ACROSS 1 A "bear" that's not really a bear 6 Fixing, as a contest or a lottery 8 Turning in 10 Teen's woe 11 Actor Sharif 12 Native group whose symbol is on the New Mexico flag 13 Maori name meaning "river" 14 -- 18 Art preservationists, perhaps 19 No contest 20 Remove padding from 26 Okinawan healing tool 27 In the future 28 James who sang "From The Beginning" 30 One who does not gatekeep 31 Sir 32 "No way that's true!" 33 Times of unemployment 35 -- 36 Hype up 37 Bureaucratic restrictions 41 "So long!" 42 Conducted 44 Film with light cycles 46 "Voilá!" 47 Sold off to the highest bidder 49 -- 50 Strike down, as a deity might 51 Fancy rock 53 Material for cans or foil, often 56 Takes note of 58 Scam; trick; swindle 59 "Grunkle" of Dipper and Mabel 61 Annual fighting game tournament 62 One fighting in the ring 66 Fight 67 Unit of information 69 "...but you aren't anymore." 71 Statement of past belief 72 -- 74 "You would have adjusted..." 75 They attack 76 Give out; produce 77 What polls might measure 83 One Disney princess 84 Not digital 85 "undergo", "engineer", or "interrupt" (e.g.), poetically 87 Electrical phenomenon used to weld 88 Alternative to the highway 89 Sport in comics with improvised rules 90 Hacking game series by Ubisoft 91 "Granny", in Spain 92 One zodiac sign 93 Release 94 You might get one every year 98 Period of time 99 Mistyping a letter, say 105 Oat grown near the Rio Grande 106 Moo, archaically 107 Very aged 109 Everlasting, once upon a time 110 -- 112 Eau de ___ 113 One type of oratorial rhetoric 119 "Pals" of a 1985 kids' show 120 Rule requiring the ante be doubled 121 Song on Brian Eno's "Original Soundtracks 1" 122 Foe 123 -- 127 One of very high stature 128 Dab with a cloth 129 One-on-one combat, truly 133 Dadaist painter Jean 134 Diesel predecessor? 136 Complain (usually with "on and on") 138 Protagonist, often 139 New bearskin user's statement 141 -- 142 Caress Taken star, perhaps 143 Basilica part 144 Uncool 145 Nothingness 146 Card game with hidden rules 147 Crossword writers' favorite case 149 Personal set of cards 150 Legal threat 152 Kind of trip 153 It means a lot 159 Byte that represents which instruction to do 160 Places of interest 161 Fully revealing, as a memoir or interview 165 Stalls for horses (without the first letter, it means "edits") 166 River in Zaragoza 167 Payback 173 -- 174 -- 175 Combined using disjunction 176 Lobster part 177 Tesla's rival 179 Book that's two before Psalms 180 One who swears off something 182 Allows to live 183 Plays a part 187 Pandora and Threes, for two 188 Admit (to) 190 Sandy color 191 Picks among many options 192 Long stretches 194 Make a mistake 195 Flight data 197 Chromebook, perhaps 198 Cut (off) 199 Makes a mistake 203 "Why I ____..." 204 No amateur 206 Gamer's type of party 207 A cut of cheese, perhaps 208 Comedian Philips 209 2-dimensional matrix 210 -- 214 Show your appreciation 215 Body art, slangily 216 [189-Across] as a [188-Across] to a [119-Across], perhaps 222 [64-Across] that [90-Across] or has [179-Across]; is in [3-Down] for [174-Across] [84-Across] 223 Name [17-Down] between [116-Across] 224 [184-Down] [4-Down]s 226 [90-Across] to [120-Across] place 227 [191-Across] [157-Across] 229 Was [155-Down] 230 [194-Across] [143-Across] [223-Across] 232 [74-Down], [212-Across]s, or [189-Across] 233 [110-Across] [64-Across]s to [173-Across] [18-Down]s 235 How [80-Across] [196-Across] a [199-Down] [122-Down] 236 [104-Across] and not [2-Down]; [142-Across] 238 [135-Across]'s [119-Across] [194-Across] 239 [238-Down's] [198-Down] [28-Across], for short 240 [30-Across]' [53-Across] 242 They're [5-Down]ed or [166-Down] 243 [107-Across] [110-Across] that [98-Down]s [205-Across] [14-Down] or [126-Across] 245 [68-Down] before [161-Down] 246 [97-Down] in [19-Down] is a [150-Across] of this DOWN 1 Abducts 2 Sigmoid shape, in architecture 3 Deterioriate 4 Corgi : Dachshund :: Car :: ___ 5 Bring to life 6 Prescribed plan 7 Something tormenting 8 Barber's tool 9 "Bud", by another name? 15 Germany's von Bismarck 16 Tarnish, as reputation 17 Ticks off 20 Still in the packaging 21 In Macau, it's worthless 22 Medic or necromancer 23 Secular Hindu text denouncing yoga 24 Selflessness 25 Gives to charity, perhaps 29 Suffocate 30 Line of deep valleys 34 "That was entirely expected!" 37 Dimwits 38 Not heaven or hell 39 Most wary or anxious 40 H, in NATO's spelling alphabet 41 Wager 43 "Additionally..." 45 Ancient Peruvian 46 Evenly matched so far 48 A plucked chicken, according to Diogenes 51 One commonly left in a ladderless pool 52 Rin Kagamine's brother 54 Honorific for a knight 55 Abstract card game where you spot triads of cards 57 Sitcom rating, often (abbr; hyph) 58 Beavers' homes 60 Common cereal ingredient 62 Look; glance 63 Shabby people, or Sandler and Driver, perhaps 64 Working woman 65 "You'd all be laughing!" 66 Military draft 68 Parents' sisters 70 Taken away 71 Two pairs 73 Ascot 77 Kid-friendly clay 78 -- 79 Treat for Garfield 80 Metaphorical story 81 -- 82 Innocentness 86 Baseballer Cobb and actor Burrell, for two 87 Obamacare, for short 95 Until now 96 Ask intrusive questions 97 Snoop Dogg's genre 99 Emus, moas, or auks, perhaps 100 Iago's narrative foil 101 The M in STEM 102 He led many Zulu impi 103 Just before noon, for some 104 A gong signals this 108 "You did what? Gimme the deets!" 109 Lt. Uhura's brief lover 111 Principle in the Tao Te Ching 113 Famed op-ed columnist of the Times 114 Rajas or ranis, maybe 115 It's held aloft by puffs of air 116 Infer from incomplete information 117 At one time? 118 Self-professed "leet hacker" 124 Fade away, as time passes 125 Mathematician Grothendieck, et. al. (abbr) 126 Pokémon Ruby rock-type gym leader 129 Sketch an elk 130 Deracinate a run-down area, maybe 131 Description of Adam? 132 Report to supervisor on excavation of 1000 denarii 133 Highly successful window 135 Perfect safety record, with drugs 137 Vulnerable 138 Light brown eye color 140 "Before", for Shakespeare 148 Small island 149 Put in an obscured place 151 Canada's neighbour, for short 153 Falling sound 154 Gift for troublemakers 155 Shoulder muscle, informally 156 Wife of Peter on Family Guy 157 Sacred sites 158 Speeding along 162 Threefold 163 Frolic 164 Just barely missing the top 10 167 Tallied points up again 168 Brings up, as a concern 169 Searched through carefully 170 Book that's two after Psalms (abbr.) 171 He wrote the 95 Theses 172 Someone on a playground, perhaps 178 Like freelance work 179 Female sheep 181 Toast 183 -- 184 Romantic pairing between characters 185 Smack 186 Nasty expression 187 Hot tub place 189 Group of organisms 193 Awakens 194 Unemotional Greeks 196 Computer geek 199 Philatelist's obsession 200 Seed used for oil 201 Into the sky 202 Kind of dog? 203 Skateboarder's trick 205 Common breakfast drink 211 At most 212 Panel on blinds 213 "Any ideas?" 216 [210-Down] like [21-Down], which [14-Down] [112-Down] [154-Down] 217 [173-Across]s [17-Down] to [150-Down] [6-Down] in [199-Down] [13-Down] 218 Not [138-Across] [47-Across] 219 "[237-Across] [85-Across]!" 220 [144-Across]s of [178-Down]ed [233-Across] ones 221 [146-Across] [4-Down] or [169-Down] 225 [172-Across] [43-Across] ([208-Down] six [47-Across] [68-Down]) 226 A [204-Across] ___ [26-Down]s a [28-Across]'s [146-Across] [11-Across] 228 [193-Down]; [121-Down]ed from [237-Across] 230 With [239-Down] [105-Down], as [43-Across] 231 As a [27-Across], [57-Across] of [210-Down] 232 -- 234 -- 235 Two after [185-Across] 237 [92-Down], if [29-Across] not... 241 [25-Across] and [229-Across] (when [115-Down] or [96-Across] 242 A [150-Across] 244 One like [8-Across] [74-Across] [180-Across]