Pun Clearance

NOTE: Puns have a way of piling up around the house, so I have to clear them out every once in a while. ACROSS 1 Nineteenth hole 4 Paper patcher 8 ___ clef 12 Foe of Ilie, Jimmy and John 17 Pollster’s query 18 Reader essays 20 Somber notices 22 Director Mervyn 23 King with a wicked sense of fairness? 26 Contents list 27 A Chekhov sister 28 Country singer Gibbs 29 “Come ___!” 31 Nonexistent 32 Utterly unable to eat breakfast without bread? 37 School of whales 38 Richard of “Chicago” 39 Namath’s Super Bowl 40 Crone 43 Old spelling of Bangladesh’s capital 48 With 53 Across, the story of a priest? 53 See 48 Across 57 CIA progenitor 58 Fish eggs 59 Best way to sign 60 Query from Judas 61 Seesaw need 63 Zebra feature 64 Plucked from peril 66 What space aliens dislike being in human society? 70 Relatives 71 Oxeye and others 72 Holiday sweet 73 Nickname for an extremely unpopular x-ray technician? 77 “Frozen” song 81 Cornstarch brand 82 ___ kwon do 83 Functional 85 Less cordial 86 PBS funder 87 Ariz. is never on it 89 The Golden Gate Bridge, for example? 91 Most popular car in India? 95 V-shaped fortification 96 Sign of a hit 97 Tour grp. 98 Schooling: abbr. 100 “Mr. Robot” network 103 What a certain insurance company is considering for its next commercial? 112 Suffers from 113 Sudan addition 114 The ranch in “Giant” 115 Up ___ (stuck) 116 Domineering 118 “___ instruments” (what orchestra musicians must be able to do in today’s competitive market?) 122 Divert 123 Garlicky sauce 124 Prepared to pray 125 Frameworks? 126 See 112 Down 127 Joel or Ethan of film 128 Medical suffix 129 Curly whacker DOWN 1 Sherlock portrayer 2 Early marketplace 3 Dig find 4 Part of 12 Down 5 Mil. address 6 Intro to gram 7 Outer limits 8 Fan disapproval 9 Like many a dict. 10 Hitchcock title 11 Spider-Man co-creator 12 Deli sandwich 13 ’60s sitcom homophone 14 Round trip? 15 Vegas toss 16 Bill of science 19 Put into piles 21 It’s about a foot long 24 Doing mess prep 25 Inside shot? 30 Legal orders 33 Chances 34 Mascara ruiner, maybe 35 Common URL ender 36 Afflicts 40 Teensy margin 41 Rice on a shelf 42 Econ. stats 44 Battery fluid 45 Trig. function 46 Prevailing conditions 47 Star in Aquila 49 Showdown time 50 “I’m Yours” singer and two-time Grammy winner Jason 51 Highly rated 52 “___ I go on?” 54 Emphatic denial 55 Igloo dweller 56 Ventilates 61 Private phone channel between offices 62 Used to be 63 Imitates 65 Chang’s twin 67 Joust contestant 68 Assent on the Hill 69 Like ego and ergo 71 Forensic letters 73 John Galt’s creator 74 Dunkable treat 75 “Holy moly!” 76 James of jazz 77 “Star Wars” sister 78 Bits of advice 79 Equipment 80 “Yes ___?” 84 Trip inducer 87 Genealogy abbr. 88 ___ signals 89 Grad 90 Blame 92 “I s’pose” 93 Doctrine rejecter 94 Ruckus 99 Designer Pierre 101 Leads off 102 Intro to meter 103 Fill the tank 104 Peak in “The Odyssey,” Mt. ___ 105 Neighbor of Homer 106 Beat the rap 107 Pt. of a rural address, often 108 Overhangs 109 “___ around, around ...” (Dion’s “The Wanderer”) 110 Surgeon intro 111 “Beau ___” 112 With 126 Across, rival of Lowe’s 116 Low-quality 117 So far 119 Jumpy pal of Pooh 120 The A of IPA 121 Ex-ring king