Metaphor for a runaway success Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SUCCESS (noun)
1. a person with a record of successes
2. an attainment that is successful
METAPHOR (noun)
1. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

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20. Food additive named one of Time's 50 Worst Inventions

21. Keep cruising, say

22. On which Apple Pay can be used

23. Canio in "Pagliacci," e.g.?

25. Noxious atmosphere

26. Prefix with business

27. “My house, my rules”

28. QB Drew whom Tom Brady ultimately replaced

29. Get tuckered out

32. Indian wedding wear

34. School subj

35. Grab the chips and dip?

37. News hound?

40. Atomic bond, essentially?

45. Many visitors to national parks

46. Nearsighted person

47. Messing up on the big screen

51. Italy's third-largest island (after Sicily and Sardinia)

52. Subterranean adventurer

54. "Aaron Burr, ___" ("Hamilton" show tune)

57. Great number

58. Cute, cutesily

61. Dropbox and Roblox

62. Hailed vehicle

64. Show interruptions

65. Some electrolysis targets?

71. Partner of vigor

72. Letter symbolizing the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius

73. "Downton Abbey" countess

74. Warm winter coats

76. Like some early education, for short

78. W.C. sign

80. City where LeBron James was born

81. Blemish

82. Bit of a character?

84. Conspiring (with)

86. Spice Girl alongside Baby, Ginger, Scary and Posh

88. "Mainsail hoisted, check! Hatches battened, check!"?

94. Shark's singing rival in "West Side Story"?

97. Corral

98. Yankee great Gehrig

99. Something a judge shouldn't have

100. Very rude email, informally

105. Never mind

108. Neglectful

111. Bank (on)

112. Two-___ schooner

113. Frozen treat for Bruins fans?

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118. Storm, say

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120. With a level head

121. Thickets

122. Embarrassing items to have revealed on an airport X-ray

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Down

1. Person from the neighborhood

2. Volunteer's offer

3. Bogeymen

4. Maker of Bikini So Teeny nail polish

5. Breakthrough K-pop group

6. Horror director Aster

7. Most suggestive

8. Like the Eid al-Fitr festival

9. Department store eponym

10. Pale lager, informally

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12. Feeling down

13. ___ Taylor (fashion retailer)

14. Home of the Preakness Stakes

15. Early TV role for Ron Howard

16. Atlantic fish

17. Like Frisbees and some salads

18. Not stereo

19. Hard-boiled Chinese snack

24. Sapporo competitor

28. Bowler's edge

30. Blemish

31. Fixes, as a driveway

32. Cake not to be eaten

33. French for "after"

36. Barry Bonds and Shohei Ohtani, notably, for short

37. Hammer wielder

38. Furthermore

39. Caustic solutions

40. Mother of Helios, in myth

42. Gen Z put-down of an elder

43. Bit of wisdom

44. Orbit

48. Arcane technique

49. Iron-rich variety of fertile soil

50. Exclamations in nurseries

52. Lead-in to tech

53. Primatologist's interest

55. Give the cold shoulder, with "out"

56. Grating voice

59. Common diner order

60. Rodgers and Hammerstein musical setting

63. Photog's undergrad degree

66. Stick on a table

67. Like Volvo and Nokia, by origin

68. Gold, in Guadalajara

69. London granny

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71. No. 2s

75. Vodka in blue bottles

77. New Zealander

79. One studied in the art of invisibility

80. Touch

83. Govt. campaign watchdog

85. Scottish refusals

86. Loretta of “M*A*S*H”

87. Small keg size

89. With zeal

90. Director Kazan

91. Neighbors of premolars

92. Audibly shocked

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94. Pack carriers

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