By Warren Manners
Editor’s Note: A previous puzzle, “Crossoku,” was published without some important structural information, confusing many puzzlers. A corrected version of this puzzle is available here.
1 Simulated
5 Noxious vapor
11 Tommy, e.g.
16 White poplar
21 Capital of Vanuatu
22 Gimpy one
23 Indy entrant
24 Kind of nose
25 Capital of Samoa
26 River on the Texas/Louisiana border
27 Dweeb
28 It’s a long story
29 Pool or wave
31 Ancient Phoenician city
32 Occur afterwards
33 Kind of poll
34 British secondary school exam
36 Trillion prefix
37 Cleaning, as if for military inspection
38 Coronet
39 Dwelled
41 Dorm VIPs
42 Years, to Yves
43 Univ. figure
45 Stab
46 Sufi ascetic
48 Jet or time follower
49 Make public
50 Grasslands
51 IV measurements
54 Crow relative
55 Extinct flightless bird
56 Suffers in the sun
58 Type of moth
62 Gods of Asgard
64 Ballpark figure?
65 Real ______
69 NATO or OPEC
71 Anjou kin
72 Spanish red wines
74 Plastic ____ Band
75 #2 on the list
77 #8 on the list
79 Senior living facility: Abbr.
80 Soph, Jr, and Sr
81 Venom
83 Harvey and Irma offering
84 Guy
85 Within ___ a hell: Shakespeare
87 #10 on the list
89 Tapered but not sharply pointed
93 Heavy Metal lead character
94 It may be drawn
95 Swiss shoe brand
97 Bar mixer
98 Gold bricks
100 ____ Enterprise
101 Scopes Trial prosecutor
103 Usurper
104 Island in the Bay of Naples
106 Demure
107 Small power sources
109 Binges, briefly
110 Dumbstruck
113 Indian bean
114 Opposite of dis
115 Anthology
119 Thai tongue
120 Bulgarian currency
121 Newswoman Lindstrom
122 Prog. interruption
123 Vexes
127 Soupçon
129 Stat. method used to test differences between means
131 Greek vowels
133 #5 on the list
134 People who are partially of Asian descent
135 Works on the floor
136 Gives a hand
138 Egg containers
139 Navigational aids, abbr.
140 Snafu
141 Luxury carmaker from early 1900’s
143 Pizzazz
144 Peculiar
145 A Bantu language
146 Egyptian god
147 Zamboni milieu
148 Eastern confed.
149 Lake Titicaca’s range
150 Covered ground
151 Tests for srs.
Down
1 Self-image?
2 Bird species native to Trinidad and Tobago
3 Skips a phoneme
4 Also #8 on the list
5 D.C. United org.
6 Point-of-sale technology used with HSA debit cards
7 Boundary
8 Some Pig billboard
9 Holy candelabrum
10 Some bowls
11 #4 on the list
12 Hocking
13 Ecological transplant
14 Same old story?
15 Musical run
16 Grain bristle
17 Nile tilapia
18 Qatar, Kuwait or Dubai
19 #7 on the list
20 Lengthwise
30 News article introduction
35 Irish sea god
40 VHS displacer
44 Cousins in Madrid
47 Actuarial assoc. of assoc’s.
48 City in SE Spain
49 Happy Days setting
50 Trip agent
51 Bird feature
52 La La Land’s, pishy _____
53 Gushing
55 Oral Torah document
56 Scottish child
57 Musical notes
59 Winter coats
60 Univ. out of Quebec
61 Firth of Clyde port
63 Gatherings
64 Weakness
66 Messi’s maiden name
67 There are approximately 64 of these in a USD
68 Happy companion?
70 Wife of Zeus
73 Peter, Paul and Mary manager
76 Owlet moth
78 Fatigued
79 Saguaros
82 Zulu relative
84 Tom, Dick or Harry
85 Roman 1501
86 Poetic dusk
87 Mistake
88 Brothers’ keeper?
90 Egyptian god of war
91 Prepared to drive
92 Mistakes
94 Sports stat.
96 #3 on the list (his company)
99 HHS oversight division
102 Indian flatbread
105 Croatia to a Croat
106 #6 on the list
108 Military address
110 Marshmallow plant
111 #1 on the list
112 Fungal zygote
114 Veer
115 Benign bone tumor
116 Mah-jongg piece
117 Tree sloth
118 Masters of spin?
120 Attenuate
121 Chopin’s nationality
122 Travelling salesman (var.)
124 Orchid species
125 Off the mark
126 Gecko cousins
128 Patty Hearst alias
130 Curtain fabric
132 David’s device
137 Desiccated
142 Way cool!
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