THE END IS IN SIGHT
erik agard
ACROSS 1. Hard to make out 11. Alla ___ ("hunter-style") 21. Capital whose motto is "Energy Peril Success" 22. Sci-fi author who wrote "Little Fuzzy" 23. "Coming up, you'll see His Majesty's residence"? (1987, 1972) 25. Jewish NGO that fights bigotry 26. "I can't be the only one..." 27. Blend the roux 28. ___ feed 29. Noisy cats 33. Reg. 35. Peeper pesterer 37. "___ only dreaming, or is this burning an eternal flame?" (Bangles lyric) 38. "I Will Follow" director DuVernay 41. "You ___ the weakest link" 43. It's issued into a tissue 47. Uncas, after earning his merit badges? (1991, 1992) 55. Take the train out of town 56. The ___ (2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees) 57. Good fighter 58. "Mmmmhm" 59. Footballer Freddy 60. Mitochondrial ___ 62. "Bessie" director Rees 63. Wind down? 64. Moving pictures? 65. Moment of silence 67. Letters seen when "stand clear of the platform" is heard 69. Bills that depict Khomeini 71. Month between Shevat and Nisan 73. Army that woos firebreathers instead of slaying them? (1985, 1994, 2007) 79. It's got jaws 80. Politician Dayan or comic Kasher 81. Holiday potable 82. Footballer Patrice 83. The ___ King ("Adventure Time" character who can summon blizzards) 85. Only TV channel that I've appeared on, to my knowledge 87. Website that's free for grandmasters: Abbr. 89. Alphabetical sequence that's a scoreboard abbrev. for a Louisiana b-ball team 91. Avicii's genre 92. Rolling on the ground? 93. Nebulous subj.? 94. Merger's aid
96. Have the same opinion 98. Katana-wielding, kiltclad royal? (2003, 2006) 102. x and y, on a Cartesian plane 103. Commencement attendees, often: Abbr. 104. ___ blanket 105. Smelting input 106. Moscato d'___ (Italian white wine) 110. Talent show portion 112. Brooke of "The Midnight Meat Train" 116. "Enough about your bodily functions" 119. Prayer go-with 121. Buck or doe 125. Partner of Perrins, in the saucemaking biz 126. Ditty with the lyrics "How can it be wrong / To purge the devil inside of Aang"? (2010, 2010, 2010) 132. Cup part 133. "One O'Clock Jump" writer 134. Volunteer 135. He made black-andwhite Western pictures
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40. Wong Fu short film about a girl recovering from a breakup 42. Speaker of the quote "To be great is to be misunderstood" 44. Actress who played Santana Lopez on 97Down 45. Like Lineland, in "Flatland," for short 46. Food Network amts. 47. Locks down? 48. Like a character in a flashforward 49. "My hero!" 50. App store clientele 51. Classic Chinese cosmological text 52. ___-lacto vegetarian 53. Treaty of Guadalupe ___ (pact that ended the Mexican-American War and was subsequently selectively ignored by the United States, leading to the dispossession of many Mexican landowners) 54. ___ France 61. Actress Williams of "Soul Food" 63. "Lie to Me" character (his name is an anagram of one of the title words)
66. ___ Friday's (chain with endless appetizers) 68. Comments 70. Sampled the bitter taste of humiliation 72. Statistic that howold.net tries to guess using face detection software 74. "The Office" accountant 75. Cheadle of "House of Lies" 76. Offensive 77. "Harry Potter y la ___ del Fénix" (it's only a letter change off from the English word) 78. Known as 83. Actress ___ Rae 84. Cajole 86. ESPN show with a "Five Good Minutes" segment 88. Place to find a hotspot, or a hot spot? 90. Prefix with -lineal 94. Within a picture frame? 95. Juárez winter hrs. 97. FOX show that could have been called "Numbers"? 99. Network that airs "Graceland" 100. Historian Berlin 101. "B-E-A-utiful!" 107. Avicii, e.g.
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