NO HOLDS BARD
ACROSS
1 Louisiana cuisine
6 Leaves alone
12 “Eureka!”
15 Gibbon or chimp
18 Wide open
19 Blows
20 “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” author Judith
22 With 24-Across, play with controversial snacking?
24 See 22-Across
25 The Open Window writer
26 Start
27 Character with an ass’s head in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
28 Sliding sport
30 What many take Ritalin for
33 Miffs 37 “And never, __ I live, deceive men so”: Titus Andronicus
40 Play about two horses, both alike in dignity?
45 “I think it be no other but __ so”:
Hamlet
46 Adorn with jewels
48 Tofu source
49 Paving goo
50 Journey segments
52 The Tempest spirit
54 Biblical song
55 “__ all been there”
56 With 59-Across, play about when an insectivore does things?
59 See 56-Across
61 Long
62 Earl Grey packet
64 Windows 7 precursor
65 Bard’s muse
67 Establish
69 Whits
72 Moxie
75 Gather, as wheat
78 Interlocking bricks
80 Play about a mendacious monarch?
83 Play about what the audience experiences in real time?
85 New Bohemians singer Brickell
86 Endocrine organ
89 Skyscraper topper
90 Still feeling yesterday’s workout
91 Author McEwan
92 Gradually vanishes
94 In the sky
96 Pachinko author Min Jin
97 Play about a cold wind?
100 Dating app with a flame icon 102 Greek goddesses of the seasons
103 Off-roaders, for short
104 Long way home from the airport?
105 Put on an act?
109 Cassettes
112 Medication amount
116 Play about meeting someone unexpectedly?
118 Play about someone who’s very, very clairvoyant?
121 Too sentimental
122 Deprived (of)
123 Vast expanse
124 Econ. measure
125 Core muscles
126 Liabilities’ opposites
127 Like an unmaintained lawn
DOWN
1 Zoom accessories, informally
2 __ fresca
3 It’s worth one high-card point in bridge
4 Toward the top
5 Largest labor union in the USA
6 Director Sergio
7 Taylor Swift’s 2023 __ Tour
8 Toothpaste unit
9 Commercial plug
10 AC unit
11 Superlative ending
12 Tuscan river
13 Sound owlish
14 Helper: Abbr.
15 Fish or fowl
16 Write, as a play
17 Rowing machine, informally
21 Japanese feudal chief
23 Huskies pulling together
27 Party occasions, for short
29 Tablet port
31 __ Moines
32 Play basketball
34 Water bottle size
35 Permission
36 Scatter
37 Author Eudora
38 Giggling sound
39 Ready to roll
40 Roi’s wife
41 ΩΩΩ
42 Hardwood Classics sports network
43 India’s largest metro area
44 Monarch who was Shakespeare’s patron
47 Mettle
51 Weird
53 Brain sections
55 “Eh, don’t care”
57 Recon gathering
58 Nickname for Earl Hines of jazz
60 Vodka brand, informally
63 Shot in the dark
66 Genesis
68 Former eBay subsidiary
70 Time-honored
71 Evening party
73 Park employee?
74 Clear the board
76 Sheer fabric
77 €
79 Take the wheel
80 “Countdown with __ Olbermann”
81 Shoshone Falls state
82 Ram’s rival, informally
84 Progressive-leaning
87 Santa-tracking org.
88 Attic accumulation
92 Counted calories
93 French high-speed rail: Abbr.
95 EGOT-winning lyricist Rice
98 Hit the beach?
99 Star-shaped blooms
101 “Not happening, sorry” 104 Playwright/ actor Tracy 106 __ breve 107 Too slick 108 Looong spans 110 Nautical direction
111 Fizzling-out sound
113 Cruel sort
114 Lose fur
115 Crafts marketplace
116 Texter’s “wow”
117 Owned
118 Placeholder abbr.
119 The French Dispatch director Anderson 120 Toothy tool