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Across

  1. 1. Monocle part
  2. 4. Bridge support
  3. 9. Many a Theravada Buddhist
  4. 13. Indiana city where auto manufacturing was pioneered
  5. 16. Ruler in Richard Strauss's "Salome"
  6. 17. Construction site sight
  7. 21. Art of flower arranging
  8. 23. Red-wrapped imports
  9. 24. Prince of Darkness
  10. 25. Senate vote
  11. 26. Tea made by Peter Rabbit's mother
  12. 28. Restriction on Army enlistees
  13. 29. Part of CBS: Abbr.
  14. 31. Bring in a new staff for
  15. 32. Blender sound
  16. 34. "The Untouchables" role
  17. 35. Table d'___
  18. 36. Grouch
  19. 37. "Fasten your seatbelts ..."
  20. 40. "Smack That" singer
  21. 41. Jaunty greeting
  22. 42. Shunned ones
  23. 43. Pharma fraud police
  24. 46. ___ of time
  25. 48. Half-___ (java order)
  26. 49. Plains Indian
  27. 50. Straw mats
  28. 52. Senate vote
  29. 53. Hoppy brew, for short
  30. 55. Flawless routine
  31. 57. City on Utah Lake
  32. 59. Duds
  33. 60. Astronomer who wrote "Pale Blue Dot"
  34. 62. U.S. 66, e.g.: Abbr.
  35. 63. Like Fr. words after "la"
  36. 64. Boston iceman
  37. 65. Plane folk?
  38. 68. Pepper spray targets
  39. 70. Extols
  40. 71. Comcast, e.g., for short
  41. 72. Bio subject
  42. 73. Trial that bombs, informally
  43. 74. Piedmont city
  44. 75. Stud money
  45. 76. Interminable time
  46. 77. G.E. and G.M.
  47. 78. Singer Carly ___ Jepsen
  48. 81. Ball-like
  49. 83. Award accepted by J. K. Rowling and turned down by C. S. Lewis
  50. 85. "___ Ho" ("Slumdog Millionaire" song)
  51. 87. Big channel in reality programming
  52. 89. Man's name that's the code for Australia's busiest airport
  53. 90. Genre of Oasis and the Verve
  54. 92. Works at the ballpark, maybe
  55. 94. Movie dog
  56. 95. Army-Navy stores?
  57. 97. Kind of tiara and cross
  58. 98. Leg bone
  59. 99. Okey-___
  60. 101. Onetime Nair alternative
  61. 102. "___ a customer"
  62. 103. 10 cc's and 64 fl. oz.
  63. 104. The person you want to be
  64. 107. Give a thorough hosing
  65. 110. Away
  66. 111. What the buyer ends up paying
  67. 112. Old crime boss Frank
  68. 113. "I Love Lucy" surname
  69. 115. Response to "Who, me?"
  70. 116. Eight-related
  71. 117. Smooth fabric
  72. 118. Lip
  73. 119. Head of a crime lab?
  74. 120. Prosciutto, e.g.

Down

  1. 1. Hold up
  2. 2. Non-PC office purchase
  3. 3. Beautiful butterfly
  4. 4. *Nickname for Thomas Jefferson
  5. 5. Debt, symbolically
  6. 6. It flows to the Caspian
  7. 7. To a degree
  8. 8. Campus grp. formed in 1960
  9. 9. *Nickname for Abraham Lincoln
  10. 10. Eat or drink
  11. 11. Seed cover
  12. 12. Not going anywhere
  13. 13. Capital on the Congo
  14. 14. "I heard you the first time!"
  15. 15. See 18-Down
  16. 18. What 15-Down is ... or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues in left-to-right order
  17. 19. Black birds
  18. 20. Hanoi celebrations
  19. 22. *Nickname for George Washington
  20. 27. Union Pacific headquarters
  21. 28. "The ___ Breathe" (2007 drama with Kevin Bacon and Julie Delpy)
  22. 30. Minister (to)
  23. 33. *Nickname for Theodore Roosevelt
  24. 38. "Kapow!"
  25. 39. Guinness Book suffix
  26. 42. Pay (up)
  27. 44. Thumb, for one
  28. 45. AARP and others: Abbr.
  29. 47. Subject of semiotics
  30. 51. Gillette products
  31. 54. Apartment, informally
  32. 56. Comment regarding a squashed bug
  33. 58. High-___ image
  34. 61. Cornish of NPR
  35. 64. Consecrated, to Shakespeare
  36. 65. Toaster's need
  37. 66. Like a stereotypical mobster's voice
  38. 67. Alphabet trio
  39. 68. Four seasons in Seville
  40. 69. "Am ___ believe ...?"
  41. 72. Worthy of pondering
  42. 75. River through Yorkshire
  43. 79. Truculent manner
  44. 80. Where Northwestern University is
  45. 82. N.F.L. ball carriers: Abbr.
  46. 84. Barry of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
  47. 86. Stoked, with "up"
  48. 88. Blank, as a tabula
  49. 91. Bygone Chinese money
  50. 93. Not too swift
  51. 96. Old German governments
  52. 97. Unlike most mail nowadays
  53. 99. Gainsay
  54. 100. Kind of arch
  55. 105. 1977 Electric Light Orchestra hit
  56. 106. Those: Sp.
  57. 108. Westernmost island of the Aleutians
  58. 109. Org. with rules on eligibility
  59. 112. Turndowns
  60. 114. Bread source, for short

This puzzle was published on Sunday, Jul 05, 2015 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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