By Warren Manners
Across
1 Break off
5 Leaf collections?
11 Vestige
15 Squares on the table
19 Atmosphere
20 Torch carrier
21 Kind of dollar
22 Joule or Newton
23 Water birds
24 Like hen’s teeth
25 Like Pegasus
26 Via Veneto locale
27 Eastern potentate
29 Do a stable job
31 A land was named for him
33 _____ demon
35 RJR Nabisco in 1989 and Manchester United in 2005 to name just a couple
36 The auld sod
37 Just noticeably
38 Messi has two
39 It’s not fair
40 Foam alternative
43 M.I.T. bestowal
46 Montaigne work
48 Aim
50 “Cat Ballou” balladeer
51 It “hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,” per Shakespeare
53 Walter Barber, familiarly
55 Cain’s little brother
56 Let fly
57 Beat a path
58 Tummy tamer
61 Barcelona’s Ter Stegen
63 _____ razor
65 “Industry” is its motto
67 MS tool
68 With exorbitance
69 _____ principle
71 Musical group (var.)
76 Dash part
78 Antidotes, say
79 _____ hammer
80 Avoided perishing?
85 Critical effort
87 Egyptian sacred bull
88 Brotherhood
89 Caesar’s worst day
91 Out of spirits
92 Ammonia compound
93 Cobbler’s concern
94 Dr. Phil
96 Be enthusiastic about
99 Alfred Kinsey research topic
100 “A ___ cannot live”: Martin Luther King Jr.
101 Landing
102 Watered down
104 Ford contemporary
106 Permanent result
107 Acctg. principle
108 _____ sword
112 Change structurally
115 Small top
117 Ready partner
118 Fetor
119 That’s a laugh
121 Lapp, Estonian, etc.
123 Mongolian city
124 More than look
125 Taiwan bread
126 Brought back into play
127 Salt container
128 Cost of doing business
129 A schussboomer uses them
130 Nitrates and phosphates
131 Depression fighter: abbr.
Down
1 Iron production
2 Bellini heroine
3 Wing
4 Ghanaian bread
5 HUD family assistance program
6 Hides, astronomically
7 They have principals
8 Indian curr’s
9 _____ razor
10 Room to grow
11 Hands out hands
12 Golden, e.g.
13 A long measure of 17 down
14 _____ knot
15 Racetrack prize
16 A sort measure of 17 down
17 Denomination of 13 and 16 down
18 Collar insert
28 Union foe
30 Pillbox quantities
32 Bread collector
34 Calais lily
36 Octet
38 Medicine-cabinet item
39 Morsels
40 Not bad
41 Word of choice
42 Sign of freshness?
43 What British actuaries study
44 Jack in a nursery rhyme
45 Beldam
47 Metric measure
49 Kobe coin
50 Kind of artist
52 Waste time
54 Takes out
56 107 down synonym
58 Fear and Loathing ___ Vegas
59 Having a sixth sense
60 Feed a fete
62 Cockatoo cousin
64 Get on board
66 Eddie Vedder “___ to the State”
70 Lay waste to
72 Biblical kingdom
73 Antelopes of Africa
74 Packaging material
75 Vintage auto
77 Like a steeplechase course
80 Influence
81 Afghan pass
82 Cold Alpine wind
83 Fate
84 Aachen article
86 Swear words?
90 Ravel contemporary
92 Great enthusiasm
94 _____ law
95 “But, with an angry _____ of your hand”: Shakespeare
97 Having a bigger head?
98 European salamander
101 Iranian pilgrimage city
103 _____ law
105 Boy or Girl follower
106 Looks out for
107 56 down synonym
108 Edible seaweed
109 Sirens
110 Samantha in “Dr. Dolittle”
111 Emmy-winning Lewis
112 Gambrel or mansard, e.g.
113 Periphery
114 Lemming cousin
115 Baht earner
116 Tightly strung
120 Shore bird
122 Places for music or money
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