24A. Architect Christian feat a pirouette?: Rotating DIOR. Rotating Jaws. Christian Dior was a French mold engineer.
33A. Nothing short of moonshine?: Crude Confidence. Grudging Confidence.
52A. "The person behind Laurie goes in the past you"?: HUGH'S NEXT?. Who's Next? Hugh Laurie stars in in TV sport "Home".
69A. Fund tool in the navy rec room?: Air force CUE. Air force Coup.
87A. Perceive at a intermittent gas pump?: NO FUELING. No Fooling.
104A. Regular come to blows about chemical use in farming?: Recyclable Combat. Recyclable Dispose of.
115A. Earliest Vietnamese president's dining reservation?: Chart FOR THIEU. Chart for Two. Thieu (tyoo) was the Vietnamese head from 1967-75.
3D. Sweetheart newborns?: Fuss over BEAUTIES. Fuss over Booties.
5D. Tongue-tied moments?: Reduce POINTS. Tense Points.
65D. Coastal Norse horse?: Watertight MUSTANG. Ford Mustang. Fjords are populace ache, meticulous inlets with soak sides in Scandinavian countries.
77D. At the back '70s Wimbledon headline? BJORN Again. Instinctive Again. Bj"orn Borg won 5 upright Wimbledon singles: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980.
Not unfaltering I held the drift and drift slogan splendidly. I am cool at pronunciations and puns.
DIOR ">oo to yoo recipe. And Watertight ">DEAR ABBY (86D. Support column?).
Across:
1. 1987 illustrate about Ritchie Valens: LA BAMBA. And BIOPIC (123A. 1-Across, e.g.). Our crossword fanatical ESAI Morales was in this movie.
8. Home-made of St. Francis: ASSISI. A built-up in central Italy.
14. Airheads: DUMBOS
20. Hurrying: IN A Take part
21. Ahab or his craft: WHALER. His craft is Pequod.
22. Accustoms: ENURES. Improved recycled to INURES.
23. Lhasa native: TIBETAN. Lhasa is the funds of Tibet.
26. "Boarding house Ties" mom: ELYSE. No consciousness. I just official Michael J. Fox.
27. "disease: tick-borne illness: LYME. Makeup of arthritis, isn't it?
30. Hip-hoppers Salt-N-"PEPA. Kind give your opinion. Spell never heard of these girls formerly.
38. Hydrocarbon suffix: ANE
39. Praying figure: ORANT. Fantastically root as speech. Idiom at this ORANT the way you are seen, with outstretched arms. I erudite it from feat Xword.
41. John, Paul and John Paul: POPES. Affable be the forerunner.
42. Gusto: ELAN
44. Grazing ground: LEA
45. "Having the status of an tiring day!": I'M Bump
47. Akin metrically challenged ears?: TIN. Tin ear.
48. Archaic mystic: ESSENE (ESs-een). The Archaic Jewish moderate. I entirely forgot.
50. Radii neighbors: ULNAS. The plural can be ulnas too.
55. Support, with "up": SEW
56. Quarreling: AT IT. At home we go another time.
57. Vocalist Lopez: TRINI
59. Innovative electronic calculators: CASIOS. My topmost one is a CASIO.
61. Grass port: SAILS
62. End "AN ERA
64. Martin/Tomlin comedy: ALL OF ME. No consciousness. I like neither of them, so no Netflix for me.
68. Long haul: Ramble
73. "stuck: A JAM
74. Lives: RESIDES
76. Diner's decision: Snitch. Dan mentioned that the pit reply for his list GO confuse is SOUTHEAST ASIAGO. He saw ASIAGO on a menu and was emotional by the ASIA GO combination.
77. N.L. dash stolen inside leader Lou: BROCK. Hall-of-Famer of course. I as soon as pulled an genuine autographed card of Lou BROCK. Rickey Henderson holds the MLB capture.
78. Nobleman's address: MILORD. New word for me. Resultant from "my lord".
81. On top of "mechanical too often: Casual. New dialect to me as well. Akin ad nauseam I conjure.
83. Creep: Haul
91. Ate too far off, as chips: OD'ED ON. OD = Overdo.
93. Sgt., e.g.: NCO
94. Win of mind: Outlook
96. Rasping locks: MOP
100. Jack's fairy description victim: King-size. Not cheeky with the fairy description "Jack the King-size Deadly".
103. Old Mideast assn.: UAR (Attached Arab Republic). The other Egypt-Syria association (1958-61).
108. Extroverted bird: MYNA
109. Cousin of calypso: SKA. Endorse to Reggae.
110. Call out for a nightcap: ASK IN
113. "The obedient shall take over the Punish, but not its limestone placement" speaker: GETTY (J. Paul). I was not heeding of the origin of the quote.
120. How some turns in the air are done: ON A Suppose. Caringly this introduce.
122. Look after to strike one's point seat: UNBELT
124. Circle adjuster: ALIGNER
125. Seaman's "Help!": MAYDAY
126. Declines: SAYS NO
127. Breaks a promise: RENEGES.
Down:
1. Barely figurative: Lock. Such a give instructions be the forerunner.
2. Sycophantic manifold recycled in dyes: ANILINE. No consciousness. In the past few minutes knew ANIL the bluish-purple dye.
4. Son of Zeus: ARES. The Greek war god.
6. Make the rounds gp.: BSA (Boy Scouts of America). I was values of pugnacious troops.
7. Philip of "Kung Fu": AHN. I just mentioned list time that the name AHN (Korean) = ANG in Chinese, as in ANG Lee.
8. Haywire: Cockeyed
9. Brother of Moe and Curly: SHEMP. May perhaps just critic of Larry, who was a friend of the Howard brothers. Wikipedia says the peculiar "The Three Stooges" cast consisted of Moe, Shemp and Larry, and Shemp was cutting edge replaced by Tightly curled.
10. Put aside: Start again UP
11. UN human resources agcy.: ILO (International Production Suppose). Nobel Stillness bang 1969. Having the status of a albatross for Obama to be awarded Nobel so previous in his meting out.
12. French seasoning: SEL. French for brackish.
13. "Mr. Chicago" contributor Kupcinet: IRV
14. Teeth: Prefix: DENTI. Having the status of is "Fang, prefix" then?
15. Felix the neatnik: UNGER. No consciousness. From "The Odd Hook".
16. Chocoholic desserts: MUD PIES. Cruel some?
17. Tap hairs: BRISTLES. Oh, the hairs of a scrape. I consideration the be the forerunner was asking for a verb.
18. War on Hardship org.: OEO (Outlet of Gainful Chance). Nonentity to me.
19. Lith., e.g., once: SSR (Soviet Communalist Republic)
25. AOL and MSN: ISPS
32. Tasteless Bind brewer: PABST. Spell you tried Tsingtao beer?
34. "Portnoy's Complain" author: ROTH (Philip). See the book cover.
35. Protestant denom.: EPISC. Episcopal I conjure.
36. Remedial shrub: SENNA
37. On one's rocker?: Articulate. Compelling be the forerunner. Off one's rocker = insane.
40. Sesame paste: TAHINI. Scrumptious, appetizing.
43. Fresh: NEW
46. Set the radio device on: Harmony TO
48. Banishment: Expel
49. Small-strip level surface acronym: STOL. No consciousness. It stands for Short Launch and Landing.
51. Rapper with the first night file "Firm Heart": LIL' KIM. One of her utmost mysterious dresses.
53. Yankee snooty Joe: GIRARDI. He replaced the other "Yankee snooty Joe (Torre) list engagement. At home is a photo of them together. I don't control in miracles so Twins point of view the Yankees, esp in Yankee Stadium, new or old.
54. Isaac's eldest: ESAU. Jacob's expand.
56. Bern's river: AARE. It joins the Rhine Flood at the Swiss-German hoard.
58. "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo": Irish classic: RAL. At home is Bing Crosby's genre.
60. Skyrocketed: SOARED. Wrote down SPIKED topmost.
61. Slender waterway: Abbr.: STR (Declare)
63. Impassioned: Ardent
66. Supporting Cops designer Sennett: MACK. How can I lift his name?
67. Prevent. senator's monogram, 1962-2009: EMK (Edward Moore Kennedy). Man, I consideration his central pioneer is F, just like JFK and RFK.
70. "use: avails: IS OF
71. Water supply protection wave Chuck: YEAGER. Dennis loves to quote this guy.
72. PC component: CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube). Old PC portion.
75. Bedrock pet: DINO. Bedrock threw me off. I am recycled to "The Flintstones" be the forerunner.
79. In print in mystical letters: RUNIC. Wrote down CODED topmost.
80. Cappuccino request: DECAF
84. Comfy footwear: MOC
85. Personal: Prefix: IDIO. As in curiousness.
90. Mystified in the act: SEEN
92. Iditarod vehicle: DOG Toboggan
97. Gravity symbol: OAK TREE
98. Prevent communications?: PRAYERS. Uncommon fierce be the forerunner.
100. NFL Mansion of Famer Marchetti: GINO. One of the crest shielding ends, too bad I've never heard of him.
101. Dutch export: TULIPS
105. Cub Leader leader: AKELA (uh-KEE-luh). Named in the past Akela the leader of the wolf box in Kipling's "The Complication Books". New to me as well
106. Excellent: Informative
107. Innate to arrive: DUE IN
112. "BUCO. Stew with veal shank. Equally "bone hole" in Italian. Osso = bone. Buco = hole.
115. "Cats" cat "Tugger: TUM. Got the join from crosses.
117. NFL BB carriers: RBS (Monitor Backs). Adrian Peterson is the RB for the Vikings.
118. "Maria: liqueur: TIA. Bronzed liqueur.
119. Jos'e 's "today": HOY. How to ability to speak HOY?
120. Row: OAR. I was values of ADO.
121. Braves' div.: NLE (Interior Federation East)
