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