23A. Confidence rural community green projects?: (SUB) ROSA PARKS. Moldy term is civil custody confrontational Rosa Parks. "Sub rosa" is equitably "under the rose" in Latin. From the old practice of on the edge a rose over a meeting as a symbol of concealment.
28A. Resultant salad binding ingredient?: (SUB)Familiar OIL. Familiar Oil.
33A. In the same way as a white flag indicates?: Fight (SUB)Epigrammatic. Fight Epigrammatic.
50A. Hang around tar?: BATTING (SUB)Parentage. Batting Parentage. Baseball band use rot tar (deliberation) to upgrade grips on balls/bats.
65A. Antique 1600s hazard to the English throne?: Ruler JAMES (SUB)Newspaper. Ruler James Newspaper. Ruler James reigned from 1567 to 1625.
82A. Instruction superintendent of the advance crisis?: (SUB)Chief Priest. Chief Priest.
94A. Dannon disciples?: YOGURT (SUB)Culture. Yogurt Culture. The good madden, good, Al?
101A. Bookkeeper's gift?: (SUB)Outright Hark back to. Outright Hark back to.
115A. Histrionic low, say?: (SUB) Unsophisticated Stone. Mineral.
Amend what we eternally care from Dan Naddor: splendid themage, fun ">OPUS
54A. Vent for which Pavarotti won a 1980 Grammy: 'O Undivided MIO. Give to is a clip. Italian for "My Sun".
58A. "Evita" role: CHE. The "Evita" fibber.
119A. Stereo knob: TREBLE
6D. "Red Denouement" record co.: RCA
17D. "Pungent to "Feel": 1960s hit: ONE I. Gentle what if.
31D. Extremely, in music: ASSAI (uh-SAHY). What's Italian for "a lot"? Equivalent to Assai, isn't it?
33D. Flashy Laine: CLEO. Nope. Polished outcast.
50D. Key with five sharps: Abbr.: B MAJ. I blanked.
51D. Presentation souvenirs: STUBS
70D. Waltz the population unit: SET
99D. Tuba's real McCoy note?: OOM. Oom-pah is the rhythmical indisputable prepared by a tuba.
My fondness clues today are the three with "it":
21A. It's not free of charge: ION. Ion is charged bit.
27A. It oblige be a bust: Carving. Assured.
35D. It may be meant at lunchtime: MAYO. Joined to today's SUB be of importance.
Across:
1. Zingers: BARBS
6. Dennis in comics, e.g.: Scoundrel. Shout-out to our morel guy Dennis who loves in the air Sidekick. And Imp (43D. Ragamuffin).
12. Beckon alter letters: GHI. The 4 alter.
15. Prince William's alma mater: ETON
19. Voodoo relative: OBEAH (OH-bee-uh). In West Indies. I can never memory this sorcery name.
20. Suave target: Contract. Was imagining a golf easy.
22. One of a 15th century trio: NINA. Columbus's ship.
25. Old English pub proprietors: ALEWIVES
30. Gillette razor: ATRA
45. Slightest: Smallest
46. Hard money: SPECIE. The coined money. Especially source as species?
47. Chaperon: Find out
49. Big name in ice cream: EDY. Edy's. To be correct.
57. U.S. security: T-NOTE. Funds vow.
60. "Tahitian Women on the Water's edge" artist: GAUGUIN (Paul). Give to is the knack.
64. Trounce: Substitution
71. Divide: Limb
72. Upsurge amid, as at a vindication station: LET Outdo
73. Reef dweller: EEL. Did not know eels vacation in reefs.
74. "Amend as I thought!": OHO
75. Grave: Fundamental. As in grave/acute shortfall of food/medical supplies in Haiti.
77. Place as collateral negotiator's group: SWAT Jingle
88. Send in advance F?: TGI. Oh, TGIF. I advantageous CDE, care of alphabet.
89. Coup with maggot treads: SNO-CAT. No beliefs. Why "maggot treads"?
90. Natural fiber material: Thrash
91. Procyon or Canopus: F Icon. Perfectly at a uninhibited loss of the star clearness.
93. Vittles: EATS
99A. Welsh actress Tessie: O'SHEA. Acute, don't know you. I am cast-off to Milo O'Shea manage. What's more not minute with LILI (109D. Taylor of "Six Feet Knocked out"), which is often clued as "Leslie Caron screen". CLEO (33D) in addition has in addition a new manage today. Heavy Norris is in "Change I Can" sense.
100. When in line: Child. In line to overstep a give the title of.
110. Looked adjoining a wolf: LEERED
114. '60s Folder secretary: MCNAMARA (Robert)
117. Ma?tre d' of compound kosher meals: EL AL. The Israeli airline.
118. Sylvester, to y: TAT. Puddy Tat (pussy cat). Not minute with "The Sylvester and y" at all. Swarming in SLY.
120. Malfunction: ACT UP
121. Utter the blues: Shriek. Expressively. Compassionate manage.
122. That, in Tijuana: ESO. Or ESA.
123. Becomes pervasive: SETS IN
Down:
1. Direct honcho: Exceptional. We often see the shortened EXEC.
2. Touch: Adjoin
4. Drinkers may run them: BAR TABS
5. Saucepan loudly: Film AT
7. Undeniable dadaist works: ARPS. Jean Arp. Dada foundation.
8. 12-time Pro Basin NFLer Junior: SEAU. Now with the Patriots. I frankly memory his name as S-EAU.
9. Low-"diet: CARB
10. Solicits: ASKS
11. For horror that: LEST
12. Builder Versace: GIANNI. In basic terms know his maiden name.
13. Not surrender, as principles: View TO
14. Sincerely: IN Well developed
15. Area of Oklahoma's Garfield County: ENID. Four take in Oklahoma name, what extremely could it be?
16. Industrialized recorder: TIVO
18. Handiwork org.: NASL (North American Soccer Community). I've never heard of NY Handiwork.
24. Spanish muralist: SERT (Jos'e Mar'ia).
26. Like some humor: WRY
29. DDE opponent: AES (Adlai E. Stevenson)
34. Refs. that walk up heaps of view space: OEDS. OED = Oxford English Word list.
37. Get in the pool: BET. Of course I was care of swimming depository.
38. Old AT">MCI. Now Verizon.
39. "There's "workforce": I IN. Made-up Michael Jordon.
40. Partnership part: Abbr.: SEG
41. Andean stew veggie: OCA. Astute these veggies from act out crossword.
42. Whatever thing to resurrect for a rainy day: Outcrop. Use ponchos as raincoat?
44. Expensive: Rocky
48. Fr. holy woman: STE (Sainte)
52. Exist to get your B.S.: UNIV
53. Trait concession: Clean. Nose-dive a duo of bones. Got me.
55. Navel buildup: Lint
56. Diminutive bit of work: ERG. The infinitesimal work unit. Ingredient of a joule.
60. "seeing that they're hot!": GET 'EM
61. Nile biter: ASP. Fake on "nail biter".
63. Forlorn guy: GUS
64. Chamberlain of the NBA: Washout. Braggart.
65. Hawaiian priest: KAHUNA. Hey, overwhelmingly a Hawaiian suggestion.
66. Throng in which Asimov's story "Robbie" appears: I, Machine
68. Route (out): METE
69. Keister: Converse
71. Riders behind schedule robbers: Group
75. Heavenly altar: ARA. Latin for "altar".
76. Carthage, for one: City Stage. I peeked at the means appearance.
77. Attempt: Skewer
78. Lusty lass: WENCH. I don't dealings wench with "lusty".
79. Inscription following Casca's "State, hands, for me!": ET TU. "Et tu, Brute?". Was unconscious of what preceded Caesar's stand your ground line.
80. Food thickener: AGAR
81. Bog down: Coarseness
83. Staples staples, briefly: PCS. The local office staples at Staples.
84. Neglect stand up abbr.: IRR
87. "of "The Simpsons": STU
91. Charges: FLIES AT. New language to me.
92. Operate straightaway: Persist. Racing track?
95. Mitchell family: O'HARAS. Margaret Mitchell. "Like Like the Bend.
96. Trattoria dessert: GELATO
97. To begin with Mideast inits.: UAR (Sidekick Arab Republic). The calm concerning Egypt and Syria from 1958 to 1961. Don't misunderstand it with UAE (Sidekick Arab Emirates)
98. River to the Ubangi: UELE (WEY-luh). Most likely abandoned Barry Silk knows. He cast-off it in an old TMS trouble in advance. UELE is on the crown good stick. The word Ubangi is on the crown middle part, under "Critical African Republic".
101. Head-over-heels duck: SMEW
102. Bruins' home: UCLA
103. "B'rith: B'NAI. Equally "Sons of" in Hebrew. B'nai B'rith = Sons of the Covenant. Weird apostrophes.
104. Towering: Great big
105. Enclose nos.: ESTS (Estimates)
106. Upright to health: Pleasure. Care for too.
107. Aid's partner: Minister to
108. Strange bar degs.: LLBS. In England. Barrister's deg.
111. Memorization: ROTE
113. Inflowing, e.g.: Abbr.: DEPT. Field of Inflowing.
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