Theme Crossword >> Hear Me Out

ACROSS

1. Numbers for crunching

5. Dabchick, a bird

10. Layered rock

15. Chooses

19. Soviet composer -- Khachaturian

20. Noble gas

21. Epithet

22. Hindu deity

23. Old Italian money

24. Writer of verse

25. Raines and Fitzgerald

26. Esker

27. Start of a quip by Stephen Fry: 5wds.

31. Roebuck

32. All-night dance party

33. Wife of Geraint

34. More moist

37. Seedlike body

39. “Waiting for Lefty” playwright

42. Starts

43. Gloss

44. English county

47. -- and haw

49. Low hill

50. Sharp

51. Saved supply

52. Traffic barrier

53. Mere show

54. Suffering

55. Actor Wilson and others

56. The March King

57. Tropical fruit

59. Make expiation

60. Betrayed by Delilah

61. Part 2of quip: 5

wds.

66. Knob

67. Did a lawn care job

68. Stone mound

69. Borden’s cow

70. Impostor

71. Book-jacket quote

73. JFK’S predecessor

76. Little bit

77. Kept

78. Fruit box

79. Asterisk

80. Had a bite

81. Dossier’s contents

82. Smoothie relative

83. -- Hopkins University

84. Undermine

86. Move effortlessly

87. Hollywood boulevard

88. Path

90. Crooked

91. Twinge

92. End of the quip: 4 wds.

101. Secular

102. Step

103. What’s popular

104. Salty drop

105. Shore bird

106. Fit for service

107. Old weapon of war

108. River in Ireland

109. Status quo -

110. Warsaw residents

111. Church officer

112. Jockeyed

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1. Mustachioed artist Salvador -

2. Desertlike

3. Cocoyam

4. Served with almonds

5. Agriculturist

6. Kind of gun

7. Redact

8. Pear variety

9. Seat ceremonially

10. Arm

11. Actress -- Berry

12. “-- was I ...”

13. Permission

14. “Hamlet” setting

15. Imitation gold

16. El -

17. Agent: Hyph.

18. Wrap for a rani

28. Pipe fittings

29. Unladen weight

30. Incidental

34. Marquez the Explorer

35. Larger-than-life

36. UK Parliament

37. Eschew

38. Unfortunate thing

40. Fractional parts

41. Electric eye

43. “Now go!”

44. Office worker of old

45. Term of endearment

46. Taxing agcy.

48. Signified

50. Playing marble

51. Claymore

52. Likely winner

54. Bracelet site

55. Lutrine animal

56. Indian honorific

58. Actress -Macdowell

59. Invited

60. Gaze

61. Art motif

62. Rock salt

63. Motored

64. Atelier item

65. Horny plate

70. Game show host -- Sajak

71. Nail

72. Tarn

74. Certain European

75. Formerly, formerly

77. Comes from behind: 2 wds.

78. Pepper

79. Tunesmith

81. Graven image

82. Unkempt fellow

83. Time of year

85. Delphic shrine

86. Casts a fierce look

87. Smoothing tool

89. Likewise

90. Nimble

91. Juan -- de Leon

92. Gymnast -- Korbut

93. Creature of myth

94. At full -

95. Get exactly right

96. River in Russia

97. Look after

98. Architect -Saarinen

99. Settle

100. Unchain