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1. Do well in the Olympics : MEDAL 6. Choose to take part : OPTIN 11. Modern storage sites : DISKS 16. Sky Chief company : TEXACO 17. Satisfactory : UPTOSNUFF 21. Low soccer score : ONENIL 23. Place in trust : ESCROW 24. Stabilizing track : GUIDERAIL 25. Weaver's supply : SKEINS 26. Word with mail or letter : CHAIN 27. Actor Edward James ___ : OLMOS 28. 2001 headline maker : ENRON 30. It's worth its weight in gold : INGOT 31. PC linkup : LAN 32. Tweaks : NIPS 33. Michael of "Juno" and "Superbad" : CERA 34. "Ixnay" : NAH 35. Bygone leaders : KAISERS 38. Fathers : SIRES 40. Norse pantheon : AESIR 41. Another name for 72-Across : DOGSTAR 45. Center : NUB 46. A Marx brother : CHICO 48. Thither : YON 50. Longtime Susan Lucci role : ERICA 52. ___-Caps (candy) : SNO 53. Tulsa sch. : ORU 54. Largest moon of Saturn : TITAN 55. Subject of a tipster's tip : NAG 56. Joe Montana or Jerry Rice, informally : NINER 57. Windsor's home: Abbr. : ONT 58. Additions to a musical staff : BARLINES 60. ___ but when : NOTIF 62. Blissful : BEATIFIC 64. Crackerjack : ACE 65. Expressed a welcome : SAIDHELLO 68. Org. with spring playoffs : NHL 69. Dried seaweed popular in Japanese cuisine : KOMBU 72. Part of Canis Major : SIRIUS 73. Boot camp affirmative : YESSIR 75. Fanatic : ULTRA 79. Be more than a dream : EXIST 80. Lite : LOFAT 82. Clip, e.g. : VIDEO 83. Bring up, perhaps : REHEM 84. Suffix with magnet : ICS 85. 7'6" Ming : YAO 87. Green-eyed : ENVYING 89. ___ in Charlie : CAS 91. Wall-E's love in "Wall-E" : EVE 92. One side of an exchange : TAT 93. It may be bid : ADIEU 95. Big band instrument : SAX 96. It comes in volumes: Abbr. : ENCYC 98. Cartoon pooch : REN 99. Slugger's stat : HRS 100. Tandoor flatbreads : NANS 101. Popular : DESIRED 103. Prefix with sphere : IONO 104. Galley figure : OAR 105. Bones may be found in it : STOCK 107. Cousin of a clog : SABOT 109. Oscar winner Patricia and others : NEALS 111. It's found near the tongue : UVULA 113. Achilles and Hector : FOES 115. Clothes rack abbr. : IRR 116. Gridiron scores: Abbr. : FGS 117. Scientologist ___ Hubbard : LRON 118. Crown covering : ENAMEL 120. "Did you start without me?" : AMILATE 124. Rachmaninoff's "___-tableaux" : ETUDES 127. Island where Sundanese and Madurese are spoken : JAVA 128. Take too much of, briefly : ODON 131. Windbag's output : GAS 132. Golfer Aoki : ISAO 135. Certain infection : STYE 136. Operatic heroine wooed by Beckmesser : EVA 137. 1963 animated film with the song "Higitus Figitus," with "The" : SWORDINTHESTONE 141. ___ Gold, character on "Entourage" : ARI 142. Stanford's Big Game rival : CAL 143. 1998 animated film featuring the voice of Pierce Brosnan : QUESTFORCAMELOT 144. Hollywood, with "the" : BIZ 145. Notwithstanding that, for short : THO 146. ___ jure (legal term) : IPSO 147. "The Canterbury Tales" traveler : FRIAR 148. Gun for hire : MERC 149. Loser at Gettysburg : LEE 150. Heir, perhaps : SON 151. Org. in Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" : NSA 152. Gives birth to a kid : YEANS 153. Bit of cheer : RAH 154. Road twist : ESS		1. Work together : MESH 2. 1981 film in which Helen Mirren plays a sorceress : EXCALIBUR 3. Onetime MTV animated title character and others : DARIAS 4. With 12-Down, 1889 Twain novel : ACONNECTICUTYANKEE 5. Weathercast figure : LOW 6. Slothful : OTIOSE 7. Underwater families : PODS 8. Japanese market: Abbr. : TSE 9. Memo header : INRE 10. Subtlety : NUANCE 11. Things first on the way up? : DOS 12. See 4-Down : INKINGARTHURSCOURT 13. Perceived to be : SEENAS 14. With 76-Down, 1953 Ava Gardner film ... as depicted elsewhere in this puzzle? : KNIGHTSOF 15. ___-Japanese : SINO 16. Gumshoe : TEC 17. Relative of a grapefruit : UGLI 18. Does some heavy lifting : PUMPSIRON 19. Red alert? : FIRESIREN 20. Bilbao bloom : FLOR 22. W.W. II vessel : LST 27. Kind of inspection : ONSITE 29. ___ Gordimer, Literature Nobelist : NADINE 35. Aid in finding a station : KNOB 36. Magical glow : AURA 37. River that flows past more than 40 castles : RHINE 39. Bishop's group : SYNOD 40. 1973 Rolling Stones #1 hit : ANGIE 42. Davy Jones's locker : OCEAN 43. Years in old Rome : ANNI 44. Drilling grp. : ROTC 47. One of Iago's victims : CASSIO 49. Words of commitment : OATH 51. Five-carbon sugar : RIBOSE 59. Culture areas? : LABS 60. Passover month : NISAN 61. Arrive by air : FLYIN 63. "Winnie ___ Pu" : ILLE 66. Pot-___ (French stew) : AUFEU 67. Overhang : LEDGE 69. Conductor Lockhart and others : KEITHS 70. Rustic transport : OXCART 71. 2001 Anjelica Huston miniseries, with "The" : MISTSOFAVALON 72. Some steaks : SIRLOINS 74. Hot desert winds : SIROCCOS 76. See 14-Down : THEROUNDTABLE 77. Magic trick's climax : REVEAL 78. Supreme Egyptian deity : AMENRA 81. Soap box? : TVSET 82. One of Santa's reindeer : VIXEN 86. Drilling grp. : ADA 88. Chairman Arafat : YASIR 90. ___ Rand, developer of Objectivism : AYN 94. Lou's "La Bamba" co-star : ESAI 97. Rocker Lofgren : NILS 101. Temple structure? : DORM 102. Quick : DEFT 106. Result of going out? : COMA 108. 1971 Peace Nobelist from Germany : BRANDT 110. AARP concern : AGEISM 112. "Parlez-___ français?" : VOUS 114. Delays : SLOWUPS 117. Heroine in Verdi's "Il Trovatore" : LEONORA 118. Gives the heave-ho : EJECTS 119. Arizona native : NAVAHO 121. Not pick up : IGNORE 122. Highest worship in Catholicism : LATRIA 123. Antisub weapon : ASHCAN 125. Cliff homes: Var. : EYRIES 126. Takes by force : SEIZES 129. ___ number on : DOESA 130. About : ORSO 133. What an inflectional ending is added to : STEM 134. Certain netizen : AOLER 137. Area meas. : SQIN 138. Up in the air : IFFY 139. Canal sites : EARS 140. Emulate some of Goya's work : ETCH