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A Cut Above the Rest by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Oceans
  2. 6. Bats
  3. 10. "The Clan of the Cave Bear" novelist
  4. 14. Razz
  5. 19. Tennis's Goran Ivanisevic, e.g.
  6. 20. A band may be on one
  7. 21. Torch-lit event
  8. 22. River of forgetfulness in Hades
  9. 23. Iron Age people
  10. 24. It has nine rooms
  11. 25. Ottoman
  12. 26. Serve up on a platter, say
  13. 27. Collectors of DNA
  14. 28. Game twist
  15. 30. Some basketball players: Abbr.
  16. 31. Espies
  17. 33. Profit from
  18. 34. "I'm innocent!"
  19. 35. Lab safety org.?
  20. 39. 3-D pic
  21. 40. Diner fixtures, informally
  22. 43. More rakish
  23. 46. Canon offering
  24. 47. Clown prop
  25. 51. Sitcom ET
  26. 52. Walt Disney's middle name
  27. 54. Cable inits. since 1996
  28. 56. "Be a ___"
  29. 57. "Six Million Dollar Man" feature
  30. 60. Cabbed it
  31. 63. Most likely to be called up
  32. 64. From the top
  33. 68. Move, informally
  34. 69. 2400, on the SAT
  35. 73. Dolt
  36. 74. Like most checks and political candidates
  37. 78. Green
  38. 79. Not so nice
  39. 82. Annual literary prize
  40. 83. Picked up, in Britain
  41. 84. Home of Velázquez's "Las Meninas"
  42. 85. Breakfast dish
  43. 86. They break at dawn
  44. 87. Angelica and others
  45. 89. Like some resolution, for short
  46. 91. Showed no restraint, in brief
  47. 92. Cask filler
  48. 93. Linguistic quintet
  49. 94. Parts of sows and cows
  50. 96. Head of steam?
  51. 97. Place to lounge
  52. 99. Jazz great Carmen
  53. 103. Cricket's sound
  54. 105. Triply
  55. 106. Like New Jersey among states admitted to the Union
  56. 107. Subway fare
  57. 109. Chinese hard-liner
  58. 110. "Antigone" or "Elektra"
  59. 112. One famed for heartlessness
  60. 114. Last name in cookies
  61. 115. Some notepad jottings
  62. 117. It may be left hanging
  63. 119. Take out
  64. 120. Farmworker in "The Wizard of Oz"
  65. 121. Scale unit
  66. 122. Tony winner Tharp
  67. 123. Spheres
  68. 124. Ice cream brand
  69. 125. Recess
  70. 126. It's what's to be expected
  71. 127. "The ___ the limit"

Down

  1. 1. Grab
  2. 2. Abbr. on a musical score
  3. 3. Cause of a crybaby?
  4. 4. Provider of an inside look?
  5. 5. Nos. after a period, maybe
  6. 6. Yen
  7. 7. Last name in "Star Wars"
  8. 8. Farm females
  9. 9. Takes for granted
  10. 10. Charitable giving, e.g.
  11. 11. Trees with poisonous seeds
  12. 12. Marquis's inferior
  13. 13. First name in "Star Wars"
  14. 14. Girl group with four #1 hits in the 1990s
  15. 15. Often-decorative kitchen item, in Britain
  16. 16. Aids for long drives
  17. 17. Gas bill unit
  18. 18. Crisp
  19. 29. Lead-in to pop or pass
  20. 32. Chicago setting: Abbr.
  21. 34. Japanese computer giant
  22. 36. [See above]
  23. 37. Last place, with "the"
  24. 38. Indy 500 winner Luyendyk
  25. 40. 2007 title role for Ellen Page
  26. 41. In utero
  27. 42. [See above]
  28. 43. Sharp putdown
  29. 44. 1974 Fassbinder film subtitled "Fear Eats the Soul"
  30. 45. Subj. of some 911 calls
  31. 48. Figurehead, for short?
  32. 49. Like some parenting
  33. 50. QB Manning
  34. 53. Ottoman V.I.P.
  35. 55. RR stop
  36. 58. Brown-___ (sycophants)
  37. 59. Like one pre-Columbian civilization
  38. 61. Parting word
  39. 62. Taunting figure
  40. 65. Running pants?
  41. 66. Subj. for Galileo
  42. 67. N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Thomas
  43. 69. Oscar winner Swinton
  44. 70. Oscar winner Tatum
  45. 71. [See above]
  46. 72. Winter month in Spain
  47. 74. Withdraw from the bank?
  48. 75. [See above]
  49. 76. Seashore fliers
  50. 77. Twosomes
  51. 80. [See above]
  52. 81. [See above]
  53. 88. "___ kleine Nachtmusik"
  54. 90. Per
  55. 93. National rival
  56. 95. Her name is Norwegian for "beautiful woman who leads you to victory"
  57. 98. Van Gogh painting that once sold for a record $53.9 million
  58. 100. Highlight of many a western
  59. 101. Fix
  60. 102. Ain't right?
  61. 104. Concerto movements
  62. 105. Broke
  63. 108. Didn't get involved
  64. 109. Pac-Man screen, e.g.
  65. 110. ___'clock scholar
  66. 111. Numbskull
  67. 113. Loch ___
  68. 116. Twosome
  69. 118. Canon offering, briefly

This puzzle was published on Sunday, Dec 15, 2013 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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