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Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, is the assistant crossword editor for The Los Angeles Times. Katie Hale is a stay-at-home mom in London, England. The idea for this puzzle started with Katie. She had a few minutes to kill while waiting for an online course to start. As she stared at a copy of ‘‘The Great Gatsby,’’ the phrase THROW A FITZGERALD popped into her head. She laughed .?.?. and started adding syllables to other authors’ names. Some of the results appear here. This is Christina’s and Katie’s third Sunday collaboration for The Times. — W.S.

1 Precursor to a circuit breaker

20 Gourmet mushroom with poisonous look-alikes

23 Looks up from reading ‘‘Frankenstein’’?

31 Words exchanged during an ‘‘altar’’-cation

33 Reads ‘‘Catch-22,’’ ‘‘Closing Time’’ and ‘‘Something Happened’’ — and doesn’t stop there?

47 Cheeky remarks .?.?. or something near the cheek

48 Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 best rap album Grammy winner

55 Borrows ‘‘The Color Purple’’ from the library instead of ‘‘The Flowers’’?

62 Word with play or fight

65 First in a line of 13 popes

94 Dawson in the Pro Football Hall of Fame

100 Reads ‘‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’’ so many times its spine splits?

107 Mars bar with shortbread and chocolate

117 Donates some copies of ‘‘King Lear’’ to the Renaissance Festival?

122 Musical with the song ‘‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’’

1 ‘‘Octopuses can use tools,’’ e.g.

3 Words said while shaking one’s head in disgust

4 One might be found next to a neck pillow in an airport shop

8 Person in a head set?

9 Keebler cookie with shortbread and chocolate

11 Biblical analogue of Aron in ‘‘East of Eden’’

12 High-_____ (kind of jeans or apartment building)

13 South Korean ‘‘Princes of Pop’’

15 Debbie of ‘‘Fame’’ and ‘‘Grey’s Anatomy’’

16 Things often next to napkins in place settings

32 Like games marked 1->99

41 1989 film for which Denzel Washington won best supporting actor

46 Follower of ‘‘So’’ or ‘‘lo’’

50 Homes for cattails and bulrushes

54 Blueberry-picking girl of children’s literature

57 ‘‘You’re right about that!’’

58 ‘‘You’re not right about that!’’

75 Ancient home of a mythical lion

93 Med. exams with intradermal injections

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