Across
1. Service charge
4. Serb’s neighbor
9. Nietzschean concept
13. Hard worker
19. Theatrical Chaney
20. High home
21. Company with a four-color logo
22. Start watching again, as a paused video
23. What the insurance company doesn’t have money to process?
26. Like paradise
27. Leave out
28. Prepare a certain breakfast item
30. Circular-waffle brand
31. ___-Caribbean dance
33. Small battery size
36. Father’s Day gift, often
37. Jones who has competed in both the summer and winter Olympics
39. Do it wrong
40. Meet your seasonal employee at a Metro station?
44. Only three-letter element
45. Young fellow
46. “Excellent work!”
47. Person who passes along information
48. Lower (oneself)
50. “That’s how ___ done!”
51. Second installation
53. Japanese prime minister since 2012
54. Mass. and Conn., in DC.
55. Move slowly
57. Bring home
59. Brando bellow
62. Tolstoy title name
63. Body of 100
67. Set aside
68. Finds out about
71. Hassle
72. Sitting in a room full of drinkers and smokers without partaking yourself?
75. Sydney greeting
76. Rainbow color
78. Make a very short putt
79. Those who can be levied
81. Element 10
82. “True, but . . .”
84. Island east of Java
85. Rude person
86. Luxury ship, for short
87. Wharton deg.
89. Make mad
93. For example
94. San Antonio draw
96. ___ Desert (it covers much of Arizona)
99. “That’s awesome!”
100. It makes the band louder
101. Person born in 1960 or 1972, to the Chinese
102. Spell everyone needs to learn at Hogwarts?
105. Stat for Bryce Harper
106. ___ Auto (old Haft-family chain)
108. Filbert, e.g.
109. Seventh letter
110. Art from a parlor
111. No four-poster beds
113. Art often created at night
116. Vegans avoid it
118. European rocket series
120. Anxious experience in shop class?
125. Considered to be
126. County of Maryland or Delaware
127. Evil creature
128. What many will shout upon Obama’s departure from Washington—or a hint to this puzzle’s theme
129. Smallest
130. Esqs.
131. Waiting for Lefty playwright
132. Econ stat
Down
1. Scary strain
2. Long period
3. Toughest person on the hockey team
4. “Pretty please?”
5. Bureaucratic hassle
6. Wash. neighbor
7. Foreign ___
8. Virginia ___
9. Less full of pep
10. Latin for “in the same place”
11. Gyro ingredient
12. Febreze competitor
13. Grapevine structure
14. Venerable ref. book
15. “Intriguing . . .”
16. Shout to reptiles that refuse to pounce?
17. Find another country
18. Cases of Guinness?
24. “Whatever you say . . .”
25. Starbucks order
29. Very small amounts
31. For one
32. Adidas rival
34. Hawks and Falcons play there
35. Literary obsessive
38. Common soccer tie
41. Citified
42. Pair that may be puffy
43. Scientist with a dog
49. “Get outta here!”
52. Smaller
54. Woody and George
56. First half of a phrase meaning “intermittent”
58. Tap lightly
60. East Asian capital
61. Hayes of the Washington Bullets
62. Daughter of Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel
63. Rival of Bloomberg
64. ___ Diegans (some Californians)
65. Person who feels sorry for Mr. Blumenthal?
66. Hold in high regard
69. Scottish rejection
70. Part of iOS
73. Hero
74. Best Picture nominee for 1972
77. Track circler
80. White, in Quebec
83. ___ Shoreham (Woodley Park hotel)
85. Boy Scouts event
86. Host of 2022 World Cup
88. Dull party guest
90. Going around and around
91. Right on the map?
92. Reuben loaves
93. “Oh, great,” often
95. Like Brazil, among South American nations
96. Uses a water gun
97. Straight ___ Compton
98. Fervid
103. L’___ Plaza
104. Governor Gary Herbert’s domain
107. Freaky Franz
112. All there
114. Low pair?
115. Factoids
117. IAD guesses
119. “___ in Nancy” (phrase spoken on the phone)
121. Impersonated
122. Ann or Ang
123. The French rejection?
124. Dems’ opponents
Matt Gaffney blogs about crosswords at gaffneyoncrosswords.com.
