By Warren Manners
Across
1 High anxiety
6 Exam words
10 Drag one’s feet
15 Drillers’ degs.
19 Roman goddess of death
20 Drawing device
21 Expectant one
22 Waffle maker
23 Wild Asian sheep
24 Do-Right’s org.
25 Corn meal dish
26 Disney’s Kaua’ian girl
27 John Simon Ritchie
29 Froglike
30 ___ and anon
31 Relax
32 New Testament book
33 Plural of 84 down
34 Still the most
36 Affectionate gesture
37 Boy or girl
38 Pea for Plato
39 Robin Williams vehicle
44 “For nothing can seem foul to those that __”: Shakespeare
45 Make a special effort
49 “Maybe later”
50 ___ point
51 Battle of ___ (1st allied victory of WWI)
52 A 747 has two of these
53 Marion Morrison
55 Toxin in spoiled food
57 Type of tide
58 Midwest Indians
59 Symbol of strength
60 Popular cable channel
61 Assayer’s specimen
62 Seagoing initials
63 Kind of band
64 It’s thrown in anger
65 Roman times, to scholars
66 Small armadillo
70 Objector’s beginning
71 Dotted line?
72 All-vowel vow
73 Father of Manat
74 Coppers, for short
77 Clung to
79 Thomas Mapother IV
81 “Why Should ____”: Billy Joel
83 Time of one’s life
84 Lamedh follower
85 Its capital is Luanda
86 Striate
88 Bogie, in “The Maltese Falcon”
89 Like some cakes and bulbs
90 “Heart of ___”: Blondie
91 Criticism, so to speak
92 Not worth a ___
93 Gentle winds
96 Hem’s partner
97 Treaty preceders
98 Latin for “seaweed”
102 Turnpike sign
103 Troubadours’ instruments
105 Richard Starkey
107 Carpenter’s tool
108 Bailiwicks
109 Pot ingredient
110 Australian river
111 Pindaric pieces
112 Moxie
113 Wearer of 115 across
114 La Pulga for Messi
115 Tartan pattern
116 Decisive times
117 Spandau’s last prisoner
118 Carpenter’s tool
Down
1 Keep occupied
2 Water-raising device
3 Quadrille designs
4 Poem part
5 Ankle bones
6 ___ violet
7 “Little Women” author
8 Rich organic soil
9 Some IRAs
10 Went Dutch
11 Goniometric ftn.
12 Privy to
13 “The Wire” actress Pearson
14 Frederick Austerlitz II
15 Moral posers
16 Motivate
17 Brogan bottoms
18 Show contempt
28 Heads of ancient Rome?
33 Lowest val.
35 Rapacious
37 Do-it-yourselfer’s buy
38 Pizarro’s conquest
39 Comice alternative
40 Pillages villages
41 “All for one, one for all” declarer
42 Newton parts
43 “Eternal ___ come down in drops”: Poe
44 End or day preceder
45 Buggy phase
46 Beastie Boys album “___ Communication”
47 Family tree word
48 One way to go: abbr.
50 Hose problem
51 Penalty
54 Stripling
55 Physique
56 ___ tenens (stand-in)
63 Frances Gumm
64 Easy partner
65 Mike on set
66 Toupee alternative
67 “Middlemarch” writer
68 City on the Rhine
69 In the offing
70 Just
71 Press
72 Tabloid fodder
73 River in Italy
74 Twice LII
75 Airline that American bought
76 Greek org.
78 Takes a course
80 Met legend
82 The most virtuous
84 Singular of 33 across
87 Full of confidence
88 Hand tool
89 Evolves beyond forgiveness
91 Hail Marys, e.g.
92 Brazilian port
93 Round numbers?
94 Display in abundance
95 Ticket in Tallinn
96 Movie villain
97 React to a pun
98 Under any circumstances
99 Alluring monster of myth
100 React to a pun
101 Sprout
104 “Trillion” prefix
105 Reckless
106 Walk in the park
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