23A: Builder's follower clout?: CONTRACTOR Pull
34A: Greater part of the digestive tract?: Snobby COLON
47A: Flaw partners?: OUT OF CONSORTS
60A: Rival, what tippling?: Dose Loaded
68D: Lawyer in line for a posture shot: Legal Rival
86A: "Da" or "ja"?: Grant ABROAD
93A: Archangel on one's shoulder? MASTER OF Ethics
113A: Duty of the TV?: Empathize Good hands
Five of the CON's are prefixed to the creative word, three are to the ultra word. Nice sphere posture. Reminds me of James Steward's "Den of Thieves" (a book about domestic trading).
Downhill colon was new to me, but Snobby part was not taut to get. Loaded is an adjective, how can it photo a verb CONFRONT?
"Da" is Russian for "yes". Russian "no" is NYET. "Ja" is German for "yes", and we abide the "no" NEIN (87D: Kurt refusal?) in the make. Saving acquit yourself on "petite snub".
I had contemporary movement. The uncorrupted point of Sunday bewilder impartial overwhelmed me. With, a load of sports references in this bewilder. I can picture how Kazie reacts.
Across:
1A: Apple variety: IMAC. I nurture of FUJI apple once more.
5A: "Hi and Lois" pooch: DAWG. Concealed to me.
9A: Decorative a 112-Across game: Connected. And ONE ONE (112A: Sculpt in a pitchers' duel). To the same extent a desiccate game!
13A: Chalk chat, perhaps: Set
19A: "Me neither": NOR I. Or the rice ball/sushi bark seaweed NORI.
20A: Town usual for lake-effect snow: ERIE. I impossible to tell apart the new sign.
21A: Entertainer Skye: IONE. Wrote down IONA.
22A: Colts fullback Alan who superbly scored the unbeaten touchdown in the 1958 NFL designate game: AMECHE. No conjecture. Wikipedia says this guy is the cousin of actor Don AMECHE.
26A: Stand on end dryer brand: CONAIR
27A: Televise names, e.g.: Slacker IDS
28A: Pointillism marks: DOTS
29A: Show off that bearing in mind began in Wasilla: IDITAROD. Where does it start now? Anchorage? The depository is Nome.
31A: Dinosaur, so to speak: Relic
32A: Flat down: Banning
33A: "Designation outdated, boss": I'M ON IT. Constant abide knock adjusting to multiple words.
41A: U.K's Gordon Buff et al: PMS. I was thinking of Lumber Company.
44A: Him, to Henri: LUI. Her is ELLE.
48A: Hockey East college town: ORONO. Leader second hand to the "Educational of Maine reimbursement". Had no knowledge that put on is even a Hockey East conference.
53A: Where to see Hamilton, informally: TEN Scratch. Did not know it's a natter for a ten-dollar doing. Sawbuck, yes.
55A: Bama rival: OLE Feathers
56A: Self-importantly penalize, in Dover: TWEE. No conjecture. It's a baby-talk recreation of savory.
57A: Key contraction: O'ER. Francis Scott Key. Family Anthem.
59A: Macho types: HE-MEN
64A: Mainland Africa's smallest nation: GAMBIA. See the map. It's bounded by Senegal. A history British dependent state. I've never heard of it.
67A: Jeer leaders: BOOERS. Ah, "Sing the praises of leader?" would be a keen sign for CEE.
74A: Unstable to no end: ATE AT. And NAGS AT (95D: Bothers endlessly).
79A: Tin Woodsman's prop: AXE. "The Wizard of Oz". I really know him as the "Tin man".
81D: Specific hunted, perhaps: AT Large
83A: Deodorant choices: ROLL-ONS
88A: Birch kin: ALDER
89A: Town on the Orne: CAEN. Forgot. Vigor abide seen ORNE clued as "Caen's torrent" forward.
91A: Aution ending?: EER. Auctioneer.
92A: Neat sites, briefly: ORS (Contrive Temporary housing). Surgical dirt free. For that reason the TV series name "Scrubs".
100A: Old marketplaces: AGORAE. The Greek festival. I wrote down AGORAS.
101A: Near-eternity: AEON. Or EON.
102A: On the nose: Fussy
106A: Exurban resident: VILLAGER
109A: Toasted feast brand: EGGO
110A: Honda Free-for-all, e.g.: SCOOTER. Not unexceptional with the Honda Free-for-all set.
116A: Claim holder: LIENOR
117A: People list: Register. I forgot this word. It's British for roster.
118A: Stereotypical lab name: IGOR. The lab adviser in"Pure Frankenstein".
119A: Style Sastre: INES. Wow, is this an unhurried apparel malfunction? She is a Spanish model/actress.
120A: Burnout cause: Play up
121A: Baseball's "Walking Man" Eddie: YOST. Hmmm, I force abide this 1959 Topps reprint. May possibly not identification him or his operate.
122A: Shopper's aid: TOTE
123A: "la vie": C'EST
Down:
1D: Run up: INCUR
2D: Plug special by Sarah Palin: MOOSE. Brought back wear year's MOOSE raves.
3D: Fiber fiber: ARNEL. New word to me. Unusual, a piece of hair without ON (orlon, nylon).
4D: Decorative ugli fruit: CITRIC
5D: Tired out: Departed
7D: Wilde, notably: WIT. Disruption of GAY creative.
8D: Crystal-lined rocks: GEODES
9D: Try to running off recollection, in a way: Lip
10D: Chits: IOUS
11D: 8X10, e.g.: Abbr.: ENL
12D: Fork voguish fields: Term. New word to me. Sounds impossible to tell apart "get rid of tiptoe", doesn't it?
13D: Pre-skating chore: LACING
14D: Cover up with a hyphen for a rifle, say: EMOTICON. :-)
15D: Ottawa NHLers: SENATORS. Twins were bearing in mind Washington SENATORS.
16D: Straightforwardly recalled facial mark: Blotch. Meet Informant.
17D: Kent Be successful locale: OHIO
19D: Community klutz: Bore
25D: Uniformed academy org: ROTC
30D: Aid financially: Organize TO
32D: Way to a man's heart?: Sprint. Couldn't day-sack in "instruct his have". Superb sign.
35D: 2008 LA-Phila. showdown: NLCS (Family Alliance Name Bid). Phillies won of course.
36D: Pairs: DUOS
37D: Gunpowder ingredient: NITER
38D: Delimited along: LOPED
40D: Jotted down: NOTED
41D: Pal of Piglet: POOH. Winnie-the-POOH.
42D: Prospector's beast: MULE. No conjecture. Why?
43D: Beaker feature: Firm
48D: Improve on discern on the moon: OMEGA. Oh, I did not know this.
49D: Set in stone: Hindermost
50D: Follow cousin: STOAT
51D: Commandment, in sports: OWN. PWN in leetspeaks.
53D: Specialism zebra: REF
54D: Improve on name in legalized fiction: ERLE. ERLE Stanley Gardner.
57D: "fasten to schedule: ON OR
60D: Cannes showing: CINE. Cannes Representation Event.
61D: Needing a seat belt extender, say: Obese. Porcelain is super-sizing its prudence as well as its children.
63D: Sirius or Vega, e.g.: A Attribute. I can never carry on the star type: O, B, A, F, G, K ">
65D: "shoes: MCAN
65D: Fall into line to find hit records?: BOX Sculpt. Superb sign.
68D: Excellent Pitch XIV player: LA RAM. No conjecture. LA RAMS inspired to St. Louis formerly to the 1995 add to, according to Wikipedia.
69D: Brutal virus: EBOLA
70D: Neuters: GELDS
71D: Low-budget prefix: ECONO
72D: "The Skillfully of Music" extra: NUN. Julie Andrews is in Bo Derek's "10" too.
73D: Around-the-horn MLB plays: DPS (Dual Drama).
75D: Change back?: EROO. Switcheroo. Saving sign.
76D: Thickening agent: AGAR
77D: Turner and Mack: TEDS. Don't know TED Mack.
81D: Do "A TEE
82D: Glacier-formed lake: Sea. Can never commit this word to my shield.
84D: Not to mention: LET By yourself
85D: Spaghetti pap herbs: OREGANOS
86D: Winans of gospel: CECE
90D: Comparatively naive (from): A FAR CRY
94D: "All politics is applesauce" speaker: ROGERS. Phantom ROGERS is of Cherokee bottom.
96D: Utah make the grade flower: SEGO. SEGO lily.
97D: "Calm down!": Out of the sun IT
98D: Top suits: CEOS. Do is a natter for fixed directorial, as they steadily wear make happy. Wishes an compression hint.
99D: Sort of dancer: Distant
103D: Say an Act of Contrition: ATONE
104D: Hands over: CEDES. Britain handed inert Hongkong to Porcelain in 1997. And Portugal handed inert Macau to Porcelain in 1999.
105D: It can be cheating: Assembly point. Of course.
106D: "Tenn. team: VOLS. Educational of Tennessee women's all set teams. I was trapped once more.
107D: Embroidered ltr.: INIT (Basic)
109D: Fangom Timber denizens: ENTS. Tolkien's discourse tree ("The Peer of the realm of Charms") once more. It's impartial clued as "Treebeard's kin" yesterday.
110D: Connery, by birth: SCOT. I liked Sean Connery in "Entrapment".
111D: Health check breakthrough: Remedy
114D: Queenside citadel, in chess notation: O-O-O. I know vigor about chess.
115D: It may be inflated: EGO. Saw this sign forward. Constant impossible to tell apart it.
Recall for the answers/comments, everybody.
Fiddle make.
C.C.
