Across
1
Photosynthesis site
5
It turns litmus red
9
Recedes
13
España, por ejemplo
17
Site of Napoleon's exile, as memorialized in a famous palindrome
18
___ City (Baghdad district)
19
Star Trek: The Next Generation counselor
20
"The ___ of Reading Gaol" (Oscar Wilde poem)
22
Irving Berlin standard (1930) about atoms and molecules?
26
Kermit the Frog's soliloquy (1970) about sustainable chemistry?
27
Cochlear implant site
28
Burrowing insectivore celebrated by chemistry students on Oct. 23
29
Renter's agreement
30
___ ex machina
33
Utilize, less pretentiously
35
Prozac or Paxil, e.g., for short
36
(CH3)2S
39
Cole Porter show-stopping refrain (1948) about climate change?
45
MD and PhD, for two
47
"Eureka!"
49
273.15 K and 100 kPa
50
Enter data on a graph
51
Went looking for a moray?
53
Jimmy of the Daily Planet
55
"It is better to be a ___ than a never-was"
57
La ___ Tar Pits
58
Accepted willingly
61
Signature Obama legislation, in brief
62
Beach Boys tune (1966) about infrared spectroscopy?
64
Alternative to "him" or "them"
66
Lye, symbolically
68
Final words?
69
Dithiasuccinoyl, to a peptide chemist
70
Wicked anthem (2003) about developing new pharmaceuticals in space?
75
"Message me," succinctly
77
Dessert consisting of espresso and ice cream
78
Italian currency, pre-euro
79
Reaches, as an end point
83
___ pad (reporter's notebook)
84
Fifth-century pope nicknamed "the Great"
86
Grumpy and gloomy
87
More accurate alternative to a rapid COVID-19 test
88
Worked (up), as when a workup goes awry
89
Gently roast (or, something that's roasted)
92
Young Rascals lament (1967) about quantum mechanics?
95
MD or PhD, e.g.
97
"Bing Crosby's Merrie ___ Christmas" (1977 TV special)
99
Palindromic file compression format
100
A First Nations people
101
___ telescope, like one that recently detected aromatic matter in an interstellar dust cloud
103
Potentially offensive, in brief
106
Composer of "The Microsoft Sound" (which, ironically, he wrote on a Mac)
108
Neil Sedaka oldie (1962) about the challenge of biodegrading plastics?
116
Dolly Parton–Porter Wagoner duet (1971) about the petroleum industry?
118
Middle, in Middlesex
119
Hathaway of Ocean's 8
120
Pay to play, in poker
121
White-tailed raptor
122
Slugger Sammy
123
Neptune and Uranus, for two
124
The Simpsons bar
125
Lawn tool usually used in autumn
Down
1
Tennis do-over
2
For grades 1–12, briefly
3
Aid and ___
4
Least true
5
Mary of The Maltese Falcon
6
Carrie Chapman ___, founder of the League of Women Voters
7
Run in neutral
8
Walter Mitty, notably
9
–C2H5
10
Money under the table, maybe
11
It consists primarily of hydroxyapatite and collagen
12
Symbols with supposed magic power
13
Feelings of hunger
14
Women's rights lawyer Gloria
15
"Would ___?"
16
Like best lab practices
20
Freestyle skiing event won by Birk Ruud and Eileen Gu in its 2022 Olympics debut
21
Animal house?
23
Once ___ lifetime
24
General in American Chinese cuisine
25
Mortimer voiced by puppeteer Edgar Bergen
30
Satellite signal receiver
31
Cadillac Records role for Beyoncé
32
"Neither snow nor rain . . ." org.
33
Japanese noodle that's pretty thick
34
ACT alternative, to a high school student
35
Sault ___ Marie
37
Touchdown the Bear, for the Cornell Big Red
38
Lusters
40
Grp. that's well-funded?
41
1992 David Mamet play inspired by the Anita Hill–Clarence Thomas hearings
42
Ruler said to have fiddled while Rome burned
43
Mind, as a warning
44
Name of five Norwegian kings
46
Arrange
48
"No ifs, ___, or buts"
52
Ryan known for her work on the Disney Channel
54
In the infirmary
56
Subatomic particle made of three quarks
57
Surname for father and son Niels and Aage, both physics Nobelists
59
Exam that may be "open"
60
Production site for a bootlegger
62
With "The," Beauty and the Beat band
63
Vowel in the Greek alphabet
64
Checked the weight of, in a way
65
Decadent
67
Bond. J. Bond, for one
70
Sprinkling of salt
71
Assistant in Young Frankenstein
72
Prefix that denotes the stabler of two geometric isomers
73
Perspective
74
Classic Camaro
76
Apt rhyme for encore
79
Evening, to the Curies and the Joliot-Curies
80
Urge (on)
81
Hundred ___ Wood
82
Part of the woods
85
Most common English word
86
Subject of a famous photograph taken by Rosalind Franklin
90
Sublime halogen?
91
Gaudy jewelry
93
Curved river barrier often seen in narrow gorges
94
Vehicle commonly seen near college campuses
96
Sources of academic funding
98
Soldier's identification
102
___ Yoshino, 2019 chemistry Nobelist for the development of lithium-ion batteries
103
Flip
104
French city that's the source of the word denim
105
Symbol in the Schrödinger equation
106
Thirty, for a dodecahedron
107
Unspecified ordinal
108
QI network
109
Deeply regrets
110
Rubik with a namesake cube
111
"I don't think so"
112
The A in AD
113
Quinceañera or bat mitzvah, e.g.
114
___ the Explorer
115
"Old MacDonald" farm noise
117
Y. T. ___, 1986 chemistry Nobelist for foundational studies in chemical reaction dynamics
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