Galileo Galilei? Crossword Clue

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GALILEO (noun)
1. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)

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1. Fancy dos

6. Count me out

11. Cantankerous captain of fiction

15. Lab provisions?

19. Bit of letter-shaped hardware

20. Attended

21. New York university based in Manhattan

22. A "bear of very little brain"

23. Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison?

25. John James Audubon?

27. Victorian-era prescription for melancholy

28. They'll make it up to you

30. Stumble or lurch

31. Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir.

32. Dictionary tag: Abbr.

34. Summer camper's conveyance

36. Emmy-winning actor Ray

38. Samuel Morse?

43. Sir Edmund Hillary?

46. Lake that's home to the world's largest freshwater island

47. Bit of cacao

49. Come out on top

50. Suffix with hypn-

51. Trees commonly confused with birches

54. Deposit that might gather interest?

55. Cheeky

59. Sir Isaac Newton?

62. Cattle calls?

63. "Harper Valley ___" (1968 hit)

64. TV tavern visited by Mayor Quimby

65. Shoe covering

67. It's often rapped but never spoken

68. Like beds on lazy Saturdays

70. Cuts back

71. Outfit that may have a hood

73. Kofi ___, former secretary general of the United Nations

74. Like the Red Sea after a visit from Moses

76. Rain on your wedding day, perhaps

77. . . .

79. Oui : non :: ja : ___

80. Gregor Mendel?

83. Hint

85. Gives a thumbs-up

86. Basic tenet of improv

87. Sister to Lex Luthor

88. With love, musically

91. A urinal, according to Duchamp

92. Remedies

93. Henry Ford?

98. Orville and Wilbur Wright?

100. Give a darn, again?

101. Food and water, e.g.

103. College located in Cedar Rapids

104. "That sounds awful!"

105. Noble title

108. Bit of letter-shaped hardware

110. Unexpected endings

115. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung?

120. Genesis

121. Roof overhang

122. Weirdly spooky

123. Church staple

124. "Vous ___ ici" (French map phrase)

125. Part of a wooden bench

126. "In other words," in other words

127. Trips around the sun

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1. Solos at a party, say

2. The duck in "Peter and the Wolf"

3. Future birthplace of Captain Kirk

4. Pest whose name is a homophone for what you might do when you see it

5. Gone to great lengths

6. ___ Jima

7. One of the Fab Four

8. Jelly you wouldn't pair with peanut butter

9. Arabic greeting and farewell

10. Canned fuel used in making fondue

11. Broadcast to squad cars, in brief

12. Slim margin of victory

13. One chain x one furlong

14. Amelia ___, maid of children's literature

15. Its showers bring flowers: Abbr.

16. Grant a mortgage, say

17. Where one's trip begins

18. "Golly, that's cool!"

24. Rock climber's handhold

26. Russian crepes

29. Starter, perhaps

33. Is felt strongly

35. Firmly establishes

37. Crazy Horse and fellow tribespeople

38. Bite down hard

39. Musical tool popularized by T-Pain

40. Personification of England, Scotland and Wales

41. Sets of points, in math

42. "Jeepers creepers!"

44. Pied-à-___

45. Michigan, in Chicago: Abbr.

48. Word after you or wanna

51. "And giving ___, up the chimney he rose"

52. Nullify

53. ___ cat

56. Like many Russian housing blocks

57. Made more enticing

58. French fashion inits.

60. Oldest independent state in the Arab world

61. Alter, as a T-shirt for a Phish concert, say

66. Idealist

67. Actress Rowlands

69. She-shed's counterpart

70. Like some nails found in a drugstore

72. Geek (out)

73. Drone or queen

75. Want from

76. Catherine of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind"

78. Uncouth

81. Farm-share program, for short

82. Hint

84. Self-proclaimed "Rap God"

85. __ chart

89. Like many couples at theaters

90. McFlurry flavor

92. Something for canines to sink their canines into

93. Toil

94. Wish one could take back

95. Arrival announcement

96. ___ Lannister, "Game of Thrones" queen

97. Like professional publications

99. Indian flatbread

102. Trap

106. Not just theoretical

107. It runs hot

109. Drab color for una casa

111. Concerning

112. Sonic the Hedgehog company

113. Feodor I, for one

114. Taxpayer IDs

116. Morning times, in brief

117. Encountered

119. Kind of nurse or suit

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