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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