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Traveling chest
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Orizzontali
  1. 1A
    Traveling chest
  2. 4A
    Astrological but more... you know.... trippy
  3. 8A
    Metamorphic rock (your brother's daughter might like this)
  4. 14A
    That guy
  5. 15A
    Exclamation of surprise (coming and going... but this way is going)
  6. 16A
    Permission to read or change a file; or the internet domain suffix for Rwanda
  7. 18A
    Two tablespoons
  8. 19A
    Cable station that debuted with "Video killed the Radio Star"
  9. 20A
    Battered and sauted in butter
  10. 23A
    Exam for prospective law students
  11. 24A
    While
  12. 25A
    Small bit of an herb
  13. 26A
    Rescuers down under
  14. 28A
    Place for a keystone
  15. 30A
    Musical aptitude
  16. 31A
    Shape of the essential areas of the meta
  17. 32A
    Arid
  18. 33A
    Comic Publisher of the 40s and on. It had a reputation for being particularly gory. It was the original publisher of Mad Magazine.
  19. 34A
    "I beg your pardon"
  20. 35A
    ... you know, people used to say this all the time before Seinfeld.... jus' sayin'
  21. 37A
    Adherent of the philosophy that the parts can not be understood without reference to the whole animal
  22. 39A
    Support group for drinkers' families
  23. 41A
    Craggy peak. (This used to be as common in crosswords as OREO is now. What happened?)
  24. 42A
    Obfuscated
  25. 44A
    I suspect this will be a common response to this grid
  26. 45A
    Labels for a toggle
  27. 47A
    Roman household god
  28. 48A
    Horse sound
  29. 49A
    Stage of a journey
  30. 50A
    Foam toy ball
  31. 51A
    Incensed
  32. 53A
    Capital of the U.S.
  33. 55A
    Act
  34. 56A
    Netflix drama series starring Brit Marling (with "The)
  35. 57A
    A bit off-color; you wouldn't want a coworker to see you looking at this
  36. 58A
    Railroad
  37. 60A
    Chief prosecutor
  38. 62A
    Handhelds; and held hands
  39. 66A
    Be lavish in attention
  40. 67A
    You and me
  41. 68A
    Maybe the cat is saying "I hurt"... or maybe he is saying "I pity you"...
  42. 70A
    Literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
  43. 72A
    Depression or hollow made by a blow
  44. 74A
    "And Voila!" (vat. spelling)
  45. 75A
    All Mustang Sally wants to do
  46. 76A
    Children's book illustrator Williams, illustrator of Charlotte's Web and The Little House on the Prairie books, but my favorite is Randall Jarell's "The Gingerbread Rabbit"
  47. 77A
    Soldier
  48. 78A
    Japanese currency (abbr. [of course])
  49. 80A
    "What more useful piece of equipment, in times of emergencies, can a palindromist have than a pair of -------?" (from "The Life and Death of Sydney Yendys" by George Marvill)
  50. 82A
    Curvy, like a letter?
  51. 83A
    Past tense of 99A
  52. 85A
    Nickle
  53. 86A
    Humble response to "Good job, guys"
  54. 87A
    And therefore
  55. 89A
    Opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau (the title character is a water nymph pursued by Neptune)
  56. 90A
    Highly respected originals
  57. 91A
    Silly clue: Nature without cerium; Serious clue: Eat that German city (ok, not that serious a clue)
  58. 92A
    Rear end
  59. 94A
    How many hints there are in the rows above essential areas of the meta. These are hints to the cluster of essential areas below the line.
  60. 95A
    Prefix meaning of a people or culture
  61. 96A
    Computer key on the for corner of the keyboard
  62. 97A
    He said "Inside a dog its too dark to read" (but is it?)
  63. 98A
    Carbon copy; or cubic centimeter
  64. 99A
    Strongest and securest parts or a castle; (or a verb describing what that part of the castle does for you regarding safety)
  65. 101A
    Silly clue: Law enforcement agency in Piers Anthony's country; Serious clue: spy novel by Len Deighton; its title refers to the code for "expedient demise" (meaning assassination)
  66. 102A
    Kentucky
  67. 104A
    Cries of disgust
  68. 106A
    Bring your own
  69. 107A
    Silly clue: Floral neckware-- Internet edition; Serious clue: Dutch name for the river Lys.
  70. 109A
    Machine mimicry or display of human cognitive skills
  71. 110A
    Et --, Brute
  72. 111A
    Slide instrument
  73. 113A
    Departure from the norm
  74. 115A
    Exactly how many squares are in each of the essential areas of the meta
  75. 116A
    A narwhal's horn is this essentially
  76. 117A
    "The Phenomenology of Spirit" and "Science of Logic" author
  77. 118A
    Yukon Territory
  78. 119A
    Hello
  79. 120A
    Wide shoe but not the widest
  80. 121A
    Economist Greenspan
  81. 122A
    Californium
  82. 123A
    Province of Canada known for its potatoes, mussels, a plucky red-head
  83. 125A
    Chilled
  84. 127A
    New Mexico facility that began with the Manhattan Project
  85. 128A
    Belonging to
  86. 129A
    Hamlet's home
  87. 131A
    Does this entry have Buddha-nature?
  88. 132A
    Celestial alignment. When the moon, sun and earth are in this, we have the opposite of 46D
  89. 133A
    Mace is the ground rind of the Myristica fragrans fruit; this is its seed
  90. 134A
    Useful quality
Verticali
  1. 1D
    ---- the Tank; Doubting -----; ------ Hardy, the most depressing author in history.... with a lack of cross clues I'm not going to make it hard on you.
  2. 2D
    Concerning
  3. 3D
    with "in a", encapsulated briefly
  4. 4D
    Silly clue: coins in your makeup case; Serious clue: Music storage media
  5. 5D
    Feng ___; which this grid certainly lacks
  6. 6D
    Mutt
  7. 7D
    Having the shape of a quarter moon
  8. 9D
    Do the essential areas of the meta exclude black squares? Do they include any white (unhighlighted) squares?
  9. 10D
    Memorial tribute
  10. 11D
    Buffer to the flow of hear and/or electricity
  11. 12D
    Intimidated and warned away
  12. 13D
    Complete collections
  13. 17D
    Herzog movie: "Aguirre, the -----"
  14. 19D
    Artisans of the large
  15. 21D
    Make a mistake
  16. 22D
    Peron or Gabor or Longoria or ......
  17. 25D
    Date Ms. Grafton?
  18. 27D
    Fashionable
  19. 29D
    Appeal the carbonated beverages' verdict
  20. 36D
    Sandy the dog says this
  21. 38D
    "Gas, Food, Lodging" actress Skye
  22. 39D
    Why a smart guy like me seldom completes a meta above a week 3 maybe? (Or maybe not)
  23. 40D
    Hole punching tool which blinded Louis Braille when he was three years old
  24. 42D
    What you might be if you can't see the animal
  25. 43D
    For example
  26. 45D
    Lennon widow
  27. 46D
    Twice a month when the low and high waters have the least difference. This occur when the moon and sun are at 90 degrees to the earth and 132A is most certainly not occurring
  28. 52D
    How many essential areas this meta has
  29. 54D
    At the end of movies it can be a relationship landmine whether to sit through these
  30. 59D
    Maori word for the kiwi; (if we changed 58 to two other equally acceptable alternatives; this clue could be an extinct bird not very related to the kiwi; or it could be a wrap made from kiwi feathers [none of these changes effect the meta)
  31. 61D
    Because
  32. 63D
    Horrible excuse for bumping into someone
  33. 64D
    Overall regional reaction
  34. 65D
    Arch to Trombone in this grid
  35. 68D
    Large birds known for their raucous cries and the habit of stealing shiny objects
  36. 69D
    Sometimes the best response to this is "Because I said so"
  37. 71D
    What a reconciling friend might ask after an awkward incident
  38. 73D
    "The Once and Future King" Author White
  39. 76D
    Oh, I'd love to do a clue about Kurt Vonnegut and the fictional Ilium Works, but I'm just going to do a dumb clue about the company with the slogan "We bring good things to life"
  40. 79D
    A code which soldiers can read by touch without a light source; a precursor to braille
  41. 81D
    Matches up (as 92D doesn't)
  42. 83D
    "Cut it out"
  43. 84D
    General all purpose suffix indicating belonging to a class or classification; or ---- Evans, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 2001 until his death in 2009
  44. 88D
    Familiar (colloquially)
  45. 92D
    Offset in time something is recorded and time something is aired
  46. 93D
    Automobile prototype, built in 1930 by German engineer Josef Ganz at the German motorcycle manufacturer Ardie
  47. 97D
    Silly clue: Individual tax form in ancient Rome; Serious clue: Year of the Battle of Dandanaqan
  48. 100D
    When the water is going out
  49. 103D
    Swath of the southern and southwestern U.S. where winters are mild
  50. 104D
    Silly clue: The ---- Betsy Spidder went up the water spoot; Serious clue: Internet craft site
  51. 105D
    Ball team named for clothing
  52. 108D
    How the essential areas of this meta are distributed over the grid
  53. 109D
    Spiky volcanic rock
  54. 110D
    Preposition to indicate purpose (one of about a dozen meanings)
  55. 112D
    To barely make a living
  56. 114D
    Illinois
  57. 117D
    "Laughing Cavalier" artist
  58. 119D
    Matriarch of the Olympians
  59. 122D
    Playfully demure
  60. 123D
    A little French
  61. 124D
    Belief
  62. 126D
    Colorado
  63. 130D
    That is to say
  64. 131D
    I am accused
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