Across
1. Sudoku solver’s skill
6. YouTube revenue sources
9. Word describing some footage and vegetables
12. Neon, radon, or argon, e.g.
19. ___’s (near-beer brand)
20. Lucky guy?
22. Godlessness
23. Line of work for many an art major
25. “You snooze, you lose!”
26. Spielbergian visitors
27. Prior to
28. Bert Bobbsey’s twin
29. Perfect score, maybe
30. Fairfax org.
31. Cheese often grated
33. Trial figure
38. Maestro Toscanini
40. Sadistic
41. Mortdecai actor, 2015
42. Test choices, often
44. Be unable to look away
46. Orchestral instruments
48. Inventive types
51. Overcome a psychological barrier
54. Pedestal occupants
56. Largest union in the USA
57. ___ Stage
58. Stomach sextet
59. Massey of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
60. Smartphones displaced them
61. President on The West Wing
62. Redskins head coach, 2010–13
66. Progress
68. Posthumous number-one hit of 1971
71. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold novelist
74. Free
75. Zagreb’s nat.
78. Fey response to a compliment
79. Struck
82. Chapel Hill school
83. Wedding role
85. Whatever number of
86. Fan’s sound
87. Bygone way to watch a movie
90. Tricky pool technique
92. PolitiFact founder Bill
94. For short, for short
95. God of love
96. Without a leader
98. Couple of quartets
100. Ms. Maddow
102. Where you might double down
106. Printer powders
109. Brief amusement
110. Mantra syllables
111. Anonymous surname
112. Skill with words
113. Triple ___
114. On the table
117. DC cultural landmark—or, literally, what each of the six theme entries contains
121. Make tougher to scale
122. Attached, in a way
123. Not quite tight
124. Shows instability
125. Chomped
126. Envy, say
127. Tendon or ligament
Down
1. Take down a notch
2. First two words of many poem titles
3. Thunderstruck
4. Latin name ending
5. John Grisham book, with The
6. Protected, while sailing
7. Failed firecracker
8. Embarrassing public episode
9. Puddle enlarger
10. Lee with three Oscars
11. Got the biggest trophy
12. Hotel numbers
13. Made amends (for)
14. Favorite Greek letter of the crew team
15. Sushi fish never served raw
16. Mei Xiang or Tai Shan
17. Houston fielder
18. Unfair attack
21. Computin’ Newton
24. Slop container
29. Lake Erie city
32. Cosmetics magnate Elizabeth
33. Plain part
34. Tavern
35. Try again with that squeak
36. Movie frames
37. Reuters competitor
39. Norma ___
42. Key of Adele’s “Someone Like You”: abbr.
43. Unclothed
45. Skewered dish
47. The Bullets played them in two NBA Finals
49. Guess the intentions of
50. Back talk
52. Shocking device
53. Onto dry land
55. Jessica of All That Jazz
59. Dressed like cops
60. Brooding Baltimorean
63. Unduly tough
64. Lack of pep
65. Prez on pennies
67. Rabbit ___ (John Updike novel)
68. Has permission to
69. Nosy type
70. Like 60 down’s stories
71. Thespian Neeson
72. Highest non-Alpine mountain in Italy
73. Old-school radio
75. Southern charmer
76. Car taken back by the bank
77. Valuable rocks
80. Some RNs work with them
81. Keep tabs on over time
84. Dutch Golden Age painter
86. 168 hours
87. Tree found in the Yucatán
88. Kellogg deg.
89. Very cold
91. [not my mistake!]
93. Creepy cousin of TV
97. Nickname of the number-one men’s tennis player
99. Serious steak
101. The Mayflower and such
102. Great time
103. Numbers game
104. Sunday shouts
105. English university city
107. Candy magnate H.B. ___
108. One of the simple machines
112. Maryland congressman from 1993 to 2008
115. Lunar New Year in Vietnam
116. Mimic
117. Feared force in the USSR
118. Manning of the Giants
119. Secretary Sally Jewell’s agcy.
120. “___ didn’t!”
