Backstory Crossword Clue

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Backstory Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote

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1. Name hidden in "formerly"

5. Elitists

10. Writer Bombeck

14. So far

17. Fat substitute

19. Dot in the ocean

20. Revolutionary Trotsky

21. Fantasy monster

23. Workplace bumbler?

25. Snitch on another criminal?

27. Cost-of-living stat.

28. Winter hrs. in Chicago

29. Gumbo pod

31. "Wonder Woman" actress

32. Ibsen Museum city

34. Homer's bartender

36. Many an MIT alumnus

38. Like a high-quality battle?

41. Sweeping works

46. "Please stay!"

47. Bushy hairstyle for Mick Jagger?

51. Predicated (on)

53. Special __

55. Composer Brian

56. At a distance

57. Long time out?

58. Fits of pique

60. "Semper Fi" branch: Abbr.

61. Kind

62. "Anybody want the last cookie?"

65. Formatting guide for many scientific publications

68. Admonition against pretending to smell one's dinner?

75. Greet someone

76. "You don't have to keep telling us"

77. Chooses

81. Bubbly brand

82. Navigational acronym

85. Browser addresses

86. Dynamic start?

87. Conservatory degree

88. Big vat

89. Soccer broadcaster Alexi

91. Worry about three things at once?

95. As originally positioned

97. Food in rolls

98. Business that makes architectural decorations?

104. Deliberately ruin

108. First Chinese zodiac animal

109. Blackthorn fruit

110. Audacity

114. Cleans the floor

116. Printer paper abbr.

118. Agcy. at Logan

119. Snare number one?

121. Marlee Matlin, but not William Hurt, in "Children of a Lesser God"?

124. Literature Nobelist Tokarczuk

126. First capital of unified Italy

127. Factotum

128. Anthem contraction

129. California's Santa __ Valley

130. Remark for the audience

131. Heed

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Down

1. Dairy animal, to a tot

2. Go past

3. Seconds, for a drink

4. Language of southeast Asia

5. Remove with a sieve

6. Research grant agcy.

7. Mishmash

8. Canterbury's St. Thomas à __

9. Caterer's heat source

10. Keebler baker

11. Time in power

12. Singer Janelle

13. What a boot conceals

14. Activity with asanas

15. "I say!"

16. Half a sextet

18. The Seahawks represented it in Super Bowl LX

22. Tolkien tree creature

24. Donny or Marie

26. Feel the same way

30. Water under el puente?

33. Veteran sailor

35. Urge

37. "__ your funeral"

39. Enemy

40. Pueblo people

42. 80-Down's exam

43. Questionable

44. "Darn!"

45. Annoyed

48. Short-tempered

49. Éponine's ballad in "Les Misérables"

50. "Beats me"

51. Mononymous Irish singer

52. Prayer ending

54. Lesley of "60 Minutes"

57. State fish of Massachusetts

58. Refrain from using

59. "I need details!"

60. Geographically misnamed sch. in Tampa

63. Podcast releases, informally

64. Lit, as a dessert

66. In progress, to Sherlock

67. Rowing machine

69. "Am I understood?"

70. Like fresh paint

71. Major mistakes

72. Spanish word hidden in "protractor"

73. Lubricates

74. Some NFL linemen

77. Overnight __

78. Lima's country

79. Outfielder Speaker

80. 42-Down taker

83. Infamous Boston Marathon cheater Rosie

84. Li'l __ of the comics

89. Ray of "Goodfellas"

90. Convenience store convenience

92. Pianist Franz

93. Young newt

94. Streetcar

96. Like a triangle with unequal sides

99. "Please let me!"

100. Very high-arcing baseball pitch

101. Application-switching keyboard shortcut

102. Cancel, on a cash register

103. Annual

105. __-named (like Usain Bolt, say)

106. Rank below viscount

107. Chicago hub

110. Corp. money manager

111. Big Island city

112. Impel

113. Bygone despot

115. Golfer Pak

117. "Mayberry __" (sitcom)

120. Candy from a dispenser

122. "I see what you __ there"

123. Phillipa of "Hamilton"

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