OUT ON A LIMB
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ACROSS 1. Kryptonian military man 4. Area factor 9. Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, for one 14. A ___ on one's plate 17. Company with a big Budget 19. A contact might scratch it 20. Brad Keselowski, say 21. Longoria with a recurring role on "Brooklyn NineNine" 22. Role for Leslie Caron in 1958 and Vanessa Hudgens in 2015 23. Entering slowly from above, water-style 25. Some stoves (what up, stove?) 26. Plays another round of Tetris, say 28. "Time to find out if you're bluffing!" 29. Gets closer and closer to 31. Commutes a sentence, say 32. Botched 34. "Catch My Disease" singer who's married to Ione Skye 35. *Translucent drinkware 37. Notes to precede sos 38. It's clearly hard? 39. "Get out of my forest!" 40. Yoga class need 42. Butt-ass nekkid 43. Twitter shares: Abbr. 44. Prof legates? 47. Genre for Zaytoven and Lex Luger 49. TV weapon often set to stun 52. Rm. in an office building 54. Blood type with B antibodies and no Rh factor: Abbr. 56. "Pitch Perfect" subject 58. Movie franchise that featured Ray Romano as the voice of a woolly mammoth 61. One doing zero 63. Scoreboard initials for Mike Trout's team 64. 75 years after the fall of the Roman Empire 65. Employer of Jeeves 66. *U.S. national anthem 70. Jackie's O 71. Newton's fruit (no, not that one) 72. Plop prefix 73. "Someday somebody's gonna ask you/A question that you should say ___" (Old 97's lyric) 74. "The Walking Dead" character Espinosa 75. "@#$% if I know"
78. Friend and colleague of Miró 79. HPV, e.g. 80. Singer Williams of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" 81. Djokovic, Ivanovic, or Troicki, notably 83. CBS S 84. Dolor 86. Tiny fraction of time, for short 88. Word that I could have used in my clue for ANAL last week, but chose not to, showing my maturity 90. 9-Across currency 92. Snoozeworthy 94. It ended earlier this mo. 96. *Start to argue 101. Loch miss 102. Online opinion finder 104. "___ of something" (bar request) 105. Piece of cake 106. Opposes good 108. Side-splitting? 110. "___ to the West Wind" (Percy Bysshe Shelley poem) 111. Relieving oneself for three hours or so? 114. "Let ___" (song written by Paul McCartney - no, not that one) 115. Swampy setting 116. Holder of a big crossword, perhaps 117. Ship captain? 118. Nonconformist group 119. Rapper ___ Trel 120. Puts in the baggage compartment 121. A cube has twelve 122. French pronoun
DOWN 1. Capital of Croatia 2. Capital of Asturias 3. Starts chowing down 4. *Be a great help 5. Film transition involving an expanding circle 6. Letters for an athlete who was benched for the whole game 7. Not too hot, not too cold 8. *"Same thing I was drinking last night" 9. Do-dos? 10. "___ oui!" ("Of course!", in French) 11. Isotretinoin target 12. ___ neutrality 13. *He portrayed the "crying Indian" in a '70s PSA, despite being 100% Italian 14. Bar pubs? 15. Conceive a "food baby"
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16. Adornments for mortarboards and bike handles 18. Date night hiree 19. Org. in the film "Outbreak" 24. Gran 27. Item of clothing which, anagrammed, becomes multiple items of clothing 30. Chekov's rank on "Star Trek": Abbr. 33. NFLer Michael ___ 34. "It feels like November 12th out here!" ... maybe 36. ___-kiri 38. Driver's partner 41. Droid program 42. Actress Arthur pictured administering the Heimlich maneuver to a unicorn on a poster at Big Gay Ice Cream 44. One who might beg to differ with the saying "Clothes make the man" 45. Former Orioles infielder Robert
46. Looking inwards 48. Host who said "Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery" 50. Words before "Do," "Do Is Win," and "Do Is Think of You" in song titles 51. Oil spills 53. Trueheart and Munster, for two 55. Is hip 57. Treat 58. Network née Pax 59. "Lucky Man" band Montgomery ___ 60. Grass fungi 62. *Stallone line from "The Expendables 2" 65. *Longed-for travel destination during the bleak midwinter 67. Thru 68. Bordeaux beverages 69. Apt rhyme for "shrieks" 75. "___ McStuffins" (Disney Junior series about a girl who fixes toys)
76. Thin-but-not-that-thin batteries 77. It's a first for me 80. ___ XING (street sign) 82. ___ Chair for World Peace 84. Certain chicken competition 85. "Some say..." 87. You, to a Hamburger 89. ___-pitch softball 91. Number after a dash, perhaps 93. Form of discrimination 94. Resides 95. "___ the Movie" (2014 film about Ballesteros) 97. Aged beer 98. "HTGAWM" creator Shonda 99. N00b 100. Medical tubes 103. What the Temptations weren't too proud to do 106. "___ proud of you!" 107. Vom 109. 1.1.1.2, say: Abbr. 112. ___ flour (gluten-free option) 113. Show
