Sunday’s crossword by: Ed Sessa and edited by Rich Norris
Theme: “Strictly Speaking”
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Across
1. “Thick & Fluffy” breakfast brand
5. He edged TED in 1948
8. __ out: thoroughly
14. Brutus accomplice
19. Mouthy minor
20. 18-Down reaction
21. British magazine founded in 1709
22. On the bias
23. Head honcho
24. Heated words?
27. Symbolic yet insubstantial
29. Dash letters
30. Kitty’s bit
31. Performed an entrechat
32. Blanket expression?
37. Winding way, maybe
39. Winding way, maybe
40. Tulsa sch.
41. One rushing into a relationship?
43. Pinocchio’s peccadillo
44. Plural maker
45. Big oil source
47. Luau garland
48. Justice Kagan
50. “What __ God wrought?”
51. Org. with an Arrow of Light award
54. Hook’s mate SMEE
56. Formal request?
66. Peterhof Palace resident
67. Foundry waste
68. “La Bohème” heroine
69. News item
70. Where most states have their own page
72. Sky
75. “First Blood” hero
76. Opening bout, briefly
78. Verging on
79. 1-Down relative
81. Dancer’s restraint
82. Frank talk?
86. One way to make up for lost time
87. Suggest, as a price
88. Unfolds, in verse
89. White House nickname
92. Mil. support gp.
95. Old Flatbush field
98. First word of Dante’s “Inferno”
101. Dossier letters
102. New Hampshire city
105. Miss Piggy’s pronoun
106. Comfy (with)
108. Friends
110. Bald assertion?
113. Not the best plan for becoming a millionaire
115. Orch. section
116. Confessional music genre
117. Ecuadoran province once famous for its gold
118. Mission statement?
123. Preceders of las
124. Coeur d’__
125. Fluoride beneficiary
126. Fluoride-in-water meas.
127. Italian noble family
128. Mortise mate
129. One-person craft
130. Gender-specific pronoun
131. It’s in Off!
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Down
1. Coastal recession
2. Record tracks
3. Seals that avoid water?
4. Cooperstown’s Lake
5. Slop slurper
6. Rueful
7. Winnie’s title?
8. Old comm. giant
9. Queen Amidala’s “Star Wars” home
10. Crave, with “for”
11. Schoolyard threat
12. Sun City developer Webb
13. Interjections of indecision
14. Stylish eatery
15. Equidistant
16. It’s planted in the snow
17. Sure
18. Wonder
25. Play the jester
26. Like many shoppes
28. Chewy confection
33. Aphorisms
34. Sidewalk sides
35. Eggs from the sea
36. Protestant denom.
38. Latin goddess
42. Pea jacket relative
46. China supporter
49. Smallest of the roaring cats
50. Coat-of-arms science
52. Common church name
53. Take __ view of
55. La Méditerranée, e.g.
56. Bacteria in grapelike clusters
57. Houston player
58. Double-parker who gives out tickets
59. “The Divided Self” author
60. Come to terms
61. Waiter’s question ending
62. Forty-__
63. He said “I die,” and then did
64. Head honcho
65. School collars
71. Great Plains language family
73. First name in spydom
74. Sierra Nevada resort
77. Classic British two-seaters
80. Can opener
83. “Cut out the racket!”
84. Vermont ski resort
85. One who sits for
89. Brief application
90. A pricey one may be made of koa wood
91. Broken mirror, for some
93. __ Na Na
94. Remain beyond, as one’s welcome
96. Waterside stopover
97. Computer image formats
98. Stable
99. Dubai or Sharjah
100. You can build a 5,922-piece Taj Mahal replica with the largest one ever made
103. First step in a progression
104. Often-allergic condition
107. Suspended
109. Note taker using symbols
111. With “The,” L.A. theater at which Neil Diamond recorded “Hot August Night”
112. Pizazz
114. Govt. agents
118. See 119-Down
119. Reaction to a 118-Down
120. Genetic building blocks
121. Michaels and Franken
122. Partner of ‘earth?
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Sunday’s Crossword Answers
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