By Warren Manners
Across
1 ____ Supercluster; 100m light years across
6 Napoleon kin
12 Load the hold
16 Sm. change
19 Biting
20 A lark to Lucretius
21 Italian bread
22 Untested
23 Water vessels of India
24 Cat, perhaps
25 Copier
26 ___ pro nobis
27 A maternal relation
28 Simple sugar
29 100k light years across
31 Life partner?
32 Diamond datum
33 Sacred bird, in Ancient Egypt
35 Caught, in a way
36 Bad marks?
37 Trivial amount of money
38 “The menacing shadow of the finger of scorn pointing at her from every ____ of heaven had disappeared”: Locke
39 Device used by writers
42 Endorses
45 Shoe ____
47 Jejune
48 Citizens United, e.g.
51 Article in Aachen
52 GPS calculation
54 Saudi neighbor
56 Meet starter
57 “God is not ___…” (Numbers)
59 Kobe cummerbund
61 Stone of “South Park”
63 50 Cent piece
65 Lose one’s grip
67 Big Ten sch.
69 Golf term
71 List of candidates
76 Bikini, for one
77 Haberdashery
79 Oklahoma Indians
81 Battery, e.g.
82 Manager’s list
84 What Leo Messi might leave you
86 Latin pronoun
87 K
88 Whit
90 Quaint plaint
92 Zugspitze or Marmolada
94 Pays back
95 Stitch together
99 Present time?
101 Many an animated meme
103 “The ___ of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”: M.L.K.
105 Turn red
106 Apostles’ or Nicene
108 Farm team
110 Bullies
113 Effigies
115 M&A agreements designed to maintain business continuity
117 Decor addition
118 Old Lithuanian bread
122 Sinistral
123 Type of mutual fund
124 “I would fain die a ___ death”: Shakespeare
125 Case-harden
126 94b light years across
129 Bath accessories
131 Mideast port
132 Slangy “profession”
133 Indian tree
134 Hold one’s ground
135 Befuddled
136 67.5 deg.
137 CPA auditing rules
138 Highland legend
139 Support structure
140 “Do” followers
141 Ballpark figs.
142 Cracker inventor Sylvester
143 1.6 × 10–9 light years across
Down
1 Manservants
2 Widely recognized
3 Jerusalem thorn
4 Kitchen implements
5 Haunted
6 1.6 × 10–5 light years across
7 Medieval brass
8 Line on a map
9 Type of insurance
10 Deciduous Asian tree
11 Welsh ___ (cheese dish)
12 Tailor
13 Amazon Indian
14 Challenging words
15 Females bees
16 Used to cut round holes
17 “Gone With the Wind” home
18 Convince
30 Nobelist poet
34 Pique
40 That lady of Lisbon
41 D.C. bigwig
43 Big cheese
44 Degree in theology
46 Hearing aid?
48 Like John Paul II
49 Classic violin
50 Church belief
53 Like baseball’s Sacramento Rivercats
55 Chewable stimulant of Arabia
58 Longest river in the world
60 Hip bones
62 Brace
64 Roll’s partner
66 Diamond alternative
68 Bar jargon
70 “Skill in action,” per the Bhagavad Gita
72 Mountain climber’s challenge
73 Pilfered, in slang
74 Meaningless
75 Coquette
78 Fifth of eight
80 1.5 light years across
83 Hold fast
85 ___ rule
89 Langston Hughes poem “I, ___”
91 As written
93 DPRK neighbor
95 Year in the reign of St. Gregory I
96 Pitcher’s pride
97 Catches on
98 Mideast desert
100 They’re polar
102 Salmon, trout, cod, etc.
104 Like cardinals
107 Alibi, often
109 Securing with brads
111 Superpower in “1984”
112 The Manchurian Candidate lead
114 Accent
116 He who is without sin?
119 Oriental moth
120 Check
121 Small North American shrub
126 Driving force?
127 Front ___
128 Resting place
130 Mount in Greece
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