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Intermediate
Puzzle by Mark B. Anderson
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Across

1.Sudden change in weather
6.Pant waistband holders
11.Tiny amount
14.Coating of dust on furniture
18.Friend, in France
19.Gulf city with a famous skyline
20.Santa ___ tropical winds
21.Roller coaster curve
22.Assigns a value to
23.* Outthinking the competition
26.Heavy responsibility
27.Sydney, Aus. state
29.Drinking vessel
30.Female military corps, disbanded 1978
32.Much fuss over nothing
35.Silo contents
37.Most cunning or deceptive
42.Agree to
44.Paint thinner, e.g.
46.One of 122-Across, literally
47.Have a price
48.State with panhandle: Abbr.
52.* Having both benefits and drawbacks
54.Not obvious
57.Growling sound
58.Gator and lemon ender
59.Filmmaker's command
62."I'm in __", cold caller's go-to line
64.Deli bread type
65.High school diploma alternative
66.Tree or residue
67.* Date-night restaurant's arrangement
70.Cincinnati Bengals' "Who _?" chant
72."Take a deep breath"
74."Smooth Operator" singer, in full
75.College graduates
79.Cockpit teacher, in brief
80.Generally-accepted tango prerequisite, and a hint to help answer the starred clues
82.Upper limit
83.Zac Brown has a cold one on the way
85.Music genre with offbeat rhythms
87.Clips wool again
88.Molecule carrying genetic information
89.French monarch
90.Fungal skin infection, medically
93.* Poker table call
95.* Teacher's-pet type
97.Cold War Soviet news agency
98.Flower part planted underground
102.___ Tomé and Príncipe nation
103.Previously owned discs
105.Lightweight silk fabric from Japan
108.Famous King chain?
110.Chilled beverage
114.Screenplay abbreviation for an outdoor scene
115.Actress Aduba
116.Saint of France
117.Circle: Abbr.
119.Greatest amount or share
122.* Super tight BFFs
127.Runs smoothly
131.Preserve meat with salt or smoke
132.Street in France
133.Combat venue
134.Needle-bearing tree
135.Cause commotion
136.Get older
137.Focused light beam tool
138.Happening at just the right time

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1.* BOGO deal
2.Genetic messenger molecule
3.Have a meal
4.Sign of agreement
5.Romantic request
6.Church founded by J. Smith
7.Losses of power: Abbr.
8.Dagger symbols used by textual scholars
9.Relating to the Vatican
10.Made a hissing sound
11.Morse code dash
12.Scottish word for "one"
13.Sound a lamb makes
14.Term for Congregation
15.Atom that's gained or lost an electron
16.Gehrig of baseball
17.British lawmakers: Abbr.
24.Aussies, informally
25.Gradually diminished
28.Achieve victory
31.Play sections
32.College sports conference: Abbr.
33.___-wop music genre
34.Power switch options
36.Priests' vestments
37.Candy-gorging energy bursts
38.Suspicious or wary
39.Short lyric poem form
40.Dried out by heat
41.Small amount
43.Golfer Mulligan
45.U.K. cap.
49.Poem in the style of 'To Autumn'
50.Cowboy's throwing rope
51.Political philosopher Hannah
53.Japanese cattle breed prized for marbling
55."Now that sounds like fun!" in texts?
56.Pharmacy
59.City ride with a meter
60.Put to work
61.Marijuana's active compound
63.Off and running, in machinery
68.Bluff
69.City with the famous Steps in film history
71.Spanish athletes seek it
73.Strong-smelling
76.1400 in Ancient Rome
77.Grandma nickname
78.Hoppy brew
81.Golfer's opening stroke, in CCs perhaps
83.Mixed golf competition
84.Crowd's cry of disapproval
86.Maui vacation destination
91.Precursor to the European Union
92."Me too"
94.Dog command as a name
95.Long-running demographic survey, for short
96.Foolish person, in Yiddish slang
99.Salt Lake City Big 12 athlete
100.Westbound dest. from JFK, perhaps
101.* Cheap, informally
104.Related to theatrical settings
106.Cold War-era nuclear regulator, briefly
107.Scouring-pad brand
109.More external
111.Arctic Finnish lake
112.Cleaning cloths
113.Acting in complete unison
118.Horse's coloring
119.Rappers, for short
120.Knocked ___
121.___ Lanka
123.Pitcher's stat: Abbr.
124.Summer mo.
125.Observe with eyes
126.Tanzania's largest city
128.China, briefly: Abbr.
129.Pre-euro EU currency unit
130.Female person pronoun
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