THEME CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Apodal creatures
5. Machine in a field
10. “My Own Private __”
15. Delicacy
19. Jacob’s wife
20. Home
21. Get-acquainted party
22. Remotely
23. Woody’s son
24. Aqua __
25. White poplar
26. Unattached
27. Start of a quip by Winston Churchill: 7 wds.
31. Goat-hair cloth
32. Creature of legend
33. Drives in a leisurely way
34. Censer
39. Great poet
42. New Deal org.
43. “The __ & Stimpy Show”
44. Afflicts
46. Shortage in cold cases
48. George or T.S.
52. Part 2 of quip: 4 wds.
56. Long-legged bird
58. Within: Prefix
59. Like a disciplinarian
60. Recognized
62. Crafty fellow
64. Sine __ (indefinitely)
65. Equilibrium
67. Flag
69. Health club offering
71. “__ Irish Rose”
73. Tourist court
75. Nudges
76. Indulgence
79. Sampras and Buttigieg
81. Aztec’s predecessor
84. Courtroom fig.
85. Leather band
87. Flits
89. One of the Fates
90. Cerebral aqueduct
92. Pools
94. Part 3 of quip: 3 wds.
96. Officer-to-be
98. __ -percha
100. Walk-the-dog toy: Hyph.
101. B-F link
102. Subdivision
104. Batali or Lanza
106. Abhorred
109. Players on ice
113. Quechuan
115. Abbr. in cookbooks
116. End of the quip: 6 wds.
124. Corn spikes
125. Jester’s venue 126. Liquid measure
127. Bobbin
128. “SNL” bit
129. Organic compound 130. Love
131. Timbre
132. Actor Mineo and others
133. Roads
133. Beat back
135. Hoodwink
DOWN
1. Jai __
2. Animal fluids
3. Kind of edible oil
4. Ram’s horn horn
5. “Dark Shadows” vampire
6. Like a sleepyhead
7. Word: Prefix
8. Enlighten
9. Did a farm job
10. Envisions
11. Right to have
12. Pink-slipped
13. Villein
14. The Beaver State
15. Unlikely narrative: 2 wds.
16. “__ __ and his money...”
17. Boat
18. Journeys
28. Sash
29. Type style: Abbr.
30. Lesion
34. Roof support
35. Seven: Prefix
36. Like some retail space
37. Beat
38. Horned animal
40. Makes lace
41. Monsoon of “Ab Fab”
45. Be in a rage
47. Slumber
49. Blurry
50. Relating to the ear
51. Digits
53. Cousin to 38 down
54. Sets free
55. In one fell __
57. Psychic’s deck
61. Observed
63. City in Indiana
66. Streisand film of 1983
68. Orchid part
70. Further down
72. Rawboned animal
74. “Bad, Bad __ Brown”
76. Secular
77. Kett of old comics
78. Li’l Abner __
80. Rose
82. Ruin by degree
83. Beat with a stick
86. SPCA cousin
88. Kind of terrier
91. Practical folks
93. Marks with minute grooves
95. Plover
97. Clean-cut
99. Grammatical gaffe
103. Peyote
105. Of the eyes
107. Masc. title
108. Gushes
109. Something sometimes hazarded
110. Japanese city
111. “__ showers...”
112. Leaf pore
114. Stage whisper
117. Rack and __
118. River in Ireland
119. Surmounting
120. Withered
121. Quite some time
122. Jay of late TV
123. Did in