Across
1 Weathered the storm
6 Crocodile’s greeting?
10 Turquoise relative
14 Comment to the audience
19 Fade away
20 Dramatic solo, often
21 Abridges
22 Host at a communion
23 Extra-strength panic button?
25 Lukas of “Witness”
26 Photographer Adams
27 Kevin’s “Footloose” role
28 Spin doctor’s concern
29 “No hitting below the belt” et al.?
31 St. Clare’s town
33 Kingdom
35 “Silent Spring” subj.
36 “I __ mean it”
39 Orbital shape
42 Detrained, say
46 Acronymic candy company
49 Saltine special?
52 Grammar best-seller “Woe __”
53 Filmmaker who alternates top billing with his brother
55 SeaWorld barker
56 Babydoll
58 Hidden retreat
59 Savory gelatin
61 Tap type
63 Schumann songs
65 “Magic Hour” author Susan
69 Destined
70 Mischievous sort
71 Subdivision at the mannequin factory?
74 La Jolla winter hrs.
77 Willies-inducing
79 World’s largest desert
80 More beloved
82 Pots-and-pans noises
85 “Fiddler” meddler
87 Oak trunk
88 Gate fastener
89 Yom Kippur War prime minister
92 Ho-hum
94 “You __ My Sunshine”
95 First critters on a farm?
99 Upholstery jobs
100 Curiosity destination
102 Notable 1968 groom
103 Hombre’s title
105 Time’s 2006 Person of the Year
107 Joint at the corner
109 Turns to swing
113 Legion of ventriloquist dummies?
118 Texas attraction
121 __ kwon do
122 Product suffix suggesting noodles
123 Theater level
124 Sharon’s home?
126 Zellweger of “Chicago”
127 The Auld Sod
128 “Shucks”
129 Flop or lop follower
130 Gets in the game
131 Faction
132 Silk Road locale
133 “NYPD Blue” actor
Down
1 “Lost Horizon” director
2 Bright-toned winds
3 Little men
4 When Nancy bakes?
5 Mockery
6 Jamboree
7 Big snooze
8 ABC or BET, e.g.
9 Versatile veggie
10 Paris was too much for him
11 Serious predicament
12 Its motto is “Industry”
13 Busy ed.’s request
14 Cy Young, e.g.
15 Safe places
16 In that case
17 Transfer document
18 Della’s creator
24 In the center of
29 Columbo portrayer
30 Biographer Leon
32 Wallet item
34 Common Market inits.
37 Some PX patrons
38 Apprehensive
40 Antidrug commercials, e.g., briefly
41 Seven-veil dancer
43 Hard-to-read preliminary print?
44 Golfer Aoki
45 Freeway roller
46 Harper Lee’s first name
47 Online commerce
48 Head judge on “Top Chef”?
50 Ouzo flavorings
51 Big spread
54 “Sex and the City” role
57 Adm.’s milieu
60 Bit of bullring gear
62 Dent site
64 “At the __ Core”: Burroughs novel
66 Reclining chair user’s sigh
67 Supercomputer name
68 Scattered
72 Broadway’s first Oakley
73 “The Luncheon on the Grass” and “Olympia,” e.g.
75 Alabama march city
76 Maple and pine
78 Inclusive abbr.
81 Soak up
82 Chowder tidbit
83 Zhivago’s love
84 Antitoxin sources
86 Put a charge into?
90 “I can’t explain how I did that”
91 Junk mail addressee
93 Chemical variants
96 __ de force
97 Baptism, for one
98 Polymer ending
101 Bondi Beach city
104 32-Down datum
106 Stage prizes
108 Motel posting
110 Asteroids creator
111 “Don’t play,” on a score
112 Origins
113 Bend
114 Hershiser of ESPN
115 Chaplin’s fourth wife
116 French cruise stops
117 Bush fighter
119 Centers of activity
120 “My Way” lyricist
124 ‘50s song syllable
125 Hasty escape
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