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Number Clues Answers
1 Word repeated in “Mi ___ es su ___” CASA
5 Skipped town WENT
9 Good name for a botanist? FLORA
14 Certain vacuum tube TRIODE
20 Taiwan-based electronics giant ACER
21 Per item EACH
22 Shred RIP UP
23 Make airtight SEAL UP
24 Caterer’s platter PARTY TRAY
26 Off AMISS
27 Director of “Eat Drink Man Woman,” 1994 ANG LEE
28 Morticia, to Fester, in 1960s TV NIECE
29 Expecting help? LAMAZE
31 Beat generation figure? HEART RATE
33 Tidy NEAT
35 ___ Muhammad, mentor to Malcolm X ELIJAH
37 “Mm-hmm” I SEE
38 Reagan-era scandal IRANGATE
42 Old Germanic tribe TEUTONS
44 Passes out DEALS
48 Oral examination? TASTE TEST
50 Initiations have them RITUALS
52 Dish made from a fermented root POI
53 Grace’s surname on “Will & Grace” ADLER
54 Neutron’s home ATOM
56 Jazz singer who acted in the “Roots” miniseries CARMEN MCRAE
59 Whopper maker LIAR
60 Hematite, e.g. IRON ORE
62 Like 100% inflation SOARING
63 ___ Kippur YOM
64 Sorbet-like dessert originally from Sicily GRANITA
65 ___ port USB
68 Wrist watch? PULSE
69 Like this puzzle’s circled letters vis-à-vis their Across answers LOST IN THE SHUFFLE
73 Brewer’s need YEAST
76 Long ___ AGO
77 “Nuh-uh!” NOT TRUE!
78 “Horrible!” BAH!
81 Reaches ATTAINS
84 Nearest country to Cape Verde SENEGAL
85 Grammy winner Erykah ___ BADU
86 Talkative sort CHATTY CATHY
90 Competitor of Rugby ETON
91 “Li’l” fellow ABNER
92 “I’m with ___” HER
93 Hell, informally SAM HILL
95 It might take only seven digits LOCAL CALL
97 Sampled TRIED
100 Be rumple-free LIE FLAT
102 Leaves for baggage claim, say DEPLANES
103 Star followers MAGI
105 Vitamin B3 NIACIN
107 Prefix with normal PARA-
108 Cause of a tossed joystick, maybe GAMER RAGE
112 Block from getting close to the basket BOX OUT
115 Gridiron gains YARDS
118 Comic ___ Nancherla APARNA
119 Stage in getting a Ph.D. ORALS
121 Some rustproof rails BRASS BARS
123 Chasms GORGES
124 Newsroom fixture TV SET
125 Frozen breakfast brand EGGO
126 “Let’s do it!” I’M IN!
127 Risks a ticket SPEEDS
128 “Siddhartha” novelist HESSE
129 In case LEST
130 Washington team, familiarly CAPS

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Number Clues Answers
1 ___ Crunch CAP’N
2 Smoothie flavor ACAI
3 Tennis star’s feat SERENA SLAM
4 Place for exhibitions ART CENTER
5 Word with noodle or nurse WET …
6 Viscount’s superior EARL
7 Big scholarship awarder, for short NCAA
8 Mint family herb THYME
9 “Down goes ___!” (1973 sports line) FRAZIER
10 Mojito ingredient LIME JUICE
11 Nail polish brand OPI
12 When jams are produced RUSH HOUR
13 Place for an altar APSE
14 Long line in Russia TSARS
15 Let RENTED
16 “Amen to that” I AGREE
17 Earthen pot OLLA
18 What it takes two to do DUET
19 One-on-one Olympics event EPEE
25 Chuck in the air YEAGER
30 Not mainstream, briefly ALT
32 Separations at weddings? AISLES
34 Body work, in brief TAT
36 Lead-in to boy or girl ATTA
38 Birthplace of the Renaissance ITALY
39 RCA component RADIO
40 Put claw marks in TEAR AT
41 Sharer of Russia’s western border ESTONIA
43 Setting for many G.I. stories NAM
45 Much of Aries’ span APRIL
46 Postgraduation stressors, for some LOANS
47 Lengthy attack SIEGE
49 Refining, as muscles TONING
51 Lead-in to cone SNO-
55 “You only live once,” for one MOTTO
57 Baked beans flavor MAPLE
58 Mötley ___ CRUE
60 Schedule-keeping org. IRS
61 Team scream RAH!
64 “10-4” GOT IT
65 Longest American north-south rte. US-ONE
66 “Fiddler on the Roof” setting SHTETL
67 In spades BUT GOOD
69 Future attorney’s hurdle, for short LSAT
70 Memphis-to-Nashville dir. ENE
71 2018 World Cup champs FRANCE
72 Prayer ending? -FUL
73 Workplace for a cabin boy YACHT
74 Antiquated anesthetic ETHER
75 Pong creator ATARI
78 All-female group with the 1986 #1 hit “Venus” BANANARAMA
79 One-named singer whose last name is Adkins ADELE
80 Pitches HURLS
82 Albany is its capital: Abbr. NYS
83 Gorsuch’s predecessor on the bench SCALIA
84 Two of diamonds? SYLLABLES
85 Trusted news source in the Mideast BBC ARABIC
87 Friend of Descartes … or, in English, question pondered by Descartes? AMIor AM I?
88 “What chutzpah!” THE NERVE!
89 Early record holder HI-FI
91 Puts to rest ALLAYS
94 Pricey-sounding apparel brand? LACOSTE
96 Tinder, e.g. APP
98 Surface EMERGE
99 “Well, I’ll be” follower DARNED
101 B’way buys TIX
104 It covers a lot of ground GRASS
106 Recognition for a scientist NOBEL
108 Comic’s offerings GAGS
109 Per item A POP
110 Stud finder? MARE
111 One wearing black eyeliner and ripped jeans, say GOTH
113 Desire URGE
114 Makes out? TAGS
116 Cause of some insomnia DRIP
117 Application figs. SSNS
120 Dummkopf ASS
122 Boozehound SOT