Above is the completed puzzle for the Sunday February 2nd crossword by Merl Reagle with the theme ‘The Dark Side’. Below are the clues we were given:
ACROSS
1 Punk rock subgenre
4 Untrue
9 Ill-fated shepherd
13 Stay fresh
17 Coll. course with uniforms
19 Dodge
20 Enterprise officer
21 “Cars” company
22 Tiny bit
23 Miss at a ball
24 African antelope
25 Pioneering game company
26 Turners on tuners
28 ___ the engine
29 Detective work, at times *
31 Bettors’ and debtors’ letters
33 Flier around a lighthouse
35 Sealy rival
36 However, briefly
37 Popular soft-shoe song
41 Hard-to-park vehicles
43 Lid makeup
44 Professional org.
45 Bar under the car
46 Kung ___
48 Storable bed
49 Promotional freebie
51 Volkswagen compact
53 Baby’s first words, maybe
57 Throat thingy
60 Block the sun, basically
62 Stoat coat
63 Sheen-Sutherland thriller of 1997 *
66 Tall, cold one?
68 Suggested amt.
70 Preschoolers?
71 1993 Winger-Hopkins film *
72 He has a cetacean fixation
76 Trains, in a way, and the key to 18 of this puzzle’s black squares. (Ones that begin with the keyword are asterisked. The others are for you to discover.)
80 Salt, in four letters
81 Poe output
83 Burr’s conclusion
84 Gilbert’s “___, Pray, Love”
85 Ink-soaked cushion
87 “Designer stubble”
90 With 92 Across, old radio catchphrase
92 See 90 Across
96 Dustin’s NYC hustler
97 Sentence with extreme prejudice?
100 Under way
102 ___-Boy recliner
103 Georg’s unit
104 D.C.-based network
106 Pasta ___ carbonara
107 With 110 Across, a hint of things to come
110 See 107 Across
113 Cake in a dish?
115 1991 Woody Allen film *
117 Soul, to Chabrol
118 Single-masted boat
120 Ignore
122 Try to win over
123 1963 hour-long “Twilight Zone” episode with a Bible-inspired title
126 ___ project
128 British nobles
132 With 135 Down, a few
133 Cinema beekeeper
134 In different places
136 Chowderhead
137 Salon offering
138 Cinema plantation
139 Not on deck, perhaps
140 Painfully undecided
141 Erstwhile “pond” jumpers
142 Bus route point
143 Old office worker
144 Starr of music
DOWN
1 Actor Estrada
2 1971 Cat Stevens hit
3 Bart and Lisa’s bus driver
4 Catch
5 Dwarf by comparison
6 Flat sign
7 Rolls-Royce model
8 Literary salute
9 “I love him like ___”
10 Hamlet’s relatives?
11 Paris’s ___ Palace
12 Sumptuous living
13 Toy with a tail
14 Forces, as payment
15 You can see it during a lunar eclipse
16 Sentence structure?
18 Secret governing groups *
21 Nickname for Haydn
27 Nursery buy
29 “___ we trust”
30 Increase by degrees
32 Diamond authority
34 Arnaz role
37 Capt.’s superior
38 TV VIP, e.g.
39 Utah ski resort
40 Holiday tuber
42 Played sharply and separately, in mus.
44 Of frogs and toads
47 Uncouth one
50 Like Voldemort
52 ___ crossroad
54 News Corp. founder
55 Gale in a tornado?
56 Strong as ___
58 Contemporary of Ava
59 Current options
61 Hirt and Hirschfeld
64 Flow slowly
65 Fashion monogram
67 Proctor of Firesign Theatre
69 Reason for gaping
72 Anti-trafficking force: abbr.
73 Bun contents?
74 Edison’s middle name
75 June bug, for one
77 Yours, in French (or 22 Across, backward)
78 Actor Jason
79 Bag, in brand names
82 Slugger Sammy
86 Paternity-suit evidence
88 In a snug manner
89 Enemy org. in “Get Smart”
91 Enormous span
93 1943 film written by Thornton Wilder *
94 Fairy tale villain
95 TV spy or movie pilot
98 “Who are ___ guys?”
99 Raises
101 Chasing game
105 Like new recruits
107 Leans toward
108 Muscat citizens
109 Give in
111 Prerequisite for a triple play
112 Lose fizz
114 Cutout figure whose image is projected on a wall *
116 Tacit approval
118 Withered
119 Dinosaur’s head?
121 Bluesy Memphis street
124 Failed investment
125 Bucket of bolts
127 Cyclo or Jumbo ending
129 Screwball
130 Book before Nehemiah
131 PlayStation maker
134 Six-pack muscles
135 See 132 Across
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