Explains something in simple terms Crossword Clue

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SOMETHING (noun)
1. An indeterminate or unknown event.
2. A substance or material thing, unknown indeterminate or not specified.
SIMPLE (adjective)
1. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
2. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
SIMPLE (noun)
1. a person lacking intelligence or common sense
2. any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

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Across

1. Org. on workplace posters

5. Sweet-toothed crawlers

9. Financial resources

14. Clubs for chips

19. More than expected

20. Adversaries

21. Group of eight

22. Unaccustomed to

23. Mike of "Dirty Jobs"

24. Seeking a seat

27. Pacific coast barkers

29. ___ Estados Unidos

30. Feeling of gloom

31. Hard-to-split wood

32. Comes out on top?

33. Not trans or enby

34. Unsubstantiated

36. Staged

41. Playful growl

42. Yukon gold rush region

43. Uses a sieve

47. 401(k) alternatives

48. De-iced?

49. State flower of New Mexico

53. Pucker-inducing

54. The Blue Jays, on sports crawls

55. "Roman Holiday" star

59. GameCube successor

60. Burned, in a way

62. The Pioneer Woman host Drummond

63. Bearing

65. Scolding sounds

67. "Tossed" dish

70. Herring kin

71. Harmless fib

75. Angry growl

76. Time-honored maxim

80. House Stark patriarch

81. Auto-erased item on a hard drive

86. Exec overseeing accounts

87. Healing ointment

89. Spacious hotel offering

90. Core constituency

91. Get outta here!

92. Starting lineup

94. Crude structures

97. Spot for solar panels

98. Connecticut state song

102. Hilarious sorts

103. Leaves high and dry

104. Calendar divs.

105. Noble above a viscount

106. High euchre card

108. Classical closing

109. Copa Mundial cheer

110. Products that help prevent chapping

114. Fluffy brunch item baked in a skillet

118. Wind like a snake

119. Solo

120. Anne of fashion

121. ___-Ball

122. "Shogun" streaming service

123. Lightheaded

124. Put in stitches

125. Leaves in hot water?

126. Really small matter

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1. Steering implements on dragon boats

2. Blackthorn berry

3. "Oh boy, that's uncomfortable"

4. Drawing rooms?

5. Picked hairstyles

6. Plus or minus

7. Change for a 20, maybe

8. ID with hyphens

9. Snowboard cousin

10. Heart charts, briefly

11. Org. concerned with traffic

12. Virtual animal such as Xweetok

13. Leave High and Dry

14. Tributary streams

15. Penalty caller

16. Injuries, to a tot

17. Salt, in a chem lab

18. Thorn’s spot

25. "Odyssey" prequel

26. "Be a Revolution" author Ijeoma

28. Neither Rep. nor Dem

33. Part of CDC:

34. Traffic jam

35. Newton or tesla

36. Corn chip

37. "The West Wing" creator Sorkin

38. Ran in the wash

39. Crowd noise

40. "The __ Boat Song": classic Scottish ballad that opens "Outlander"

42. Oft-cracked joints

44. Babe in the woods

45. Destiny's Child, for one

46. Mix

50. Chem. in some dispensary products

51. Sticks in a pool hall

52. Tank top openings

55. Good thing to have

56. Vote in favor

57. "Hey Arnold!" bully

58. Writer Zora __ Hurston

61. Hairy Addams cousin

64. Contribute

66. Shang-Chi player Liu

68. Flight board abbr.

69. Signs of drought

71. Org. for the Fever

72. Preliminary race

73. Doing nothing

74. Prefix with dermis

77. End-of-term cry, and an alternate title for this puzzle

78. Underway

79. Dog sounds

82. Great Plains natives

83. Tara of "Sharknado"

84. Leaf peeping season

85. Archipelago part

88. Guatemala native

91. Hot sauce served with pho

93. Moved in step

95. Area prone to flooding

96. No longer asleep

99. Gaming greenhorn

100. Some classic cameras

101. Make possible

102. Sheep with horns

103. Same here

105. Swords with bell guards

106. Tiny amount

107. Cherry-pick

109. Mayberry boy

110. Michigan for one

111. Store with a Swedish food market

112. Metric weight

113. Urban renewal target

115. "Inside Politics" channel

116. Wood used in cabinetry

117. Duluth winter hrs.

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