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EASTER EGG (115A. Hidden DVD feature … which can be found literally, in the answers to the italicized clues) along with nine movie titles, each possessing an additional letter to result in a humorous movie-title pun, constitutes the interrelated group of this clever Sunday crossword.
STAR(E) WARS (23A. *Movie about … an intense blinking contest?)
NE(A)TWORK (28A. * … a housecleaner?)
(S)NOW VOYAGER (30A. * … a sled racer?)
S(T)INGIN’ IN THE RAIN (44A. * … a bee during a downpour?)
BAT(E)MAN FOREVER (56A. * … actor Jason’s fan club?)
D(R)AWN OF THE DEAD (80A. * … Jerry Garcia’s band’s portraits?)
TE(E)N COMMANDMENTS (88A. * … a parent’s edicts?)
RE(G)AL GENIUS (100A. * … a king’s brilliance?)
(G)RAIN MAN (108A. * … a harvester?)
Other — CAROL KANE (15D. Two-time Emmy-winning actress for “Taxi“), CEREBRO (72A. Device Professor X wears over his head in “X-Men”), CHEWBACCA (78D. Solo companion), CUT CORNERS (72D. Wasn‘t exacting), DEATH METAL (13D. Music genre of Possessed and Deicide), LADIES NIGHT (68D. Weekly bar promotion, maybe), LOST WEEKEND (4D. 1945 Best Picture winner, with “The“).
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. One-on-ones; 6. Justice Dept. branch; 9. Gyllenhaal of “Brokeback Mountain”; 13. 1983 film debut of Bill Maher; 18. Documentarian Morris; 19. It’s found in la mer; 20. Cerberus guards its gates, in myth; 21. Wipe out; 22. Lower; 25. It comes from the heart; 26. Steaming beverage; 27. Atoms in some light bulbs; 32. Children’s author Silverstein; 33. “Yikes!”; 34. “You betcha”; 37. Year “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” came out; 38. China’s Chiang ___-shek; 41. Part of a pound; 51. Up; 53. Part of E.M.S.: Abbr.; 54. Wall St. Journal listings; 55. Handles; 59. Least volatile, perhaps; 60. Some patches; 61. Expert despite little training; 63. Brainy person, and proud of it; 64. One might have a ball; 66. Public health agcy.; 67. Senate vote; 68. Verdant; 74. Pop singer Bedingfield; 78. Low-maintenance potted plant; 84. ___ water; 85. Air; 86. It’s west of the International Date Line; 87. High clouds; 92. ___ Zone; 93. “Gag me!”; 94. Certain extraction; 95. One-named R&B singer; 96. Pitches; 98. Stripped; 112. Get hot; 113. Kind of bean; 114. Who wrote “Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins”; 117. City south of Brigham City; 118. Peptic ___; 119. Nonstop; 120. Lucy of “Kill Bill”; 121. Object; 122. Wherewithal; 123. Part of N.B.; 124. Back-to-school mo.; 125. Laurel and Lee. — DOWN: 1. Starts of some games; 2. ___ Outfitters, clothing retailer; 3. Mythological figure often depicted holding a kithara; 5. Album holder; 6. Evaluate; 7. Prefix with fluoride; 8. Recurring Stephen King antagonist Randall ___; 9. Vice parts; 10. ___ Lovelace, computer pioneer; 11. “The Way You Look Tonight” composer; 12. De bene ___ (legal phrase); 14. Hollywood’s Russell; 16. Observatory subj.; 17. Bill; 20. English king who was a son of William the Conqueror; 24. Smelt ___; 29. Noted American writer in Yiddish; 31. Signs off on; 35. Computer used to predict the 1952 presidential election; 36. Chemical dropper; 37. The 57-Down, e.g.; 39. Supports; 40. M.I.T. part: Abbr.; 41. Airplane area; 42. Sentient; 43. Big snapper?; 45. More wound up; 46. World banking org.; 47. Prefix with noir; 48. [I’m not happy about this …]; 49. Like some stockings and baseball games; 50. Gridiron figure; 52. Music related to punk rock; 57. Aconcagua setting; 58. Fund; 59. Just what the doctor ordered?; 62. Vituperate; 65. Darken; 66. Nook; 69. ___ manual; 70. Exactly; 71. Allowed to enter; 73. Pond fish; 75. Sam Spade, e.g., for short; 76. Ile de la ___; 77. Once again; 79. Slew; 81. Subject of the Pentagon Papers, informally; 82. Sugar suffix; 83. Word at the end of many French films; 85. Fr. Title; 89. City SSE of 117-Across; 90. Son-of-a-gun; 91. Yield to weariness; 97. Stations; 99. Poet Conrad; 101. Mess up; 102. Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet; 103. New Mexico State athlete; 104. Helping hand, paradoxically; 105. World powerhouse in cricket; 106. Knoxville sch.; 107. Fake-book material; 108. Down; 109. Part of a play; 110. Many ages; 111. iPod___; 112. Home of Typhon, in myth; 116. ___ for life.
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