The Easter-egg portrait of the Virgin Mary, by Oksana Mas, Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, the giant mosaic weighs 2.5 tons and is made out of 15,000 wooden Easter Eggs.
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USE IT OR LOSE IT
Edited by Will Shortz
With or without IT, eight entries constitute the interrelated group of this Easter Sunday crossword.
- BIG APPLE CIRCUITS (23A. Electrical paths in New York City?)
- LOSE ONE’S MOJITO (33A. Spill a Cuban drink?)
- POLITE DANCER (41A. One who says “Beg your pardon” after stepping on your toes?)
- PULPIT FICTION (63A. Preachers’ lies?)
- CENTER OF GRAVY (73A. What a mashed potato serving may have?)
- LEARNER’S PERM (94A. Hairdresser’s first do?)
- CLASH OF THE TANS (102A. Author Amy’s family squabble?)
- SMOKEY AND THE BAND (117A. The Miracles?)
Other — ALI MACGRAW (19A. Steve McQueen’s ex-wife and co-star in “The Getaway”), BOTANIST (86D. Plant manager?), DIES IRAE (16D. Mass part), MOTLEY CRUE (30D. Group with the 6x platinum album “Dr. Feelgood”), RED LABEL (85D. Johnnie Walker variety), SKEETERS (17D. Bitin’ things), SLEEP TIGHT (56D. Bedtime comment), STREET CRED (123A. Homey’s rep).
Mid-size — AS IT IS, AU LAIT, C SHARP (28A. D preceder), EDUARDO, FALAFEL, GAPES AT, GET SORE, GAZEBO, I’M HERE, INURNS, KHAKIS, PEERESS, SCHOLAR, LAUGH-IN, LESHAN, MT FUJI (15D.. Volcano near Aokigahara forest), NONCOM, OBITER dictum, ORACLE, ORBITAL, PARSEC (41D. 3:26 light years), RACCOON, RAN INTO, SALAMI, SIGNETS, SNIPERS.
Five-letter — AKIRA (79D. Director Kurosawa), AMASS and ASSAM, AMUSE, ANITA, ANNAS, ASNER, BIGOT, DAB AT, DEBUG, ELATE, ELECT, ELITE, G STAR (107A. Our sun‘s type), ID TAG, L BARS, LEICA, LINUS (82D. Comics character who said “Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life“), MACAO, MISHA, OASTS, ORATE, OTTO I, RAMBO, RETAG, RODDY, SCARY, SEEST, SWISS, TETES (31A. Deux of these are better than un), TIARA, TIRES, TORIC, ZEBRA.
Short stuff — “It won’t hurt A BIT“, ACRE, ADA and ADO, ALTS, ARC, ARE and ARES, ARI, BCC, BUR, CHOU, CPR, DEA and DEO, DESI, DNA, DRY, EARL, EEK, EGIS, EIS, ERE and ETE, ETC, HAE and HAT, IDIG, IFI, ISO, LAKE (82A. Superior body?), LIEF (87D. Willingly), LYE, MDSE, MOE, NFL, OARS, ODIC, OGLE, OPE, OPTS, OREO, OSIS, PAGE, RAS and SRAS, REAP, RHE, RIAL, SAHL, SHE, SOAP, SOYS, SRO, SSN, STES, TAY, TIDY, TIKI, UMA, VACA (77D. Cow, in Cádiz).
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Fix, as a program; 6. Water skimmers; 10. Nickname for Baryshnikov; 15. Gds.; 21. Vogue’s Wintour and others; 22. Kind of torch; 25. They’re always charged; 26. Flap; 27. Poet’s “before”; 29. Divert; 36. Shelter that’s often octagonal; 39. Housing for the homeless: Abbr.; 40. Pit crew’s supply; 47. Mordant Mort; 49. “Exodus” hero; 50. Father of Deimos and Phobos, in myth; 51. Seedcase that inspired Velcro; 52. Scot’s “own”; 53. Noblewoman; 55. Dorm heads, for short; 56. Mmes., in Iberia; 57. Speak on C-Span, say; 60. Burn cause; 61. Gentleman’s partner; 68. Get up?; 69. Subj. of modern mapping; 71. Bust planner, in brief; 72. Sly sort?; 78. “Sock it to me!” show; 80. Unbar, to the Bard; 81. High-end camera; 83. Abbr. unlikely to start of a sentence; 84. Revolutionary?; 88. Continuing plot in a TV series; 89. “___ Did It” (2007 memoir); 90. Cookie first baked in Manhattan’s Chelsea district; 91. “Confiteor ___ omnipotent” (Latin prayer starter); 92. “Understood, man”; 97. Luggage attachment; 99. Cartoon exclamation; 101. One way to serve café; 111. Baker or Loos; 112. Pizza topping; 113. FICA fig.; 115. Prefix with metric; 121. Ball boy?; 122. Like a bagel; 124. Min. stats; 125. Shakespeare’s “spot”; 126. Tofu sources; 127. Spine-tingling. — DOWN: 1. Blot with gauze, say; 2. Pass over; 3. One who sees everything in black and white?; 4. Actress Thurman; 5. Regards in wonderment; 6. Rubberneck; 7. Art, nowadays; 8. Rocky of song; 9. Tell, e.g.; 10. Asian gambling mecca; 11. Stores after cremation; 12. Long-range shooters; 13. Word after high or top; 14. Source of Indian tea; 16. Mass part; 18. ___ for elephant; 20. Red Cross course, briefly; 24. Line score inits.; 32. Backing: Var.; 33. Bent beams; 34. Some flakes; 35. Suffix with psych-; 37. Whistle-blower, in slang; 38. Facebook co-founder Saverin; 42. Sibyl, for one; 43. Writer Eda; 44. Chinese dynasty during the time of Confucius; 45. Marquess’s subordinate; 46. Sow’s counterpart; 48. Prefix with port; 54. Change the price on; 58. Neaten; 59. Season in le soleil?; 62. First German emperor of Italy; 63. Runner; 64. Mideast nosh; 65. Announcement upon arriving; 66. ___ dictum (incidental remark); 67. Sarge, e.g.; 70. CBS’s “The ___ Today”; 74. Audition (for); 75. 100 Iranian dinars; 76. Israeli seaport; 84. Keatsian, e.g.; 90. Chooses; 93. Start to boil over?; 95. Met by chance; 96. Intaglio seals; 98. If nothing changes; 100. Base wear?; 103. They have hops; 104. Choose; 105. Scotland’s Firth of ___; 106. Rake in; 108. Sash go-with; 109. “Rich Man, Poor Man” Emmy winner; 110. Actor McDowall; 113. Jeanne et Julie, e.g.: Abbr.; 114. Any boat; 116. ___ Lovelace, computer programming pioneer; 118. ___ Szyslak of “The Simpsons”; 119. Dull; 120. E-mail add-on.
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