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JUMBO FREESTYLE 7
by Adrian Johnson, edited by Jeff Chen
ACROSS
1 Amps (up)
5 “Hah, you wish!”
9 Crossword solver’s aid 13 Light spray
17 Worse for driving but better for skating
19 Like hens’ teeth, idiomatically
20 Texter’s “Then again ...”
21 Strong cotton thread
22 “Don’t wanna hear about it ...”
26 Dubiously dubbed
27 Conservation org. with a panda logo
28 “How frustrating!”
29 Near-impossibility on a par 5
30 Currency at many pachinko parlors
31 Public craze
33 High figs. for brainiacs
34 Wall St. debut
35 “That’s incredible!”
37 Possibly risky
39 Some casino giveaways
41 Manual reader, say
42 Hairstyle for Angela Davis
44 Wildlife watcher’s perch
46 Nicholas I, for one
47 “Crank up the heat!”
49 Hitting a pinnacle
50 Membership-based wholesaler
52 Wannabe banker’s deg.
53 “I double dog dare you!”
55 Completed the last leg of an Ironman
56 “if ur asking me ...”
58 Genre for Little Simz
59 Chinese entree served with hoisin sauce
62 Places for rotten Apple cores?
65 Singer McEntire
66 401(k) alternative
67 Some NFL linemen
68 “Silly me!”
69 Clear to see
72 Backs from the stands
74 “Wayne’s World” refrain
77 Things to crack
79 “The Bronx Bombers”
83 Former Bolivian President Morales
84 Tribe with an annual spring Bear Dance
86 It’s all relative?
87 “That’s yucky!”
88 Big name in supplements
89 Catches, as a thief
91 Roadside Mexican treats
94 “A little,” in music
95 Feed, as a fire
97 Maltreat
98 Cry after too much tickling
99 Keep private, for now 100 Enjoy home cooking
101 “Ah, makes sense”
102 “Watch your ___!”
103 Quite the crowd
104 ___ da Cunha (British Overseas Territory)
106 Crank (out)
108 Canadian dollar coins, informally
110 Big name in razors
111 Off ___ (tangential)
112 Pros at selling promos
113 Prepares for laundry day
114 Fire sign?
115 Informal eves
116 Filipino bread
117 Casablanca-to-Algiers dir.
118 Sweetie
DOWN
1 Two-person lumber tool
2 Sheep’s environment?
3 “It was nothing, really”
4 “CSI: NY” actress Ward
5 As, for chemists
6 Threw out there
7 Vex
8 Home to baseball’s “Green Monster”
9 “Wouldn’t have expected anything else”
10 Cousin of old TV
11 Trendy NYC neighborhood
12 AOC’s workplace, informally
13 Kitchen glove
14 “Am I being punked?!”
15 Places to go out on a train?
16 It’s more than fear
18 Depend (on)
21 Fiery types, it’s said
23 Iditarod transport
24 Absolutely dominate
25 Some summer b-day parties
31 Confused Nick Young, e.g.
32 “___ Flux” (2005 film)
36 Not prone to crushes, for short
38 Many a chess move
40 Access, as an email account
41 Maritime vessel letters
43 Gap Inc. subsidiary
45 Toots and the Maytals genre
46 “Don’t make that joke yet”
47 Little rascal 48 109-Down, for one
50 “Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon
51 Photo ___
54 “Never sounded right to me”
57 Trailblazing American Ballet Theatre dancer
60 “Like THAT’s happening”
61 Pantry stock
63 Aphrodite’s son
64 Apt rhyme for “conk”
70 Short promises?
71 “This date is over”
72 Tenants’ solidarity protest
73 Fifth Avenue retailer
74 Calligraphy purchase
75 Wii Miis, e.g.
76 Field full of unpaid workers
78 In great shape
80 Episodes of self-indulgence
81 Puts into a cipher
82 Some teatime offerings
85 Bygone times
87 Laverne Cox, to the trans community
90 Place to get a wax job?
92 Puts up, as a monument
93 “Make it snappy!”
94 Groundbreaker
96 From A to Z
99 Jazzy sound?
105 Doesn’t sit
107 Fully informed
109 Garfield once dropkicked him into next week
OBSERVER SCHOOL ZONE
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