Remembering Mothers Day

ACROSS 1Fall bloomers, for short

5Puccini masterpiece

10Dams

15Run-of-the-mill

19Malay roofing material

20Rigel's constellation

21___ of speed

22Armbone

23Incredible type

24Like the Amazons

26Map

27Old school

29___ van der Rohe

30N. Ireland waterway

32Gobbi and Broz

33Foster

34French fear

35___ the stars (aspires high)

38Westchester, N.Y., college

39Frozen north, to Fran,cois

43Angel's delight: init.

44Dissimulated

46Emulate Orpheus

47Thames-side gallery

49Classifies

50Extremely

51``___ you loud and clear''

52Allen of Vermont

54Bishop's bailiwick

55Green essential

57Quaver starter

58Threads a rope

60Knot

62King-toppers

64Nordic negative

65Press the red button

67Shoe shapers

69Brave's pole

71``Cav.'s'' sometime partner

73Nursery supply item

75Offspring

77L'erida lady

80Best for a child

82Hillocks

84Mr. and ___

86Porter

87'88 Olympic site

89Papal name

90Idi's kin

92Caprice

93``Keep ___!'' (chin up!)

95___ whiskers (tops)

97Sault Sainte Marie-to-Rimouski dir.

98Damming

99Lout

100Abed

102Saudi titles

103Empire State coll.

104Distributes at table

105``Treads the shadow of ___'': Coleridge

108Northern waters peril

109Corleone's counter part

113Mine in Martinique

114Pasadena suburb

117Not canned

118Coarse cabbage

119Dunedin's harbor

120Bode

121Steven's predecessor

122Iowa college town

123Forges

124Belonging to Attlee

125Saharan

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1``___ suerte!'' (``Tough!'')

2Useful in Uruguay

3``Thank you, ___''

4Brislings

5Cherries or Beefsteaks

6Some Handel works

7Spots

8Rectification: abbr.

9Blackbird

10Port facility

11Curved

12Ballpark boosts

13Zeta follower

14Actor Tom

15Convent mothers

16Stewpot

17Hang-up

18What a witness is under

25Modify

28Huff

31Combination word concerning food

33Points for Pavlova

34Guard

35Michaelmas Daisy

36Seeing red

37Nursery character

38Goal

39Pennine Alps city

40Royal widow

41``A friend'' for Fifi

42Fisher or Cantor

45Diver Louganis

46His wife became saline

48Roof overhang

50Slippers

53Loch ___

55Urge

56Antique cars

59``___ and ye shall find''

61Seed coverings

63Dele's opposite

66Bowler's target

68``Suddenly, last ___''

70Archaically adequate

71Salamanca steps

72Catkin

74In the process of

76Early ``Red'' explorer

78Prince's m'ere

79Fit to fight

81Preserves pha raohs?

83Working sail

85Marching band instrument

88Caribbean dance

90Bo's'n's hail

91Clambake fare

94___ credit (bank facilities)

95Late Queen Salote's realm

96Normandy town

99Campesino carriers

101Broom fibers

103Suiting fabric

104Artful evasion

105Maori war dance

106Muslim teacher

107``O ___ mio''

108Proboscis

109One of Caesar's conquests

110Bonnet denizen's real home

111At any time

112Descartes

115Give ___ a try!

116Familiar raincoat