By Warren Manners
Across
1 Euchre relative
7 Drives away
13 Built a weir
19 Zambia or Gambia
20 Slowly, to Schubert
21 “Oedipe” composer
22 Abraded
23 Bisque holder
24 Snare’s neighbor
25 Permission paper
27 2011 Polanski comedy
29 Bethesda org.
31 Salon offerings
32 Divided into two opposed aspects
34 Language of Zimbabwe
36 Jr. and Sr.
37 “Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and ____ :” Irving Caesar
39 Army ___
40 Bryn Mawr attendee
41 NYSE symbol for British American Tobacco
42 Pursue
43 Auburn rival in the SEC
44 Bridge element
45 What might get the ball rolling
49 Lay waste to
51 Retton achievement
53 Confections
55 Emulate a stevedore
57 Moppet
58 Natural wax used in cosmetics
60 E7’s seventh
62 It’s held for questioning
66 Dated later
67 Tip off
69 Atmospheric pressure unit
70 Naples gateway
71 Some paycheck IDs
72 Site of a decisive battle: 301 B.C.
74 Holiday pie choice
76 WWII agency
78 “Beowulf,” e.g.
80 Type of board
81 Quaint emporium
86 Caeser’s wife
88 Fishing spear
89 Beowulf, e.g.
90 Marks a ballot
92 Genesis figure
94 Coppers, for short
95 Quince and others
96 Compass meas.
97 Hypothetical weapon used to knock sense into the clueless
99 ___/IP
102 Beethoven wrote just one
103 London’s criminal court
105 Golfer K.J.
106 Parisian possessive
107 “The fatal egg by pleasure laid”: Cowper
108 Local alternative
111 Place to bring a suit
115 How many audits are conducted
117 They call New Zealand “Aotearoa”
118 Book with Solomon’s accession
119 Leaves in a hurry
120 Sunflower seed
121 Title character for Virgil
122 Bill for Pavarotti, so to speak
123 Picked up
Down
1 What a Rockstar provides
2 “What Color is Your Parachute?” subject
3 Key rings?
4 Cedar Point attractions
5 ___ fine line (tread carefully)
6 Borders
7 Brass ___ (MIT class ring)
8 Pedagogue
9 Brief worker
10 Female adviser in Roman myth
11 Encumbrances
12 Handel bars?
13 Pick up
14 Castro’s year
15 Palindromic Hebrew letter
16 3 PM in Denver
17 Kind of indicator
18 Characteristic of certain genes
26 It became Tokyo in 1868
28 Contrive
30 Daring surfer’s cry
33 Bean of India
34 “Gulliver’s Travels” author
35 ___ card
37 Faithless lover
38 Penalty imposer
41 Griffin and Lively
43 Listed in England?
44 Maven
45 Elvis and Marilyn, e.g.
46 Headlands
47 Diadem
48 Aristocratic practice
50 Kryptonian military man
52 “But thy ___ summer shall not fade:” Shakespeare
54 Footprint maker
56 Destine for trouble
59 Programming command
61 Junket
62 “I Don’t Want ____ a Thing:” Aerosmith
63 Assemble
64 Insipid
65 Eye site
68 Autoimmune ailment
70 Tea cake
73 One of two in “boxcars”
75 Proust’s Odette de ___
76 City south of Kyiv
77 Paul McCartney or Mick Jagger
79 ____ course
81 Fin
82 Condition for Homer
83 Junior, to Senior
84 Miss Clairol user
85 Edward Snowden, e.g.
87 Ball game
91 Farthest from the start
93 Driver’s aid
96 Entanglement
97 “Downton Abbey” butler
98 Easy round
99 “___ a Place:” Beatles
100 The real part of Euler’s formula
101 Three sheets to the wind on the Thames
104 Noggin in Nottingham
105 Namesake of a chronic disease
109 Present occasion
110 Show impatience
112 Bargain place
113 Voltaire’s donkey
114 Famous D.C. museum
116 ___ = NAV/[Risk Capital]
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