Across1. Mythological group of nine 6. Sportscaster Rashad 11. Makes a decision 15. Notre ____ 19. Coral island 20. Bar Harbor is there 21. New York college 22. Title role for Julia in 2000 23. All the cool features Google and Bing envy about a rival? 26. Fallon replaced him 27. HBO rival, in TV listings 28. Dudes 29. Genesis garden 30. Polish city 32. Anderson of WKRP in Cincinnati 33. Japanese food you eat after winning Best Picture? 36. Canadian gas station 39. Blow 41. Family cars 42. Emerges victorious in 45. Sci-fi movie creature 47. Nevada cubes 48. Baled stuff 51. Long look around an East African nation? 54. Wood eater 56. Harms out of hate 57. Courts 59. First lady’s man 60. Lukewarm 62. Settlers of ____ (board game) 64. Unit of electric current 66. Letters for a crook 69. Pour more wine in former congresswoman Connie’s glass? 72. Sloth, say 73. Late flight 75. Full of substance 76. Window features 78. One of the Three Bears 79. Light-bulb-shaped food 80. What things cost 83. Like gifts of soap, sometimes 86. Deer possessed by evil spirits? 92. Nats score 93. Painter Chagall 95. No-no 96. The Souls of Black Folk author 97. Church head 99. Butcher’s cuts 101. Get the pot started 102. Dealing with Salieri’s machinations, finally finishing the Requiem, and so on? 106. Coats hang on them 109. Winner of eight Grand Slam titles 110. Dr. Zhivago’s love 111. “Can ____ Witness” 113. “Welcome to Hawaii!” gift 116. Lit ____ (college course) 117. November events that split a President’s four years, as this puzzle’s theme entries split a President’s name 121. “Take this!” 122. Hamburg’s river 123. Measured medicine 124. Wear away 125. Previously owned 126. Simple transportation 127. Places on the internet 128. Touch or taste |
Down1. Baseball great Willie 2. Six-sided state 3. Section of London 4. “Telephone Line” band 5. Replay camera 6. Audrey Tautou movie 7. Race loser in a fable 8. Montana city 9. DC-born actress Gasteyer 10. Felt the presence of 11. Edmonton hockey team 12. Used your index finger 13. Explosive letters 14. Prepare to eat, perhaps 15. Airport hassles 16. The Verizon Center, e.g. 17. Capital of Belarus 18. Japanese mushroom 24. Moving vehicle, two ways 25. Boise’s state: abbr. 31. Greasy spoon 32. Went ballistic 34. Public-relations framing 35. Works on an article 36. Flock female 37. Letter opener? 38. Use scissors 40. Old cloth 43. Aorta, for one 44. Plains home 46. Way to make a pet or a kid happy 48. Lies low for a while 49. “Asteroids” company 50. Arabian Peninsula nation 52. “Yeah, right!” 53. Crowd’s sound 55. Cartographer’s product 58. Washington’s bills 61. Small coin 62. French red 63. Total: abbr. 64. Celeb lawyer Gloria 65. California town with many mansions 66. Knights wear it 67. Reeves of Point Break 68. TV’s Don Draper, notably 70. Element whose chemical symbol is Pb 71. Prefix meaning “fat” 74. Home to the hammer 77. Dives underwater, casually 79. Capital of Western Australia 81. College major, for short 82. Campfire entertainment 84. Sharif and Epps 85. Crosswords and such 87. Ducks with green heads 88. One of the woodwinds 89. Supremely loud 90. Rand’s father 91. Frederick-to-Potomac dir. 94. “That’s possible” 97. Cut and ____ 98. Like Pulp Fiction and Fargo 100. Goes too fast 102. ____ Picchu 103. Scary beasts 104. Democratic Republic of the Congo, pre-1997 105. Dr. without a doctorate 107. Latin sentence ender 108. Philanthropist Melinda 112. TV show set in Ohio 113. Crazy as a ____ 114. Means justifiers 115. “Aha!” 118. Not feeling well 119. “Surely you don’t mean me?” 120. Wrath |
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