By Warren Manners
Across
1 Bread box
5 Toxic gas
10 A great deal
14 Squarely
19 Minor leader
20 “Angelique” composer Jacques
21 Dark quaff
22 Some are super
23 Pen pals?
24 ____ Glashütte, luxury watch brand
25 Transmission closer
26 Key material
27 End piece?
28 Egyptian sun god
29 Harnesses
31
35 Hometown of Garry Kasparov
36 Clay used for pottery
37 Raipur raiment
38 Imperious
43 “… ___ a consummation devoutly to be wish’d”: Hamlet
45 In ecstasy
46 Code carrier
47 Painkiller acronym
48 Dugongs
52 Cross word
54 Mausoleum item
56 Synonym with 59 across
57 “Ride the ____”: Metallica
59 Synonym with 56 across
61 Sugar substitute
63 17th-century Tokyo
64 Plea of 68 across
66 Kylie Minogue’s “Let’s Get ___”
68 Requester of 64 across
72 Former Hungarian coin
75 Douceurs
77 It may be prix fixe
79 Show mercy
80 What Barca offered Messi at age 13
82 Heart of the matter
84 Gin flavoring fruit
86 Ullmann of films
87 Subsist
89 Barrons barons
91 Spy’s aid
94 Sacked out
97 South of Spain
99 Boomers
101 Word with “lobe” or “assault”
102 Attends
104 Versailles ruler
106 Loot
108 “There is no ___ except stupidity”: Wilde
109 12/31 recitation
111 Chartered
113 Famed Franciscan missionary Junipero
117 Cloverleaf segment
118
121 Shopper’s delight
125 “To hold ___ is to be at war”: Voltaire
126 They come in fits
127 Potable art medium
128 “Alpha” band
129 Stand for
130 Platte River tribe
131 Elated
132 Head turner?
133 Episode of overindulgence
134 13 popes
135 Where Venus was found
136 ___ spell (took a load off)
137 Red state?
138 N.Y. summer times
Down
1 Port on Commencement Bay
2 Line on a map
3 Inner layer
4 Done in desperation
5 Of a cavity
6 Mushroom producers
7 Marine hangers-on
8 Vein cloggers
9 Eves
10 Achieve a goal
11 Highly sought-after
12 Southern city of France
13 It gets stuck in bars
14 Crash, in a way
15
16 River whose name means “river”
17 List
18 A minor et. al.
30 Kind of race
32 “Middlemarch” author
33 Decalogue’s last
34 Go forth
39 Animal that sounds young
40 Fields Medal winner Terence ___
41 Grafton’s “___ for Innocent”
42 Jewel box contents
44 Have a stroke?
48 Pursued one’s dreams
49 Bearing down
50 Feature of Greek plays
51 Insolent sort
53 It’s a ball
55 Thomas Anderson’s alter ego
58 “Losing ___” Avril Lavigne
60 Golfers’ concerns
62 Father-and-son Unsers
65 “Iliad” or “Aeneid”
67 “Iliad” or “Aeneid”
69 Man’s man
70 “Fear of Flying” author Jong
71 Wassail
73
74 Geneva accord?
76 Proof word
78 Be unproductive
81 Sports bar staples
83 Island home of 119 down
85 Acts humanly
88 Anglo-Saxons, e.g.
90 Part of a flight
92 Savoir-faire
93 It’s underfoot
94 Blue Devils’ org.
95 Spectral cry
96 Red meat source
98 Brawl
100 Prometheus composer
103 Gold coins of ancient Greece
105 Deliver
107 Hanging on to
110 ADA member
112 Oysterman’s apparatus
114 Had a public outburst
115 Recover from a crash
116 Grade
119 City in 83 down
120 Express contempt
121 Grab hold of
122 Hindu title
123 Citation abbreviation
124 Befuddled
129 Bedouin robe
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