Crossword

Eponymous Design

Eponymous Design

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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