Across
1. Candidate for elective office
8. Small pellets
11. “Dancing Queen” quartet
15. Lowers, as lights
19. Mass figure
20. Brother of George Gershwin
21. Sesame Street Muppet
22. Opera number
23. Campfire entertainment staged by U. of Washington students?
25. Improvisational singing style
26. 2017 NL East champs
27. Pub pint
28. Glistens
30. Spring flower
32. “Yes, yes!” in the Yucatán
34. Billy portrayed by Brad Pitt in Moneyball
35. Org. with a tepee logo
37. The Motorcycle Diaries role
38. Former US senator Barbara, unafraid of a fight as always?
45. ___ Rouge! (Best Picture nominee of 2001)
48. Deed holders
49. Cat identifier
50. Guts
52. Undoes, as legislation
54. Enrique Peña ___ (Mexico’s president)
56. Something the Hogettes would have worn?
58. Evening meal
59. Water, in western Switzerland
60. Devoured
61. Pacific weather phenomenon
64. Dogs may pull it
66. For one
67. Musical taste
68. Agent Scully of The X-Files
72. Hank who voices many Simpsons characters
75. Sheet fabric
78. Gadot of Wonder Woman
79. Oklahoman
82. Ability to handle the Chesapeake Bay’s signature boat?
87. Wasn’t indifferent
88. Mocking works
90. The two of us
91. “Now I get it!”
92. Cory Booker’s group
93. Root
94. Maryland congressman Jamie, doing lots of things at once?
101. Highest heart
102. ___ Ho Lee (wrongly imprisoned scientist in an early-2000s case)
103. Doesn’t own the house
104. Sunrise setting
108. Lyon loaf
112. Literary magazine since 1889
114. Luxury-hotel feature
115. Classic Monopoly token
116. Fleetwood Mac hit of 1979
118. What many area residents are bringing to Wisp, Wintergreen, or Snowshoe these days—and what’s hidden in the five theme entries
122. Borscht vegetable
123. Ready for business
124. The ___ State (Idaho)
125. Geneva Convention subject
126. Geddy Lee plays it
127. Zippo
128. Function
129. Hit the mall
Down
1. Laughing sounds
2. Circular windows
3. Mugs for the camera
4. Rocky Mountain mammals
5. “Just so it’s known . . .”
6. Member of a Western tribe
7. ___ Antilles (part of the Caribbean)
8. Revealing swimwear
9. Preserving solutions
10. Give more than enough
11. Stomach muscles
12. Sauce on a croque monsieur
13. Donkey’s sound
14. Goes after
15. There Will Be Blood actor Day-Lewis
16. Neighbor of Turkey
17. Barack beat him in 2012
18. Robe closer
24. Bogus
29. Kebab stick
31. Obama Cabinet member with a Nobel Prize
33. Las ___ Galápagos (Ecuadoran chain in the Pacific)
34. Forehead mark
36. Intricately decorated
39. Shatner played him
40. Offer of a ride
41. Its HQ is on Constitution Ave.
42. Part of a process
43. Leo’s Titanic costar
44. Sikorsky of aviation fame
45. Swampy grasslands
46. Shaquille of basketball
47. Not deserved, as criticism
51. Derisive look
52. Q–U connectors
53. ___ out a living
54. Convent occupant
55. Apple creation
57. Washington Post Pulitzer winner Horwitz
58. Title for Mick Jagger
62. Carrie’s most famous role
63. Drew of mysteries
65. Native of Copenhagen
66. Score at Avenel
69. Ongoing process
70. Silent-era star Nita ___
71. Texas Hold ’Em declaration
73. Last letter, in London
74. Have ___ in (be part owner of)
75. Fire-truck feature
76. Chimpanzee, e.g.
77. Fictional Maxx and Hooker, for two
79. Phishing e-mail
80. Honolulu’s island
81. Of the mouth
83. Knowingly writing bad checks
84. Nutty types
85. TomKat’s kid
86. Clinton’s running mate
88. Red or Caspian
89. Gave a response
92. Cowboy’s hat
95. Makes fun of
96. Milieu for the Capitals
97. Chardonnay source
98. Change the title of
99. Not pro
100. Kicks off
105. Invite to one’s apartment, say
106. Church feature
107. Subdued, in a way
108. ___ lettuce
109. Part of town
110. “Anything ___”
111. Jaleo dish
113. Rival of Newman’s Own
117. Santa ___ , Calif.
119. “That’s impressive!”
120. To’s counterpart
121. NASCAR sponsor
