NY Times, Sun, Mar 22, 2009 CLOSING THE DEAL

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1. Eye affliction : STYE 5. Wearing a long dress and a collar buttoned to the top, maybe : PRIM 9. Was : LIVED 14. Raise hell : ACTUP 19. Évian and others : EAUX 20. Harried : RODE 21. Manuscript marks noting possible errors : OBELI 22. Go on and on : PRATE 23. Corps veterans : EXMARINES 25. Painful prod : REDHOTPOKER 27. Engagement gift : DIAMONDSOLITAIRE 29. Turned on the waterworks : WEPT 30. In Sicily it's about 10,920 ft. high : MTETNA 31. After-Christmas sale shoppers, e.g. : MOBS 33. Papier-___ : MACHE 37. Shows in a theater : SCREENS 43. ___ Nurmi, the Flying Finn : PAAVO 46. Penne ___ vodka : ALLA 47. Traveler's alternative to 90-Down : JFK 50. Conflict of 1973 : YOMKIPPURWAR 52. Bygone party attire : ZOOTSUITS 55. Part of a family : SPECIES 56. Munic. official : ALD 57. Showcase Showdown prize, perhaps : DINETTESET 59. Stripe : SORT 60. Down : BLUE 61. Help desk sign : ASKME 62. See 84-Down : THIS 65. Star of 1950s TV's "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" : LEEAAKER 67. Fancy salad ingredients : ARTICHOKEHEARTS 72. Easily beat all the competition : DOMINATE 75. Petty : MERE 76. Man with cups and pieces : REESE 80. River separating continents : URAL 81. Singular praise? : KUDO 83. Speakeasy supply : BATHTUBGIN 87. H.S. class : ENG 88. Montréal-___ International Airport : MIRABEL 91. Fair-haired : TOWHEADED 92. Subject of a nursery rhyme that has only eight different words : LONDONBRIDGE 95. English poet laureate Henry : PYE 96. Singular : LONE 97. Energy source : STEAM 98. Having only the forepart visible, as a beast in heraldry : ISSUANT 100. ___ nerve (funny bone tingler) : ULNAR 101. Untouchable, say : TMAN 103. "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a ___; what else does a man need to be happy?": Albert Einstein : VIOLIN 107. Historian's Muse : CLIO 109. Big name in real estate : CENTURYTWENTYONE 119. Classic name in chain restaurants : PIZZERIAUNO 121. Like, with "to" : ANALOGOUS 122. Spinning : AREEL 123. Untagged, in tag : NOTIT 124. Michelangelo's David, e.g. : NUDE 125. Princess of literature : OZMA 126. "Alas ..." : SADLY 127. "On the Beach" author : SHUTE 128. Showed disdain, in a way : SPAT 129. Gray side : REBS		1. Origin : SEED 2. Get ready to take off : TAXI 3. Desert in the Southwest : YUMA 4. This is a test : EXAM 5. It may be fine or fine art : PRINT 6. Typeface imitative of handwriting : RONDE 7. Words of explanation : IDEST 8. Quark/antiquark pairs : MESONS 9. "Full House" actress Loughlin : LORI 10. "Su-u-ure" : IBET 11. Sacred Hindu text : VEDA 12. K-12 : ELHI 13. Christian of the cloth? : DIOR 14. Killer ___ : APP 15. One with prier engagements? : CROWBAR 16. Leaves : TAKESAWALK 17. Sch. near the Rio Grande : UTEP 18. Cheeky : PERT 24. Where 51-Down was martyred : ROME 26. Pro ___ : TEM 28. Like some petticoats : LACY 32. Symphony, e.g. : OPUS 33. "Zoom-zoom" sloganeer : MAZDA 34. Eponymous Dr. Alzheimer : ALOIS 35. Dull, hollow sound : CLONK 36. Often-anonymous intimidation technique : HATEMAIL 38. Author Asquith of children's books : ROS 39. Hirohito's title: Abbr. : EMP 40. Scratches (out) : EKES 41. Designer Miller : NICOLE 42. Flowering shrub : SPIREA 44. "x" in an equation : VALUE 45. "At-ten-SHUN!," e.g. : ORDER 47. Protrude : JUT 48. "Bah!" : FIE 49. 24 of them = 100%: Abbr. : KTS 51. "Quo vadis?" speaker : PETER 53. Rear of a galley : STERN 54. Rogen of "Knocked Up" : SETH 58. ___ Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead : THOM 60. Brave activity : BASEBALL 63. Alibi ___ (Ring Lardner character) : IKE 64. Balkan native : SERB 66. Based on ___ story : ATRUE 68. "___ Care of Business" (1974 hit) : TAKIN 69. Pianist José : ITURBI 70. Los Angeles's ___-Sinai Medical Center : CEDARS 71. Basic cooking instruction : HEAT 72. They're often scheduled at noon : DUELS 73. "... then again, I could be wrong" : ORNOT 74. Made more attractive? : MAGNETIZED 77. Thomas Hardy's ___ Heath : EGDON 78. Home of St. Catherine : SIENA 79. Rear-___ : ENDER 82. Sometimes-satin items of apparel : OBIS 84. With 62-Across, comic's challenge : TOP 85. Certain m.p.g. rating: Abbr. : HWY 86. French beverage : THE 88. Home of Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" : MOMA 89. Part of an academic address : EDU 90. Traveler's alternative to 47-Across : LGA 93. Young woman, old-style : DAMOZEL 94. Green-eyed monster : ENVY 99. Nashville 11 : TITANS 100. "___ the Sons" (Gay Talese best seller) : UNTO 102. Big A.T.M. maker : NCR 104. Accept responsibility : OWNUP 105. ___ double life : LEADA 106. Fjord, for example : INLET 107. Ones working on columns, for short : CPAS 108. Old Italian bread : LIRA 110. Fünf minus vier : EINS 111. Sodium hydroxide, chemically : NAOH 112. Peace Nobelist from South Africa : TUTU 113. Second, e.g. : UNIT 114. Mechanical : ROTE 115. "Son of Frankenstein" role : YGOR 116. Squishy stuff : OOZE 117. Feeling no pain : NUMB 118. Juan's "those" : ESAS 120. Ron of "Tarzan" : ELY