Elongation

Across

1. Chunk

5. Spill stopper

8. Beetle in Egyptian hieroglyphs

14. Old Eurasian rulers

19. Many a restaurant website page

20. Addr. line ending

21. Brother of Scar

22. Juice box go-with

23. Censor of controversial parts of “Messiah”?

26. Hold forth

27.“Top Chef”host Lakshmi 28. Knish seller

29. __ Morris,“Saved by the Bell” protagonist

31. Award for good plays

32. Bagel feature

34. Spots

36. Emergency delivery method

38. Family tree woman

42. Cause of restaurant complaints?

45. Intraoffice IT system

46. Memo start

47. Get around

48. Conventional rubies?

53. Choir accompaniment

57. 20th-century Argentine leader

58. Room in Clue

59. Original “Star Trek” actor 62. Nice way to say yes?

63. Stubborn animal

64. Family room

65. Group email function

67. A, in Aachen

69. Sign of a cat burglar?

74. Shoppe modifier

75. Brand mentioned in the Beatles’“Come Together”

77. Golf club part

78. “I pity the fool” speaker

79. Word that’s a homophone of its first letter

80. Willing subjects

82. Melodious

85. BILLY bookcase sellers

88. Big dipper

90. What people and leopards have in common?

93. Gallery event

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96. __ top

97. Kinshasa’s country, briefly 98. Stallone hero putting more film in his camera?

102. Research staples

104. Sister of Laertes

105. Like yellow bananas

107. Look for gifts, say

108. Green and white

109. Almost never

112. Greenish-blue

114. Allow to fluctuate, as a currency

117. Type of navel

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119. Enjoy the track meet? 123. Can’t live without

124. Bible book read during Purim

125. Hardly walking distance 126. Neutral shade

127. Doesn’t do much

128. What a broken escalator can serve as, aptly

129.“Go for it!”

130. Loafer, e.g.

1. “This can’t be,” in texts

2. Faithful spring?

3. Actress Kendrick

4. Founder of an Eastern religion

5. Euphoria

6. Providers of liquid assets?

7. Out of juice

8. Cheese alternative?

9. Adorable ones

10. “100 Years... 100 Movies” org.

11. Heckle

12. On the briny

13. Chain of pubs with beer and video games 14. General on a menu

15. Tot toter

16. Peninsula between the Red Sea and Persian Gulf

17. Sanction

18. Candy store buys

24. Personified things in Pixar’s “Inside Out”

25. Sticky home?

30. Isn’t serious

33. Money in Münster

35. It may be cracked

37. Prepare for new planting, as a garden 38. Zero-star fare

39. Not seen often

40. Spellbound

41. On deck

43. Upbeat melody

44. “Master of None” cocreator Aziz __

49. Book after Daniel

50. Dame Dench

51. First place

52. Musical Lynn contemporary

54. Commits a hoops violation 55. “__ Lang Syne”

56. River to the Mediterranean

60. “The Masked Singer” panelist Jeong

61. Able, facetiously

66. Radiohead lead singer/ songwriter Thom

67. Subj. including the study of extinctions

68. Field of Dreams setting

69. Nemesis, e.g.

70. Late philanthropist Broad

71. Like tadpoles

72. Combine

73. A.G. under Clinton

76. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Hines

78. Biscuit whose name describes its shape

81. Part for one

83. Men’s grooming brand

84. Exams for future attys.

86. Decent-sized lot

87. Brief periods

89. Summer cabin site

91. Sport

92. Racing the deadline

94. Chamber music work

95. Spirited events?

98. Corkscrew pasta

99. Warmed up the crowd

100. French fashion house

101. Agitated state

102. Like Beethoven, late in life 103. Pie fruit

106. Pie fruit

110. Ones getting a lot of props?

111. “At Last” singer James

113. Split

115. A pop

116. Halal cart offering

118. Supergirl symbol

120. Greek X

121. Tolstoy title word

122. Refuse to settle