OVER/UNDER
No. 1023
ACROSS
1 Take on 6 Some subjects in Scheherazade’s stories 11 Humbled 17 Playful leap 18 Mother-of-pearl source 20 Words preceding “We stand on guard for thee” 21 “Skyfall” singer 22 Over the 27-Across 24 In low spirits 26 Guarantee that one will 27 Rise 28 Sighed line 29 Rev 30 Obsessed with fantasy role-playing games, say 32 “What have we here?!” 34 Under the 29-Across 38 Certain swinger, informally 42 Spanish bear 43 Castor ____ (“Popeye” guy) 44 Balance-sheet abbr. 45 Friday, on old TV: Abbr. 47 Olympics venue between London and Tokyo 48 Many a Jazz fan 50 Preserver of bugs 52 Caffè ____ 54 “Thinking …” 57 Over the 62-Across 59 Prestigious mil. award 60 International observance in 20-Down, informally 62 Dreidel, e.g. 63 Cataract 64 Parisian sibling 65 Exerted 67 Put on the back burner 70 Verizon subsidiary 72 Old line in Russia 73 ____ Victory (tourist attraction in Portsmouth, England) 76 Under the 67-Across 79 Single-masted pleasure craft 82 Keeps up 83 Neck and neck 85 Luminous 86 Abbr. in many Québec city names 87 Potus No. 34 88 Conditionals 89 Melodramatic response 91 Reagan has one named for him 92 Competitor of Sapporo and Kirin 94 Over the 104-Across 100 Commercial prefix with Pen 102 With 109-Down, cochlea’s place 103 [snort] 104 Sky light 105 Sculpture medium for Calder 108 Print tint 110 University of Washington logo 112 Under the 105-Across 116 John Paul’s successor 118 Increasing in pitch 119 “Me Talk Pretty One Day” humorist 120 One who can pick his work? 121 Impersonate 122 Places for studs 123 ____ dish
DOWN
1 Signature Obama legislation, for short 2 Gosh-darn 3 Floor-length formalwear 4 House member from the Bay Area beginning in 1987 5 Quite the hike 6 Be plentiful 7 Louis Armstrong vocal feature 8 High point of a European vacation? 9 N.Y.C. div. 10 Cry annoyingly 11 Cause for a blessing 12 Political columnist Matt 13 Debate moderator’s day job, typically 14 H. H. Munro’s pen name 15 Leon ____, Henry James biographer 16 Twain’s “celebrated jumping frog” 18 Crabgrass, e.g. 19 Mushroom variety 20 Start of the fourth qtr. 23 Early British actress Nell 25 Like quiche 28 In conflict 30 Title fictional character who “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself” 31 Clothier Bauer 33 Fired bullets, informally 35 ____ too happy 36 Blinker 37 Abbr. on a company’s sign 39 Thin as ____ 40 Front and back, at a golf course 41 Silly billy 46 Bull session 49 “Thinking …” 50 Gerrymanders, say 51 Big Apple paper, for short 52 Situated 53 Badly 55 Informal acknowledgment of responsibility 56 Portland-to- Spokane dir. 58 “That was dumb of me” 61 “____ Flux” (Charlize Theron film) 64 Debugger 66 Man’s name that’s the reverse of 117-Down 67 Woodworking fasteners 68 Clueless 69 Food preservative abbr. 71 Letters ending a business name 72 Buy-one-get-one-free deal 73 Selfish sort 74 Villainous 75 Target customer of Yelp 76 Mount of Greek myth 77 R.E.M.’s “The ____ Love” 78 Kind of branch 80 Sweets 81 Lynn in the Pro Football Hall of Fame 84 Application datum: Abbr. 89 Fashions 90 “Um … fancy meeting you here” 93 [Look what I got away with!] 95 Small swigs 96 Huffs 97 Coat for a dentist 98 What “i.e.” means 99 Charlotte ____, V.I. 101 British ____ 105 Female W.W. II enlistee 106 Stick ____ 107 Some P.O. plans 109 See 102-Across 110 Antidote 111 Bank-clock info 113 Clean-energy grp. 114 Ringing words? 115 Catch 117 Man’s name that’s the reverse of 66-Down