Across
1. Position
4. Asked for a hand?
9. Brings back to life
16. Physicist’s workspace
19. Blow away
20. Tear apart, archaically
21. Turtles hit of 1968
22. Palindromic Burmese leader of the 1940s–’60s
23. Celebs walk on it*
25. Tough way to sell*
27. One of the woodwinds
28. Manning in ads with Peyton
30. Monte Carlo roller
31. Permitted
32. Mata ___
34. Movie-cel material
36. Ox, e.g.
37. The Redskins last season and the Orioles in 2013*
40. Feeling low
41. November 13, e.g.
42. Hills or Sills
43. Very happily
47. Make work
48.Foaming at the mouth
49. Pavlov or Parker
50. Itty-bitty
51. Staying overnight, sometimes
53. The original prank show*
58. Genesis victim
59. Professor Paglia
60. Heroic quality
61. Little amounts, as of information
63. Why we do what we do
64. Unlike the Eastern Shore
65. As ___ of passage
66. Promises but doesn’t deliver
67. Layer of paint
68. Prime minister between Gordon Brown and Theresa May*
70. Like data in a spreadsheet
74. Metropolitan ___ Church (downtown DC landmark)
75. Fruit drinks, in combinations
76. Washer cycle
77. Charged particle
78. Xylophone-like instruments
81. Order
84. Mimicked
85. Mississippi Masala director Mira ___
86. Best Picture nominee for 1987*
88. Like some soda
91. Mercury on microphones
92. Transportation
93. Inception director Christopher
94. Stick for a hustler
95. Curvy letter
96. Score more than
98. Gorgeous gorge*
101. Jolly Ranchers and such*
106. New Age chants
107. Like some cheese
108. Keep away from
109. DC-to–Atlantic City direction
110. Body art
111. Dresses up
112. Half man, half goat
113. Reagan National Airport’s code, which has landed in the eight theme entries
Down
1. Cookie container
2. Be behind
3. Popular nightspot?
4. Tongue of Tunisians
5. Fiddling Roman, supposedly
6. Get on video
7. The second person?
8. Sensed the presence of
9. Concert-hall event
10. Xanadu band
11. Southern African plains
12. Like some movies and bands
13. Sotto ___ (softly)
14. Time period
15. Have no merchandise left
16. One of the Mario Brothers
17. Diplomatic Ghanaian
18. “Taps” instrument
24. Current carriers
26. Flood stopper
29. Sketch look
32. Used for the purposes of concealment
33. Daughter of Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel
34. Pain blocker
35. Schumer of humor
36. French white
37. Coffee-shop access
38. Becomes more tolerable
39. Authority fighter
40. Part of a luge
43. Bad things
44. Reside
45. Encyclopedia Brown’s first name
46. MMXVI, e.g.
48. Held up
49. Does not much
52. Mountains Beyond Mountains country
53. Feed the people at
54. Pal
55. David of the Pink Panther movies
56. Go sky-high
57. EU island nation
59. Scoop holders
61. Netflix category
62. Choptank or Tred Avon
63. Viral notions
64. Pimlico creatures
65. DeVine or Levine
66. General awareness
67. Dance at Caribbean parties
69. House in the woods
70. Dating from
71. Human or ostrich
72. Lerner’s partner
73. Machiavellian concerns
76. Roots in salads
79. Like Emperor Atahualpa
80. Kettle pair
81. Exist
82. Mice and the like
83. Units of energy
84. Bryant or Baker
86. Supreme Court justice since 1994
87. Unoriginal artist
88. Bar of metal
89. ___ Rae
90. As ___ resort
91. Mushrooms and such
94. Has no power to
96. Unsweetened
97. Whirlpool
99. Director’s shout
100. Lowest cardinal
102. In the manner of
103. Nickname for some Edwards
104. Org. for Hillary
105. Senate vote
Matt Gaffney blogs about crosswords at gaffneyoncrosswords.com.
