By Warren Manners
Across
1 ___ out (deduce)
5 Pedagogue’s deg.
8 1996 George Michael album
13 Unimagined
19 Rate of motion
20 Acting instructor Hagen
21 “Stormy Weather” singer
22 Supporter of Hillary
23 “Coming of Age” actress Lee
24 Country road feature
25 Arctic bloom
26 Isolating tactics
27 Symptom of gout
29 Dashboard button
30 Dessert, in Derby
31 Cabinet member #1
32 Sides for chilaquiles
33 Martian rover?
34 Pepper
37 “The Hurt Locker” hazard, for short
38 Obliterate from memory
42 JFK customer
45 Man’s man
47 Formula alternative
48 Dam that created Lake Nasser
50 Slurpee’s competitors
51 E-Type or F-Type, informally
52 Lodge
53 Hit lists
55 Oaf
56 Characteristic of an insect’s wing
58 ‘60s protest grp.
59 Cabinet member #2
61 Humorist
62 Vector ____
64 In the ballpark
65 “East of Eden” character
66 Fathers and sons
67 Whistle blower
68 Western Indians
72 Dudley Do-Right’s grp.
74 Paragon of patience
75 Cabinet member #3
77 Summer in April
80 Persevere
82 Ballpark figure
84 Pulled a fast one?
85 Australian river
87 Brown, for one
88 Credible
90 Small shrubby African tree
91 Wept
93 Ethereal quality
95 Asian capital
96 Peopled
97 E. Asian country
98 Corresponded
100 Man of tomorrow
101 Caravan members
103 Cabinet member #4
107 Britain’s first family of 1997-2007
110 University of Maine campus site
111 Sway
113 Branford Marsalis album “___ Abstract”
114 Siamese or Persian
115 Famous first lady
116 It may be on one’s radar
117 It divides to multiply
118 Junipero, whose statue is in Golden Gate Park
119 Dampen flax
120 No longer with us
121 Norwegian arctic explorer
122 Hearts that don’t beat very much?
123 “Gott mit ___”
124 Of another nature
Down
1 Substitute
2 Ayers Rock, alternatively
3 Instrument with sympathetic strings
4 Unexpected outbursts
5 Wind sounds
6 Case in Calais
7 Apple bits
8 “Appointment in Samarra” novelist
9 Things that are pleasing
10 Cabinet member #5
11 Nonet
12 Musical markings
13 1946 Triple Crown winner
14 Cabinet member #6
15 Small, spinning top
16 Importune
17 One who makes a good first impression?
18 Bonny girl
28 Destroy gradually
32 Monetary units of Samoa
35 Louisville slugger
36 Potemkin village, e.g.
38 Garden flower
39 Heavenly bodies
40 Dog-eared
41 Spreads to dry
42 1920s anarchist in a celebrated trial
43 Assyrian god of war
44 Cashless deals
46 Bouvier ___ Flandres (dog breed)
47 Looking sickly
49 Shady retreat
51 Exec’s perk
54 A sacred song in Sicily
56 Burgundy, in Burgundy
57 Like some excuses
60 Made a comeback
61 Kind of designer
63 “___ abed and daylight slumber”: Housman
66 Jamaican address
67 Overhang
69 Sweet Hungarian wine
70 Like Henry VIII
71 Skylark, for one
73 Cabinet member #7
74 Procter & Gamble detergent
76 Dated women?
77 US govt interagency body responsible for developing cybersecurity policies
78 Blow hard
79 “___ coward?”: Hamlet
81 It may get burned at home
82 Way out of reach
83 La Pulga Atomica, e.g.
86 Football blunders
88 Based on the number 20
89 Alternative to “die”
92 Shutterbug
93 Cabinet member #8
94 Sub rosa items
97 Sentence analyzer
99 Stunt man, perhaps
101 Littoral area
102 Flowering plant in the daisy family
104 West Coast shrub
105 Cleans up, in a way
106 Blackhawk home
107 Cattle feed
108 Literally “superior one”
109 Auth. credited on many old poems
111 Fujimori’s land
112 Temperate
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