By Warren Manners
Across
1 Flatten
5 Hello, in Hilo
10 “Seward’s Folly”
16 “Mona Lisa,” e.g.
19 Big East ‘Cats
20 Left the board
21 Trendy
22 South Vietnam’s first president ___ Dinh Diem
23 Capital on the Dnieper
24 “…dying ____ they sicken”: Shakespeare
25 Crude component
26 Nilotic native
27 Cords and such
29 Noah’s animals, e.g.
30 Fledgling hawk.
31 It has good scents
34 Tennyson heroine
36 Convert into Latin
38 …of a quantum state
39 Home of Alexander the Great
42 Mathematical description…
43 Securities mkt.
44 Public ___
46 Intentionally inoffensive
48 Process of consuming again, as a cell
50 Aardwolf’s kin
51 Br’er Rabbit tale-teller
56 Job forerunner
57 Kind of race
59 Depression fighter
61 Bashed, Biblically
62 …the less you know
64 Canadian chiefs
66 They’re well off-center
68 Quantum principle whereby the more you know…
69 Railroad unit
70 Medieval
72 Daughter of Helios
74 …the many worlds interpretation
78 Brad, for one
80 Mercedes models
81 A proponent of…
86 Photo finish
88 Tore
90 Retirement acct.
92 Persevere
93 Bit of negativity?
94 The last of the Greeks
96 Acquired heirs
98 Record holder
101 ___ Sea
102 Chain letters
103 …instance communication
107 Erotic
109 Quantum phenomenon that allows…
111 Common arctic sea mammal
113 Car company operated by BMW
114 Simple sugar
115 Pindar works
116 Métier in Metz
119 Dessert stipulation
121 [Not my mistake]
122 Commiserated with
123 Pitcher’s bag
124 Bevel
128 Holiday in Hue
129 Punish with a fine
130 Hitting a point of no return
131 Head set
132 Sounding flat
133 You or me
134 R.S.V.P. courtesies
135 Fourth man
Down
1 Needlework?
2 Coup d’etat target
3 Egg-shaped ornament, in French architecture.
4 Language that contains no adjectives
5 Put into effect
6 Stale Italian bread
7 Trying too hard
8 …and classical mechanics
9 Kind of penguin
10 Floored
11 …at a distance
12 Head of household in Highlands
13 Chimerical
14 Tybalt, to Juliet
15 Put away
16 Conditional clause
17 River flowing from Brazil to Argentina
18 Unbuckle
28 Lent observer
30 Chemical ending
31 Oft used description of Messi
32 Authenticate
33 Highly poisonous plants commonly known as water hemlock
35 When Operation Overlord began
37 States as fact
39 “D’yer ___’er” from Houses of the Holy
40 Snake eyes
41 “Bull!”
45 1990’s Fox sitcom
47 Patch up
49 Symbol of electric flux
50 Building site code?
52 Aboriginal food source
53 French possessive
54 Successor to GMT
55 Poker word
58 String jellyfish
60 Tough time for Caesar
63 Votes for
65 Radical ‘60s grp.
67 It’ll keep an eye on you
71 Opera heroine
73 He’s often seen with a crook
74 Cloak-and-dagger org.
75 OT book
76 It may be left of center
77 Duran Duran album
79 2019 events for Pinterest and Slack
82 ___ipsa loquitur
83 City on the Douro
84 Ladies, in Italy
85 Ready for a commitment?
87 Lake Titicaca’s locale
89 Judge
91 Target of some shampoos
95 Apothecary’s measure
97 Exasperate
99 Without repetition
100 On button
101 Spooky action…
103 Halloween staples
104 Kiss “___ Room”
105 Causes to stand
106 Ottawa pols
108 Diadems
110 Some are grand
112 Sleeper cells?
114 Bar tools
117 Cusp between quantum mechanics…
118 Creation location
120 Go for the gold, maybe
122 Nonsense
125 Vote for
126 It’s catchy
127 ACTH relative
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