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ACROSS1 "Hooked on Classics" record promoter
5 Japanese electronics giant
10 Swell locale?
13 Director Apatow
17 View from the Uffizi Gallery
18 Polo in the 13th century
19 Unyielding
20 Annual event at Pebble Beach
22 Like a well-off señora
23 Greek philosopher who wrote "Man is the measure of all things"
25 Tomato trouble
26 Harrison _______, last person to set foor on the moon
28 Round of applause
29 One on a talk show couch, say
31 Argentine aunt
32 Like some brownies and towelettes
35 Brings out
37 Still
38 Country named for one of its patrons
40 Basic material
41 ____ Day (November 19, in Brazil)
42 Identify, as in a Facebook post
43 It's never free of charge
44 Coin issued in values of 1 to 500
45 Tongue, anatomically
47 Largest labor union in the U.S.
49 Does a certain dog trick
52 Some iPods
54 "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" instrument
58 Howard Stern rival
61 "Jeez!"
65 "L'___ del Cairo" (unfinished Mozart opera)
66 Prefix with lingual
68 With full attention
69 Gooey stuff
70 Classic song with the repeated line "If you need me, I will be nearby" ... shown symbolically in this puzzle
75 Ewoks' home in sci-fi
76 Upstate SUNY campus
77 Regret
78 Filbert, for one
79 Woman's floral nickname
80 Common plastic base
82 Vocal cats
85 Part of Polynesia
87 It's least palatable when raw
89 Little, twisted part of us all?
90 Egg, for one
93 Bygone cable inits.
96 Main ingredient in a Tom Collins
98 Wenders who directed "Buena Vista Social Club"
100 Santa ____ (some winds)
101 Close with a knot
104 Good thing to get from Moody's
108 Disaster area, so to speak
109 Marked down
110 Six-time All-Star Garciaparra
111 Prefix for a revived style
112 French mime
115 Go off course
117 Use as a conclusion
119 Insurance giant
120 Find out about
124 Prefix with -plasm
125 Subject of an annual festival in Holland, Mich.
126 French buds
127 Instrument at Rick's Café
128 With 132-Across, place to get a date
129 Spew fire and brimstone, say
130 Dusk-___-dawn
131 Animal sought in 2016's "Zootopia"
132 See 128-Across
DOWN1 Limestone areas with sinkholes and caverns
2 One of the Nixons
3 Captivate
4 Rich soil
5 Caveat ______
6 Final installment of "The Hangover"
7 Sign of theatrical success
8 Fall mo.
9 Title biblical character played by Russell Crowe
10 Hit from "Songs in the Key of Life" dedicated to Ellington
11 End of an ___
12 Dutch beer brand
13 Compressed file format
14 Language that gave us "cummerbund"
15 They impart an innocent look
16 Maidens
19 How good times are remembered
21 Country singer Kathy with the #1 "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses"
24 Mother and wife of Uranus
27 Google heading
30 Churchill gesture
33 Supercilious sort
34 Muscular
36 Shaped like a tube
39 Long, flowing locks
41 In a luxurious manner
46 Untethered
48 Lead-in to boy
50 More bloody
51 Caught
53 Refugee's request
54 Rising star
55 Money-saving brand prefix
56 Extols
57 Melodic passage
59 Galaxy rival
60 "True Life" airer
62 "Now We Are Six" author
63 Love, in the Louvre
64 Pond wrigglers
67 Establishes
71 They may keep you awake at night
72 Reward for Fido
73 It may take a toll: Abbr.
74 Certification for eco-friendly buildings, for short
81 Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb
83 Direction of progress
84 "Hold it!"
86 "Same here"
88 Chinese dynasty of 1,000 years ago
90 React to, as a shock
91 Like PETA
92 Bob Ewell's daughter in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
94 Uselessly, after "to"
95 Texans, e.g.
97 "Oh yeah? Give me an example!"
99 Subcompact
102 Because
103 A limerick has 13
105 Sought, as office
106 Irk
107 Order to a pest
113 It can come in sheets
114 A.T.M. printout: Abbr.
116 Certain tow job, for short
118 Shed tears
121 Bygone record label
122 Sauced
123 Back muscle, briefly
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