Yet Another Cavalcade of Crosswordese David Alfred Bywaters (davidalfredbywaters.com) ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1. Wipes out 7. Bit of advice 10. Off somewhere 19 20 21 22 14. Deal with a spill 19. Move quietly or carefully 23 24 25 26 20. Genetic "messenger," abbr. 21. "This ___ of tears" 22. Big venue 27 28 29 23. Dermatologist's brainstorm? 26. Brisk 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 27. Arousing 28. Drug name reputedly derived 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 from the Sanskrit for "tiger" 29. "Aha!" 30. "She Got the Goldmine, I Got the 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 ___" (Jerry Reed song) 33. War, to two musical pacifists? 52 53 54 55 56 37. Pedagogical offering 40. Very, very 57 58 59 60 43. Refuses to share, colloquially 44. Not broken 45. Monstrous "Arabian Nights" bird 61 62 63 64 65 46. Teller of untruths 47. Aquarium fish 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 52. Anglo-Israeli weapon? 54. Assortments of margarine- flavored sandwich cookies? 73 74 75 57. Hayloft units 58. Start liking 76 77 78 79 80 81 60. Second best athletic groups 61. Olive extract 82 83 84 85 86 87 62. Golden Horde members 63. "Let us indulge in a competition," slangily 88 89 90 91 92 66. Exclamation of a satisfied Hawaiian tourist leaving a Texas 93 94 95 site? 69. Terrified shipboard warning of a 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 downwind snake attack? 73. Pungent bulbs 74. Queueing 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 75. Ending with "cup," "pay," or "gran" 112 113 114 115 116 117 76. Make moist 79. Bottled water brand 80. Fancy neckwear 118 119 120 121 82. Letter-shaped fastener on a pop singer's letter-shaped waste- 122 123 124 125 pipe? 86. Priest, to the impious? © 2020 88. "Beat it!" 89. Iberian cries 2. Noodles alternative 41. Machines for passing smoke 78. Casablanca nation, abbr. 90. Chest bone 3. Peak through water 79. Rehab symptoms, briefly 92. Wolf addressing the moon, 4. Remains rational 42. Eye layer 80. "Stick out like ___ thumb" maybe 5. Long, long time 46. British bathroom 81. Disgusting animals in a 93. It may be knobbed and hinged 6. Prepared 47. From bottom ___ disgusting place 94. City near Tahoe 7. Secret enemy 48. Justice Kagan, to friends 83. Plant anchor 95. Like a white-tie affair 8. South American empire of old 49. Spanish aunt 84. Natural balm 96. Movie about a man who 9. Remorse unit 50. Letters after "cd" or before 85. "Let observation, with extensive switches from beekeeping to 10. Birdlike "com" view, / Survey mankind from dealing in the cross-cultural 11. Crumple up 51. Beast of burden China to ___" ("Vanity of Human musical instruments of 12. Tankard contents, maybe 53. Prefix referring to a certain Wishes" beginning) indigenous peoples? 13. Aye boot-shaped European country 87. Successful diss. authors 102. Modern surgical tool 14. Tropical fruit 55. Creatures from outer space, 91. Nation named for a South 104. Eggnog garnish 15. Mythological hunter who abbr. American revolutionary leader 105. Recluse threatened to kill all the animals 56. Too fat 93. Made a hole 108. Stir up 16. ___-Bismol 59. "This thing weighs ___" 94. Stagger 112. Big feather 17. Remove a fastening from 62. Besmirch 96. Let out of the sty 113. Woodcutting tool in a style 18. "___ the order of" 63. Jiggly dessert ingredient 97. Rameau predecessor popularized by a woman who 24. "Test-tube baby" method, abbr. 64. Related 98. Keyboard exercise goes by alternate palindromic 25. Ending with "switch" or "stink" 65. Frenzy 99. Pismire names? or "smack" (but not "kang") 67. Dorcas's fellow shepherdess in 100. Prophets 118. Church dignitary 29. Elected ones, briefly Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" 101. Neutral trousers color 119. Smell bad 31. ___-pocus 68. An hour after noon 103. "One ___ time" 120. Sliding slat 32. Animated movie with insects 69. Make certain 106. Speak hoarsely 121. Linen alternative 34. Indiana neighbor 70. People from around here 107. Create 122. Russian refusals 35. Male pig 71. Marries secretly 109. Porridge ingredient 123. Small, like a skirt or a van 36. Damsel antagonist 72. Diner 110. Object of worship 124. Pod occupant 37. Capital Portuguesa 74. Scottish John 111. Highway part 125. Give trouble to 38. Involve 76. Music players at parties or on 113. Sleeve contents 39. Starry name given Esther the radio, briefly 114. Agnus ___ DOWN Johnson by Jonathan Swift 77. Intoxicating ingredient in wine 115. School of Buddhism 1. Airport postings. abbr. and beer, abbr. 116. Teutonic cry 117. Campground abbr.