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First Ladies by NYTimes

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  1. 1. 16-ounce container
  2. 6. Material commonly used during cathedral construction
  3. 14. Primitive timer
  4. 19. Pinnacles
  5. 20. Sidney Poitier's 1980 autobiography
  6. 21. Moretz of "Carrie"
  7. 22. Performs, biblically
  8. 23. When soap operas first flourished
  9. 24. They're measured by pluviometers
  10. 25. Geneticist's study
  11. 26. Rage
  12. 28. Sheena who sang "U Got the Look" with Prince
  13. 29. "No worries"
  14. 30. It helps you achieve balance
  15. 33. Highlighter shades
  16. 34. %: Abbr.
  17. 35. Reply to "No offense"
  18. 37. Aid after a computer crash, say
  19. 40. Get
  20. 41. Mark
  21. 44. Mosaic pieces
  22. 46. Question after a photo finish
  23. 47. "How's it hangin'?"
  24. 48. Click "Going" on a Facebook event, e.g.
  25. 49. 2013 best seller by Sheryl Sandberg
  26. 53. Pennsylvania vacation locale, with "the"
  27. 56. Pokey's pal on TV
  28. 57. Spanish she-bear
  29. 60. Running a bit behind
  30. 61. Part of a stock exchange?
  31. 64. Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do?
  32. 68. Heavy weight
  33. 69. "Same with me"
  34. 70. Move hastily
  35. 71. Also-ran in 2000
  36. 72. Gray squirrel, in slang
  37. 74. Send elsewhere for the night, as a roommate, in modern lingo
  38. 75. Easy-to-carry telescope
  39. 79. Cubs' home
  40. 80. Less safe for a plane landing, in a way
  41. 84. Change from black-and-white
  42. 86. Classical musician with a Presidential Medal of Freedom
  43. 87. Pub vessel
  44. 91. Permeates
  45. 92. Behind
  46. 94. Fix, as an election
  47. 95. Cab destination?
  48. 100. Geometric toy whose sides change depending on how it's folded
  49. 101. Drop a bit
  50. 103. Arthurian princess
  51. 105. Poetic preposition
  52. 106. Scrape (out)
  53. 107. Go online
  54. 108. Remove fat from, as a soup
  55. 110. Caramel candies from Hershey
  56. 112. Opposite of standing
  57. 113. Getting ready to swing
  58. 114. Lake catch
  59. 115. White who is the oldest person ever to host "S.N.L."
  60. 116. Participate in deciding
  61. 117. Took care of

Down

  1. 1. Superfluous part of an essay
  2. 2. *One who 64-Acrossed for Supreme Court justices ...
  3. 3. Emphatic refusal
  4. 4. After deductions
  5. 5. Gift shop item
  6. 6. Hurriedly showed oneself out?
  7. 7. "J to ___ L-O!" (Jennifer Lopez album)
  8. 8. *... for astronauts
  9. 9. Like over four billion people
  10. 10. "Victory is yours"
  11. 11. Mexican president Enrique Peña ___
  12. 12. Zac of "Neighbors"
  13. 13. Professors answer to them
  14. 14. Reading material for a Hollywood agent
  15. 15. *... for British prime ministers
  16. 16. Most-wanted invitees
  17. 17. Texting while driving, e.g.
  18. 18. Anchor's place
  19. 27. Enter, as data
  20. 31. Cousin of "OMG!"
  21. 32. Guido who painted "Massacre of the Innocents"
  22. 36. Today
  23. 37. "Hmm, guess so"
  24. 38. Loo, for short
  25. 39. ___ rally
  26. 42. What boats shouldn't do
  27. 43. ___ Gay (W.W. II plane)
  28. 44. Best Foreign Film of 2005 set in South Africa
  29. 45. Kennedy who was the mother of Maria Shriver
  30. 46. Aid for the handy, informally
  31. 49. Letters of "pride"
  32. 50. Alternative to a pound
  33. 51. Emphatic agreement
  34. 52. Org. with a travel ban?
  35. 54. Bills, e.g.
  36. 55. Hit record?
  37. 57. "Yi-i-ikes!"
  38. 58. Pacific
  39. 59. Ending with teen
  40. 61. Certain conservative skirt
  41. 62. Hillary Clinton in 1969 or Bill Clinton in 1970
  42. 63. Monster
  43. 65. Fictional spacecraft created by the Time Lords
  44. 66. Like lettuce
  45. 67. West Coast air hub
  46. 73. Overly
  47. 74. Two-___ (smallish car)
  48. 75. ___-fi
  49. 76. Yapping dog, for short
  50. 77. *... for secretaries of state
  51. 78. "Don't be so dumb!"
  52. 81. Rip off, informally
  53. 82. Clown (around)
  54. 83. [Yawn]
  55. 85. Rule by governing board
  56. 87. Altar constellation
  57. 88. *... for Best Directors
  58. 89. Ranger's station
  59. 90. Che Guevara's real first name
  60. 93. Puts forward, as effort
  61. 95. Factor in area calculation
  62. 96. "___ little silhouetto of a man" (Queen lyric)
  63. 97. Desert NE of the Sinai Peninsula
  64. 98. *... for Nobel laureates
  65. 99. 1941 chart-topper "Maria ___"
  66. 101. Slice for a hearty appetite
  67. 102. Miner's strike
  68. 104. Catches off base
  69. 109. Apologia pro vita ___
  70. 111. 60 minuti

This puzzle was published on Sunday, Feb 05, 2017 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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