Across
1. Noisy game
8. One of two committee heads
15. Passes the time nervously
20. Sit atop
21. Rashly
22. Totally shocked
23. The chef really knew his business—he had many ____ into the culinary arts
25. For the ____
26. Mind reader’s ability
27. Partner of 99 across
28. Wish you could undo
29. Concealed
31. Ashton Carter’s org.
32. But he also turned a lot of people off with his ____
37. God, in Grenoble
40. Scott Turow book set at Harvard Law
41. Quartered
42. Like some woodwork
45. Tiny
47. Nats stats
48. “See ya!”
51. For instance, he annoyed fellow restaurant owners by ____ from their kitchens
55. City across the Bay Bridge from Washington
57. Place
58. Neighborhood
59. Friendly with
61. Eternally
62. A real looker?
63. Word in many Agatha Christie titles
65. Forum admin.
66. Brand of saline solution
68. World Series champs of 1990
70. This left most of his rivals ____ at him
73. Sounds of reproach
77. Lug
79. Creature of habit?
80. Forgo carryout
82. Cherry or pecan
83. Seat belt, for example
86. Disorganized
89. Memorization
90. Make-believe
91. Highly valued by
93. He also made ____ to his own staff
96. “Why haven’t you . . . ?” retort
97. Something on a stage
99. Partner of 27 across
100. Warm-up notes
101. Sporty clothing line
103. Periods
106. Heaven on earth
107. This led to many ____ in the kitchen, as you can imagine
114. Palindromic Oklahoma city
115. Costar of James in Rebel Without a Cause
116. Track revolution
117. Beastly creature
118. Rejections
121. Deep Creek and Michigan
123. But in the end, his restaurant folded—turns out he’d been ____ the whole time!
128. Crossword feature
129. Caucasus country
130. Disgust or love
131. Classifies
132. Basketball legend Bill
133. Makes major changes to
Down
1. Pass oneself off (as)
2. Crooner Burl
3. One of the tides
4. “I should’ve worn a coat!”
5. Make ____ out of
6. Hunt or Hamilton
7. Played smoothly, on sheet music
8. 68 across, on scoreboards
9. Switch settings
10. Bird sound
11. European city that takes a “the”
12. My Name Is ____ Lev
13. TV cousin
14. Do the scene again
15. Black-and-white animals
16. In the past
17. Hillary in 2016, for example
18. Center of central Florida
19. Run-down
24. “Sounds like a plan!”
30. Occupied
32. Mexican restaurant side, for short
33. First name of a former House speaker
34. Obtain, as information
35. Channel 9 meteorologist Topper ____
36. Releases
37. After Big or Little, a constellation
38. US senator from 1963 to 2012
39. On cloud nine
43. “If ____ a Hammer”
44. Most desperate
46. Rule out
47. Nervous
49. Weight often used non-literally
50. “Was there something else?”
52. More cool
53. Way through a fence
54. “The dismal science,” briefly
56. Curry or Coulter
60. Person skilled in rhetoric
64. End the call
67. Improved word choice, say
69. Celebrity
71. No purebred
72. Lauriol Plaza drink, for short
74. Decided not to punish
75. Sign put on someone’s back
76. Becomes accepted, as a new reality
78. Decide
81. Finding ____
83. 1980s “Star Wars” plan
84. Talk series
85. John Grisham novel, with The
87. Future oak
88. Donated
92. Battle field?
94. Soft ball
95. Belligerent deity
98. It may say “Chessie System”
102. With “up,” admits guilt
104. So much
105. World-weary type
107. Preserves, in a way
108. It has “Famous Potatoes” license plates
109. ____ onto (attaches oneself socially)
110. Bakery products
111. Say what you think
112. ____ de menthe
113. Throwing Tim
118. Dark literary genre
119. “Fine, have it your way!”
120. 987-65-4321 and such: abbr.
122. Ambulance worker
124. Tulsa sch.
125. Zippo
126. Guy’s counterpart
127. Prefix meaning “ear”
