IT AIN’T OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS
ACROSS
1 “The Ballad of the Green Berets” singer Barry
7 See 59-Down
11 Start of a quote by 45-Across
17 Emphatic Cannes agreement
18 The __ Mutiny Court-Martial
19 Get tough 20 Quote, part 2
22 Suez Canal city
23 Sign of laryngitis
24 Word with duty, center, and pride
25 Easy targets 26 From the top
29 Amtrak train from Boston
31 Kavanaugh’s co-worker
36 Quote, part 3
42 Roofing specialist
43 Classic cold cut
44 Embroidery yarn
45 Blithe Spirit playwright
47 Personal account?
48 Takes second against, perhaps
50 Not at home
51 Greta of The Morning Show
52 Bireme tool 53 “That hits the spot!”
54 Orthodontist’s concern
55 Delivery person?
56 Mononymic rapper from Blackpink
57 Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.
59 Corp. bigwigs
60 Brown dorm monitors
61 See 36-Down
62 Quote, part 4
66 Rapper/singer/ Auto-Tune abuser
69 Charged item
70 Brother
71 “The Desert Fox”
75 Cloudburst result
76 Economic stat.
77 Sonata finale
78 “Get cracking!”
79 In the style of, in the kitchen
80 Rather bother
81 “That guy’s a heel!”
82 It might show the Sea of Tranquility
84 Upholstery problem
85 Quote, part 5
88 Not that big
90 “Snooze” singer
91 It comes between 2023–24
92 Quote, part 6
95 Zeno, notably
96 Panamanian pancake
97 Half of a nibble
98 None of the above
100 Hardly wimpy
104 Comets’ paths
108 Dagwood of “Blondie”
112 Quote, part 7
115 Adjustable altitude stabilizer on a plane
116 Customs
117 “And how!”
118 End of the quote
119 Quartz variety
120 Airbnb stipulation
DOWN
1 Fly like an eagle
2 General vibe
3 Goes kaput
4 Feature of a McJob
5 Nor. home
6 Copacabana city
7 2008 horror franchise installment
8 Repetitive greeting
9 Like a smallsized garage
10 It’s going to leave a mark
11 Dermatologist’s concern
12 Gorges
13 Surgery ctrs.
14 “Don’t text and drive” spot: Abbr.
15 Island chain?
16 Wrap things up
18 Hollywood special FX
19 Manilow song setting
21 Treasure Island illustrator
22 Sign of life
25 Coach Prime’s first name
27 Grp. of D.C. advisors
28 Hearing distance
30 Whitewater vessel
32 Bar topic
33 Bit of slanted writing?
34 Chicago Sky coach Weatherspoon
35 Bit of a challenge
36 2003-07 Fox teen drama set in 61-Across
37 Comics viking
38 Atlanta university
39 Have to pay back
40 White legume
41 Billy __ (movie and musical)
42 The worst of the worst
46 Needing some tightening up
49 Apostle known as “the Zealot”
53 Many, many
55 Hide
56 Start of many threads
58 1957 Nabokov novel about a professor
59 With 7-Across, stolen car garage
60 Don’t stop
61 Stuff overhead
63 Lady left behind
64 So far
65 Pays a visit
66 Survivor teams
67 Au pair’s boss
68 Japanese martial art
72 Quagmire
73 Bennet of Pride and Prejudice
74 Wash against, as the shore
76 “Fetch me a fainting couch”
77 Killer comedian
78 Microscopic machine
81 Cookies with cappuccino
82 Procrastinator’s word
83 Reached, as a goal
86 __ chi ch’uan
87 Took on
89 Up to now
93 His strength was under locks
94 Shred
96 Starbuck’s employer
99 Milk source
101 Not straight
102 Cereal served in party mixes
103 Takes in
105 Boxer’s wear
106 “Your guide to a better future” website
107 Certain NCO’s
108 “Incidentally,” in texts
109 Sch. with campuses in Narragansett and Providence
110 Sch. on the Charles
111 “I can’t believe this,” in texts
112 Online cousin of “just saying”
113 Dictionary abbr.
114 Pay court to