Function in the role of Crossword Clue

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FUNCTION (noun)
1. the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
2. (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
FUNCTION (verb)
1. perform as expected when applied
2. serve a purpose, role, or function
ROLE (noun)
1. the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
2. what something is used for

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Across

1. Verso's counterpart

6. Alternative to an onion bagel

11. Jai __

15. Where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World

19. Skating gold medalist Oksana

20. Host

21. Quick look

22. Has a tab open, say

23. Hip-hop's "Puba" and "Daddy I.U."?

25. Station near Madison Square Garden, for short

26. Fleet

27. Hung around

28. Remove from the champagne bucket?

30. 'Just kidding!'

31. Feeling rash?

34. Hip-hop artist with the 2019 hit "My Type"

35. Crisis involving cartels

39. Goes "vroom"

41. Royal title

42. Casting a total brat in the school play?

45. Some govt. securities

49. ___-tempered

50. Super cool

51. Get ready to take a shot

53. Ship propeller

54. French for "from"

55. Release

57. Dante's guide in the "Inferno"

60. Singer — Del Rey

61. "The score upon which reality is written," per Henry Miller

62. Apps might be seen on one

63. Sediment, e.g.

65. "The co-star of 'Duck Soup' has to be sore after that!"?

69. Anonymous guy

70. Pauperism, so to speak

71. Author of the 2020 memoir "Cubed"

72. Lots

73. "Because I'm the boss!"

75. Pinged online

76. Condition for which Luvox may be prescribed, in brief

79. "Wonder Woman" star

81. Mountain __

82. Late singer Payne of One Direction

84. Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated

85. Way up or way down

87. "How long have beavers blocked this river?"?

92. "As ___ …"

94. Earthenware pots

95. Was comparable to

96. Apparel feature that a bandeau lacks

102. Monk's title

103. Be crazy about Chicago trains with broken A.C.s?

105. Much in quantity

109. Baseball family name

110. Actor Jared

111. Metric in a competitive family business?

114. Prince, e.g

115. In __ parentis

116. Blow

117. Designer Hilfiger

118. Lays turf on

119. Little twerp

120. Trunk

121. Head of Slytherin House in the Harry Potter books

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Down

1. Subject of the 2018 biopic "On the Basis of Sex," familiarly

2. Noble title

3. "Ci vediamo in giro!"

4. Getting ready to listen

5. Historic district of a city

6. Gnarly problem, so to speak

7. Architect of Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower

8. Certain hallucinatory experience

9. Directed

10. Last word of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”

11. Dad, in Korean

12. Ingredients in some potato soups

13. Son of Aphrodite

14. You don't have to tell me!

15. Time for a pick-me-up, humorously

16. Lie ahead

17. Joe of Home Alone

18. First name in perfumes

24. Label anew

28. Banks from Los Angeles

29. Maidenhair and others

32. Common dog command

33. Chance

35. Hit up on Instagram, informally

36. Overnight party with light shows and "cuddle puddles"

37. Luau strings

38. Rock group with the 1992 hit "Creep"

40. Harum-___ (reckless)

43. Untrue!

44. Notaro of comedy

46. Drag-and-drop disposal icon

47. Start of a counting rhyme

48. Hit with a smack

52. Time in a Shakespeare title

55. Former Israeli P.M. Olmert

56. Platform for Safari and FaceTime

57. Borderline

58. "Need You Tonight" band, 1987

59. Leave alone

61. Arbiters of taste

62. Polite term of address

64. Stamp on an invoice

65. Implied

66. Valerie Harper title role

67. One of three immortal elders in "A Wrinkle in Time"

68. Dickens's ___ Heep

69. Bouts

74. Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun

76. Word with history or hygiene

77. "Shut up!"

78. Threw out of a contest, informally

80. Philosopher's pursuit

82. Exam with an argumentative writing section, in brief

83. "You know, I can't quite remember"

84. "Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!"

86. Goes through screen after screen

88. Sadly

89. Special attention, for short

90. Made nice

91. Wading birds

93. Publicly bash

96. Doldrums

97. Lumberjacks' competition

98. Walk around, maybe

99. Where one might pick up litter

101. Oozes

104. Burgle

106. About

107. West Point inst.

108. Fanfare

111. Like a diamond in a ring

112. Queer identity, in brief

113. 12/31

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