale creatures often live : WOOD
34 Captain and nine crew members? : TEN ASEA (from “Tennessee”)
37 Bust : DUD
38 Ones living a lavish lifestyle, in slang : BALLERS
41 Film unit : REEL
42 Like braids and some breads : PLAITED
45 Jaded miner’s remark? : ORE AGAIN (from “Oregon”)
47 Preferring platonic relationships, informally : ARO
48 Words after “Mamma mia!” in “Bohemian Rhapsody” : … LET ME GO!
50 Bhagavad ___ (Hindu scripture) : GITA
51 co*ke-ette? : MINI SODA (from “Minnesota”)
56 Sandy springs : OASES
57 “What a pity” : IT’S SAD
59 Real ___ : ESTATE
60 Actress Kendrick, when appearing in smaller films? : INDIE ANNA (from “Indiana”)
62 Time of one’s life : ERA
63 Perform better than : OUTACT
65 Like yesterday’s bread, compared with today’s : STALER
67 Core components : ABS
70 PC-sensitive, in a way? : DELL AWARE (from “Delaware”)
74 Day before domingo : SABADO
77 One of several named in a will : COHEIR
79 The same : ALIKE
80 “You realize this is a silent meditation, right?” : WHY OMING?
82 Cornucopia, essentially : HORN
83 Floral brew : ROSE TEA
85 Ring call, for short : TKO
86 Considered buying that garden tool? : EYED A HOE (from “Idaho”)
90 Subject of a common phobia : HEIGHTS
93 Taiwanese tech company : ACER
94 Unswayable : ADAMANT
95 Obvious name for a pet lion : LEO
96 “Wait … can we not play this in F sharp instead?” : HUH? WHY E? (from “Hawaii”)
98 River in a classic dad joke : NILE
99 Landlocked African country : CHAD
101 Quick-cooking noodles : RAMEN
102 “Mm-hmm, get a little nearer”? : VERGE IN? YEAH! (from “Virginia”)
106 When doubled, a rebuke : TUT
107 Spanish wine region : RIOJA
111 “Got it” : I SEE
112 What a glass of cold water forms on a hot day : BEADS
113 Parent’s encouragement to a budding chef? : WHISK ON, SON (from “Wisconsin”)
115 Box : SPAR
116 Inspiration for the jokes in this puzzle’s theme : US MAP
117 Ancient region bordering the Aegean Sea : IONIA
118 Excess : GLUT
119 Sassy retort : AND?!
120 Rulers used to make many crosswords? : TSARS
121 Like a good day for kite-flying : GUSTY
122 Miffed : SORE
Down
1 Two halves of a platonic whole : BFFS
2 Depend : RELY
3 Immeasurably long time : AEON4 Like the “h” in “hat,” to a linguist : GLOTTAL
5 Response to hearing all the gory details : TMI
6 Campfire remnant : HOT COAL
7 Paul ___, Hungarian mathematician with over 1,500 published papers : ERDOS
8 Composer’s numbered piece : OPUS
9 “This is a library!” : SHH!
10 Specifically : TO WIT
11 Hoard : AMASS
12 Black and ___ (beer co*cktails) : TANS
13 Like Gandhi : ANTIWAR
14 Meat-filled puff : RISSOLE
15 Frowned-upon sound : BURP
16 Way up : RAMP
17 Word with body or work : BUSY
21 Successfully nested, say : LAID EGGS
23 Actor Matthew of “The Americans” : RHYS
28 Ticked off : MADE MAD
29 Author Émile : ZOLA
31 Zip : PEP
32 Sheep product : MUTTON
34 Public transportation option around Hong Kong : TRAM
35 Haunting : EERIE
36 Eye-catching shades : NEONS
37 German article : DIE
38 Heckles, in a way : BOOS AT
39 Poker action : RAISE
40 Long-necked instrument : SITAR
43 In the style of : A LA
44 South Asian : DESI
46 Zip : NADA
49 V-six or V-twelve? : GEESE
52 Figure skater Midori : ITO
53 Like Mecca and Medina : SAUDI
54 Pride : lion :: raft : ___ : OTTER
55 Poker action : DEAL
57 Cloisonné technique : INLAY
58 1990s fitness craze : TAE BO
60 “Invisible Cities” author Calvino : ITALO
61 Poet who wrote “Behold the duck / It does not cluck” : NASH
64 Bordeaux red : CLARET
66 Zodiac animal that spells another if you change its last letter to “t” : RAM
67 Long : ACHE
68 Gloating winner’s exclamation : BOOYA!
69 What surfers and guitarists can do, in slang : SHRED
71 Genie’s gift : WISH
72 “___ and the Bee” (2006 film) : AKEELAH
73 Double-knotted, say : RETIED
75 Leave behind : DITCH
76 Harmonious, in a way : ON KEY
78 Put in harm’s way : ENDANGER
80 Sad trombone sound : WAH
81 Reason for an R rating : GORE
84 Source of confidence : EGO
87 Certain camarade : AMIE
88 Fish whose left eye migrates to its right side as it ages (!?) : HALIBUT
89 Unity : ONENESS
91 “Eureka!” : THAT’S IT!
92 Total : SUM
93 They may be striped at ice cream shops : AWNINGS
97 Sub : HERO
99 Chest material : CEDAR
100 Padlock parts : HASPS
101 What’s left of the Colosseum : RUINS
102 A tourist may have one : VISA
103 “Sunday NFL Countdown” airer : ESPN
104 Assessment of a situation : READ
105 Hindu god of death : YAMA
106 10 hundos : THOU
108 Where the Nobel Peace Prize is presented : OSLO
109 “Belle de ___,” 1967 Catherine Deneuve film : JOUR
110 Poker action : ANTE
113 Freak (out) : WIG
114 Elided agreement : KAY
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27:43. Good one! The theme questions were easy enough to get without much head-scratching, which meant I had enough take-off points within every section of the grid. A relatively smooth run to the finish too.
Cheers, all!
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33:33, no errors. Enjoyable, but, at the end, I spent a couple of minutes considering 72-Down (“AKEELAH”, which I’d never heard of), 102-Across (“VERGE IN …”, which sounds odd to me), and 105-Down (“YAMA”, another “never-heard-of”), finally decided all three had to be what was intended, and filled the final square.
“MERGE IN”? Or “VERGE ON”? Okay. “VERGE IN”? Hmm.
Nit-picky, I know … 🙂.
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