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As It Were by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Engaged
  2. 10. Jacques who was "alive and well and living in Paris"
  3. 14. Island near the Mariana Trench
  4. 18. Pueblo Indian rite
  5. 19. Places for light gatherings?
  6. 21. Mario who played Enrico Caruso
  7. 22. *Pricey wrap
  8. 23. *Triple Crown winner who himself sired a Kentucky Derby winner
  9. 25. When repeated, an aerobics class cry
  10. 26. ___ bar
  11. 28. New faces
  12. 29. Rejecting higher authority?
  13. 33. Dodger manager with two World Series rings
  14. 34. Shout from the crow's-nest
  15. 37. Seminary subj.
  16. 38. Giggle syllable
  17. 40. Prefix with state
  18. 41. "___ seen enough!"
  19. 42. "Skedaddle!"
  20. 44. Impressed with
  21. 47. Village V.I.P.
  22. 51. *Carpenter's tool with a cord
  23. 54. "Dogs"
  24. 56. Single
  25. 57. Black rock
  26. 58. White-tailed raptor
  27. 60. Dad-blasted
  28. 62. Fed. property agency
  29. 63. Black ___
  30. 65. Half a Beatles title
  31. 67. Like the telecast of the 1954 Rose Bowl parade, notably
  32. 69. ___ Macmillan, 1950s-'60s British P.M.
  33. 72. Plants above the timberline
  34. 75. Skin conditioners
  35. 76. Ungainly
  36. 78. Identified
  37. 80. Drink with spices
  38. 81. On the ___ (at large)
  39. 82. ___ Hall, shortest Harlem Globetrotter
  40. 85. Irving protagonist
  41. 87. Pit bull biter
  42. 90. Dirt pie ingredient
  43. 92. ___ shake
  44. 94. *Deep Throat's identity
  45. 96. Rogen and Green
  46. 98. "Show me" type
  47. 100. Hunger
  48. 101. Budgetary excess
  49. 102. N., E., W. and S.
  50. 104. Thumbs-up vote
  51. 105. Lean-___
  52. 107. With understatedness
  53. 109. "Two New Sciences" author
  54. 112. Hedge clippings, grass cuttings, etc.
  55. 115. Ideal setting for a fan
  56. 117. Features of green rooms
  57. 118. "That's the way the cookie crumbles"
  58. 122. *Start a construction project
  59. 124. Back then ... or a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues
  60. 127. Save up
  61. 128. Bone: Prefix
  62. 129. Giovanni, in "Don Giovanni"
  63. 130. Russo of "30-Down"
  64. 131. Morales of "La Bamba"
  65. 132. Very cold

Down

  1. 1. Ones holding hands?
  2. 2. French act
  3. 3. Comment before "Be that way!"
  4. 4. Stamping need
  5. 5. Some campaign purchases
  6. 6. D.C. ballplayer
  7. 7. It's worth 100 smackers
  8. 8. Patisserie buy
  9. 9. Sunken, as eyes
  10. 10. Low voices
  11. 11. It may be lined with mailboxes: Abbr.
  12. 12. Different rooms in a museum, maybe
  13. 13. *Smidgen
  14. 14. Cooker with a dial
  15. 15. Having no head
  16. 16. Luxury Hyundai
  17. 17. Gaping things
  18. 20. Relative of the Contour Plus
  19. 21. Poe poem
  20. 24. Like "Annabel Lee" among all Poe poems
  21. 27. See 89-Down
  22. 30. Wielder of the hammer Mjölnir
  23. 31. Lower chamber
  24. 32. Some stadium noise
  25. 34. Slimming surgery, informally
  26. 35. River through Bristol
  27. 36. *Tom Seaver, e.g.
  28. 39. At 3,000 feet above sea level, the highest provincial capital in Italy
  29. 43. ___ cake (dim sum staple)
  30. 45. *Dr. Seuss' genre
  31. 46. Mysterious sighting
  32. 48. *Challenge for a right-handed golfer
  33. 49. Newsman David
  34. 50. Brings up
  35. 52. John McCain, for one
  36. 53. Sports org. with the teams Sun and Sky
  37. 55. In the mail
  38. 59. Wing
  39. 61. Household brand name with a lowercase first letter
  40. 64. Crib strip
  41. 66. Google Wallet alternative
  42. 68. Kind of switch
  43. 69. They hover over some icons
  44. 70. In the know
  45. 71. Release to the public, informally
  46. 73. Pad thai ingredient
  47. 74. Coal locale
  48. 77. Actress Diana nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell"
  49. 79. Strong sideless wagon
  50. 83. *W.W. II propagandist
  51. 84. Suit to ___
  52. 86. Directive in some automated messages
  53. 88. Holy Land line
  54. 89. With 27-Down, firm figure: Abbr.
  55. 91. "Stop your nonsense!"
  56. 93. Funny-car fuel, informally
  57. 95. Danish king who conquered England
  58. 97. Boondocks
  59. 99. Catch in the North Atlantic
  60. 103. Tough going
  61. 106. Al Jolson standard
  62. 108. "Aw, c'mon"
  63. 109. Songstress Eydie
  64. 110. "You're ___ One, Mr. Grinch"
  65. 111. Köln coin
  66. 113. "Same here"
  67. 114. Stars, at the Forum
  68. 115. Letter-shaped girder
  69. 116. Sounds of scolding
  70. 119. Put on board
  71. 120. Grieg's "___ Death"
  72. 121. Violins and violas: Abbr.
  73. 123. U.S.'s largest labor union, in brief
  74. 125. Oscar-nominated Joaquin Phoenix film
  75. 126. "The Two Towers" denizen

This puzzle was published on Sunday, Aug 16, 2015 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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