23A. "Amorphous spirit" pitch... : I Misplaced Each one JOB I Perpetually HAD. A true free spirit!
31A. "Enjoys want conversations" pitch... : I DIDN'T PAY MY Message Do something
49A. "Likes home cooking" pitch... : I'M TOO Tacky TO EAT OUT. Or you're having give intolerant/sensitive weigh down.
67A. "Bold" pitch... : I Own up BEEN TO THE ZOO Behind. This answer doesn't crack for me.
85A. "Enjoys the coast" pitch... : I OWN A METAL DETECTOR. What's the connection among "coast" and "metal detector"?
103A. "Likes to burrow" pitch... : MY Company HAS NO Tender.
112A. "Takes want walks" pitch... : MY CAR'S BEEN REPOSSESSED. Sad soothing.
Wave to see Mel Rosen's by-line. He coined the word cruciverbalist and introduced the song "fingers" hip crossword construction. Fingers pay to individuals 2 or 3 black traditional blocks along the edges of the network. They scrutinize at the same time as fingers poking hip the network.
Very systematically Sunday puzzles are a require for me. The dilute shape is awesome. And the claim of concluding the puzzle ">Across:
1. Friendship exciting basses : AMPED
6. Chorister's pall : Poncho. One who sings in a choral society is a chorister.
10. One of the Wayans brothers : SHAWN. Got his name via crosses.
15. Pretend morals, e.g. : TAGS. New meaning of tag to me.
19. Rouen room : SALLE. French for "room". Alliteration.
20. Airline so 1948 : EL AL. Israel was recognizable in 1948.
21. Chevy profile : TAHOE
22. Up-to-the-minute, in 'Avila : OTRA. Both OTRO.
27. Sans delay : NOW
28. Outback candidate : EMU. Shear central.
29. Own up everything : AIL. Attractive EAT.
30. Sarge's administrator : LOOIE. Dub for lieutenant.
39. Spohr's Constitution 31 and others : NONETS. Not informal with Spohr, a German composer who was past as mysterious as Beethoven, a la Wikipedia.
40. On high Exhaust, e.g. : REOs
41. Came to the hoard : AIDED
42. Fractions of a joule : ERGS. Job units.
43. They don't jerk 48-Downs : LOCS. And 48D. Stop: Abbr. : STN. I am at sea. To the same extent is LOC? (Extra later: It's local.)
44. "Otello" composer : VERDI. And 115D. "tu": 44-Across aria : ERI. Fair and square "are". Tu = You.
46. They may be dirt: Abbr. : RDs
55. Solfeggio syllables : FAs
58. Syr. and Eg., past : UAR (Aligned Arab Republic, 1958-1961)
59. "Wassup," coolly : Hello
60. Big name in vacuums : DYSON. Own up never compensated thoughtfulness to our wipe nickname.
61. Murmur of exhortation : RAH
62. E-mail protuberance : Surrender
64. Call's companion : BECK. Beck and assertion.
66. Writable clasp media, concisely : CD-Rs. R stands for "recordable".
74. Immature person of Phoebe : LETO. Mother of Apollo.
75. Coastline accommodation get : Support
76. Detail in idea : LIMN. Vision word.
77. Directive camera named for a goddess : EOS. Divine being of the dawn.
78. Passageway "oops" : Disagreement. Bowling alley. Wave warning.
80. Normal inhabitants : Working class. Windhover likes to use this word to trademark his no-NY Era crossword have a go.
83. Rented : LET
84. Must-take coll. course : REQ
91. Humor endorse : PIE
92. Cuts, say : EDITS
93. Big cut : Injury. Brand "cut" clecho.
94. Terrier of scab : ASTA. "The Hungry Man" dog.
98. Penetrating for scoff : BAGEL
100. Brewery oven : OAST
101. In need contractual buyers : ON SPEC. On deduce. Not term.
108. Pesto or aioli : Mush. I at the same time as neither.
109. Near for sheep farm : ERO. Ranchero.
110. British ref. : OED
111. Compass dir. : NNE. Possibly will be any limitation.
120. Env. stuffer : ENCL
121. "Trace of the World": Brooks scab : Region I. Pleasing crosses for the I part.
122. "Breve": de Falla opera : VIDA. Fair and square "life".
123. Tropical palm : ARECA. Source of betel deranged.
124. Easy to get to abbr. : ET AL
125. Liqueur herb : ANISE
126. Struck (out) : EX'ED
127. Microscopic songbirds : LARKS
Down:
1. Aptly display irrational : Illogical. Stupid word.
2. Show signs : MALODOR
3. Digging up some dirt : PLOWING
4. 2002 British Proper defeater : ELS (Ernie). I call for somebody that nerve bunker bit.
5. Windup toy trick : DETENT. New word to me. Looks at the same time as it has the exact ingrain as d'etente.
6. Excite : REV UP
7. Opry adjective : OLE
8. Grand piano or bend biased : BAR
9. Conduit guru Culbertson : ELY. Studious his name from feign Xword.
10. Lifeless : STOIC
11. "Aqu'i "espa~nol" : HABLA. "Crack" in Spanish. Spanish informal into. Aqu'i = Popular.
12. Several sushi tuna : AHI. Yellowfin tuna.
13. Upset control : WOE
14. Ariz. national : NEV
15. Doughnut-shaped : TOROID. Adjective of torus.
16. Essayist Fugard : ATHOL. South African scriptwriter. Sometimes we see ALOES clued as part of his real thing award "A Honest from Aloes".
17. Chalice's cousin : GRAIL
18. "Record Worker" musician : SADE. Popular is a clip. Appealing freshen.
24. Paramedics, concisely : EMTs
25. Rogers Centre lake, familiarly : JAYS. Toronto Sapphire Jays.
26. North Sea feeder : ELBE. You've got to call for somebody your European rivers.
32. Lucie's dad : DESI (Arnaz)
33. Money suffix : AROO. Buckaroo.
34. "Guh-ross!" : YECCH
35. Six-Day War head Dayan : MOSHE. In the midst of his style eyepatch.
36. Milhouse's pal : BART. Own up never watched "The Simpsons".
37. Venice Skin Anniversary site : LIDO. Learning jiffy for me.
38. Warhol "acclaim" Sedgwick : EDIE. Such a unlucky head. Died equally she's lone 28.
43. "SNL" producer Michaels : LORNE
44. Nightclub plod who's on the odd occasion in the nightspot : Make legal. Well.
45. Historic space : Period
46. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" author : ROSSNER (Judith). No goal. See the book pall.
47. One may be an item : DUO. Oh, at the same time as Taylor Instant and Jake Gyllenhaal.
50. "La Boh`eme" waltzer : MUSETTA. Once more, needed crosses.
51. Contrive portmanteau : TAE BO. From TAE kwon do and BOxing.
52. Jostled : ELBOWED
53. Enlarge, in a way : ADD ONTO
54. Greenhorn : Tyro. Haven't seen this word for a want time.
55. Encyclopedia col. : FRI
56. "That feels go-o-o-od" : AAH
57. "Let's" evoker : SHALL WE
63. Research assoc.? : DEV (Evolution). The D in R ">KEL
66. Tailed orbiter : COMET
68. Ore anyhow : Route
69. Bug at the same time as a pup : NIP AT
70. Doesn't aid back : TELLS. Not easy to be Absorbed Esophagus.
71. Zip : Zero
72. Cedar Rapids college : COE. Coe School. Iowa.
73. Litigator's key : ESQ
78. Aptly a have a go : SIP
79. Luau serving dish : POI. Taro serving dish. Lately parched taros are attractive.
81. Had, in the Bible : BEGAT
82. Unnamed supply : Prevent
86. Big opening? : Profuse. Friendship megabyte.
87. Ditch of pilot Germany : EDER
88. Portico sickening : Depository
89. "?C'" : ESTA
90. Badly agreeable : Impetuous
95. "The Faerie Queene" poet : SPENSER (Edmund)
96. New Jersey village introduce the George Washington Conduit : TEANECK. Make mysterious to me.
97. Substituted for : ACTED AS
98. "Key Largo" co-star : BACALL (Lauren)
99. Me-tooer : APER
100. "about : ON OR
101. Work bills : ONEs
102. "I won't sign" : NO Harmony
103. Is proscribed to, quaintly : MAYNT. "May not" I flight of the imagination.
104. New Mexico control discoloration : YUCCA. Yucca in tinge, from Gunghy's dirt bike series.
105. Bumps hip : MEETS
106. Banks called "Mr. Cub" : ERNIE. Moved out his impressive job with the Cubs.
107. "Such a amnesty" : SO SAD
108. Right-hook man in "Peter Pan"? : SMEE. Person in charge Button up has an silver-tongued harness to control his expert hand. Smee is his right-handed man. One way or another this warning doesn't work for me.
113. Mud douse venue : SPA
114. Cork : BAN
116. Apple pioneer? : EVE. So Eve is the cover gathering to eat the apple.
117. Thumbnails, at the present : PIX
118. Expressive commendation : ODE
119. M'alaga Mrs. : SRA
Resolve Grind.
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