NY Times, Sun, Feb 22, 2009 THE CRUCIVERBALIST

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1. Put to sleep : BORE 5. They keep you from passing : EFFS 9. Pro or con : SIDE 13. Animate : PEPUP 18. It takes the cake : OVEN 19. ___ Fleck and the Flecktones : BELA 20. Pussycat : HONEY 21. Get a load of : AMASS 22. "Hamlet" star, 1990 : MELGIBSON 24. Animal that eats while floating on its back : OTTER 25. Belgian city in W.W. I fighting : YPRES 26. Cruciverbalist's Step 1 : BRAINSTORMTHEMEIDEAS 29. Suburb of Minneapolis : EDINA 30. They're not buying it : RENTERS 31. Geometric fig. : CIR 32. Chinchilla, e.g. : RODENT 34. Grieve : MOURN 35. World's top-selling car model starting in 1997 : COROLLA 39. Step 2 : DEVELOPBESTENTRIES 43. Org. with the Red Auerbach Trophy : NBA 46. Chem., for one : SCI 47. They, to Thérèse : ILS 48. Negative conjunction : NOR 49. Fluctuates wildly : YOYOS 52. Molecular biology topic : RNA 54. Like rams and lambs : OVINE 57. Pet ___ : PEEVE 59. Step 3 : CONSTRUCTSUITABLEGRID 63. "I Saw ___ Again" (1966 hit for the Mamas & the Papas) : HER 64. Popular women's fragrance : ESTEE 65. Significant time : ERA 66. Step 4 : RESEARCHANDWRITECLUES 76. Cat Stevens's faith : ISLAM 77. 1969 Dustin Hoffman role : RATSO 78. Spring locale : SPA 79. Word with duty or set : HEAVY 80. Fort Meade org. : NSA 81. Deface : MAR 82. Kitchen gadget company : OXO 84. Walletful : WAD 85. Step 5 : SENDPUZZLETOEDITOR 95. Fanatical : EXTREME 96. 2003 Afghani film that won a Golden Globe : OSAMA 97. Turned bad : SOURED 101. Typing speed stat. : WPM 102. They have loads to do : WASHERS 104. Memory principle : MNEME 105. Step 6 (the payoff) : SEEBYLINEINNEWSPAPER 110. Product once pitched by Bill Cosby : JELLO 111. "___ we all?" : ARENT 112. Night crawler : EARTHWORM 113. Driver of a 72-Down : CABBY 114. "___ bien!" : MERCI 115. Crack up : SLAY 116. One edition of the Wall Street Journal : ASIA 117. Cafeteria supply : TRAYS 118. To be, to Claudius : ESSE 119. Pound the keys : TYPE 120. Long-distance call? : YELL		1. B-2 or B-52 : BOMBER 2. Gild the lily : OVERDO 3. Fixed, as tiles : RELAID 4. Twin-___ aircraft : ENGINED 5. Dwindles : EBBS 6. Slug follower? : FEST 7. Elevator stop : FLOOR 8. Riviera resort : SANREMO 9. "Hah!" : SOTHERE 10. Some residents : INTERNS 11. Judges : DEEMS 12. Brontë heroine : EYRE 13. The mother lode : PAYDIRT 14. Napoleon, for one : EMPEROR 15. Law firm aide, for short : PARA 16. Functions : USES 17. Letter addenda: Abbr. : PSS 20. Jacuzzi : HOTTUB 23. Cockeyed : INANE 27. Alphabetical foursome : MNOP 28. Desktop array : ICONS 33. DVD adjuncts : TVS 35. Page-oner : CELEB 36. Sharply hit baseball : LINER 37. Pope after John X : LEOVI 38. Comparable to a rose? : ASRED 40. Stocking shade : ECRU 41. ___ Hayes of "The Mod Squad" : LINC 42. Turner of records : TINA 43. "Annie" song with the lyric "Too busy / Too crazy / Too hot / Too cold / Too late / I'm sold" : NYC 44. Response to a bad call : BOO 45. Author Rand : AYN 50. Milo of "The Verdict," 1982 : OSHEA 51. Pressing need? : STEAM 53. Troubled : ATEAT 54. Better : OUTDO 55. Penthouse feature : VIEW 56. Anatomical passages : ITERS 57. Twig, to a bird : PERCH 58. French equivalent : EGALE 60. Elementary school trio : RRR 61. Payroll IDs : SSNS 62. Virginia's historic ___ Highway : LEE 66. Shampoo directive : RINSE 67. Hedingham Castle locale : ESSEX 68. Inclination : SLANT 69. The twist, once : CRAZE 70. Germany's __ National Park : HARZ 71. Song holder : IPOD 72. Modern advertising medium : TAXI 73. Labor grp. since 1935 : UAW 74. Actress ___ Marie Saint : EVA 75. Barrett of Pink Floyd : SYD 81. Boris Karloff title role, with "the" : MUMMY 83. N.F.L. tiebreakers : OTS 86. '70s small-screen role for Robert Young : DRWELBY 87. Big auto parts chain : PEPBOYS 88. Auto shop offerings : LOANERS 89. Gist : ESSENCE 90. Setting for Melville's "Omoo" : TAHITI 91. Soothsayer's subject : OMEN 92. Purposeful : EARNEST 93. Zip : OOMPH 94. Target of a youth outreach program : RUNAWAY 98. Rest : REPOSE 99. "___ Live," longtime Food Network show : EMERIL 100. Skin-related : DERMAL 102. Some money transfers : WIRES 103. Simmons competitor : SEALY 105. Brown : SEAR 106. Island off Tuscany : ELBA 107. Unconvincing : LAME 108. Finish shooting : WRAP 109. Lid irritation : STYE 110. Where I's cross?: Abbr. : JCT