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2 Word derived from the Greek meaning “not (poor) sight”
9 Reason CDC cautioned use of J & J Covid vaccines by adults
13 Release, sometimes
18 Letters after many a locally prominent person’s name on buildings used in K-6 education
20 Reservations
21 Important requirement for one every fourth year
22 What “every election year is a leap year” is
23 Successful 1965 film starring Ursula Andress (but Olinka Berova replaced her in the 1968 sequel)
25 Cola invented in 1905 by Claud Hatcher to avoid the high cost of buying Coca-Cola syrup
26 Innocuous synonym of pack which sometimes becomes a no-no when followed by away
28 Where Caillat advises “Take a breath, look into the mirror at yourself: don’t you like you?”
29* Dinah who sang “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” (1943) and “Blue Canary” (1953)
30 Puccini opera that premiered in Rome on 14 January 1900
32 Syd Matters’ (thanks, Pink Floyd!) song (with of)
34 Frequently used in a raised voice when addressing small children and pets
35 Serling or Steiger
36 Bubonic Plague, maybe?
38 Half of a Supreme odd couple?
41 His debut album, Lateness of the Hour, included “Relax, My Beloved” and “Humming Bird”
42 They may believe there can be only two factions: Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb (House of War)
44 First-state inst. of higher learning
45 Boundary Bay Airport, Vancouver, or UTC-7, or some hair products
47 With Ponte and Beach, where TPC Sawgrass is
49 Asks to join a team, as an MLB coach asks pitchers
52 Non-acidic is a pH of 7 ___
55 Admitted between NB and ND
56 Cupbearer’s duty, often
57 County of Saguaro National Park
59 Awarded for performing duties while under fire in an assigned US Army infantry capacity
60 Dish of culture
62 Pilfer again?
65 “___ said.”
67 Nonclerical
70 To give an impression of being
71 Region in Lower Saxony whose leaders effected a peace with Charlemagne near Buckeburg in 775
74 Depilatory of old, now called Veet
77 The substitution of a C for a G in the nucleotide AACGAT, e.g.
78* Plural of word common to titles by Juice Newton (Angel) and Ashanti (Early)
81 You’d normally find about 20 of these on 98A and they’d be very curved, for better traction on ice
82 Azawakh, Kelpie, Klee Kai, or Barbet
84* Blue
85 Paix, pace, pax, paz, or peace
89 Univ. in the town where HAL was supposedly “born” on 1/12/1992 (according to a 1968 source)
90 With anti, the types of attacks in America which surged 33% in 2016 and 86% in early 2017
91 1st seven-eighths of a term for arterial blockage, which can lead to cardiac arrest or stroke?
92 Be undecided
94 Largest supermarket chain on the Big Island, whose HQ is located in Hilo
97 Degenerative joint disease, for short
98 Largest extant land carnivore (especially fond of seals)
101 Decree
106* Cromwell (Old Ironsides) or associate justice Holmes (1902-1932)
107 Anheuser Busch product with an ABV of 0.2%
108 Founded in 1913, it’s the formal voice for Illinois municipalities
110 Founded in 1953, it’s the second-largest 12-step org.
111* You’ll find it famously located before Island and Leagues
114 C2H5NaO3S2 or a medication used to decrease the risk of bleeding from the bladder
115 Game very like pétanque or bowls
117 Sir in Agra or Mumbai
118 William Lawrence of Hopalong Cassidy fame
119 Taylor Swift song which includes “But one of these things is not like the others”
120 Higher than Caps Lock
121 Fry, then slowly stew
122 Jim Davis’s 82A
124 Densely populated area of CA divided by I-405
127 Inferior to LTZ and SE?
128 Never formally canonized, he’s nonetheless considered the primary patron saint of Ireland (abbr)
129 Lance
130 Flexible
DOWN
1 With prone, the cause of death of Eric Parsa, 16, Cornelius Frederick, 16, and Max Benson, 13
3 Short for stock options which don’t qualify for the special treatment accorded incentive options
4 Whom the Sixth Amendment guarantees our right to know?
5 With CIO, it was formed in 1943 after Congress prohibited unions from giving to politicians
6 Letters you might see after nitroglycerin or loratidine
7 Words of atonement
8 A detective might suspect a death is ___ suicide
9 Loose outer garment
10 The Pelican St.
11 Preminger, who directed and produced The Moon Is Blue in 1953
12 This bird could be a hermit, wood, varied, or gray-cheeked
13 Empty, as applied to an argument
14 Most advanced degree
15 According to the fixed proportion
16 What € stands for
17 Wants—or its opposite?
19 Large number of fish swimming together—or a gravelbar
24 Respects
27 Often found between good and boy or before Miss
31 Result of the 1980 merger of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries
32 Dolphins QB Tagovailoa
33 High Level, Alberta, airport IATA code—or handstanding joy?
34 Ralph who has been Green, Reform, and Independent
37 Many woodpeckers prefer them for food and nesting; woodcutters, for warmth and lumber
39 Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon mishap with fire?
40 Al-Aqsa Mosque is there
43 Trim model of the Z/28 from 1985-1990, honoring Penske’s competition
46 GPS-maker Garmin might want to drum out of business?
48* Many tv and cable remotes respond to this kind of command
50 A tributary of the Rhine in Switzerland—or a Wood Dale (IL) provider of aviation services
51 Gentle alien befriended by Gertie in a 1982 Spielberg film that made almost $800 million
53 Short for chronic inflammatory disorder that can affect more than just your joints
54 With it, tryin’ without havin’ practiced much
55 ___ de coeur: passionate appeal
57 Frequent misspelling of the French word for a round cluster waved by a cheerleader
58 In Dec 2021 the UK introduced the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure bill to require ___ distributors, manufacturers, and importers to meet cybersecurity standards
61 C. S. Lewis said in The Abolition of Man that “the Chinese . . . speak of a great thing (the greatest thing) called the ___. It is the reality beyond all predicates, the abyss that was before the Creator Himself. It is Nature, it is the Way, the Road.”
63 Polonius to Laertes: “Neither a borrower nor a ___”
64 A chunk of gneiss, schist, phyllite, slate, marble, or quartzite in the Keystone St.?
66 Organically rich loam with good drainage and a pH between 6 and 7.5 for Ficus carica trees?
68 Suffer
69* Red, Black, Yellow, Coral, or White
72 Cacher’s terse version of the title of a Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint?
73 Osmeridae transported in metal receptacles suitable for trash?
75 Wallach or Whitney
76 Score if both teams’ linescore is 2-6-1?
79 CA company that makes soft flangeless longneck and pro lock-on bike grips
80 With Jabbar, the test used on Paul Atreides by Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
83 Actress Lollobrigida who gave $5 million from sale of her jewelry to stem-cell research
86 Sound of surprise or satisfaction
87 With the least fat
88* Toussaint L’Ouverture, to Wordsworth: “O ___ Chieftain!”
90 La ___ padrona, or The Maid Turned Mistress, a 1733 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
92 The ___, 2004 film about Gigot (Macy), a janitor, and Lou, a young girl abandoned by her mother
93 Most conceited
95 First two words of Henry Reed’s 1942 war poem, “Naming of Parts” [Please read it!]
96 A medieval dagger, a song by Edward Elgar, or a short poem of 14 lines
99 Hesitant response to “How do the French say ‘too much’?”?
100 Milne creation whose mother is Kanga
102 Lemon
103 Subject of a print (but not a photograph) found in an 1877 time capsule beneath a Lee statue
104 Oaxaca dinners
105 Joe who won 3 Super Bowls with 3 different quarterbacks—and then went off to the races!
107 Acapulco bear
109 Comedian Sahl, a deputized member of Garrison’s team investigating the JFK assassination!
112 Prerequisite for a cacher’s find?
113 Over in Hamburg
116 The George Bush Ctr. for Intelligence is its headquarters, located in Langley, VA
119 Letters you might see after Sierra or Rocky
123 Where you’d find Davenport or Des Moines
125 St. in the southern central part of the land down under
126 Machine smarts?
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