Huge Puzzle

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Puzzle by Tex Jernigan
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Across

1.Plead
4.Smidgen
7.Private messages, on X
10.Hailed ride
13.Sack, as an employee
14.Draft brew
15.Knack for pitch
16.Fuss
17.Span of time in history
18.Deep singing range
20.'No need to fuss over me'
24.Watering hole
25.Attempt
28.Backstop's leather
30.Expert
31.Bar association, for short
32.Amo, amas, amat starter
33.Annoy
35.Nabisco sandwich cookie
36.Permit
37.Manage, as a business
38.Dashed away
39.Racket
40.Remove from power
42.Ride with all toes over the nose
44.Octagon combat sport, briefly
47.Shredded
49.Mourning sleeve accessory
52.Hairy Addams relative
53.Six-pack muscles
54.Defunct airline, once
55.Forced removal from a home
58.Ocasio-Cortez, initially
60.Weaken gradually
61.Picnic pest
62.Moral offense
63.Not present
65.Art school degree, briefly
68.Advice columnist's twin sister
70.Bakes on the beach
72.Rave reviews
74.Make a donkey's noise
75.First syllable of a Latin dance
77.The whole lot
79.Have being
80.Adolescent skin bane
81.Horse feed grain
82.Sauce dish at dinner
83.Digit that went to market, in rhyme
84.Phone-line internet option, briefly
85.Parent-teacher group, briefly
86.Pester constantly
87.Tempt
88.Letter after zeta
89.Shaft of sunlight
90.Mediterranean city lead-in: ___ Aviv
91.Sun Devils' school, briefly
92.Persuaded
93.Report card stat, briefly
95.House founded by Christian ___
97.Game tally figures, briefly
98.Works dough by hand
101.Two-part musical number
102.Smell from a litter box
105.Ludwig's sole opera
106.Brain-wave test, briefly
107.WWII intelligence agency, briefly
108.Suitable
109.Golden Girls star Arthur
111.Disney World dome park
113.Soak in a tub
115.Kiln-fired earth
116.Not straight
117.Hip-hop producer Dr. ___
119.Originator
122.Altar reply
124.Aries symbol
125.Deep sorrow
126.College team nicknamed for a feisty carnivore
127.Skull Island giant: King ___
129.'___ moment's notice'
130.Between E and NE, on a map
131.Website locator
132.Premium movie channel, briefly
133.Pilfer
134.Clock units, briefly
135.Distort the shape of
137.Menacing spaceship AI in a Kubrick film
139.Landlord-tenant contract
142.Third notes of the scale, in solfège
143.Texting abbr. for 'in my opinion'
144.Utilize
145.Roadside lodgings
146.Terminate, as a job
147.'On the ___' (fugitive's route)
148.Public service announcement, briefly
149.Baby powder ingredient

Down

1.Before Common Era: Abbr.
2.Cobs on a stalk
3.Tiny buzzing pest
4.Check at a pub
5.Topped with a scoop, as pie
6.Yearning
7.Clear frost from, as a windshield
8.Glengarry Glen Ross scribe
9.Sold-out sign, for short
10.Supper club with a floor show
11.Firmly resolved
12.Borax element
19.Single stride
21.Fashion label founder Donna
22.Ample supply
23.Masculine force in Taoism
26.Lend a hand
27.Region known for Breton culture
29.Excessively
30.Watchful
34.Well-recognized
41.Biological pocket
42.German artist Holbein
43.Involuntary spasm
44.Madrid's word for 'more'
45.Business school degree, briefly
46.Green spears on a plate
48.Snitch
50.U.S. women's soccer great Hamm
51.Chin-length hairstyle
55.Inheritance to be settled
56.Routed through
57.Inborn
59.Available without a prescription, briefly
64.Before schedule
65.Caused by microbes, as an infection
66.Concluding
67.Soul, to a Parisian
69.Rebel Turner
71.Available time block
73.Foldable notebook computer
74.Brag
75.Steep ravine, in the West
76.Order to turn the helm downwind
78.Sports association
79.19th-century botanist Gray
82.Light-haired
84.Darn it!
86.Short snooze
92.Schuss
94.Board game scoring pin
95.Colorful West African garment
96.'It's' in Thank God ___ Friday
99.Salsa partner, maybe
100.Minivan-driving parent, stereotypically
101.Discourage
102.Fold-up sleeping bed
103.Pampering retreat
104.Hog's pen
105.Wasteful spending to trim
109.Peter Rabbit creator ___ Potter
110.All together
112.Verbal
113.Mess up badly
114.Ars gratia artis opener
115.Self-importance
116.Humped bucking bull breed
117.Completed
118.Undersea coral ridge
120.Take action
121.Wool beret from Scotland
123.Toy figure in a dreamhouse
125.Marry
126.Myanmar, formerly
128.West African nation, formerly the Gold Coast
133.Itch-causing parasite
136.Petroleum, informally
138.Pack animal, informally
140.Late-night sketch show, briefly
141.Keyboard key that cancels
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