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Across

  1. 1. Opportunity
  2. 9. So-called Baghdad by the Bay
  3. 15. "___ at the office"
  4. 20. Mayor's title
  5. 21. Mr. Darcy's creator
  6. 22. Circle
  7. 23. "You can never moor a boat here"?
  8. 24. Provide sufficient coverage from risk?
  9. 26. Fashion portmanteau
  10. 27. Gets close to
  11. 29. "Have some!"
  12. 30. Feature of Hawaii's Molokini Crater
  13. 32. Some miracle drug pushers
  14. 35. Bothers
  15. 39. Atheistic Cuban leader?
  16. 43. Like Columbus
  17. 44. Low
  18. 45. Legendary weeper
  19. 46. Desk chairs?
  20. 48. Most common key of Chopin's piano pieces
  21. 51. Tour grp.
  22. 52. Side in the Peloponnesian War
  23. 53. Hit hard
  24. 54. Unsalvageable
  25. 56. Valentine and others: Abbr.
  26. 57. Pvt. Pyle's outfit
  27. 59. Get on
  28. 60. Quechuan "hello"?
  29. 64. ___-Caps
  30. 65. Moved a shell
  31. 67. Removing a Band-Aid too early?
  32. 70. 2:1, e.g., in the Bible
  33. 73. On
  34. 74. Covering first, second and third base?
  35. 78. "Hello, Hadrian!"
  36. 79. Tear down, in Tottenham
  37. 81. A year in Brazil
  38. 82. Aristocratic
  39. 83. Certain tide
  40. 85. Green deli stock
  41. 87. With 115-Down, 1983 Lionel Richie hit
  42. 90. Subjects of some modern school bans
  43. 91. Add to the Video Clip Hall of Fame?
  44. 93. Is forbidden to, quaintly
  45. 95. Genre for Panic! at the Disco
  46. 96. Drink that might cause brain freeze
  47. 97. Diet?
  48. 101. Jack-in-the-box part
  49. 102. "Lucy" star, in tabloids
  50. 103. Bygone Chevrolet
  51. 104. Madonna's "Into the Groove," originally
  52. 106. "Do ___!"
  53. 108. Cameron who directed "Jerry Maguire"
  54. 112. Diapers?
  55. 117. Popular website whose name is a hint to this puzzle's theme
  56. 119. Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," e.g.
  57. 120. How to make money "the old-fashioned way"
  58. 121. Disrespectful, in a way
  59. 122. ___ Mountains
  60. 123. Heavy-lidded
  61. 124. Visitor to a fertility clinic

Down

  1. 1. Sorority letters
  2. 2. Place for curlers
  3. 3. Home for King Harald
  4. 4. Shepherd formerly of "The View"
  5. 5. Stinko
  6. 6. Big picture: Abbr.
  7. 7. 50-50 chance
  8. 8. It can be sappy
  9. 9. Parodist's principle
  10. 10. Charges
  11. 11. There's one every year for Person of the Year: Abbr.
  12. 12. Political analyst Rothenberg
  13. 13. Roll by a cashier
  14. 14. Long, unbroken take, in film lingo
  15. 15. Certain ancient Greeks
  16. 16. Small caves
  17. 17. ___ Dhabi
  18. 18. Bookie's charge
  19. 19. Ordinal ending
  20. 25. Something you might get two 20s for?
  21. 28. Mideast's Gulf of ___
  22. 31. Morn's counterpart
  23. 33. Bloods' rivals
  24. 34. Coastal region of Hawaii
  25. 36. What the Spanish Armada fought
  26. 37. Shakespeare's world?
  27. 38. Proven
  28. 39. Japanese porcelain
  29. 40. A drag
  30. 41. ___ acid (vitamin B9)
  31. 42. Interlocking piece
  32. 43. Became peeved
  33. 47. Oil-rich land ruled by a sultan
  34. 49. Writer Nin
  35. 50. Pair of fins
  36. 52. Bits of music
  37. 55. Atty. gen.'s employer
  38. 56. Word with get or smart
  39. 58. Some ski resort rentals
  40. 61. Throb
  41. 62. City about 100 miles ENE of Cleveland, O.
  42. 63. Paper featured in the documentary "Page One," for short
  43. 64. No. often between 15 and 50
  44. 66. Belligerent, in Britspeak
  45. 68. Three on a 6
  46. 69. Poorly
  47. 70. Go poof
  48. 71. Without variation
  49. 72. Get educated (on)
  50. 75. More outré
  51. 76. Memorable mission
  52. 77. Disinfecting Wipes brand
  53. 80. Like light that causes chemical change
  54. 81. "Gladiator" locale
  55. 84. Resistance
  56. 86. "Gladiator," for one
  57. 87. Smirnoff of comedy
  58. 88. "___ Como Va" (Santana hit)
  59. 89. Cold
  60. 92. Country singer Kenny
  61. 93. Grandeur
  62. 94. "Mazel ___!"
  63. 98. Bottom sirloin cut of beef
  64. 99. Made out
  65. 100. One who takes the bull by the horns
  66. 102. Plant part
  67. 105. Turns a different shade, say
  68. 107. Alternatively
  69. 109. Sleipnir's master, in myth
  70. 110. Drunk's favorite radio station?
  71. 111. App creator, perhaps: Abbr.
  72. 112. Uncertainties
  73. 113. '60s war zone
  74. 114. Back the other way
  75. 115. See 87-Across
  76. 116. Uptown dir. in N.Y.C.
  77. 118. -: Abbr.

This puzzle was published on Sunday, Mar 15, 2015 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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