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June 2015 Crossword Answer Key

Across

1. Doesn’t take it seriously

7. Huge noise?

12. Done at the last minute

20. Popular shrub

21. Citizen Kane name

22. Where Hewlett-Packard is headquartered

23. Summer Olympics event

25. One with nine zeros

26. Soon-to-be grads

27. Items in a chest

28. Ready for business

30. SAT for big kids

31. Sole location

32. Tycoon

34. Didn’t quite verbalize

38. College located in Winchester, Va.

43. American people?

44. Nats number

45. Plus

46. Historic Hungarian city

47. Tape from the band

48. San ____ Obispo, Calif.

50. Cuisine with cilantro

54. “This is awful!”

57. Hannibal Lecter’s practice

60. Make your points?

61. Beloved British squad, for short

62. Wasn’t truthful with

63. Start to understand?

66. Spinning part on a certain truck

70. Long stretch

71. Complete

73. Tribe for whom a US state is named

74. Shades

76. Many visitors to the Cayman Islands

79. Show fear of

83. “____ but known . . .”

84. “Love ____”

85. Executive order

86. Pixar title fish

87. Willingness to stand up to bullies

90. The Mod Squad role

91. Coupon phrase

93. Line through Australia and Argentina

98. Estimate

99. Two-time Nobelist

100. Costa ____

101. Engage in mimicry

102. Present

103. Chuck Brown’s music

104. Aachen article

107. Show

112. Lunchtime speaker’s presentation

116. Walkup’s lack

117. Longtime conductor at the Boston Symphony Orchestra

118. Umbrella holder

119. Recyclable containers

120. Corleone killed at a tollbooth

121. Kind of secret getaway, one of which is hidden in each of this puzzle’s seven theme entries

Down

1. Drains

2. Word derived from “Caesar”

3. Wet pair

4. Home to the Heat: abbr.

5. Fez or fedora, sometimes

6. Watering holes

7. “That’s funny” TLAs

8. Heavenly sphere

9. Secretive arm of govt.

10. Cross over to the dark side

11. Taken off a reel

12. C-____

13. Chemist’s place

14. Jabbing giant

15. DC type

16. Tex. city

17. Get off, as a horse

18. Floor, in England

19. Made sharp

24. Kept watch over

29. Field-scanning Manning

31. Sty sounds

32. Injures grievously

33. “Whoops!”

34. Ronaldo rival

35. Where surgeons work: abbr.

36. Find a place for

37. Dot over a lowercase i

38. Disgorge

39. Out of the strike zone, at times

40. Home to the philosopher Zeno

41. “Hold on”

42. Full of oneself

47. Bruce or Laura

48. Bowling-alley parts

49. Coined word?

51. Prepare for the seeker

52. Regarding

53. “It’s my turn”

55. West African capital

56. Sang part of“Old MacDonald”

57. Phoebe of Gremlins

58. Mixture

59. Allowed to be spoken, as grievances

61. One way to the Smithsonian

63. Fit together nicely

64. Empire whose capital was Cuzco

65. Kind of earring

67. Wished you hadn’t

68. Home to an Ivy League college

69. Put a mark over

72. Sacred birds

75. ____ Valley (Germantown high school)

77. “You are!” response

78. Julia Louis-Dreyfus show

79. From the time that

80. Take back, as a car

81. Part of AMA

82. Not sure what to do

85. Poodle’s name, in cartoons

88. Miniseries installments: abbr.

89. Clinton aide Magaziner

90. One of the Medicis

91. Folding fun

92. Cage that holds people in theaters

93. Elvis Presley’s hometown

94. Indicated willingness to obey

95. Clinch

96. Knickknacks

97. Event held in the gym

98. Software king

102. Word on a towel

103. Common hair color

104. Facts and figures

105. Turing of the Turing Test

106. Hit the brakes hard

108. Ms. Longoria

109. Carpet cleaner, for short

110. Ending for señor

111. Kid, sometimes

113. Foul-ball catcher, often

114. Have the title to

115. Up to the point that