Crossword

Black Hole

Black Hole

By Warren Manners

Across
1The eyes have it
7Mentor
13Black ____; a fighter
20Racial group
21Black ____; a buying opportunity
22Hawaii’s largest industry
23Alliance
24Party in London
25Black, in a way
26Hebrew prophet
27Maid or cook
29Sunflower seed
30Pilfer
31Richard ____, President of the Council on Foreign Relations
32Shakespearean role
34Equivocate
35Black _____; a celebration
37McIntosh alternative
39Ginger ___
40Sticky stuff
44Cause of quaking
45An expert with schedules
48North American elk
52Poet’s prerogative
54They may be “best”
56Guides
57It’s a start
59Black _____; an outcast
60Essential oil
61Musical piece?
62Go wild
64Menu offering
65The list Ethan Hunt was after
66Manchester morons
67Zero ___ (near)
68It’s not easy to shoot
69Former British P.M.
71Norwegian fjord
72∛ in JavaScript
73Argentine lizard
74Black ____; a sipping whiskey
76Graphic designer’s tools
80Jury
81U.N. division
83Ruled
84Tongue, anatomically
85Provencal possessive
86Kind of fee
88Spree
89Fed. auditor
90Acute
91Black ____; a cookie
96Put one’s foot down
100“He shall suck the poison of ___” (Job 20:16)
103Synonym with 9 down
105“Only Time Will Tell” band
106Bindle carriers
108Hardly prolix
110Battle site
111Thrown for a loop
113Gambol about
114Panther in a cage?
115River from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario
116____ black; an end
117115 across lies on one
118Black ____; a formula
119Trump, at times
120Stock units
Down
1Latter-day
2And others, in Latin
3“___ the brinded cat hath mewed”: Shakespeare
4Type of value
5Something in Oslo
6Digital comm. method?
7Financially solvent
8Short snorts
9Synonym with 103 across
10They’re often exchanged
11Brown to Child
12Icelandic cash
13@@@
14Operator of weather.gov
15Orchid-like flower
16Astronomer Tycho who coined the term ‘nova’
17Furrowed
18Exercising
19Roast VIP
27Niels Bohr, for one
28Black ____; a song
31Pad opening
33“A Boy Named ___”: Johnny Cash
36Wine-making vessels
38Glass ___
40Soporific
41Some LG appliances
42Name or scan prefix
43Em chasers
45Depreciates
46Aristocracies
47Woodruff plant
48Locks horns
49Grand Prix, for instance
50Controls, of a sort
51Occupational ending
52___ black ___; an icon
53More exact
55Radio-wave abbr.
57Pass off as genuine
58Standard’s partner
61___ Dinh Diem, first elected President of South Vietnam
63Its business is booming
70Cry of triumph
73Universal ideal
75Pianist’s tool
77Polling fig.
78Golf term
79Byron’s daughter Lovelace
80Break ground
82CBS hit starring Marg Helgenberger
84Roams about aimlessly
87Big time
89Annoyer
910.5 x Pi – arcsin
92Zimbabwe capital
93Arthurian princess
94Harder to see, perhaps
95Gourmands
96Eschews
97It’s up for debate
98West Indies sorcery
99“Flash Gordon” setting
101Light pastries
102Row
103Was in pain
104Ally
107Burnt out
109Musical postscript
110Poetry unit
112Berlin article
114“Pygmalion” monogram

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Solvers: Dean Apps, Karl Baker, Lois Cappellano, Todd Dashoff, Bill Feldman, Nick Franceschine, Phil Gollance, Pete Hepokoski, Kenneth Kudrak, George Levine, Will Lynch, Jim Muza, Ray Niswander, John Palmer, Madhumathi Windon and Steve Altschuld, and Wendy Windsor.

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