There Can Be No Doubt Now

By Warren Manners

Across		Down
1	Kipling’s Akela, for one	1	Schubert piece
5	“Brave New World” ingestions	2	Puccini piece
10	Ice cream flavor	3	Put some spice into
15	They are commonly underfoot	4	Barely noticeable
19	Samoa’s capital	5	Eth. neighbor
20	Bedazzling museum works	6	Crude acronym
21	Of concern to otologists	7	Shrub bearing kumquats
22	First-floor flat	8	Units of angular meas.
23	Forebear of one of Israel’s 12 Tribes	9	Use of an astringent
24	Court plea	10	Cattlemen of Kenya
25	Filibuster	11	Weathers
26	Purlieu	12	Interloper
27	Poll measurement	13	Good sign
29	Where Virgo meets Libra, e.g.	14	Cheer competition
30	It precedes an extra point	15	Parks and Ponselle
31	“Et cetera,” e.g.	16	Fuse
32	Pepcid AC rival	17	Cabbie’s command
34	One who’s expected to deliver?	18	Lavender or lilac
36	Not in the picture	28	Alternative to 83 down
37	Under-the-table	31	Gym nos.
39	Hawks	33	Picked up
41	Individuals named in a decedent’s will	35	British essayist Sir Richard
45	Needle point?	36	Kind of wave
46	Catch unawares	38	It’s see-through
47	They’re unarmed, but dangerous	40	What’s in vogue
51	Caspian natives	41	By ___ of (via)
53	Wall St. measure	42	“Antony and Cleopatra” character
55	Italy, figuratively	43	Indicator of 45 across
57	“I Am the Walrus” lyrics	44	MIT or RPI
58	State: Abbr.	47	Rosey Jetson, e.g.
59	Othello’s downfall	48	Whiskey order
60	Plague of Africa	49	Make believe
61	Mineral involved in much litigation	50	A real eye sore
64	Data structure in computer science	52	Like Rodin’s thinker
65	Keep from acting	54	“The ___ a bucket of ashes”: Sandburg
67	Inclination	56	Tree with “helicopter” seeds
69	Precipitous	58	Like an American in Paris
74	International crime	59	Mr. Pulitzer
76	Part of a complex molecule	62	Nov. runner
82	Made young?	63	Pole preceder
84	Baseball Hall of Famers Simmons and Kaline	66	Fountain nymph of Roman myth
85	South African legume commonly referred to as fountainbush	68	Emulating Helen and Paris
87	Frankenstein, to his monster	69	Org. compounds used as refrigerants
88	State: Abbr.	70	Rhine feeder
89	In despair	71	Brain part
90	Highway sight	72	Baht earner
91	City in central China	73	Then again
93	Bar staple	75	They may be adjusted
96	Large shore birds	77	Cork’s at the bottom of it
97	Compacts	78	More than irk
98	Pieta figure	79	Captain’s heading
100	Brown spot	80	Branch headquarters?
104	Something to try	81	Spiritual guru Ram ___
106	Slang for “very bad” or “very good”	83	China and Damask
111	“Pardon me?”	86	Scattered about
112	Jennifer on “WKRP in Cincinnati”	88	Without a bit of sense
113	Grounded jets, for short	92	Front-to-back
115	Rodeo in Beverly Hills	94	Severely critical
116	Kitchen item	95	Menlo Park family
117	Archimedean machine	97	Horse hue
118	“Nay, I will consent ____ any villainy”: Shakespeare	99	Canadian Mint locale
120	‘80s supergroup	100	Gives the once-over
121	Choice word	101	Sprightly
122	“Skyfall” chanteuse	102	Religious residence
123	“___, truth is the first casualty”: Aeschylus	103	Peak in Colorado
124	So ___ (amen)	105	Messages
125	____ Candies	107	Saudi, to Pierre
126	Shelley and Lincoln	108	Part of a staircase
127	Youngest son of Attila the Hun	109	Nero’s 58
128	Greek goddess of strife	110	Nobel prize poet
		112	“___ and the Swan”: Yeats poem
		114	Union concern
		117	On the ___
		119	Verse opening

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