DAILY THEME ACROSS 1 2013 Best Picture nominee in which a main character isn't human
4 Airplane part
9 "Hairspray" mom usually played by a man
13 Leg presses work them
18 60 minuti
19 Successors to Cutla**es
21 Best Picture adaptation about ... a search for the perfect brew, with "The"?
23 Disney Channel's "___ and Maddie"
24 ... inaudible metrical poetry, with "The"?
26 Northeast Corridor train
28 Like groaners
29 River islet
30 1988 chart-topping country album
32 Game for bankers?
33 Psychedelic
37 ... a fat Eastern monarch?
43 One in a no-blinking contest
45 Second draft
46 Neighbor
48 Extended rental?
49 Sea urchin, at a sushi bar
50 ... fools accompanying a pack of wild animals?
56 King's handful
59 Chance occurrence, old-style
60 Bad sound in a changing room
61 Vegas-to-Denver dir.
62 Part of a city network
63 "Relax"
64 Reusable part of a common thank-you gift
67 ... a reed and percussion duet?
71 Group standing at the U.N.
74 Treat with a "Golden" variety
75 They rank below marquises
79 Words before and after "what"
80 O.T. book before Jeremiah
81 Chorus line?
82 Obstacle in road repairs, maybe
84 ... an éclair or crème brûlée, with "The"?
90 Previously
91 Spook part
92 Daughter in E. M. Forster's "Howards End"
93 Neighbor of Irkutsk on a Risk board
96 Badger
99 ... gorgeous fur?
103 Shred
105 Lit ____
106 Safari sight?
107 Singer Difranco
108 Like a portrait that seems to be watching you
110 Winnower
113 ... cooties from hugs and kisses?
121 Blender setting
122 ... a salon woman I go to?
123 Tush
124 Set of anecdotes
125 A while, in hyperbole
126 Olympian with a bow
127 Jet similar to a 747
128 Benedictine title DOWN 1 Chihuahua greeting
2 Country singer Church
3 * * * *
4 Honeydew cousins
5 U.S. women's soccer star Krieger
6 Volume measure
7 Cause of boiling over
8 Sarge, e.g.
9 Jet
10 Stand up to
11 Bit of safari equipment
12 Enlightened Buddhist
13 "Enough is enough!"
14 "___ voce poco fa" (Rossini aria)
15 PIN point
16 One having a ball?
17 G.R.E. takers: Abbr.
20 Ice cream order
22 Juniors, maybe
25 Writer ____ Stanley Gardner
27 1880s-'90s veep ____ P. Morton
31 Step _____
32 Half of a Vegas show duo
34 Shroud
35 ______ Drive (street where Harry Potter grew up)
36 Dweller along the Mandeb Strait
37 Bridge support
38 "As such ..."
39 College campus offering
40 Like carpaccio or crudités
41 Geisha's accessory
42 Metaphorical low point
44 Physicist Nathan who postulated wormholes
47 Attempt at a dunk tank
51 Spiced teas
52 The White House's ____ Room
53 Peeping Tom's spot
54 Modern encyclopedia platform
55 Muses
57 Simon of the "Mission: Impossible" films
58 It circles the globe
63 Merino mother
64 Stethoscope's place
65 War on Poverty agcy.
66 Main ingredient in queso relleno
68 Bite
69 Like candied apples
70 Gillette razor name
71 Liquor purchase
72 Ring around the collar?
73 Chief Theban god
76 Hightailed it
77 Peaceful protest
78 Apt anagram of SNAKE
82 Slip
83 Quash
85 Peachy
86 Things zygotes come from
87 Penpoint
88 Commission, e.g.
89 "You're stuck with me"
94 What stars do
95 Hilton alternative
97 Equilibrium
98 Sancho Panza, e.g.
100 About 3/4 of a football field
101 _____ Heep (dickins villain)
102 Like some sponsorship packages
104 One taking a long shot?
108 Prefix with spore
109 "Slow Churned" brand
111 Antipasto pairing
112 Reason for a cla** struggle?
113 TV inits. since 1975
114 Photographer's a**et
115 Certain fraternity chapter
116 "Wowie!"
117 Musician's a**et
118 Lapel attachment
119 Suffix with subsist
120 Never, in Nikolaus