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Hog Wild

November 30, 2025

By Natan Last • 125 Clues

Across Clues

1. Post-vacation pile → MAIL

5. Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects, e.g., in brief → IPA

8. Historical Dutch settler → BOER

12. ___ guisado (Caribbean stew) → POLLO

13. Vapid → INANE

15. Campaign manager? → ADREP

17. Puzzle type that was the Oxford Dictionaries' 2005 U.K. "word of the year" → SUDOKU

18. Metallurgist's evaluation → ASSAY

19. Butterflies, so to speak → NERVES

21. Actress Zosia ___ of "Girls" → MAMET

22. "Zip it" → DONTSPEAK

25. Accommodates → SEATS

27. Mountains where St. Bernards were originally bred → ALPS

28. Former Portuguese colony on the Malabar Coast → GOA

29. Chemical essential to cellular metabolism, for short → ATP

30. ___ feed (news reader) → RSS

32. ___ Sea, Kazakh/Uzbek body of water → ARAL

33. Spiral-shelled mollusk → NAUTILUS

35. Org. for Penguins and Ducks → NHL

36. "Enough already" → THATLLDO

38. Make some calls → UMP

39. "W" on a light bulb → WATT

40. Three-way intersection → TEE

41. Coin collector? → SOFA

42. Singer with the 2014 #1 album "1,000 Forms of Fear" → SIA

43. Dealer's manager → PITBOSS

45. In check → ATBAY

47. Nuclear restraint pact → TESTBAN

49. ___ Castorp, protagonist of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" → HANS

50. Summa cum ___ → LAUDE

51. "Hold this" → HERE

52. College voter? → ELECTOR

55. Ancient drinker of the fermented beverage chicha → INCAN

56. Taxes levied during trade wars → TARIFFS

59. Chop house? → DOJO

60. Cancer research agcy. → NIH

62. Locale for drones → SKY

63. Preposition that can be represented by a number → FOR

64. Matador's opponent → TORO

65. Gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, for one → TRANSICON

68. Beat badly → CLOBBERED

70. Energy → VIM

71. Sarge's boss → LOOIE

72. Knighthood, for one → HONOR

73. "When r u getting in?" → ETA

74. Mantou or bao, in Chinese cuisine → BUN

75. "Awwww!" → SOSWEET

79. "Awesome!" → RAD

81. Lethargy → SOPOR

84. Grammy-winning Paramore hit of 2014 → AINTITFUN

86. Actress Thompson of "Sorry to Bother You" → TESSA

90. Bok ___ → CHOY

91. Dearie → HON

92. Co-star of 2025's "Kiss of the Spider Woman," to fans → JLO

93. Break down in tears → SOB

95. Aquiline : eagle :: cygnine : ___ → SWAN

96. Lenape people from whom a New Jersey river gets its name → RARITAN

98. Egypt/Sudan border region → NUBIA

100. Noodling in a jazz tune → VAMPING

102. Annoying → IRKSOME

103. In the majority? → ADULT

104. Core-sculpting belt → ABTONER

105. Utter chaos → MAYHEM

106. 1994 co-Nobelist Shimon → PERES

107. Greasy spoon, e.g. → EATERY

Down Clues

1. Self-effacing → MODEST

2. Oodles → ALOT

3. Strain → ILK

4. Baseballs that are hard-hit but then caught, in lingo → LOUDOUTS

5. Bottlefuls for a summer look, perhaps → INSTANTTANS

6. Skirt responsibility → PASSTHEBUCK

7. Proverbial cure-all → ANAPPLEADAY

8. Basketball attempt that uses the backboard → BANKSHOT

9. Martín Espada's "___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence" → ODE

10. Leaves the straight and narrow → ERRS

11. Expose → REVEAL

12. First Eurodance hit in the U.S. (1989) → PUMPUPTHEJAM

13. Ending with mammal or Mendel → IAN

14. Good quality for an artist → EYE

16. With 87-Down, idiom about wasting one's efforts ... as seen in four columns in this puzzle? → PEARLSBEFORE

17. Italian sub ingredient → SALAMI

20. Diamonds can sometimes be found in them → STADIA

21. "Quit whining, dude!" → MANUP

23. Malt-drying kiln → OAST

24. "O, had I but followed the ___!": "Twelfth Night" → ARTS

26. John who painted "Backyards, Greenwich Village" → SLOAN

28. 2022 sequel to "Knives Out" → GLASSONION

31. Refuge → SAFEHARBOR

34. "You can't make me!" → IWONT

37. Arm of the police department → TASER

44. Essayist Francis → BACON

45. Comedian Wong → ALI

46. Cash on the Ginza → YEN

48. Overdone → TRITE

52. 1999 Ron Howard film about a reality show → EDTV

53. Actress Petty of "A League of Their Own" → LORI

54. Anti-mob law acronym → RICO

56. Animated character, informally → TOON

57. Act the worrywart → FRET

58. ___ fountain → SODA

61. Sauce served with Peking duck → HOISIN

63. Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, in brief → FLOTUS

66. Indistinct speech → SLUR

67. It's a gas → NEON

68. "Yes, ___!" (phrase popularized by the restaurant drama "The Bear") → CHEF

69. Young miscreant → BRAT

74. Like some charm → BOYISH

76. Patron of lost causes → STJUDE

77. Literary runt of the litter → WILBUR

78. "L'___ du Nord" (Minnesota motto) → ETOILE

80. Dictatorial figure → DESPOT

81. Open-weave fabric → SCRIM

82. New York School poet Frank → OHARA

83. "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" speaker → PORKY

84. First-rate → AONE

85. Flare up? → NOVA

87. See 16-Down → SWINE

88. More prudent → SANER

89. About to explode, say → ANGRY

91. Pink character in the "Toy Story" movies → HAMM

94. Farmer Hoggett's entrant in a sheepherding contest → BABE

97. Turf ___ (football injury) → TOE

98. Part of a day care schedule → NAP

99. @ @ @ → ATS

101. Inits. at Grand Central Terminal → MTA