Across
1. Like a bull in a china shop : CLUMSY
7. Blue : RACY
11. Band whose songs are featured in a hit 2001 musical and 2018 movie : ABBA
15. Tube tops : CAPS
19. Where Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” : HAVANA
20. Instrument whose name sounds like a rebuke of Obama’s dog : OBOE
21. Case load? : BEER
22. River that formed an extension of the Mason-Dixon line : OHIO
23. One who’s just moved from Portland? : OREGONTRANSPLANT
26. Bit of baseball gear : MITT
27. “Jeez, I heard you already!” : OKAYOKAY
28. Number : AMOUNT
29. Game played with a dog : FETCH
30. Peak : APEX
31. Tennis great who wrote the 2009 tell-all “Open” : AGASSI
32. Major science journal : NATURE
33. Satchel for a guy : MURSE
35. Convert a morgue worker into a spy? : TURNTHECORONER
37. Google ____ : MAPS
38. Pre-euro currency : LIRA
39. Smooch : BUSS
40. Leave gobsmacked : AWE
41. Common plural verb : ARE
42. Staple of many a “Real Housewives” episode : DRAMA
44. One of the Leewards : STMARTIN
48. LeBron basketball sneaker, e.g.? : KINGJAMESBUYABLE
51. Foe in “Wonder Woman” : ARES
55. – – – : ENDASHES
56. Ready for the recycling bin : EMPTY
57. Field trip chaperone : PARENT
59. Surrender : WAIVE
60. Celebrity chef Oliver : JAMIE
61. Hunger for : CRAVE
62. Will of “Arrested Development” : ARNETT
64. Determined to do : SETON
65. Flower said to cover the plains of Hades : ASPHODEL
68. Brand of 33-Down : RAGU
69. Intense blowback against a signature Trump policy proposal? : RIOTINGONTHEWALL
72. Large mobile devices, to use a modern portmanteau : PHABLETS
74. Hair net : SNOOD
75. Amazon threat : BOA
76. Muppet eagle : SAM
79. Highest draft category : ONEA
80. Garbage barge : SCOW
81. Tour de France setting : ALPS
82. Bad person to get paired with for a class assignment? : PROJECTRUNAWAY
87. Bender : SPREE
89. “Present!” : IMHERE
90. Like more : PREFER
91. Gulf mogul : EMIR
92. Rulers during the Time of Troubles : TSARS
93. Jewish mysticism : CABALA
94. Harmonized : INUNISON
98. Triple-A requests : TOWS
99. Nickname for a superserious congressman? : SENATOROFGRAVITY
101. Trainer of Rey in “The Last Jedi” : LUKE
102. Eager : KEEN
103. Fixtures in every Vegas casino : ATMS
104. Ontario city across the river from Buffalo, for short : FTERIE
105. Craftsy online store : ETSY
106. Cay : ISLE
107. For takeout : TOGO
108. Exemplar of cruelty : SADIST
Down
1. Follower of “ah-ah-ah” : CHOO
2. Fun adventure : LARK
3. Colored layer : UVEA
4. Hungarians, by another name : MAGYARS
5. Noses around : SNOOPS
6. Northerner : YANKEE
7. One of the Gilmore Girls : RORY
8. Old sports org. with the Kentucky Colonels : ABA
9. U.S. food giant : CONAGRA
10. Suck-up : YESMAN
11. Red with embarrassment : ABLUSH
12. Fad toy of the 1990s : BEANIEBABY
13. Tendency : BENT
14. What’s better when it’s fine? : ART
15. Awaken : COMETO
16. Yellowfin : AHITUNA
17. Workers who are always retiring? : PITCREW
18. “Take that!” : SOTHERE
24. Strain : TAX
25. Tweet, e.g. : POST
29. Language of Omar Khayyam’s “Rubáiyát” : FARSI
31. Glows : AURAS
32. Caution on an airplane wing : NOSTEP
33. Dip for mozzarella sticks : MARINARA
34. Affecting radically : UPENDING
35. x : TIMES
36. Biceps exercise : CURL
37. Attack on a big scale : MAKEWAR
38. Uncool : LAME
42. Gig for an aspiring electronic musician : DJSET
43. Root word? : RAH
44. Citation : SUMMONS
45. What “…” may represent : TYPING
46. What “#” means in chess notation : MATE
47. Slim : NARROW
49. Surrendered : GAVEUP
50. “Take a hike!” : BEATIT
52. Like an uncorrupted file : READABLE
53. Academy Awards prop : ENVELOPE
54. Popular Belgian brews, informally : STELLAS
58. Hurt : ACHED
60. Ballet jump : JETE
63. Music genre at a rave : TRANCE
64. Provider of green juice? : SOLARPANEL
65. Bother : ANNOY
66. Put away : STOW
67. Vietnamese broth-and-noodles soup : PHO
70. “Yeah, right” : IBET
71. Academy Awards prop : OSCAR
73. Garden toilers : HOERS
76. Saliva : SPITTLE
77. Words from a T.S.A. agent before a pat-down : ARMSOUT
78. Punk rock hairstyles : MOHAWKS
80. Guarantee : SWEARTO
81. U.S.P.S. package status : ARRIVED
83. Purchase at a sports stadium : JERSEY
84. Sophisticated : URBANE
85. How whiskey is often served : NEAT
86. Financially solvent : AFLOAT
87. Blue man group? : SMURFS
88. Something made to be destroyed : PINATA
91. Where soccer was invented: Abbr. : ENG
93. Hitchcock triple feature? : CEES
94. Should that be the case : IFSO
95. “Hey ____” (start of a phone voice command) : SIRI
96. R&B great Redding : OTIS
97. A bit of disputin’ from Putin? : NYET
99. Chairlift item : SKI
100. Clickable tag on BuzzFeed beside “LOL” and “WTF” : OMG
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