The Ultra Vires Crossword

“Close-Up Magic”

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Clues

Across
1 Container for 41-Down
6 Illmatic rapper
9 Cynical
14 R&B musician Frank
19 Jargon
20 In the style of
21 Cognizant
22 Hand drum
23 Prone to anger, in slang
24 Maple syrup ingredient
25 Friend and countryman, perhaps
26 Poet Nash
27 Hindu Moon-god
28 Ant-Man’s partner, with “the”
29 ___ Vegas, Nevada
30 “Big” clock
31 She, in Lisbon
32 Offline, in internet-speak
33 Consumes an excessive amount, in short
36 Equipment
38 Got an HH on, maybe
42 Plant science
44 Threatening addendum
46 Uncertain
48 Debtors
49 “Shrinking” flowers
50 Basketball player at the centre of a brief 2012 cultural phenomenon
51 Luthier and jazz guitarist Paul
52 Wild
54 Compete (for)
55 Native to an Indonesian province
57 Actress Mendes
60 2023 Oscar-nominated film starring Cate Blanchett
61 “Six ____ of Kevin Bacon”
63 Kinds
64 Fashion designer Jacobs
66 Font
68 Sister and wife of Zeus
69 Unruly crowd
70 Certain cephalopods
72 Jakob Poeltl and OG Anunoby
74 Vent, perhaps
78 Chairman with an eponymous “ism”
79 Cream-filled cookie
80 Big name in elevators
82 Currency that replaced the lira
83 Bonus feature
86 To such extent
88 Trans- opposite
90 Short-sleeved shirt
91 Swag
93 Advanced deg.
94 Interior designer’s concern
96 Palindromic woman’s name
97 “Bad” cholesterol var.
98 Averred
100 Cowherd, maybe
104 Salmon variety
106 Mythical founder of Lavinium
107 Carnival location
108 Type of pea, crab, or day
109 Test taken by many completing this crossword
111 Hard, to Claude
112 One of seven bodies of water
113 ___ Arbor, Michigan
114 Lang. where “Bible” literally translates as “Jesus Book”
116 Something to mind in London
118 Gloat
120 Palindromic woman’s name
121 Chilli ingredient, often
124 Buffed
126 Statute
127 Political staffers
128 Town square
129 Concern
130 First lady?
131 Outset
132 Relating to a forearm bone
133 “I went on a hardcore camping trip. It was in ____.”
134 Accomplished
135 Popular garden flower

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1 Pill taken by a control group
2 Where a thorough searcher might search
3 Unappreciative person
4 Home to the Taj Mahal
5 Lavatory across the pond
6 Sounding congested
7 Word of regret
8 Oldest Japanese beer brand
9 Unsettle
10 Missing, in military code
11 Tort remedy
12 Delete
13 Home to a lion or dragon
14 Twin-reeded instrument
15 French brandy variety
16 Opposite of 131-Across
17 Difference between a millennial and a baby boomer
18 Prefix to fiction or fat
28 Cheeky
30 Cook with intense heat
32 Area of a map with greater detail
34 Dig deeper
35 Skillful deception, or a hint to the circled squares
37 Book that may contain a 32-Down
39 Sarcastic “Friend“
40 Expel
41 Medicine quantities
43 Dog’s noise
44 Upton Sinclair novel
45 Mono’s counterpart
47 Coincidence of musical notes
49 Differ
53 12:11, for example
55 Creature
56 Like some inert gases
57 Rap or rock subgenre
58 Follower of “shop” or “H”
59 “All ___ is quite useless.” -Oscar Wilde
61 Darlings
62 Trial’s partner
65 Garfield or Marmaduke
67 Horizontal
69 The food of love, per Shakespeare
71 Most of Florida, geographically
73 Celebrity gossip magazine
75 Public with one’s sexuality, for short
76 Verb conjugation that sounds like a letter
77 Surname for Jane or John?
81 Way one might order their coffee in the summer
83 Collect, as a fortune
84 English county home to Plymouth
85 Foil to Harry, Ron, and Hermione
86 Great Britain and Ireland, for two
87 “Au revoir” alternative
89 Capital of Bulgaria
92 Utopia
94 ___ Moines, Iowa
95 “Gnarly!”
98 Language of eastern Spain
99 Like some meat and cheese
101 Kigali native
102 Etiquette
103 Ruling empire of China from 202 BCE to 220 CE
105 Currency of Angola (not to be confused with a cultural celebration)  
107 The ___ (2018 shark-attack blockbuster)
110 Nimble
112 Cut
115 Lightly char
117 Saucy
119 Sitarist Shankar
120 Popular subreddit where one might ask if they are in the wrong, for short
121 Crucial comp. component
122 A winner might take it
123 Campaigned for office
124 Something chewed in idle conversation, per an idiom
125 Tabletop RPG facilitators
127 Nile snake

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