Edited by Will Shortz
Adding the sound of “ick” in the form of “IC” to change ten familiar phrases, clued in the vaguest manner possible, constitutes the interrelated group of this laborious Sunday crossword:
- GAELIC WARNING, gale warning (22A. Heads-up in Ireland?)
- CLASSIC ACTION SUIT, class-action suit (29A. Superman’s attire, e.g.?)
- RUSTIC BUCKETS, rust buckets (40A. Farm pails?)
- KING LYRIC, King Lear (64A. “I feel the earth move under my feet,” e.g.?)
- FINE TUNIC, fine-tune (70A. Fancy garb for Caesar?)
- ORIGINAL CYNIC, original sin (83A. Antisthenes, notably?)
- TOPIC OF THE MORNING, top-of-the-morning (98A. Something talked about on “Today”?)GREATLY MYSTIC, greatly missed (111A. Extremely occult?)
- THE ISLE OF MANIC, The Isle of Man (3D. Vacation spot that’s crazily busy?)
- CARPENTER ANTICS, carpenter ants (51D. Prank involving a hammer and nails?)
Other — ALIMENTS, ANGERED, Australia’s Great ARTESIAN Basin, ASSENT TO, HAVARTI, IMPACTS, I WONDER (84D. “Hmmm …”), LAILA ALI, LEAFLIKE, LENA OLIN, MAN-MADE, PHONE TO, PLEASED, PUT TO SEA, REAL ALE, SCANNED, SHELTER, THAT ONE, UTILIZED, VARNISH.
Six-letter — ALIENS, ATRIUM, GIFTED, GO LALA, KNOTTY, NICETY, OOLALA, OPINED, PRINTS, PURITY, RETAIL, SADDER, SHRIEK (21D. “Eek!,” e.g.), STAMPS, TANNIC (41D. Bitter, in a way), T S GARP, USEFUL
Five — ABOMB, ALCAN, BEETS, CEASE, CNOTE, CRESC, ECRUS, ELIOT, FARES, GLASS, GONNA, IBSEN, ILIAC, IMMAD, “I REST my case!”, KINDA, LIONS, LONGI, LYCEE, MEETS, ORATE, OSAKA, PANSY, RATON, Paris’s Musée RODIN, SEVEN, SLAYS, TELEO, UNDID, UNSET, UPFOR, ZIPIT.
Short stuff — AGUA, AIL, ANA, ANTE, AONE, ARP and ARS and ARTS, ATIC, BMT, BRA, CERA, CLUB, COED, CRUZ, DEED, DSO, EEW (6D. “Ick!”), EGAD, EGGY, ELI and ELL, ENG, ERAT, GPA, HUGO, ICON, “I GET that a lot“, INCH and ITCH, ISTS, LEVI, LIEN, LIST and LST, LLC, LURK, MAO, MLS, NEHI, NON, OCHS, OPP, OSLO, OTOE, PEEL, RAM and RAS, SILO, SOO and SOS, SPEE, SUM, TIER, WISC, YET, ZITI.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Word with liberal or visual; 5. Foliose; 13. Hero of a John Irving best seller; 19. Beverage whose logo was once the bottom half of a woman’s legs; 20. Actress who co-starred in “Havana,” 1990; 21. Protect; 24. Danish cheese; 25. “Gerontion” poet; 26. “Yikes!”; 28.. Dorm police, for short; 34. Head of London?; 35. Venezuela’s Chavez; 36. Security interest; 37. Metric liquid meas.; 38. Achievement; 47. City raided in “Godzilla Raids Again”; 49. Cloud producer, informally; 50. ___ Highway (route from Dawson Creek); 54. Willing to do; 56. Fluid; 57. Boxer on season four of “Dancing With the Stars”; 60. Aggregate; 61. Like items at a supermarket checkout; 65. Q.E.D. part; 68. Benjamin; 69. W.W. I German admiral; 72. Characterized by; 74. Suffix with absorb; 75. Exploited; 76. Sugar providers; 77. Flower also known as love-in-idleness; 79. French school; 81. “Button your lip!”; 88. Veronese masterpiece “The Feast in the House of ___”; 91. ___ Canals; 94. Birthplace of the Rep. Party; 95. First tribe met by Lewis and Clark; 97. Hard butter; 105. Surrealist who avoided the draft by writing the day’s date in every space on his induction paperwork; 106. Victuals; 107. Michael of “Juno”; 108. “Who ya ___ call?”; 115. Happy; 115. Set sail; 117. Tick off; 118. Deeper blue?; 119. O.K.; 120. “The War Is Over” writer/singer. — DOWN: 1. Ticked off; 2. Beer served without artificial carbonation; 4. Round storehouse; 5. Cousin of Inc.; 7. Tennis’s Ivanovic; 8. Cabbies’ clients; 9. End of July by the sound?; 10. Pelvis-related; 11. Somewhat informal?; 12. Grade school subj.; 13. Pointer’s words; 14. Start of all Oklahoma ZIP codes; 15. Tumbler; 16. Architectural space; 17. Regular price; 18. Set for a detective, maybe; 23. Yearn (for); 27. Suffix with problem; 30. Watch from the sidelines; 31. Rio makeup; 32. Kind of pad; 33. Certain triple-decker; 39. U.K. decoration: Abbr.; 42. “Ghosts” playwright; 43. What Bryn Mawr College is not; 44. N.Y.C. subway inits.; 45. Skyscraping; 46. Wows; 48. Married couple?; 52. 1986 film shot partly in a decommissioned power plant; 53. Mint on a hotel pillow, e.g.; 54. Good for something; 55. What karats measure; 56. Reversed; 57. Columbia athletes; 58. Bread on the table, maybe; 62. Salsa singer Celia; 63. U.S. visa type issued to visiting diplomats; 64. Labyrinthine; 66. Complete: Prefix; 68. Gradual increase in vol.; 71. Row; 72. Strip; 73. Yes, to no: Abbr.; 76. Woman’s support; 78. Bother; 80. Word derived from the Latin “uncia,” meaning “one-twelfth”; 81. Baked ___; 82. Uncle Sam, for one; 85. Quick; 86. Followers: Suffix; 87. French vote; 89. Nail polish, e.g.; 90. Collisions; 91. Sticky roll?; 92. “C’est si bon!”; 93 Put in one’s two cents’ worth; 96. Like custard; 99. “This has got me fuming!”; 100. Die out; 101. Creamy shades; 102. Dashes may be part of them; 103. Speak to the masses; 104. Betray; 109. Capital near the 60th parallel; 111. No typically between 2.0 and 4.0; 112. Omaha Beach craft, for short; 113. One of these days; 114. Kind of jacket.
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