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25. "Fare ___ well" 58 59 60 61 62 26. Loos 27. German grandma 63 64 65 66 67 28. What you do to a row 29. "The Way I ___" 68 69 70 71 72 (Timbaland song) 32. Sweetie 73 74 75 76 33. Terrorist org. that 77 78 79 80 81 disbanded in 2018 34. Dame Judi 82 83 84 85 36. "Sorry, ___" 39. "Miracle Mets" left fielder 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 Jones 94 95 96 97 98 99 41. Unit with a bad motivator 42. Girl Scout treat 100 101 102 43. Proliferating monster 44. A case of the ___ 103 104 105 46. Gem State 48. Timid guy The answer to the metapuzzle is a familiar rhyme. 51. Chinese dialect 54. Good time for hardy tools 90. First initial and last name 14. ___ set (metal toy) 56. Aplenty 58. Derivative of on a late-90s Dodgers 15. Battle that started the First 57. Alters 59. "Holy Diver" band scorecard Punic War 69. Lawyer, for short 60. Icelandic name meaning 91. Cassis sipper 17. Rosh Hashanah or Yom 72. Small intestine parts "eagle" 94. Birdsong Kippur 74. Style of my daughter's 61. Negative conjunction 96. Tech wizard, maybe 19. Oft-mocked orchestra favorite boots, as she will 62. Where Boomers saw some 98. Stew section insist you call them shit, man 100. Writerly whereabouts 21. Also 75. "That no-good ___ ..." 63. Shipshape 101. Butts 22. Agcy. responsible for 78. Financial services firm 64. Footballer Freddy 102. Think again fighting LBJ's "war on 79. Authorial monogram for the 65. Aussie boot 103. ___ Nevada poverty" best-selling book series in 66. It comes out in the sun 104. ___ Estacado 29. "The Late Great Johnny history 67. ___ flottante (French 105. ___ Grande ___" (Simon, 1983) 80. Speech therapist's dessert) 30. Luftwaffe foes recommendation in some 68. Chemical delivery device DOWN 31. Ambient rock pioneer medical charts (abbr.) 70. No. on a business card 1. Order of crustaceans 35. Iceberg salad 81. Loud sleeper 71. Zealous martyr 2. Defunct gossip site 37. Equivocating words 83. ___ Brava 73. "Do not separate - sold as 3. Obstinate 38. Ferris State was its 2018 85. Deep shadow ___" 4. Oregon's Hood and hoops champ 86. Measures of the heart 74. Members of a Korean Jefferson, e.g. 40. Gastronomical capital 87. Much-punned restaurant family, perhaps 5. Time WWI ended known for eponymous cuisine 76. Frying medium 6. Small Hebrew letters bacon and egg salad 88. Desiccated 77. Streisand role 7. Illinois ratified it in May 45. Diversion 91. Kind of a big deal 79. Common patronym 2018 47. Win in ___ (dominate) 92. Jeevesian expression 81. Lefty Monica 8. Wendy Williams Show 48. Wet-blanket 93. City not actually in Folsom 82. Hopkins opponent at the home 49. Go by, as time Prison's jurisdiction Supreme Court 9. Venue named for 50. Unproductive 95. Wander astray 84. Largest white sand beach Australia's greatest tennis 51. Where trekkers set down 97. Governing body for hurling, on Hawai'i player (abbr.) their backpacks camogie, and one type of 86. 89-across, e.g. 10. Direcció from Barcelona to 52. Encourage football (abbr.) 89. Space puffins Tarragona 53. Extra-long woodwind 99. Changing interest 11. What to adjust if you don't similar to an oboe like your refund 55. Neither vegetable nor 12. Wave, en espanol mineral 13. Sneeze provoker