Original 63-Down clue had comma after "Navy"; removed it. Clue number for 130-Down was missing in the original—clue appeared without a number, just beneath clue for 129-Down, with "sponge" lowercased. Capitalized "sponge" and made it the clue for 130-Down.
1 L | 2 I | 3 L | 4 I | 5 B | 6 E | 7 T | 8 S | 9 I | 10 L | 11 V | 12 I | 13 A | 14 S | 15 O | 16 R | 17 O | 18 S | 19 I | 20 S | |||
21 E | V | E | L | I | N | A | 22 O | R | I | A | N | A | 23 A | L | A | B | A | M | A | 24 N |
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25 G | A | S | L | E | S | S | 26 C | A | M | L | A | N | 27 L | O | V | E | L | A | C | E |
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28 I | N | S | 29 R | E | M | 30 A | R | Q | U | E | 31 D | 32 I | S | N | E | Y | 33 G | E | R |
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34 S | H | E | 35 M | 36 A | L | A | I | 37 O | A | S | E | A | N | 38 B | I | R | I |
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39 T | O | P | E | 40 U | N | I | T | 41 M | 42 E | S | H | A | 43 B | O | N | D | S |
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44 S | E | S | T | 45 O | S | 46 F | E | 47 D | E | R | A | L | I | 48 S | 49 T | 50 O | L | E | O | S |
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51 A | P | E | 52 R | 53 S | U | D | S | 54 S | A | N | E | 55 T | E | S | S | A |
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56 C | 57 A | 58 R | T | E | R | E | 59 T | 60 R | E | A | 61 D | 62 H | O | R | 63 T | H | Y | |||||
64 A | C | O | R | N | 65 P | H | 66 R | A | A | T | E | 67 S | 68 B | E | R | E | N | 69 I | 70 C | 71 E |
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72 M | A | D | O | 73 G | U | Y | O | N | 74 Z | E | T | 75 A | 76 B | A | R | 77 S | O | X |
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78 E | D | E | N | 79 A | G | E | N | D | 80 A | 81 P | A | R | 82 S | E | C | 83 C | O | S | T |
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84 L | I | N | 85 F | U | N | 86 E | A | D | 87 S | 88 R | A | L | L | Y | 89 O | L | I | O |
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90 S | A | T | 91 U | R | D | A | 92 Y | 93 L | I | T | 94 T | O | R | A | L | 95 R | U | D | E | R |
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96 N | I | S | N | A | 97 S | 98 T | A | W | S | 99 B | U | 100 D | A | P | E | S | T |
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101 S | 102 I | 103 P | I | D | 104 C | R | O | 105 P | 106 T | I | T | 107 O | 108 M | I | K | E | ||||||
109 A | O | R | T | A | 110 E | D | U | L | 111 C | O | R | A | T | 112 E | 113 M | I | L | 114 E | 115 D | 116 H |
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117 G | L | U | E | Y | 118 C | E | O | R | L | 119 A | X | 120 I | S | 121 E | V | O | E |
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122 L | A | S | S | 123 P | 124 A | 125 P | H | O | S | 126 A | H | E | T | 127 T | E | N | N |
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128 E | N | S | 129 A | L | L | E | Y | N | 130 T | 131 H | R | E | S | H | 132 E | 133 D | 134 N | A | G |
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135 S | T | I | 136 G | M | A | T | A | 137 A | 138 G | O | U | T | I | 139 A | D | A | 140 M | I | T | E |
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141 S | H | A | R | E | Z | E | R | 142 S | E | X | T | E | T | 143 C | A | D | E | N | U | S |
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144 E | N | S | N | A | R | L | 145 M | E | A | S | L | E | 146 A | M | O | N | G | S | T |
Answer summary:
18 unique to this puzzle, 50 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.