LA Times Crossword Answers 3 Feb 13, Sunday

CROSSWORD SETTER: Bruce R. Sutphin & Doug Peterson
THEME: Kiddie Taxidermy … each of today’s themed answers is a “stuffed animal” in that the first two letters and last two letters together give us an animal. It’s as if the animal has been split and “stuffed” with a string of other letters:

23. *High-ranking administrator SENIOR OFFICIAL (a stuffed “se-al”)
34. *Really pricey spread BELUGA CAVIAR (a stuffed “be-ar”)
51. *Home of a 360-member music group MORMON TABERNACLE (a stuffed “mo-le”)
69. *”Love, Actually” actor LIAM NEESON (a stuffed “li-on”)
72. *Get down and dirty? MUD WRESTLE (a stuffed “mu-le”)
90. *Teetotaler, for the night DESIGNATED DRIVER (a stuffed “de-er”)
104. *Vera Wang’s field HAUTE COUTURE (a stuffed “ha-re”)

120. Cuddly toys, or what can be found at the two-letter “head” and “tail” of the answers to starred clues STUFFED ANIMALS

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Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across
1. “The Reader” Oscar winner WINSLET
Kate Winslet is one of my favorite actresses, someone known for taking both the big Hollywood roles while still finding the time to act in smaller independent films. Perhaps Winslet’s most famous part was opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in “Titanic”, although she won her Oscar for a more dramatic role in “The Reader”. But my favorite of her performances is in the romantic comedy “The Holiday” from 2006. I love that movie …

22. Online self-image AVATAR
The Sanskrit word “avatar” describes the concept of a deity descending into earthly life and taking on a persona. It’s easy to see how in the world of “online presences” one might use the word avatar to describe one’s online identity.

25. Mocha native YEMENI
Mocha is a port city in Yemen on the Red Sea an was once the principal port for the capital city of Sana’a. Mocha was the major marketplace in the world for coffee until the 1600s, giving the name to the Mocha coffee bean.

30. AAA offering RTE
The American Automobile Association (AAA) is a not-for-profit organization focused on lobbying, provision of automobile servicing, and selling of automobile insurance. The AAA was founded in 1902 in Chicago and published the first of its celebrated hotel guides back in 1917.

31. Composer Telemann GEORG
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German composer in the Baroque period. Interestingly, Telemann was almost completely self-taught as a musician. Telemann was a good friend of George Frideric Handel and also Johann Sebastian Bach. In fact, Telemann was the godfather of Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel.

34. *Really pricey spread BELUGA CAVIAR (a stuffed “be-ar”)
Beluga caviar comes from the beluga sturgeon, found primarily in the Caspian Sea. It is the most expensive type of caviar in the world. 8 ounces of US-farmed beluga caviar can be purchased through Amazon.com for just over $850, in case you’re feeling peckish …

44. Will Smith title role ALI
“Ali” is a 2001 biographical movie about Muhammad Ali, with Will Smith in the title role. Among other things, the film is noted for its realistic fight scenes. The scenes were realistic because Smith was really being hit, as hard as his opponents could manage.

45. San __: Calif. city or its county MATEO
San Mateo is a city located south of San Francisco, just across the other side of the Bay from where I live. San Mateo is Spanish for Saint Matthew.

51. *Home of a 360-member music group MORMON TABERNACLE (a stuffed “mo-le”)
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a self-funded entity that is part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The choir is known within the church as simply “MoTab”. The choir was founded back in 1847, just a few weeks after the original Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.

56. German import OPEL
Adam Opel founded his company in 1863, first making sewing machines in a cowshed. Commercial success brought new premises and a new product line in 1886, namely penny-farthing bicycles. Adam Opel died in 1895, leaving his two sons with a company that made more penny-farthings and sewing machines than any other company in the world. In 1899 the two sons partnered with a locksmith and started to make cars, but not very successfully. Two years later, the locksmith was dropped in favor of a licensing arrangement with a French car company. By 1914, Opel was the largest manufacturer of automobiles in Germany. My Dad had an Opel in the seventies, a station wagon (we’d say “estate car” in Ireland) called an Opel Kadett.

59. Friend of Rabbit ROO
Like most of the characters in A. A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh”, Roo is based on a stuffed toy belonging to Milne’s son, Christopher Robin.

60. Chou En-__ LAI
Zhou Enlai (also Chou En-Lai) was the first government leader of the People’s Republic of China and held the office of Premier from 1949 until he died in 1976. Zhou Enlai ran the government for Communist Party Leader Mao Zedong, often striking a more conciliatory tone with the West than that of his boss. He was instrumental, for example, in setting up President Nixon’s famous visit to China in 1972. Zhou Enlai died just a few months before Mao Zedong, with both deaths leading to unrest and a dramatic change in political direction for the country.

61. U. muck-a-mucks BMOCS
Big Man On Campus (BMOC)!

64. “Ben-Hur” broke its Oscar record GIGI
(3. Number of Oscars for 64-Across NINE)
In the lovely musical “Gigi”, released in 1958, the title song is sung by Louis Jourdan who plays Gaston. My favorite number though, has to be “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” sung by Maurice Chevalier. Many say that “Gigi” is the last in the long line of great MGM musicals. It won a record 9 Academy Awards, a record that only lasted one year. Twelve months later “Ben Hur” won 11 Oscars.

The celebrated Charlton Heston movie “Ben-Hur” is a dramatization of a book published in 1880 by Lew Wallace titled “Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ”. The 1959 epic film won a record 11 Academy Awards, a feat that has been equaled since then but has never been beaten. The other winners of 11 Oscars are “Titanic” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Rings”.

69. *”Love, Actually” actor LIAM NEESON (a stuffed “li-on”)
Irish actor Liam Neeson got his big break when he played Oskar Schindler in the Spielberg epic “Schindler’s List”. Neeson was in the news a few years ago when he lost his wife, actress Natasha Richardson, in a tragic skiing accident in 2009.

“Love, Actually” is a wonderful British romantic comedy, a film we watch every Christmas. The movie has a great ensemble cast and was written and directed by Richard Curtis. Curtis was also the man behind “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Notting Hill”. “Love, Actually” is very much in the same style as these earlier films.

77. Idyllic locale EDEN
According to the Book of Genesis, Adam and Eve lived in a garden “in” Eden, with Eden being geographically located by reference to four rivers including the Tigris and the Euphrates. Some scholars hypothesize that Eden was located in Mesopotamia, which encompasses much of modern-day Iraq.

79. 118-Across’s home, familiarly SOCAL
(118. Bruin rival TROJAN)
SoCal is short for Southern California.

80. ISP choice DSL
DSL originally stood for Digital Subscriber Loop, but is now accepted to mean (Asymmetric) Digital Subscriber Line. DSL is the technology that allows Internet service be delivered down the same telephone line as voice service, by separating the two into different frequency signals.

103. Modern diary BLOG
“Blog” is a melding of the words “Web” and “log”. My blogs are “logs” of all the LA Times and New York Times crosswords that are published, and I post them on the “Web”.

104. *Vera Wang’s field HAUTE COUTURE (a stuffed “ha-re”)
Vera Wang’s first choice for a career was figure skating, but she failed to make the 1968 US Olympics team. She switched to the world of fashion, and is now famous for her designs of wedding dresses … but also costumes for figure skaters.

108. Martial arts mercenary NINJA
The ninjas were around in Japan at the time of the samurai, but were a very different type of warrior. The ninjas were covert operatives, specializing in the use of stealth to accomplish their missions. As they were a secretive cadre they took on a mystical reputation with the public, who believed they had the ability to become invisible or perhaps walk on water.

110. Important Dadaist ARP
Hans Arp was a French artist renowned for his work with torn and pasted paper, although that wasn’t the only medium he used. Arp was the son of a French mother and German father and spoke both languages fluently. When he was speaking German he gave his name as Hans Arp, but when speaking French he called himself Jean Arp. Both “Hans” and “Jean” translate into English as “John”. In WWI Arp moved to Switzerland to avoid being called up to fight, taking advantage of Swiss neutrality. Eventually he was told to report to the German Consulate and fill out paperwork for the draft. In order to get out of fighting, Arp messed up the paperwork by writing the date in every blank space on the forms. Then he took off all his clothes and walked with his papers over to the officials in charge. He was sent home …

Dadaism thrived during and just after WWI, and was an anti-war, anti-bourgeois and anti-art culture. The movement began in Zurich, Switzerland started by a group of artists and writers who met to discuss art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire, frequently expressing disgust at the war that was raging across Europe.

114. Some ATM sites ATRIA
In modern architecture an atrium is a large open space, often in the center of a building and extending upwards to the roof. The original atrium was an open court in the center of an Ancient Roman house. One could access most of the enclosed rooms of the house from the atrium.

118. Bruin rival TROJAN
The athletic teams of the University of Southern California are called the USC Trojans. The women’s teams are also called the Trojans, but are sometimes referred to as Women of Troy.

125. Nasty rumor CANARD
“Canard” is the French word for “duck”. We use the term to mean a hoax or a misleading rumor. This usage comes from a phrase used in French that translates as “to half-sell a duck”, which means “to cheat”.

128. “The Lion King” trio HYENAS
Among the group of lions at the center of “The Lion King” story, young Simba is the heir apparent, the lion cub destined to take over as leader of the pride. His uncle is jealous of Simba, and plots with a trio of hyenas to kill Simba so that he can take over the leadership position.

Down
1. Early 103-Down player WEST
(103. Hero with a mask BATMAN)
Adam West is the actor who played the title role in the sixties TV series “Batman”. These days you might hear West as the voice of a character called “Adam West” on the animated show “Family Guy”. Back in 1970, West was offered the role of James Bond in the movie “Diamonds are Forever”, but he turned it down!

2. Tête output IDEE
In French, one’s head (tête) might produce an idea (idée).

5. Like a muumuu LOOSE
A “muumuu” is a loose dress that originated in Hawaii. Many muumuus are brightly colored and made of the same material as the ubiquitous Hawaiian shirt. The word “mu’umu’u” means “cut off” in Hawaiian.

7. General of Chinese cuisine TSO
General Tso’s chicken is an American creation, often found on the menu of a Chinese restaurant. The name General Tso may be a reference to General Zuo Zontang of the Qing Dynasty, but there is no clear link.

9. Narrow-brimmed fedora TRILBY
The hat called a trilby is a fedora with a narrow brim. This style of hat was worn in a stage adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel “Trilby” that was perfromed in London in the early 1900s. The hat became popular in the UK around the same time, and took its name from the play.

A fedora is a lovely hat, I think. It is made of felt and is similar to a trilby, but has a broader brim. “Fedora” was a play written for Sarah Bernhardt and first performed in 1889. Bernhardt had the title role of Princess Fedora, and on stage she wore a hat similar to the modern-day fedora. The play led to the introduction of a women’s fashion accessory, the fedora hat, commonly worn by women into the beginning of the twentieth century. Men then started wearing fedoras, but only when women gave up the idea …

10. Réunion attendee ONCLE
In French, an uncle (oncle) might turn up at a reunion (réunion).

11. Chiang __-shek KAI
Chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of the Nationalist Movement in China right through to the end of WWII. The Nationalists lost out in a Civil War to the Communists backed by the Soviet Union after war, and Chiang Kai-Shek and his government were forced to flee to Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek claimed rule over China from Taiwan until his death in 1975.

16. Kitchen spray PAM
PAM cooking oil was introduced in 1961 by Leon Rubin and Arthur Meyerhoff. The name “PAM” is an acronym … standing for “Product of Arthur Meyerhoff” …

17. “SNL” alum Cheri OTERI
Cheri Oteri was the SNL cast member who regularly appeared with Will Farrell in the skit featuring a pair of Spartan cheerleaders.

18. Fruity soda brand FANTA
The soft drink “Fanta” has quite an interesting history. As WWII approached, the Coca-Cola plant in Germany had trouble obtaining the ingredients it needed to continue production of the cola beverage, so the plant manager decided to create a new drink from what was available. The new beverage was built around whey (left over from cheese production) and pomace (left over after juice has been extracted from fruit). The inventor asked his colleagues to use their imagination (“Fantasie” in German) and come up with a name for the drink, so they piped up “Fanta!”

29. Economical shorthand in store names SAV
e.g. Quik N Sav.

32. Mideast land OMAN
Oman lies on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula and is neighbored by the OAE, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

33. “Rodent” band since the 1980s RATT
Ratt is a rock band based in Los Angeles. Ratt was formed out of a San Diego group called Mickey Ratt.

35. Jaworski of Watergate LEON
Leon Jaworski was the Watergate Special Prosecutor, taking over the post after Archibald Cox was dismissed on the orders of President Nixon.

36. Forearm-related ULNAR
The radius and ulna are bones in the forearm. If you hold the palm of your hand up in front of you, the radius is the bone on the “thumb-side” of the arm, and the ulna is the bone on the “pinkie-side”.

37. Official nix VETO
“Veto” comes directly from Latin and means “I forbid”. The word was used by tribunes of Ancient Rome to indicate that they opposed measures passed by the Senate.

38. Alpo rival IAMS
Iams dog food was first produced by the animal nutritionist Paul Iams. Iams felt that household pets were suffering somewhat by being fed a diet of table scraps, so he developed a dry dog food that he thought was more nutritious and suitable for pet dogs. He founded the Iams company, now part of Procter & Gamble, in 1946.

40. Nolan Ryan, notably FIREBALLER
Nolan Ryan is famous for having more career strikeouts that any other pitcher. However, he also holds the record for the most career walks and wild pitches.

42. West Indies island TOBAGO
Trinidad and Tobago is a republic in the southern Caribbean, largely comprising the two main islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago is the birthplace of calypso music.

50. Musical dedicatee whose true identity is the subject of much speculation ELISE
“Fur Elise” is a beautiful piece of music written by Beethoven, and is also known as “Bagatelle in A Minor”. “Fur Elise” means simply “For Elise”, but sadly no one knows the identity of the mysterious dedicatee.

52. Title woman in a Jolson classic MAMMY
“Mammy” is a film with songs by Irving Berlin that was released in 1930 with Al Jolson as the star. Included in the list of songs in the movie are “Mammy” and “Yes, We Have No Bananas”.

54. Wood purchase CORD
A cord of wood has a volume of 128 cubic feet. More commonly it’s a neat stack measuring 4 feet high, 8 feet long and 4 feet deep.

55. Theater chain LOEWS
Loews Theatres was a chain of movie theaters founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew and Brantford Schwartz. The chain merged with AMC Theaters in 2006.

62. Hanna-Barbera fan’s purchase CEL
In the world of animation, a cel is a transparent sheet on which objects and characters are drawn. In the first half of the 20th century the sheet was actually made of celluloid, giving the “cel” its name.

I once had the privilege of spending an afternoon in the room (Bill Hanna’s den) where Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera came up with the idea of “The Flintstones” …

65. “__ man with seven wives …” I MET A
You might remember the nursery rhyme “As I was going to St. Ives” from the third “Die Hard” movie, “Die Hard With a Vengeance”. The rhyme is used as a riddle in the film’s storyline. The rhyme goes like this:

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

There is more than one place called St. Ives in England, but most think the reference is to the seaside town of St. Ives in Cornwall. By the way, the answer to the riddle is “one”, because just the narrator was going to St. Ives, and the rest were characters he met along the way.

68. Tokyo brew ASAHI
Asahi is a beer, and the name of the brewery that produces it. “Asahi” is Japanese for “morning sun”. Asahi introduced a “dry beer” in 1987, igniting a craze that rocketed the brewery to the number one spot in terms of beer production in Japan, with Sapporo close behind.

70. “Ghosts” playwright IBSEN
Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright, considered by many to be the greatest playwright since William Shakespeare. Ibsen was famous for shocking his audiences by exploring subjects that offended the sensibilities of the day (the late 1800s).

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote “Ghosts” in 1881, although he disputed the popular English translation of his original title. His title of “Gengangere” really means, “The Ones Who Return”, or “Again Walkers”.

91. Source of knowledge GURU
“Guru” is a Hindi word meaning “teacher” or “priest”.

92. One less than vier DREI
“Eins, zwei, drei, vier” is German for “one, two, three, four”.

93. Celebrity chef Paula DEEN
Paula Deen is a celebrity chef from Savannah, Georgia who is noted for her Southern cooking. Deen has been criticized for the amount of salt, fat and sugar in her recipes. The criticism became even more intense when Deen disclosed that she herself has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.

95. “Guerrilla Warfare” author GUEVARA
Ernesto “Che” Guevara was born in Argentina, and in 1948 he started to study medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. While at school he satisfied his need to “see the world” by taking two long journeys around South America, the story of which are told in Guevara’s memoir later published as “The Motorcycle Diaries”. While travelling, Guevara was moved by the plight of the people he saw and their working conditions and what he viewed as capitalistic exploitation. In Mexico City he met brothers Raul and Fidel Castro and was persuaded to join their cause, the overthrow of the US-backed government in Cuba. He rose to second-in-command among the Cuban insurgents, and when Castro came to power Guevara was influential in repelling the Bay of Pigs Invasion and bringing Soviet nuclear missiles to the island. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to continue his work as a revolutionary. He was captured by Bolivian forces in 1967, and was executed. Fidel Castro led the public mourning of Guevara’s death, and soon the revolutionary was an icon for many left-wing movements around the world.

103. Hero with a mask BATMAN
Batman is unique among his superhero compatriots in that he has no special powers, just a whole load of cool gadgets.

109. Actress Pressly JAIME
Jaime Pressly is an actress from Kinston, North Carolina who is best known for playing the female lead in the sitcom “My Name is Earl”.

113. “Bill & __ Excellent Adventure” TED’S
“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” is a 1989 comedy sci-fi film, starring Alex Winter as Bill and Keanu Reeves as Ted.

117. Part of ADA: Abbr. ASST
Assistant District Attorney (ADA).

119. Mo. in which the Emancipation Proclamation was delivered JAN
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 during the Civil War. The order freed slaves in Confederate territory, but did not apply to the five slave states that were not in rebellion. Slavery became illegal in the whole of the United States in December 1865 when the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified.

121. Destructive material TNT
TNT is an abbreviation for trinitrotoluene. Trinitrotoluene was first produced in 1863 by the German chemist Joseph Wilbrand, who developed it for use as a yellow dye. TNT is relatively difficult to detonate so it was on the market as a dye for some years before its more explosive properties were discovered.

122. Charlottesville sch. UVA
The University of Virginia (UVA) was of course founded by Thomas Jefferson, who sat on the original Board of Visitors with former US Presidents James Madison and James Monroe. In fact, the original UVA campus was built on land that was once a farm belonging to President Monroe.

123. Chest with tablets ARK
The Torah ark is found in a synagogue, and is the ornamental container in which are stored the Torah scrolls.

124. Society page word NEE
“Née” is the French word for “born” when referring to a female. The male equivalent is “né”.

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. “The Reader” Oscar winner WINSLET
8. Really excited STOKED
14. Refuse to bite one’s tongue POP OFF
20. Copy cats? EDITORS
21. Highly decorated ORNATE
22. Online self-image AVATAR
23. *High-ranking administrator SENIOR OFFICIAL (a stuffed “se-al”)
25. Mocha native YEMENI
26. Typically tough life phase TEENS
27. “__ only take a minute” IT’LL
28. Bygone U.N. member USSR
30. AAA offering RTE
31. Composer Telemann GEORG
34. *Really pricey spread BELUGA CAVIAR (a stuffed “be-ar”)
38. Far from certain IFFY
41. Like some drafts MALTY
43. Jack up ELEVATE
44. Will Smith title role ALI
45. San __: Calif. city or its county MATEO
46. Slip into DON
47. Doesn’t interfere with LETS BE
51. *Home of a 360-member music group MORMON TABERNACLE (a stuffed “mo-le”)
56. German import OPEL
57. Speak bluish? SWEAR
58. Rattle FAZE
59. Friend of Rabbit ROO
60. Chou En-__ LAI
61. U. muck-a-mucks BMOCS
64. “Ben-Hur” broke its Oscar record GIGI
66. Yank’s enemy REB
68. Takes painkillers, say AILS
69. *”Love, Actually” actor LIAM NEESON (a stuffed “li-on”)
72. *Get down and dirty? MUD WRESTLE (a stuffed “mu-le”)
75. In a deft manner ABLY
76. It may influence which club you choose LIE
77. Idyllic locale EDEN
79. 118-Across’s home, familiarly SOCAL
80. ISP choice DSL
81. Reheat, in a way ZAP
83. Quaintly small ITSY
85. Not eating anyone’s dust AHEAD
88. Creepy gaze LEER
90. *Teetotaler, for the night DESIGNATED DRIVER (a stuffed “de-er”)
94. Cause to erupt ENRAGE
96. Carry with effort LUG
97. Moved, as a lifeboat OARED
98. Monarch’s reign, e.g. ERA
99. Really advocate PUSH FOR
102. Free-for-all SPREE
103. Modern diary BLOG
104. *Vera Wang’s field HAUTE COUTURE (a stuffed “ha-re”)
108. Martial arts mercenary NINJA
110. Important Dadaist ARP
111. Thoroughly goes over VETS
112. Bachelor finale? -ETTE
114. Some ATM sites ATRIA
118. Bruin rival TROJAN
120. Cuddly toys, or what can be found at the two-letter “head” and “tail” of the answers to starred clues STUFFED ANIMALS
125. Nasty rumor CANARD
126. Was jealous of ENVIED
127. They may be casual REMARKS
128. “The Lion King” trio HYENAS
129. Virginia et al. STATES
130. Most astute KEENEST

Down
1. Early 103-Down player WEST
2. Tête output IDEE
3. Number of Oscars for 64-Across NINE
4. Not very generous STINGY
5. Like a muumuu LOOSE
6. Misspeak, say ERR
7. General of Chinese cuisine TSO
8. Lenient SOFT
9. Narrow-brimmed fedora TRILBY
10. Réunion attendee ONCLE
11. Chiang __-shek KAI
12. Limo driver’s request, perhaps ETA
13. Mighty storm DELUGE
14. Union contract subject PAYSCALE
15. Stayed too long at the fare? OVERATE
16. Kitchen spray PAM
17. “SNL” alum Cheri OTERI
18. Fruity soda brand FANTA
19. McDonald’s fixture FRIER
24. Symbol of decency FIG LEAF
29. Economical shorthand in store names SAV
32. Mideast land OMAN
33. “Rodent” band since the 1980s RATT
35. Jaworski of Watergate LEON
36. Forearm-related ULNAR
37. Official nix VETO
38. Alpo rival IAMS
39. Smooth movement FLOW
40. Nolan Ryan, notably FIREBALLER
42. West Indies island TOBAGO
45. Dimwit MORON
46. Coffee pot remnant DREG
48. Home with a between-floors entrance SPLIT-LEVEL
49. Important thing BE ALL
50. Musical dedicatee whose true identity is the subject of much speculation ELISE
52. Title woman in a Jolson classic MAMMY
53. Web periodical EZINE
54. Wood purchase CORD
55. Theater chain LOEWS
62. Hanna-Barbera fan’s purchase CEL
63. Grab hold of SEIZE
65. “__ man with seven wives …” I MET A
67. Chum BRO
68. Tokyo brew ASAHI
69. Crock-Pot utensil LADLE
70. “Ghosts” playwright IBSEN
71. Sailing places SEAS
73. Let drain, as a sink UNSTOP
74. Modern greeting E-CARD
78. Bumper defect DING
82. Maneuver, as a ship PILOT
84. Ached (for) YEARNED
86. Prefix with nautical AERO-
87. Major bummer DRAG
89. At attention RAPT
90. Heads down DESCENDS
91. Source of knowledge GURU
92. One less than vier DREI
93. Celebrity chef Paula DEEN
95. “Guerrilla Warfare” author GUEVARA
100. Super-popular HOT
101. Stirs FUSSES
102. Non-negotiable charge SET FEE
103. Hero with a mask BATMAN
104. Devise HATCH
105. Wide assortment ARRAY
106. Barely leading UP ONE
107. Prepare for additional use REFIT
109. Actress Pressly JAIME
113. “Bill & __ Excellent Adventure” TED’S
115. Few and far between RARE
116. Types ILKS
117. Part of ADA: Abbr. ASST
119. Mo. in which the Emancipation Proclamation was delivered JAN
121. Destructive material TNT
122. Charlottesville sch. UVA
123. Chest with tablets ARK
124. Society page word NEE

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