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ACROSS 1 Brimstone 7 Energize, as a crowd 12 Roe source 16 Axed 19 Totally out of the question 20 Creator of Kanga and Roo 21 City near Sacramento 22 ___ silver platter 23 Noble with a drinking problem 25 Brand of sparkling wine 27 The Gem State: abbr. 28 Place for a plant or a pie 30 Manage to get 31 “Father” of Wackford Squeers 38 Disturb 39 Tabula ___ 40 Intro to stat 41 Narrowly defeated 43 Annual conference of ideas 44 Sheeplike 46 Mandela’s org. 48 One way to eat veggies 50 W.C. Fields exclamation 53 Hit song of 1966 60 Some gametes 61 Actress Merkel 62 Despite the fact that, brief ly 63 Strange 64 Pants part 66 Alleges 68 Site of a TKTS sign 70 “Livin’ ___ Loca” 73 Piano great 74 Hit film of 1986 78 Chocolate source 81 Flub catcher 82 Trip requirement? 83 Defaulted-on auto 87 Insurance staff 89 Has some turkey 91 Trixie’s hubby et al. 93 Signal at Sotheby’s 94 Pizzeria owner in “Do the Right Thing” 95 It extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan 100 Minimal haircut 102 Place for a cold one 103 Cold time: abbr. 104 Ex-daytime co-host 105 Tough concept for procrastinators 107 ___ rays 111 First name in whodunits 114 Outback avians 115 Like the acid in dressings 118 TV staple 121 Emergency situation 123 “The Nazarene” novelist 124 Not the long vers. 125 Zesty weenie 127 Snack-aisle selection 134 Vintage car 135 Wendy’s dog in “Peter Pan” 136 “Step aside, I’ll do it” 137 Santa’s got one 138 Fay in “King Kong” 139 Jack and Helen’s “As Good as It Gets” co-star 140 Wipe out 141 “When a Man Loves a Woman” singer DOWN 1 [Not my mistake] 2 Card game shout 3 Fighting Tigers’ sch. 4 Athletics supporter 5 “___ the end of time ...” 6 More sunburned 7 Anti-smoking org. 8 “American Idol” prop 9 Also containing a certain antioxidant, on labels 10 Dissimilar to 11 Rang out 12 Utah hub: abbr. 13 Reindeer feature 14 Improvise 15 Playground denial 16 Drugstore buy 17 “Enough already!” 18 Care or risk follower 24 Sudden outbreak 26 Passé 29 Pressurized fuel: abbr. 31 Early spring bloomer 32 A “Godfather Part II” setting 33 Start of a Faulkner novel 34 Indian princess 35 Dizzy of Cooperstown 36 Where Ephesus was 37 Vaccines 42 It holds water 45 Salamander 47 “Tell headquarters” 49 Oz musical, “The ___” 51 (You) have, in Le Havre 52 Bakery buy 54 “Yikes!” 55 Rolls’s partner 56 Start of a long-distance instruction 57 Jesse Jackson, for one 58 Oklahoma city 59 Luxor’s river 65 Seagull perching place 67 Look over quickly 69 New England cape 71 Expected 72 Demon’s opposite 75 A uniform class? 76 Conn of “Grease” 77 Ex-senator Christopher of Connecticut 78 Original ___ album 79 Petri dish layer 80 Mega-selling vocalist 84 Mystery 85 Lecture site 86 Texas oil city 88 Sister or story starter 90 Take the wheel 92 Term of respect 96 Pester 97 Gillette’s ___ II razor 98 Intro to phobia 99 Swerve 101 Stay here 106 Electrician’s concern 108 Extinct bird 109 Brawn 110 Robin Hood, for one 112 Wash amount 113 Make a raised seal 115 Ghana’s capital 116 Rumsfeld’s Defense Department predecessor 117 Hot-tub wood 119 Greek letter 120 Oddly amusing 122 Finished 126 Palindromic prank 128 Printers’ units 129 Zuider ___ 130 “A Summer Place” star 131 Eye protector 132 Bread pudding ingredient 133 H. Rider Haggard novel