Address a gray area? Crossword Clue

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Address a gray area? Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
(verb)
1. color with dye

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ADDRESS (verb)
1. put an address on (an envelope)
2. give a speech to
ADDRESS (noun)
1. social skill
2. written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location
GRAY (verb)
1. make grey
2. turn grey
GRAY (noun)
1. English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
2. clothing that is a grey color
GRAY (adjective)
1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
2. used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)

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Across

1. Smack

5. Source of distress for a bull

8. George Eliot's "___ Marner"

13. Actress Barton of "The O.C."

19. Home of Oberlin College

20. Economist who wrote about an "invisible hand"

22. Clear, in a way

23. *Blemish on a vehicle

25. Untroubled

26. Small talks

27. ___ me!

28. Things compared between Wordle solvers

29. Norman Vincent ___, "The Power of Positive Thinking" author

30. Joker

31. Defeated

32. *With 101-Across, extra level of intricacy

35. *Like a weakly hit ground ball

38. Lotion letters

41. Clamorous

42. Youth sports level

43. Understand, so to speak

45. "The Corsican Brothers" author, 1844

47. Airer of annual "A Christmas Story" marathons

49. ___ Plaines, Ill.

51. Manage

52. Americana symbol

54. Decorate at a bakery

57. Grumpy friend

59. Flashes

60. Once, old-style

61. Clinch

62. East Lansing sch

63. 'Now!'

64. Info provider at a crossroads

68. Off, in mob slang

69. Bests in a staring contest, say

71. Not doing much

72. Accept, as an excuse

73. Rapper ___ Spice

74. ___ Nationalgalerie (modern-art museum in Berlin)

75. Diving bird

76. Always, in verse

77. Diamonds, informally

78. Power line?

83. Actor Elgort of "West Side Story"

85. Ride the pine

88. Either of two wisecracking film critics in "Mystery Science Theater 3000"

89. Dirt-y words?

91. Co-star of 1952's "Moulin Rouge," familiarly

95. Big name in travel mugs

96. Summer on the Seine

97. *Holding that's hard to convert to cash

101. See 32-Across

102. Purveyor of lifeguard gear

104. X exchanges, for short

105. ___ metabolism

107. Settled down for the night

109. Seer's sphere

110. Midwestern city where Pete Buttigieg was mayor

114. Uselessly

115. *1984 Sade hit

117. "You pickin' up what I'm puttin' down?"

118. Businessperson bringing in beaucoup bucks

119. It goes with the flow

120. Worked the land

121. Like Sanskrit

122. Digits rarely given out in a bar: Abbr.

123. Exam on which Elle Woods got a 179 in "Legally Blonde"

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Down

1. Bartlett cousin

2. "Not gonna fly"

3. Voice heard by millions worldwide

4. Play down

5. Russian country house

6. Things to strive for

7. Lilac or lavender

8. One of 15 boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics: Abbr.

9. "That's already crossed my desk"

10. John of "Footloose"

11. Record label for Buffalo Springfield

12. "Put a sock in it!"

13. Inspiration for the Camaro and Firebird

14. Xenon, e.g.

15. Rocky Debris

16. *Expectation at the start of a hotel stay

17. [Stop looking at your phone! Go!]

18. Matures

21. Hosts

24. What a par 5 has never been, on the P.G.A. Tour

28. Tre + tre

30. Org. for John Cena and Roman Reigns

31. Operate at a heavy loss

32. Emmy winner born Alphonso D'Abruzzo

33. Arrange, as hair

34. Jettison

36. Special ___

37. Took control

39. Mr. Bigglesworth, to Dr. Evil

40. Winter morning phenomena

44. Thompson of "The Marvels"

46. Trickle

47. Cold comfort

48. Leader of the Pink Ladies in Grease

50. “I was wrong, big deal!”

53. Government investigation

54. Positive votes

55. __ the day

56. Comfort

58. One leaving you in stitches

64. Livestock feed

65. "Your accusation is unfounded!"

66. *Quickly moves past in conversation

67. Tots in Tijuana

70. Villainous look

79. "Cinderella" setting

80. Toe the line

81. Form of memorization

82. Brouhaha

84. 0 to 100, maybe

86. Mao __-tung

87. Courtroom figs.

90. Straightened, as feathers

92. Alternative to iOS

93. Machine waiting to enter the middle of this grid, as suggested by the answers to the starred clues

94. Bad sound to hear while biking

98. Incongruous

99. Volume options on an iPad?

100. Gray-brown shades

101. Cowardly Lion portrayer

103. Song of David

106. Unbending

107. Musical phrase

108. Fit for service

109. Mideast sultanate

110. __ Na Na

111. Guesses of interest in the cellphone lot

112. Brilliant observation?

113. "Phooey!"

115. Eastern honorific

116. Cable choice for film fans

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