ACROSS
1 Petrels that have an eerie cry, are the national bird of Bermuda, and are on its currency
7 1987 Morrison novel about former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit
13 Holder of your shoes and belt, etc., at Sky Harbor?
19 Like mechanical or habitual repetition of things to be learned?
21 Founder of the Russian Communist Party, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
22 Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, with Mockingbird
23 What rain at Camden Yards turns the grounds crew into?
24 Reply to “On the rocks?” when you can’t think of the word neat?
25 What approximately 8.4% of people at, say, 30,000 feet become?
26 What Simon dubs a pig’s head mounted on a spear in a Golding allegorical novel set on an island
27 Gardening tool
29 An 8-bit third-generation home video game console released by Nintendo in the US in 1985
30 First Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Zhou
31 One-third of a tbsp
32 Melancholy
34 Thanks to Covid, you might find its hallways used for beds
37 A second-year sheep
40 The MLK Jr. Natl. Historic Site is there
41 Among the most frequently cited examples of high burlesque, Pope’s “The ___ of the Lock”
43 With Arms, the title of a Hemingway work about Lt. Frederic Henry, of the Italian ambulance corps
49 ESPN and Fox Sports sideline reporter Andrews, from Lewiston, Maine
51 With 128A, 1930 Faulkner classic challenged but retained in the Carroll County, MD schools in 1991
53 With The Call, a Jack London classic about a sled dog named Buck, published in 1903
55 Halifax is its cap. and largest city; its motto is “one defends and the other conquers”
56 First word of a 1955 Fats Domino hit (the B-side was “La-La”)
57 Alice of Sex and the City 2 and She’s Out of My League, or Arden of Our Miss Brooks
59 Pratt who did a lotta Dolittle films
60 Vinum ___ musica laetificant cor
61 “Eternal Father, Strong to Save” by Wm. Whiting of Winchester, England is the official Navy ___
63 Brave ___ World, Huxley’s 1932 dystopian social science fiction novel, ranked 5th on Modern Library’s 1999 list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
64 Hence
67 In 1941 the Pulitzer Prize jurors voted unanimously for his For Whom the Bell Tolls—but it lost!
71 With Man, Ellison’s classic, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and influenced Obama
74 With of Eden, Steinbeck’s self-considered magnum opus—Kern County (CA) deemed it obscene!
75 Multinational power-management company with 2020 sales of $17.86 billion; HQ’s in Dublin & OH
78 “By the rivers flowing gentle on my ___” (from a 1967 Glenn Campbell hit)
79 How George Orwell got his start?
82 Video downloader that might prompt a Norton warning, and a frequent column on pay statements
85 Texter’s “unknown” or “really?”
86 On-demand photography company founded in Paris in 2014 by Rebaud and Lestrade
87 Half an em
88 Aretha’s older sis, of “Piece of My Heart” (1967) fame
91 Digital version of a patient’s paper chart, which makes info available instantly and securely
92 Half of either a celebratory exclamation or casual good-bye?
93 Audible expression of satisfaction
95 Suffix that denotes form or resemblance, as after fact or aster
96 Birmingham campus of an inst. of higher learning
97 Creator (including middle initial) of a “Rabbit” trapped in a loveless marriage
103 Gallaudet requires fluency in it (abbr)
104 Sardonic (and a homophone of a nearby answer in this puzzle)
105 What antlers or a snakeskin in the woods might be considered?
106 A Canon AT-1, for ex.
108 Best canning tomato
110 For men, less than 13.5 g of ___ per deciliter is low; for women, it’s 12g
111 A blood test from an infant’s heel soon after birth is used to detect this birth defect (abbr)
112 It includes the world’s largest isl. as well as the US, CAN, and MEX
113 Angolan money worth one hundredth of a kwanza
114 With The, Chopin’s groundbreaking novel about Edna Pontellier’s rebellion against conventions
117 With Sons, Lawrence’s story of the Morels and being “left . . . naked of everything”
119 Inst. which “supports the healthy development of children, families, and communities, and advances the out-of-school field through research, training, advocacy, and tools”
120 Polygynandrous southwestern woodpecker with a red cap, white forehead, and black back
123 Respectable and unadventurous—and a homophone of a word that means “remained behind”
124 Wells known for “a grotesque romance” sort of connected to 71A
126 It inspired Bloomsday (and prompted an obscenity trial in America in 1921)
127 Atomic no. 22 on the chart
128 See 51A
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1 Salinger work serialized in 1945-46, then published as a novel in 1951, and often read by adults and youth for its themes of angst, alienation, and as a critique on society’s superficiality
2 Most of its 55,000 members handle lots of books; its HQ is in Chicago
3 Famous for The Outcasts of Poker Flat, he collaborated with Twain on a play, Ah Sin
4 Pharmaceutical co. working on HSP40, -60, -70, and -90, which are molecular chaperones
5 With In Love, Lawrence’s sequel to The Rainbow; it develops the story of Gudrun and Ursula
6 Xylem and phloem, essentially
8 Omit a sound or syllable when speaking—or merge!
9 Joseph who founded the Sierra Club with Muir, fearing sheepherding would ruin the mountains
10 Ken Kesey classic, with Nest
11 Kind of plate a ’67 Mustang might merit today?
12 Japanese city at N 26 23.317 E 127 49.983
13 Labors
14 Musician Adriel Cruz, more familiarly to his fans (who probably have Renegades Never Die on cells)
15 Nice word for easy or wealthy
16 Word suggesting utter joy or happiness, often following wedded (despite a divorce rate of 45%!)
17 Part of the immune system or a form of breast cancer, briefly
18 With The, Mailer’s debut novel, based on his experiences in WWII as a cook
20 Baseball’s Slaughter, known for his mad dash from first to home to help win the 1946 World Series
22 First President and first Supreme Court justice to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery
28 Unwritten exams
33 Nimble
35 Dodgers’ “Penguin”
36 Frequently repeated slogan
38 An especially small, elusive humanoid with pointed ears, magical powers, and a capricious nature
39 Delimiter of Men in a 1989 Aaron Sorkin play set in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
42 Ma’s mate
43 Municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria, southwest of Egmating
44 Homophone of Huck’s family name
45 On the same chart as in 127A, an extremely radioactive 111
46 Frequently precedes and behold—and appears in scripture more than 1300 times!
47 Device that enables the deaf or hearing- or speech-impaired to use the telephone, briefly
48 Utterance of one slow to recall the word for a Hawaiian necklace?
50 Smallest, in one sense, of 50—or an abbr for breathing difficulty
52 Last word Butler told his dear, frankly—and one that could get a book in trouble, apparently
54 Where to search for incudes and mallei
57 Suffix used to transform nouns (such as strength) into verbs
58 Response to the malodorous
61 On 20 Nov 1759 ___ Resolution captured the French Navy’s Formidable
62 Scottish for yellowhammers (Emberiza citronella)
65 Soldier’s self-contained, individual ration in lightweight packaging
66 Kimono adornment
68 Babylonian god of primordial waters
69 Lousy or lame; not up to the mark
70 ___ Irish Pub, 7026 88th St, Queens, NY 11385
71 Forays
72 Dale
73 The natural logarithm of x is generally written as ___ x
76 Homophone of the equivalent of √64
77 Pink Floyd’s “The Happiest Days of ___ Lives”
80 First word of Capote’s work about the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas
81 First word of Dreiser’s classic, burned in Boston in 1927 and by the Nazis in 1933
83 Rachel who’s played an office worker in The Matrix Resurrections and a bar patron in Ratched
84 One who delivers beer for a brewery
89 In the last episode of season five of Friends , ___ Rachel at a chapel in Las Vegas
90 His Tropic of Cancer and many other works were banned in America until 1961
92 First word of Fitzgerald’s best-known novel, published in 1925 and set in the Jazz Age in Long Island
94 Strike
97 Irving (Garp), le Carre (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Barth (Chimera), Steinbeck, and Updike
98 Low Earth and High Earth might precede it
99 5-___ a compound produced in the body from tryptophan, and a precursor to serotonin
100 Finished in Hilo, as in ___ kahana (“the work is finished”)
101 Types
102 NFL rule infringement consequence shorn of its beginning and end?
104 Powerful word in the title of a Steinbeck novel about the Joads of Oklahoma
107 Last word of the title of a work by 67A, which ends with Brett’s telling Jake she thinks they could have had a wonderful time together—to which he replies, “Yes, isn’t it pretty to think so?”
109 Similar
113 Year Nero became a Roman consul and Venutius began his rebellion against his wife Cartimandua
115 Greeks’ Aurora, personification of the dawn
116 My ___ Sal, 1942 musical starring Victor Mature and Rita Hayworth, a biopic of Paul Dresser, older brother of Theodore Dreiser
117 The end of hydrocarbons?
118 Avena sativa, a cereal grass without which Cheerios would be most unpalatable
121 Falkenberg of the Naps, Tip-Tops, and Peppers—or, yes, Young of the Spiders, Naps, and Rustlers
122 Sufficient education used to consist of just three of them
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