Across
1. Handy-dandy
6. Ralph Lauren shirts
11. Word to an annoying fly
15. Roseanne of Roseanne
19. ___ Stage
20. Eat away
21. Hamlet’s big cousin
22. Part of the Labor Dept.
23. Quadrant for Catholic University and Union Station
25. Greek counterpart of Mars
26. Potato cover
27. St. ___ (Tenleytown congregation)
28. Third-northernmost European capital
29. Expresses, as grievances
31. Total
33. Little kid
34. They became the Washington Nationals in 2005
37. Grapes with the ___ (annual winetasting event at the National Zoo)
40. Places into varied groups
43. Had more points than
44. Arlington Indian restaurant with former locations in Bethesda and Van Ness
46. Arizona tribe/city/county/desert
49. Persona
54. Game with rectangular pieces
55. Airline headquartered in Stockholm
56. Hollywood goodbyes
57. Noise that might wake you up
58. 2003 comedy/action movie starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson
64. Shot
66. Love, in Livorno
67. House vote
68. BWI guess
69. Near the shore
73. Molly who labeled George W. Bush “Shrub”
75. Wall Street Journal competitor
78. Scandal network
79. Mauna ___ (volcano 35 miles south of 128 down)
81. Creepy
83. ___ kwon do
84. Late-1950s conflict in North Africa
89. Release
93. Get a smile out of
94. Burns of Baseball
95. Power levels
97. Drink from, as a kitten might from a bowl of milk
98. Hit
100. Vintage for more than a millennium
102. Command to a puppy
104. Takes back
106. They follow mornings: abbr.
107. Mysterious garment dating from at least the 14th century
113. For example
115. What a goner has
116. Educator Michelle
117. It’s about six times the size of Australia
119. School org.
122. The whole gamut
123. ___ vera
125. Extremely buttery entrée
129. Monsieur Magritte
130. Time to give up?
131. Hot ___ (ski-resort drink)
132. John of farm equipment
133. Got outta Dodge
134. Dr. Brown’s product
135. Picante
136. In 1900, this city began the trend of calling its subway system the “Metro”—many other cities, including the eight in this puzzle’s theme entries, followed suit
Down
1. Grandpa’s lady
2. Fe
3. Plant on talk-show sets
4. Booming letters
5. Google competitor
6. Bell’s sound
7. Roughly
8. Parking place
9. Weird
10. Trig function
11. Special prosecutor for Clinton
12. Basketball game
13. Be short on
14. Available for less
15. O’s rivals in the AL East
16. Invite to one’s apartment
17. Animal with rough skin
18. Tirades
24. Nueva York, por ejemplo
30. “___ Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini”
32. Wealthy person
33. Concert merch
34. Unruly group
35. “. . . man ___ mouse?”
36. Sarah Palin, e.g.
37. Puts 2 and 2 together?
38. Spanish term for the pawn in chess
39. Patron of sailors
41. ___ All That (1999 rom-com)
42. Recent White House resident, with 70 down
45. Like xenon and neon
47. OR, OK, OH, et al.
48. Primary
50. Russian fighter jet
51. Oohed and ___
52. Must, casually
53. Post piece, say
59. Friend at the French Embassy?
60. 1986’s Red Storm Rising, notably
61. “In the Hall of the Mountain King” composer
62. Monsieur Matisse
63. Novosibirsk no
65. Peabody Museum of Natural History setting
69. Plotting group
70. See 42 down
71. Misbehave
72. Seeks guidance from
74. Formal form of du
76. Viennese movements
77. Lead off
80. Several
82. Senator involved in the Watergate investigation
85. DCA checkers
86. Decreases in intensity
87. Gasteyer of Lady Dynamite
88. Type
90. “What a workweek!”
91. Fellow
92. Suffix with psych
96. Beloved collie
99. “Good point”
100. Chem., for example
101. ___ Solo
103. Guiding principles
105. Builds
107. Wolf (down)
108. The Hay-Adams, notably
109. River into Lake Geneva
110. Moved slowly
111. Part of a 3 down
112. Letter before iota
114. Former rival of Safeway
117. Band with a lightning bolt in its logo
118. Vodka choice
119. Marina sight
120. Garr of Tootsie
121. Massachusetts and Connecticut: abbr.
124. Cat in the stars
126. Use one leg
127. Oscar-winning role for Forest
128. Mauna ___ (volcano 35 miles north of 79 across)
