By Warren Manners

Across
1 “Faith is the best wealth for ___” : Buddha
5 Baby sitter’s bane
9 Having a point
15 Tree stump
19 Adriatic port city
20 Primordial stuff
21 Imitation gold
22 Woman’s hat lining
23 Arabian gulf
24 Polish river
25 Didn’t spare the rod
26 Asian tree
27 Support staff?
28 Worthy of
30 Neutrinos, symbolically
32 HTML partner
33 Part 1 of axiom
36 Letter seal
38 Norse goddess of healing
39 Abrogates
40 Genetic products
41 Placed on a scale
44 Iberian ethnonym
45 Anguine fish
46 Capital ___
47 Part 2
48 J. Seau and B. Urlacher
49 Part 3
53 Campus VIPs
54 FDR program
55 No game, in bridge
56 Sociologist’s deg.
59 Bedouin
60 Kind of dye
61 Country road
62 Fridge foray
64 Unit of pressure
65 Part 4
69 Part 5
71 Emollient
72 Chengdu cheddar
73 Mass producer?
74 Popular cable channel
75 Pull through
76 Haydn’s “___ Symphony”
77 Some NCLEX passers
78 Whack
79 Buzzed
82 Kierkegaard, e.g.
85 Couturier’s concern
86 Word with in or out
87 Fence part
88 Yeanling’s parent
89 Part 6
92 Faculty
93 Tick or mite
96 Order of amphibians
97 ___ lamp
98 San Joaquin Valley town
99 Inflammation due to injury or irritation
104 Larch cousin
105 Bearded antelope
107 Supporting frameworks of steel
108 Support staff?
109 Presently
111 Wound
113 Big union agcy.
114 Former map abbr.
115 Ethnic group in Nigeria
116 Swatch
117 “___ sprach Zarathustra”: Strauss
118 Atoll protector
119 Orchestra member
120 Rapper Elliott et al.
121 Doctorow’s “___ Lake”
122 Proposal figs.
Down
1 Manila hemp
2 Lady of Lourdes
3 Bailiwick
4 Messi’s number at Barca
5 Molecular variation
6 Cyberspace conveyance
7 Kudzu, e.g.
8 Impish ones
9 Pronounced
10 Tabriz residents
11 Ravi Shankar, by birth
12 It might collect dust
13 Fall setting?
14 Knocked off
15 Advanced coll. degree
16 Eastern exercise
17 Day one
18 Pillories
29 Barfly’s habit
31 Raipur raiment
34 Did not seek, say
35 Pres. Truman creation
37 Scientific name for puffball mushroom
41 To the right of C’s
42 Swiss river to the Rhine
43 “… ___ a consummation devoutly to be wish’d”: Hamlet
44 HMO or PPO option, sometimes
47 Key ingredient?
50 Early age
51 E-tailer icon
52 Longest Spanish river
54 Sun follower
55 Jane Eyre, e.g.
56 Fails to pursue
57 A hole in the wall
58 Wife of Thor
60 Where oils are produced
61 River in Manchuria
63 Curveball, in slang
65 Former Saudi king
66 Olive, to Ovid
67 Mahogany relative
68 Kernel
69 Shrivel
70 Native suffix
73 Married, in Machynlleth
78 Perry Como’s “___ Impossible”
79 PC group
80 They, in Thiers
81 Hole starter
83 Park fixture
84 Philosophy of Epicurus
85 In a manner consistent with organizing according to rank
86 Texas panhandle town
87 Esthetician offering
89 Meas. of physical capital
90 Preoccupations
91 “But thy ___ summer shall not fade”: Shak.
92 Wine word
93 Tabloid fodder
94 Wince
95 It needs oxygen
97 City on the Tagus
100 Recto’s opposite
101 Stuns
102 Fitting piece
103 Bondsmen of old
106 Afghan pass
110 Sotheby’s signal
112 Text option
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Due to an editing error, a previous puzzle was republished in the March/April issue. We regret the error.