Crossword by: Pawel Fludzinski and edited by Rich Norris
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Across
1. Pianist Argerich
7. Counterbalance
13. Burdensome
20. “… there’s __!”: Hamlet
21. Trounces
22. Forwards, say
23. 1993 drama for which Stockard Channing got an Oscar nomination
26. Now, in Nicaragua
27. Fish with bobbing bait
28. Golden number
29. D-Day transports
32. Columnist Coulter
33. Soothsayers
35. Let go
39. Nicole Kidman’s birthplace
40. 2009 sci-fi Best Picture nominee
42. Trattoria starters
43. Onetime “SNL” regular Cheri
45. Thermal opening
46. Can plan
48. AOL backs-and-forths
49. Points of view?
51. Islamic leader
54. Islamic leader
55. Yiddish laments
56. Word with fair or opposite
57. Andean stew veggie
59. In need of wiping up
62. Coterie
64. Kane’s estate
67. Effort before the effort
70. North Carolina university
71. Kurosawa period film remade into a Western in 1960
74. 1988 baseball scandal movie
76. “Devil Inside” band
77. Nobility
79. Like the West Coast’s U.S. Route 101
80. Guinea pig
82. Prepared to propose
84. Cabinet dept. created in 1965
85. Spy org. until 1991
88. Subway line to Columbia Univ.
89. Muffin choice
92. Engels collaborator
94. More upscale
96. Bore, as a cost
97. Inclined
100. Time-saving phone no.
102. Madrid monarch
103. Two sheets to the wind?
105. 1995 Tom Hanks docudrama
109. Farming prefix
110. Alleviate
111. Held lovingly
112. Rental car feature, briefly
113. First word of the Declaration of Independence
114. “Spider-Man” director
116. “__ Crazy”: Paul Davis hit
117. Riveting icon
119. Grant/MacDowell romantic comedy
127. Stinkers
128. Rear
129. First in line, perhaps
130. Deep down
131. High-hats
132. Gave lip to
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Down
1. “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll” launch of 1981
2. Yellowfin tuna
3. Common color in national flags
4. Cherish
5. Actor Laurie
6. Using a passport
7. 1960 Rat Pack film
8. TV sites, in realty ads
9. Russian basso Chaliapin
10. Honeymoon adventure
11. Typographic measure
12. J.A. Prufrock’s creator
13. Degree requirement, maybe
14. Dorks
15. Actor Morales
16. Injure again, as a ligament
17. Covert maritime org.
18. Side for 2-Down
19. ID in MDs’ records
24. Banks on a diamond
25. Enforcement group
29. Froot __
30. Composer of gnossiennes
31. Hitchcock thriller remade three times
34. Pennies: Abbr.
36. Academy Award-nominated 1949 war film
37. Country singer Harris
38. Minority opinion
41. Some cats
42. Prefix with scope
44. Actress Massey
47. Double espresso, say
50. Darts
52. Rome’s __ Way
53. Salyut successor
58. In unison, in music
60. Parking garage section
61. Light opening?
63. Baroque painter Guido
65. Part of ADA: Abbr.
66. Portrait finish?
68. Grafton’s “__ for Outlaw”
69. Sumptuous
71. Spoil
72. Subject of Newton’s first law
73. Ararat arrival
75. Ewok’s planet
78. Masterpiece
81. Auction site
83. Cretaceous giant
86. Class
87. Jellyfish’s lack
90. Chicken Little, notably
91. Half a workout mantra
93. 2003 Penn/Watts drama with “The weight of a hummingbird” in one of its taglines
95. Common coastal arrivals
98. Okra unit PD
99. “Invisible Man” author
101. “It’s on the __ my tongue”
104. Composed
106. Smooth, musically
107. Tooth: Pref.
108. Promulgates
111. Drink from a press
115. 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit
118. At Staples Center, briefly
119. “__ little teapot …”
120. Lab inspector?
121. Crib cry
122. Literary monogram
123. Period, for one
124. Hi-__ monitor
125. “Peer Gynt” widow
126. Inc., in Ipswich
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