HEADS OF STATE
ACROSS 1 Monocle part 4 Bridge support 9 Many a Theravada Buddhist 13 Indiana city where auto manufacturing was pioneered 16 Ruler in Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 17 Construction-site sight 21 Art of flower arranging 23 Red-wrapped imports 24 Prince of Darkness 25 Senate vote 26 Tea made by Peter Rabbit’s mother 28 Restriction on Army enlistees 29 Part of CBS: Abbr. 31 Bring in a new staff for 32 Blender sound 34 “The Untouchables” role 35 Table d’____ 36 Grouch 37 “Fasten your seatbelts …” 40 “Smack That” singer 41 Jaunty greeting 42 Shunned ones 43 Pharma-fraud police 46 ____ of time 48 Half-____ (java order) 49 Plains Indian 50 Straw mats 52 Senate vote 53 Hoppy brew, for short 55 Flawless routine 57 City on Utah Lake 59 Duds 60 Astronomer who wrote “Pale Blue Dot” 62 U.S. 66, e.g.: Abbr. 63 Like Fr. words after “la” 64 Boston iceman 65 Plane folk? 68 Pepper-spray targets 70 Extols 71 Comcast, e.g., for short 72 Bio subject 73 Trial that bombs, informally 74 Piedmont city 75 Stud money 76 Interminable time 77 G.E. and G.M. 78 Singer Carly ____ Jepsen 81 Ball-like 83 Award accepted by J. K. Rowling and turned down by C. S. Lewis 85 “____ Ho” (“Slumdog Millionaire” song) 87 Big channel in reality programming 89 Man’s name that’s the code for Australia’s busiest airport 90 Genre of Oasis and the Verve 92 Works at the ballpark, maybe 94 Movie dog 95 Army-Navy stores? 97 Kind of tiara and cross 98 Leg bone 99 Okey-____ 101 Onetime Nair alternative 102 “____ a customer” 103 10 cc’s and 64 fl. oz. 104 The person you want to be 107 Give a thorough hosing 110 Away 111 What the buyer ends up paying 112 Old crime-boss Frank 113 “I Love Lucy” surname 115 Response to “Who, me?” 116 Eight-related 117 Smooth fabric 118 Lip 119 Head of a crime lab? 120 Prosciutto, e.g.
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1 Hold up 2 Non-PC office purchase 3 Beautiful butterfly 4 Nickname for Thomas Jefferson 5 Debt, symbolically 6 It flows to the Caspian 7 To a degree 8 Campus grp. formed in 1960 9 Nickname for Abraham Lincoln 10 Eat or drink 11 Seed cover 12 Not going anywhere 13 Capital on the Congo 14 “I heard you the first time!” 15 See 18-Down 18 What 15-Down is … or a hint to the answers to the four italicized clues in left-to-right order 19 Black birds 20 Hanoi celebrations 22 Nickname for George Washington 27 Union Pacific headquarters 28 “The ____ Breathe” (2007 drama with Kevin Bacon and Julie Delpy) 30 Minister (to) 33 Nickname for Theodore Roosevelt 38 “Kapow!” 39 Guinness Book suffix 42 Pay (up) 44 Thumb, for one 45 AARP and others: Abbr. 47 Subject of semiotics 51 Gillette products 54 Apartment, informally 56 Comment regarding a squashed bug 58 High-____ image 61 Cornish of NPR 64 Consecrated, to Shakespeare 65 Toaster’s need 66 Like a stereotypical mobster’s voice 67 Alphabet trio 68 Four seasons in Seville 69 “Am ____ believe …?” 72 Worthy of pondering 75 River through Yorkshire 79 Truculent manner 80 Where Northwestern University is 82 N.F.L. ball carriers: Abbr. 84 Barry of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” 86 Stoked, with “up” 88 Blank, as a tabula 91 Bygone Chinese money 93 Not too swift 96 Old German governments 97 Unlike most mail nowadays 99 Gainsay 100 Kind of arch 105 1977 Electric Light Orchestra hit 106 Those: Sp. 108 Westernmost island of the Aleutians 109 Org. with rules on eligibility 112 Turndowns 114 Bread source, for short