Crosswordese Cavalcade David Alfred Bywaters (davidalfrdbywaters.com)

ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1. Jumpy gait 5. Opponent of Caesar 19 20 21 22 9. Images on a computer desktop 23 24 25 26 14. Decreased 19. Sixty minutes 27 28 29 30 20. Acad. Inst. 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 21. Reigns 22. Intended 38 39 40 41 42 23. Reproachful question directed to a beauty 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 product magnate? 25. Operatic commercials for a 50 51 52 53 54 sandwich cookie? 27. Early Ford 55 56 57 58 59 60 28. How people drone 61 62 63 64 30. Chicken origin 31. Ranch suffix 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 32. "You're ___ Look Like a Monkey When You Grow 72 73 74 Old" (old novelty song) 34. Prepares to read a good 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 Victorian novel 84 85 86 87 88 38. Dads' spouses 39. If the daughter of John 89 90 91 92 Lennon's second wife's brother were named for 93 94 95 96 97 98 Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife and then married an 99 100 101 102 103 104 ambient music pioneer, she'd be...? 105 106 107 108 109 110 43. Start again 111 112 113 114 115 116 46. Bus. class 48. Sleeper's sound 117 118 119 120 49. ___-fi 50. Long, long time 121 122 123 124 51. Regard reverently 52. URL letters © 2018 53. ____ above (superior to) 106. Correspondent's plea 14. Expatriate 67. 1987 film about inhuman 55. Whale that's black and 109. Orange vegetable 15. Long-eared dog law enforcement white and beige all over? 111. Worst point in a Yale 16. What the lamb says 68. "____ a Teenage Werewolf" 57. Campfire confections student's dermatological 17. Finish 69. Stag's horn 59. Belonging to other people outbreak? 18. Rehab symptoms 70. Pitchers 61. Property maps 115. Expert in estimating 24. Knee : leg :: ___ : arm 71. Lessen, as pressure 63. Middle word of a primates' birthdates? 26. Get together with one's 76. Fronded plants Napoleonic palindrome 117. Nocturnal perch former classmates 77. Shoe brand 64. ____ Peres (1923-2016) 118. Where bombs burst so as 29. Makes up for 78. Co-inhabitant, informally 65. Disquieting conger to illuminate a flag, in a 33. Second-hand vehicle 80. Without delay, briefly paradises near a certain anthem 34. Military body 81. Move through snow or city? 119. Streamlet 35. Belligerent response to an water on wooden slats 72. Immerses completely 120. Put away, as luggage accusation 82. Quaint contraction 73. Long-running NBC series 121. Is next to 36. Anointing 83. More than none 74. Clemens, pseudonymously 122. Fits inside of, like a Russian 37. Luau dish 87. Systems of language 75. Attempt to remove without doll 38. Restaurant handout 89. Retro music purchases smearing, perhaps 123. Out of danger 40. Not asea 90. Wager about 76. Less lean 124. Orange pekoe and Formosa 41. Beg 92. Cloth worn on the head 79. Excerpt from an oolong, e.g. 42. Brief message 94. Finally overdubbed "Thin Man" 43. Girl's middle name 95. Fights back, or runs away, movie playing in Mexico? DOWN 44. Org. created by the Treaty for example 84. Just fair 1. Main topic of Rome of 1957 96. Westerns 85. Not good 2. Helicopter part 45. Neither's counterpart 98. Place 86. Fairy tale villains 3. Perform better than 47. Raccoon relative 101. Old picture coloring 88. Outer layer of a human 4. Loyal 51. Provencal city 102. Talk foolishly 89. Jean- ___ Ponty (or Godard) 5. Tradition 53. Goddess of wisdom 103. Hot chocolatey drink 90. Saltwater 6. Pismire 54. Reproached 104. Fumes 91. Roughly 7. Attach with a string 56. Not ruling out 106. Ebb 92. Common flower 8. It may be closed for 58. Haggard or Norman 107. Some TVs 93. Odor emanating from a preheating, open for 60. ER workers 108. "There's nobody but me!" spectator sports event? broiling 62. Six-stanza poem 110. Remainder 97. Theatrical opposite of a hit 9. Patch type 64. Skirt openings 111. Period 99. Groups of seven 10. Cottage cheese part 65. Pedagogical credential, 112. Toss 100. Attempts to achieve 11. briefly 113. Chit 102. Alternatives to Macs 12. Sign gas 66. Chalkboard deletion 114. German article 105. Native of Vientiane 13. US Agcy. for retirees 116. Santa helper