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1. Feed for cattle and horses : ALFALFA 8. River or city of Maine : SACO 12. E-5 in the U.S.A.F. : SSGT 16. Fourth steps : FAS 19. Bashes : SOIREES 20. Control ___ (four-wheel-drive system) : TRAC 21. Vessel lost at Pearl Harbor : UTAH 22. Piz Bernina or Eiger : ALP 23. Yuletide celebration : TWELFTHNIGHT 25. Unwavering : RESOLUTE 27. Decadent : EFFETE 28. Clearing : OPENAREA 30. Hindu queen : RANEE 31. Not fair at all : RAINY 32. Bingo call : BTEN 33. Rock group with the 12-time platinum album "Hysteria" : DEFLEPPARD 35. Some martyrs: Abbr. : STES 36. Gorge : FEAST 37. Swiss ___ : MISS 38. Music center? : ESS 39. Weena's fictional race : ELOI 40. Marc Antony's love : AMOR 42. Rolodex abbr. : TEL 44. Like Narcissus? : SELFREFLECTIVE 50. Popular Hispanic newspaper name : ELSOL 53. Reposeful : ATEASE 54. Longtime soap actress Jones : RENEE 55. "Prince ___" ("Aladdin" song) : ALI 56. Play analyzer : REF 58. Year England captured Normandy at the Battle of Tinchebray : MCVI 59. Kind of sweater : PULLON 61. Fully functional : ABLE 62. Actor Kilmer : VAL 63. Last time? : SHELFLIFE 66. 1964 Beatles #1 hit : IFEELFINE 68. Museum hanging : OIL 69. Employee's move, for short : RELO 70. Words from a promising individual? : ISHALL 73. Ye follower : OLDE 74. Samoa-to-Hawaii dir. : NNE 75. Spitchcock : EEL 76. Starters : ATEAM 77. "Bald" baby : EAGLET 79. Hail : GREET 81. Classic outdoor winter toys : FLEXIBLEFLYERS 84. Uganda's ___ Amin : IDI 85. "Climb ___ Mountain" : EVRY 86. One who's gone but not forgotten : AWOL 87. Mag magnate : HEF 89. ___-plié (ballet move) : DEMI 91. Personnel person : HIRER 93. "___ homo" (declaration in John 19:5) : ECCE 97. Bond's man? : IANFLEMING 100. Ltr. carriers : ENVS 101. Quasar co-discoverer Sandage : ALLAN 102. Pope of 452 who met with Attila : STLEO 103. Red-eye cause : INSOMNIA 105. Burning : ARDENT 106. Adam Sandler's "Spanglish" co-star : TEALEONI 108. Precious cargo of legend : GOLDENFLEECE 110. Mythical beast : ORC 111. Seussian villagers : WHOS 112. 1988 Cy Young winner Hershiser : OREL 113. Laundry worker : PRESSER 114. Verb follower? : OSE 115. Kind : SORT 116. Ophthalmologist's concern : STYE 117. Rolls : ROSTERS		1. Sources of fall color : ASTERS 2. Light, in a way : LOWFAT 3. Repetitive exclamation from Shakespeare : FIEFIE 4. Sen. Specter and others : ARLENS 5. "Waiting for ___" (Odets play) : LEFTY 6. Bash : FETE 7. Certain flake : ASH 8. Mushroom stems : STIPES 9. Silver-colored : ARGENT 10. Songwriter Sammy : CAHN 11. Santa's reindeer, traditionally : OCTAD 12. Never-failing : SUREFIRE 13. Rickey Henderson record-breaking stat : STEALS 14. Beetle juice? : GAS 15. Edward O. ___, card-counting author of "Beat the Dealer" : THORP 16. Zoological studies : FAUNAS 17. Edits : ALTERS 18. Words per minute, e.g. : SPEED 24. Manx trait : NOTAIL 26. Pin spots : LAPELS 29. Eliminate : REMOVE 32. "___ good cheer" : BEOF 34. Actress Getty : ESTELLE 36. Bolt : FLEE 39. Stumbling sounds : ERS 40. 13, for Al : ATNO 41. Air : MIEN 43. Senior Saarinen : ELIEL 44. Biblical strongman : SAMSON 45. Dropping acid, say : ETCHING 46. Evening person? : LEVELER 47. Go kaput : FAIL 48. First name in court fiction : ERLE 49. Hanna-Barbera collectible : CEL 51. Redenbacher of popcorn fame : ORVILLE 52. Hero's hero : LEANDER 55. Genesis shepherd : ABEL 57. Forces in the water : FLEETS 59. Grouch : PILL 60. Craft often shown landing on three legs : UFO 61. Old sports org. : AFL 64. Let out : FREED 65. Current with the wind : LEETIDE 66. Metric foot : IAMB 67. Geezer : FOGY 70. Anatomical duct : ITER 71. Voluptuous : SEXY 72. Osaka O.K. : HAI 76. Ailey and Toffler : ALVINS 77. ___ effort : EFOR 78. ___ clear : ALL 80. Towering figure in French engineering : EIFFEL 81. Carrie Chapman Catt, for one : FEMINIST 82. Little wrigglers : LARVAE 83. Baa maids? : EWES 87. He-Man Woman-___ Club ("Little Rascals" group) : HATERS 88. Link, as fingers of the hands : ENLACE 90. Key of Dvorák's "New World" Symphony : EMINOR 91. "Crimes of the Heart" playwright Beth : HENLEY 92. Out of gear : INIDLE 93. Firstborn : ELDEST 94. John of "Rat Race" : CLEESE 95. Constellation between Lynx and Hydra : CANCER 96. Starts to make a scene? : ENTERS 97. "Life ___ short ..." : ISTOO 98. Brand under AMC Theatres : LOEWS 99. "We Got the Beat" group : GOGOS 101. "The Night Cafe" was painted there : ARLES 104. Comic Sahl : MORT 105. Frizzy coif : AFRO 107. "Well, what have we here?!" : OHO 109. Big inits. in news : NPR