By Warren Manners
Across
1 Diamond alternative
5 Guttenberg film of 1982
10 Cruise film of 1981
14 Goddess of horses
19 Unparalleled
20 Banal
21 Elephant Man actor John
22 Father of Charlemagne
23 Risk territory
24 It has a “son” within
25 Bouquet
26 Peeved moods
27 Oil revenue
30 “But he saith unto them, It ___; be not afraid”: John 6:20
31 Get used to
32 Crawled, in a way
33 Tennessee Williams’ “Summer and ___”
35 Teflon or nylon
37 “I hope you got ___” Violent Femmes
40 Capital on the Pacific Ocean
42 Make bread
43 Bank deposit
44 City west of Tulsa
46 Bar closing
48 Allen of Def Leppard
50 Bletchley Park target
54 It involves a low interest rate?
56 Succeeding
58 Act like It
60 Some antidepressants, for short
61 All-weather wear
63 Finish line feature
65 Apple product
67 Popular department at MIT
68 Producer of the Jacksons?
70 Evening along the Tiber
72 Meter or graph opening
74 Metric unit of area
75 Maria Sol to Messi
78 Petty officer
81 One who’s one
82 PC monitor type
83 Like loafers
84 In a trice
85 “Stay With Me” Grammy-winner Smith
86 Fridge foray
88 2004 Usher hit whose title is repeated more than seventy-five times in the song
90 Bank woes
92 Hank Aaron’s birthplace
97 Like Wrigley Field until 1988
99 Berth place
101 Musical piece
103 Allonge
104 Type of digital image
106 Tart
108 2009-10 Super Bowl number
110 Japanese sandal
111 Snow in Swansea
113 “Iliad” character
115 Scarborough event
117 Biblical mount
118 Noted American behaviorist
121 Exhibits dizziness
123 Recipe instruction
125 Dadaist Max
126 You may be this to a Canadian
128 Type of piano
133 A pizza slice has two
134 Aviation pioneer Sikorsky
136 Recipe instruction
137 First century Roman emperor
138 Member of the peerage
139 Wooden nickel
140 Character in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”
141 Was profitable
142 Cast replacement
143 Crucible
144 Olive alternative
145 Lily family member
Down
1 “Give it up!”
2 Shed
3 Tesla, for one
4 Sell mates?
5 Contemptuous conduct
6 Joint possession
7 Arrest
8 Organic chemistry topic
9 Handle differently?
10 Yet, to Yeats
11 What Paul McCartney draws
12 Lions and Tigers and Bears
13 Gets into the pole position?
14 Elasticity measures, in economics
15 Avaricious
16 Perfume by YSL
17 Saltpeter in Soho
18 Goose classification
28 Athlete from Temple
29 Stadium sound
34 Kim and Kylie’s mom
36 Low note
37 Ambience
38 Wintour of fashion
39 Big guy’s nickname
41 A way to begin
45 Mom’s date?
47 Keep one’s head above water
49 Castle strongholds
51 93 down synonym
52 93 down antonym
53 Beauty, brawn or brains
55 Neighbor to the west of 76 down
57 Kilmer poem
59 “Ode to a Nightingale” poet
62 Desk site
64 Solecism
66 Night vision
69 Drakes, for example
71 2012 French-language film nominated for five Oscars
73 Hauberk
75 Second-stringer
76 Neighbor to the east of 55 down
77 Heron cousin
79 Rationals + irrationals
80 Take without asking
87 One of two in a plane
89 Droll
91 Certain women’s magazine
93 52 down antonym
94 ___ man
95 Fills a flat?
96 Ages
98 Besmirching
100 Like Galahad
102 Reason someone might do shots
105 Oregon icon
107 Six, seven, eight follower
109 Tempestuous
112 Escape ___
114 Treat with indifference
116 Bolivian river
118 Eastern Europeans
119 South African village
120 Lemur of Madagascar
122 Prison guard
124 Medicine behind the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
127 Eyeball
129 Wife of Shiva
130 Famous last words
131 Setting of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
132 Joint point
135 Army unit made up of Bn’s
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