LA Times Crossword Answers 25 May 14, Sunday

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CROSSWORD SETTER: C.C. Burnikel
THEME: Intel Inside … today’s themed answers each contain two words, the first ending with -N and the second starting with SA- giving us the acronym NSA hidden INSIDE:

23A. “When it rains, it pours” brand MORTON SALT
29A. 1954 Kurosawa classic SEVEN SAMURAI
43A. Only player to appear in both the Super Bowl and World Series DEION SANDERS
52A. Game with many imitators SIMON SAYS
65A. Cecilia, to musicians PATRON SAINT
84A. Baseball closer’s nightmare BLOWN SAVE
91A. Investment firm founded in 1869 GOLDMAN SACHS
103A. Classic sci-fi gesture VULCAN SALUTE
113A. Leafy course GREEN SALAD

123A. Intel collector hidden in nine puzzle answers NSA

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Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across

17. Japanese band OBI
The sash worn as part of traditional Japanese dress is known as an obi. The obi can be tied in what is called a butterfly knot.

18. Dashboard array GAUGES
Back in the 1800s, “dashboard” was the name given to a “board” placed at the front of a carriage to stop mud from “dashing” against the passengers in the carriage, mud that was kicked up by the hoofs of the horses. Quite interesting …

20. Stars at the Forum? ASTRA
“Astra” is the Latin word for “stars”.

The Roman forum was the public space in the middle of a city, taking it’s name from the Latin word “forum” meaning “marketplace, town square”.

23. “When it rains, it pours” brand MORTON SALT
Morton Salt started doing business in 1848 in Chicago, and now is the largest producer of salt in North America.

29. 1954 Kurosawa classic SEVEN SAMURAI
Akira Kurosawa was an Oscar-winning Japanese film director. His most famous movie to us in the West has to be “The Seven Samurai”, the inspiration for “The Magnificent Seven” starring Yul Brynner, and indeed a basis for “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”.

32. Apples on a desk IMACS
The iMac is a desktop computer platform from Apple introduced in 1998. One of the main features of the iMac is an “all-in-one” design, with the computer console and monitor integrated. The iMac also came in a range of colors, that Apple marketed as “flavors”, such as strawberry, blueberry and lime.

43. Only player to appear in both the Super Bowl and World Series DEION SANDERS
Deion Sanders is a former NFL footballer, and a former Major League Baseball player. He is the only person to play in a Super Bowl and in a World Series. And, in the 1989 season he became the only person to hit a major league home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week.

46. Old 45 player HI-FI
Hi-fi systems were introduced in the late forties, and is audio equipment designed to give a much higher quality reproduction of sound than cheaper systems available up to that point. “Hi-fi” of course stands for “high fidelity”.

47. Org. for heavyweights WBA
World Boxing Association (WBA)

50. Muscat Daily reader OMANI
The “Muscat Daily” is the largest-selling, English daily newspaper in Oman. Published in the capital city of Muscat, the paper was founded in 2009.

51. Bird feeder cakes SUETS
Suet is a very popular ingredient in food provided for bird feeders.

Fat, when extracted from the carcass of an animal, is called “suet”. Untreated suet decomposes at room temperature quite easily so it has to be “rendered” or purified to make it stable. Rendered fat from pigs is what we call “lard”. Rendered beef or mutton fat is known as “tallow”.

52. Game with many imitators SIMON SAYS
“Simon Says” is a kids’ game. The idea is for the players of the game to obey the “controller” who gives instructions. But the players should only obey when the controller uses the words, “Simon says …”. The game has very old roots, with a Latin version that uses the words “Cicero dicit fac hoc” (Cicero says do this).

54. Golden Fleece source RAM
Jason is a hero from Greek mythology, most noted for leading the quest for the Golden Fleece. The Golden Fleece is the fleece of the gold-haired winged ram. For his quest, Jason assembles a group of heroes who were given the name Argonauts, as they journeyed on the ship called the “Argo”. The vessel was called the “Argo” in honor of the ship’s builder, a man named Argus.

55. Égoïste maker CHANEL
Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer. Perhaps because I am a man, clothes design is not my forte. However, if I had to pick a designer whose clothes I really liked, it would be Chanel. She had a way of creating simpler designs that looked so elegant on a woman.

57. Silver hair? MANE
The Lone Ranger’s horse was named Silver.

“The Lone Ranger” was both a radio and television show, dating back to its first radio performance in 1933 on a Detroit station. The line “Hi-yo, Silver! Away!” was a device used in the storyline to signal that a riding sequence was starting, so cue the music!

58. Issues for fashionable readers ELLES
“Elle” magazine was founded in 1945 in France and today has the highest circulation of any fashion magazine in the world. “Elle” is the French word for “she”.

62. Camp David Accords signer SADAT
Anwar Sadat was the third President of Egypt right up to the time of his assassination in 1981. Sadat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 along with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin for the role played in crafting the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1978 at Camp David. It was this agreement that largely led to Sadat’s assassination three years later.

Camp David is the very lovely country retreat used by the US President and family. Technically, Camp David belongs to the US Navy and is known as Naval Support Facility Thurmont. The installation was originally built between 1935 and 1938 as a retreat for government agents and their families. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converted it to a presidential retreat in 1942, naming it Shangri-La. When President Eisenhower was in office he renamed Shangri-La to Camp David in honor of his father and grandson, both of whom were called David.

63. Emmy-winning sportscaster Buck JOE
Joe Buck is a sportscaster who is best known for his work with Fox Sports. Joe had the privilege of working alongside his father Jack Buck, who was also a national sportscaster, before Jack passed away in 2002.

65. Cecilia, to musicians PATRON SAINT
Saint Cecilia was a famous Roman martyr. She is the patroness of musicians.

70. Lisbon’s land, to the IOC POR
Lisbon is the capital of Portugal. Lisbon is the westernmost capital city in Europe, and indeed is the westernmost large city on the continent. It is also the oldest city in Western Europe and is hundreds of years older than London, Paris and Rome.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was founded in 1894, and has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.

71. Aquatic birds TERNS
Terns are seabirds that are found all over the world. The Arctic Tern makes a very long-distance migration. One Arctic Tern that was tagged as a chick in Great Britain in the summer of 1982, was spotted in Melbourne, Australia just three months later. The bird had traveled over 14,000 miles in over those three months, an average of about 150 miles a day. Remarkable …

73. Pink flowers in a Van Gogh still life ROSES
“Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses” is an 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. You can see the work in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. where it has been hanging since 1991.

81. Athenian cross TAU
Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, the letter which gave rise to our Roman “T”. Both the letters tau (T) and chi (X) have long been symbolically associated with the cross.

86. __ gun RADAR
Scientists have been using radio waves to detect the presence of objects since the late 1800s, but it was the demands of WWII that accelerated the practical application of the technology. The British called their system RDF standing for Range and Direction Finding. The system used by the US Navy was called Radio Detection And Ranging, which was shortened to the acronym RADAR.

87. French twist need TRESS
Apparently a French twist is the name of that updo hairstyle where a ponytail is twisted and lifted up to the top of the head and secured with pins or a clip. Not my forte …

89. Envy, e.g. SIN
The cardinal sins of Christian ethics are also known as the seven deadly sins. The seven deadly sins are:

– wrath
– greed
– sloth
– pride
– lust
– envy
– gluttony

90. “I’m Not There” actor GERE
Richard Gere has played such great roles on the screen, and I find him to be a very interesting character off the screen. Gere has been studying Buddhism since 1978 and is a very visible supporter of the Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet.

“I’m Not There” is a 2007 film that uses six different actor to depict different aspects of the life of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The six actors are: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw. The film’s title is the name of a song recorded by Dylan in 1967, although “I’m Not There” was not officially released then and made its first appearance on the movie’s soundtrack.

91. Investment firm founded in 1869 GOLDMAN SACHS
Goldman Sachs made out like bandits during the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-08 as the company actually short-sold subprime mortgage bonds. As the price of the bonds nose-dived, Goldman Sachs made huge profits.

97. “SNL” alumna Cheri OTERI
Cheri Oteri was the SNL cast member who regularly appeared with Will Farrell in the skit featuring a pair of Spartan cheerleaders.

99. “Hasta la vista” ADIOS
The term “adios” is Spanish for “goodbye”. In the Spanish language, “adios” comes from the phrase “a dios vos acomiendo” meaning “I commend you to God”.

“Hasta la vista!” is Spanish for “goodbye!”

101. Washington, for one STATE
The people from what today is Washington state first petitioned the US Congress for statehood in 1852. At that time the proposal was to name the new state Columbia, but this was rejected as it was felt that a state called Columbia might be confused with the District of Columbia. Somewhat bizarrely, the alternative name of Washington was accepted. Certainly, the name Washington honors the first President, but there’s still potential confusion with the nation’s capital. I hate to admit my ignorance, but as a young man in Ireland whenever I heard talk of Washington state, I assumed the discussion was about Washington, D.C. …

103. Classic sci-fi gesture VULCAN SALUTE
The Vulcan salute is the hand gesture devised and introduced by Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock on the original “Star Trek” TV series. The salute is made by raising the hand with the palm forward and with the fingers parted between the middle and ring finger. The gesture is often accompanied with the words “live long and prosper”.

106. Way to stand PAT
“To stand pat” is to resist change. The term comes from the game of poker, in which one “stands pat” if one keeps one’s hand as is, not drawing any extra cards.

107. Lox stocker DELI
Lox is a cured salmon fillet, finely sliced. The term “lox” comes into English via Yiddish, and derives from the German word for salmon, namely “Lachs”.

111. On Vine St., say IN LA
Vine Street is a famous thoroughfare in Hollywood. Hollywood’s movie industry grew up around the intersection of “Hollywood and Vine”, where Hollywood Boulevard crossed Vine Street. That same intersection is now home to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the collection of brass stars embedded in the sidewalks that are monuments to achievement in the entertainment industry.

117. Cabbage? LUCRE
Our word “lucre” meaning “money, profits” comes from the Latin “lucrum” that means the same thing.

Lettuce, cabbage, kale, dinero, dough and moola (also moolah) are all slang terms for money.

118. Pet on a wheel GERBIL
Most species of gerbil are native to arid regions, and in fact used to be called “desert rats”. They make popular household pets because they are very social and friendly by nature. As desert natives, they also have specially adapted kidneys that produce a very small amount of waste so that bodily fluids are preserved.

119. 39, for Derek Jeter AGE
Derek Jeter has played his entire professional baseball career with the New York Yankees, and is the team’s captain. Jeter is the all-time career leader for the Yankees in hits, games played, stolen bases and at bats. He is also the all-time leader in hits by a shortstop in the whole of professional baseball.

120. Celtic tongue ERSE
There are actually three Erse languages. Irish, Manx (spoken on the Isle of Man) and Scots Gaelic. In their own tongues, these would be Gaeilge (in Ireland), Gaelg (on the Isle of Man) and Gaidhlig (in Scotland).

121. “I took the one __ traveled by”: Frost LESS
Robert Frost had a poem published in 1916 in which he describes the road he took in the last lines:
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Because of these last lines, the poem is often assumed to be entitled “The Road less Traveled”. In fact, the poem’s correct name is “The Road not Taken”. Quite interesting …

123. Intel collector hidden in nine puzzle answers NSA
The National Security Agency (NSA) was set up in 1952 by President Truman, a replacement for the Armed Forces Security Agency that had existed in the Department of Defense since 1949. The NSA has always been clouded in secrecy and even the 1952 letter from President Truman that established the agency was kept under wraps from the public for over a generation. I really like the organization’s nickname: No Such Agency.

Down
2. High wind OBOE
The oboe is perhaps my favorite of the reed instruments. The name “oboe” comes from the French “hautbois” which means “high wood”. When you hear an orchestra tuning before a performance you’ll note (pun intended!) that the oboe starts off the process by playing an “A”. The rest of the musicians in turn tune to that oboe’s “A”.

7. “Great Scott!” EGADS!
“Egad!” developed as a polite way of saying “oh God!” in the late 1600s and is an expression of fear or surprise somewhat like “good grief!”.

No one seems to know for sure who the Scott is in the exclamation “great Scott!”. One theory is that the reference is to the commander-in-chief of the US Army during the Civil War, General Winfield Scott. Scott weighed in at 300 pounds later in his life, and was so obese that he could not ride a horse.

8. U.S. state with three counties DEL
The state of Delaware takes its name from Virginia’s first colonial governor, Englishman Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr. Delaware is known as “The First State” as it was the first to ratify the US Constitution, in 1787. It is also the second smallest state in the union, after Rhode Island. Delaware is the state with the fewest counties (3), followed by Hawaii and Rhode Island (5).

13. Ring site SATURN
Saturn is easily visible from Earth with the unaided eye, but we need some help to see the planet’s famous rings. Galileo was the first person to see Saturn’s rings, when he turned his primitive telescope towards the night sky in 1610. However, he misinterpreted what he was observing and assumed that the rings were in fact two smaller planets located at either side of the larger Saturn.

14. 1987 kid’s best-seller WHERE’S WALDO?
The reference is to the series of children’s illustrated books called “Where’s Waldo?”, originally titled “Where’s Wally?” in Britain where the books originated.

19. Some GPS lines STS
Some lines depicted by the Global Positioning System (GPS) are streets (sts.).

21. 1966 Sporting News College Coach of the Year Parseghian ARA
Ara Parseghian coached the Notre Dame football team from 1964 to 1974, a period known as “The Era of Ara”.

24. Largest moon of Neptune TRITON
Triton is the largest moon of Neptune, and is named after the Greek sea god (Neptune is the Roman sea god). Triton is unique in our solar system in that it has a “retrograde orbit”, meaning that it orbits Neptune in the opposite direction to the planet’s rotation.

30. Tinker to __ to Chance: classic double-play combo EVERS
“Baseball’s Sad Lexicon” is a poem written by Franklin Pierce Adams in 1910:

These are the saddest of possible words:
“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon[a] bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double[b] –
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”

31. “The Few. The Proud” group MARINES
“The few, the proud, the Marines” is the modern-day recruiting slogan used by the US Marine Corps.

33. “Friends” friend MONICA
Courteney Cox played Monica Geller on the incredibly successful sitcom “Friends”. Before “Friends” she played the girlfriend of Michael J. Fox’s character on “Family Ties” for a couple of years in the late eighties. Her role in “Friends” was her biggest success, no question, when she and her fellow female costars became the highest paid TV actresses ever, earning a million dollars per episode.

38. “The King and I” kingdom SIAM
Siam was the official name of Thailand up to 1939 (and from 1945 to 1949).

“The King and I” is a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a book by Margaret Landon called “Anna and the King of Siam” first published in 1944. Landon’s book is based on a true story, told in the memoirs of Anna Leonowens. Leonowens was the governess of the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the 1860s, and she also taught the king’s wives.

39. Chick chaser? -ADEE
Chikadees are group of birds in the tit family, with some species within the group called chickadees and some called tits. The name chickadee is imitative of the bird’s alarm call “chick-dee dee dee”.

42. Tabloid subj. UFO
Unidentified flying object (UFO)

“Tabloid” is the trademarked name (owned by Burroughs, Wellcome and Co,) for a “small tablet of medicine”, a name that goes back to 1884. The word “tabloid” had entered into general use to mean a compressed form of anything, and by the early 1900s was used in “tabloid journalism”, applied to newspapers that had short, condensed articles and stories printed on smaller sheets of paper.

44. Carne __: Mexican beef dish ASADA
“Carne Asada” translates from Spanish as “roasted meat”.

46. Language that gives us “shampoo” HINDI
Back in the 1760s, the verb “shampoo” was an Anglo-Indian word meaning “to massage”. A century later we started to shampoo our hair.

52. Yemen’s capital SANA
Sana (also Sana’a) is the capital city of Yemen. Within the bounds of today’s metropolis is the old fortified city of Sana where people have lived for over 2,500 years. The Old City is now a World Heritage Site.

57. Private eatery MESS HALL
The word “mess” first came into English about 1300 and described the list of food needed for a meal, from the Old French word “mes” meaning a portion of food or a course at a meal. This usage in English evolved into “mess” meaning a jumbled mass of anything from the concept of “mixed food”. At the same time, the original usage in the sense of a food for a meal surfaced again in the military in the 1500s when a “mess” was a communal eating place.

59. Get more Money RENEW
One of the best-known features in “Money” magazine is its annual listing of “America’s Best Places to Live”. Top of the list for 2013 is the town of Sharon, Massachusetts.

63. “Once Upon a Time in China” star JET LI
The actor Jet Li’s real name is Li Jian Jie. Jet Li is a martial artist and international film star from Beijing, China. Li played a villain in “Lethal Weapon 4”, and had a leading role in the 2000 movie “Romeo Must Die”.

64. 1938 “The War of the Worlds” narrator ORSON WELLES
Orson Welles starred in and directed 1938’s famous radio play “The War of the Worlds”. This adaptation of the H. G. Wells science-fiction novel included several apparent news broadcasts that reported the effects of an alien invasion. Many people who heard the broadcasts didn’t realise that they were part of a play. It is estimated that of 6 million people who tuned it, 1.2 million listeners were genuinely frightened by what they were hearing.

66. Treasure cache TROVE
The term “treasure trove” comes from the Anglo-French “tresor trové “ meaning “found treasure”.

67. Ring barrier ROPE
Ropes form a barrier around say a boxing ring.

68. ___Sweet: sugar substitute NUTRA
NutraSweet is a brand name for the artificial sweetener aspartame. Aspartame was discovered by a chemist working for Searle in 1965, but it took 15 years for the company to be granted approval for its sale. I wonder why …???

69. “No details, pls!” TMI
Too much information! (TMI, in textspeak)

71. Bar pickups TABS
When we “run a tab” at a bar say, we are “running a tabulation”, a listing of what we owe. Such a use of “tab” is American slang that originated in the 1880s.

72. Spanish wine punch SANGRIA
Sangria is red wine punch, usually associated with Portugal and Spain. Recipes for sangria vary, but almost all include a robust red wine, sliced fruit, something sweet (e.g. orange juice, sugar), a spirit (e.g. brandy, triple sec), carbonated water or perhaps 7up, and ice. The drink is named for its color, as “sangre” is the Spanish for blood.

77. Nobody NARY A SOUL
The adjective “nary” means “not one”, as in “nary a soul”.

80. Dundee topper TAM
A tam o’shanter is a man’s cap traditionally worn by Scotsmen. “Tams” were originally all blue (and called “blue bonnets”), but as more dyes became readily available they became more colorful. The name of the cap comes from the title character of Robert Burns’ poem “Tam O’Shanter”.

The city of Dundee lies on the north bank of the Firth of Tay in Scotland. The origins of the name “Dundee” are a little obscure, although the omnipresent “dùn” in place names all over Scotland and Ireland is the Celtic word for “fort”.

81. Virginia __ TECH
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It was founded in 1872 as an agricultural and mechanical land-grant college. Sadly, the school will forever be associated with the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in which 32 people were shot dead on the campus, the deadliest shooting incident by a lone gunman in US history.

82. “Off the Court” author ASHE
“Off the Court” is a 1981 autobiography by tennis player Arthur Ashe. The book deals with Ashe’s life off the court including his involvement in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

83. Cold War initials USSR
The term “Cold War” was first used by the novelist George Orwell in a 1945 essay about the atomic bomb. Orwell described a world under threat of nuclear war as having a “peace that is no peace”, in a permanent state of “cold war”. The specific use of “cold war” to describe the tension between the Eastern bloc and the Western allies is attributed to a 1947 speech by Bernard Baruch.

94. Where many quarters are used ARCADE
Our word “arcade” comes from the Latin “arcus” meaning “arc”. The first arcades were passages made from a series of arches. This could be an avenue of trees, and eventually any covered avenue. I remember arcades lined with shops and stores when I was growing up on the other side of the Atlantic. Arcades came to be lined with lots of amusements, resulting in amusement arcades and video game arcades.

95. Rexall Place team OILERS
The National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers are so called because they are located in Alberta, Canada … oil country.

Rexall Place is an indoor sports arena in Edmonton, Alberta that is home to the Edmonton Oilers hockey team and the Edmonton Rush lacrosse team.

Rexall is a chain of drugstores in Canada that started out in 1902 as a retailers’ cooperative called United Drug Stores. The name “Rexall” was derived from the “Rx” abbreviation used for prescriptions. Rexall used a very interesting marketing concept in 1936. The company sent “The Million Dollar Rexall Streamlined Convention Train” on a tour all over the US. The train had 12 cars which included product displays, convention facilities and a dining car. The idea was to allow local druggists to attend a convention without having the cost of travel, and of course to promote products and the brand.

97. Like merinos OVINE
The Latin word for “sheep” is “ovis”, giving us the adjective “ovine”, meaning “like a sheep”.

The Merino breed of sheep is prized for the soft quality of its wool.

98. Upright worker TUNER
What was remarkable about the piano when it was invented, compared to other keyboard instruments, was that notes could be played with varying degrees of loudness. This is accomplished by pressing the keys lightly or firmly. Because of this quality, the new instrument was called a “pianoforte”, with “piano” and “forte” meaning “soft” and “loud” in Italian. We tend to shorten the name these days to just “piano”.

100. Gym event DANCE
Sock hops were high school dances typically held in the school gym or cafeteria. The term “sock hop” originated because the dancers were often required to remove their shoes to protect the varnished floor in the gym.

101. __ whale SPERM
The massive sperm whale takes its name from “spermaceti”, a waxy liquid that is found in its digestive system. The liquid was originally mistaken for the whale’s sperm, hence the name.

102. Martial arts-based regimen TAE BO
Tae Bo isn’t an ancient martial art, and rather was developed as a form of aerobic exercise in the 1990s. The discipline was introduced by taekwondo expert Billy Blanks who gave it the name Tae Bo, a melding of “taekwondo” and “boxing”.

105. Person, slangily EGG
A person might be described a “good egg” or “bad egg”. There doesn’t seem to be a clear explanation for how “egg” came to mean “person”. One suggestion is that the term reflects the resemblance between the shape of the human head and the shape of an egg.

108. Dashing style ELAN
Our word “élan” was imported from French, in which language the word has a similar meaning to ours i.e “style” or “flair”.

114. Hi-__ monitor RES
High-resolution (hi-res)

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. “Holy smokes!” WOW!
4. Like bodyguards ARMED
9. Stinger WASP
13. Dip SWIM
17. Japanese band OBI
18. Dashboard array GAUGES
20. Stars at the Forum? ASTRA
22. “Oh dear” AH ME
23. “When it rains, it pours” brand MORTON SALT
25. More distant ICIER
26. Raised, in a way TEED
27. Cold draft BEER
28. Eye protector LID
29. 1954 Kurosawa classic SEVEN SAMURAI
32. Apples on a desk IMACS
34. Blows off steam VENTS
35. Battleground ARENA
36. ”Enough already!” OH STOP!
39. Wide awake ALERT
41. Changes course TURNS
43. Only player to appear in both the Super Bowl and World Series DEION SANDERS
46. Old 45 player HI-FI
47. Org. for heavyweights WBA
50. Muscat Daily reader OMANI
51. Bird feeder cakes SUETS
52. Game with many imitators SIMON SAYS
54. Golden Fleece source RAM
55. Égoïste maker CHANEL
57. Silver hair? MANE
58. Issues for fashionable readers ELLES
59. Vice squad operation RAID
60. With no break ON END
62. Camp David Accords signer SADAT
63. Emmy-winning sportscaster Buck JOE
65. Cecilia, to musicians PATRON SAINT
70. Lisbon’s land, to the IOC POR
71. Aquatic birds TERNS
73. Pink flowers in a Van Gogh still life ROSES
74. Base figures UMPS
76. Totally lost AT SEA
77. “Forget it” NOPE
78. Sexy one HOTTIE
81. Athenian cross TAU
84. Baseball closer’s nightmare BLOWN SAVE
86. __ gun RADAR
87. French twist need TRESS
89. Envy, e.g. SIN
90. “I’m Not There” actor GERE
91. Investment firm founded in 1869 GOLDMAN SACHS
93. Like toads WARTY
95. Postgrad hurdles ORALS
96. Choice word EITHER
97. “SNL” alumna Cheri OTERI
99. “Hasta la vista” ADIOS
101. Washington, for one STATE
103. Classic sci-fi gesture VULCAN SALUTE
106. Way to stand PAT
107. Lox stocker DELI
111. On Vine St., say IN LA
112. Improves HONES
113. Leafy course GREEN SALAD
116. Grant factor NEED
117. Cabbage? LUCRE
118. Pet on a wheel GERBIL
119. 39, for Derek Jeter AGE
120. Celtic tongue ERSE
121. “I took the one __ traveled by”: Frost LESS
122. Like cigar bars SMOKY
123. Intel collector hidden in nine puzzle answers NSA

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1. Baby carrier? WOMB
2. High wind OBOE
3. Current carrier WIRE
4. Back in the day AGO
5. Went around in circles? RAN LAPS
6. __ video MUSIC
7. “Great Scott!” EGADS!
8. U.S. state with three counties DEL
9. Release relatives WAIVERS
10. Way up ASCENT
11. Tour of duty STINT
12. When printing starts PRESS TIME
13. Ring site SATURN
14. 1987 kid’s best-seller WHERE’S WALDO?
15. “That is …” I MEAN …
16. Mass __ MEDIA
19. Some GPS lines STS
21. 1966 Sporting News College Coach of the Year Parseghian ARA
24. Largest moon of Neptune TRITON
30. Tinker to __ to Chance: classic double-play combo EVERS
31. “The Few. The Proud” group MARINES
33. “Friends” friend MONICA
36. Scent ODOR
37. Blood: Pref. HEMA-
38. “The King and I” kingdom SIAM
39. Chick chaser? -ADEE
40. Free LET LOOSE
42. Tabloid subj. UFO
44. Carne __: Mexican beef dish ASADA
45. One with a habit NUN
46. Language that gives us “shampoo” HINDI
48. One way to play BY EAR
49. Mgr.’s helper ASST
52. Yemen’s capital SANA
53. Waves-against-rocks sounds SLAPS
56. Not square HIP
57. Private eatery MESS HALL
59. Get more Money RENEW
61. Atlanta-to-Charleston dir. NNE
63. “Once Upon a Time in China” star JET LI
64. 1938 “The War of the Worlds” narrator ORSON WELLES
66. Treasure cache TROVE
67. Ring barrier ROPE
68. ___Sweet: sugar substitute NUTRA
69. “No details, pls!” TMI
71. Bar pickups TABS
72. Spanish wine punch SANGRIA
75. Feed a friend’s feline, say PET-SIT
77. Nobody NARY A SOUL
79. Sports figures ODDS
80. Dundee topper TAM
81. Virginia __ TECH
82. “Off the Court” author ASHE
83. Cold War initials USSR
85. Good to go SET
86. Event with mocking ROAST
88. Top-notch RATED A
91. Puts up a fuss GROUSES
92. One who’s quick to pick up? NEATNIK
94. Where many quarters are used ARCADE
95. Rexall Place team OILERS
97. Like merinos OVINE
98. Upright worker TUNER
100. Gym event DANCE
101. __ whale SPERM
102. Martial arts-based regimen TAE BO
104. 95-Down’s org. NHL
105. Person, slangily EGG
108. Dashing style ELAN
109. Gets behind LAGS
110. What’s on your mind IDEA
114. Hi-__ monitor RES
115. Underhand SLY

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