Historian's focus Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
2. a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HISTORIAN (noun)
1. a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
FOCUS (verb)
1. become focussed or come into focus
2. direct one’s attention on something
FOCUS (noun)
1. the concentration of attention or energy on something
2. special emphasis attached to something

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Across

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9. Snowman in Frozen

13. Money to get money

19. E.M. Forster's "___ With a View"

20. “Way to go, sister!”

22. Pal of Tarzan

23. “View From the Summit” memoirist

25. Diwali celebrants

26. Spot for a tot, at times

27. President for whom an African capital is named

28. Opposing point of view

30. Beat it!

31. Cornell of Cornell University

32. Silkeborg citizens

33. “I’m at your service”

37. Hound's trail

39. Der ___ (Adenauer nickname)

41. Krypton for one

44. One goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

50. Places to go for runs

52. Athletic supporter?

53. Not so nice

54. Invite

55. Katniss’s “Hunger Games” ally

58. Mantilla makeup

61. Hotel visit

62. They do deep work

65. Goldbricks

67. Communion item

70. "Told you so!"

73. Limp Bizkit frontman Fred

74. With joy

76. Road atlas page

78. Parcel out

79. Choosing word

81. McDonald with six Tonys

82. Through

85. “Left on Tenth” writer Delia

90. Fast shipping option

93. Place to order tom yum soup

97. Ready for a bodybuilding competition

98. Maryland athlete, familiarly

99. “___ to be you …”

102. Sch. with campuses in Amherst and Lowell

103. "Me too," more formally

107. Slightly

109. Gives a seat to

112. “No way I’d ever do that!”

114. By word of mouth

115. With a bow, to Bellini

119. Necktie

120. 1868 event that consolidated imperial rule in Japan

123. Regarding this point

124. Unskilled boxers

125. Happy companion?

126. Prayer

127. Vein yields

128. Enzyme suffix

129. Shapewear brand

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Down

1. Gofer's job

2. Ireland, poetically

3. Joined the equestrians

4. Arbitrary amount

5. Outback creature

6. Gal in the movies

7. Group with a common culture

8. Provoke

9. Lecher's look

10. Trans swimmer Thomas

11. Pollo partner

12. Carnivorous plant

13. Advil target

14. Forehead chakra representing insight

15. Bright circle?

16. Supplied, as computer data

17. Chopin composition

18. Facilitates

21. Many

24. Abbr. for a person with only two names

29. Campus building

30. Big name in little construction

31. Border lake

33. Major animal

34. Nordstrom rival

35. Composer Satie

36. ___ amis

38. Bit in a horse’s mouth

40. Marisa of Spider-Man films

42. It’s plucked in Parma

43. Ready for surgery, perhaps

45. Singer Tormé

46. Protect oneself from viruses, in a way

47. Answer following a knock

48. Approaches

49. Clandestine rendezvous

51. Rotary transformer

56. Asian holiday

57. Branch

59. Court fig.

60. Ta-ta!

62. 'Great' czar

63. Bard's "before"

64. Procedure: Abbr.

66. Food label amt.

67. No need to introduce us!

68. Beth’s predecessor

69. Nickname of Earl Hines

71. Windy City rail inits.

72. “Sports For All, Forever” org.

75. Tooth, in Torino

77. Ankle-length garment

80. “___ durn tootin’”

82. Sanskrit scriptures

83. “This ___” (NBC drama of 2016-2022)

84. Egyptian slitherers

86. Repeated melodic phrase

88. Brand name screamed in commercials

89. Creature that might scream 88-Down

91. Added extra

92. "Stand" band

94. Many a Yemeni

95. Bouncy

96. Vegas venue for Penn & Teller’s show

100. Big purchase of 1867

101. Mouth features

103. Pepper in mole sauce

104. More tender

105. Arcade name

106. Sells off

108. On ___ (carousing)

110. Seal the deal

111. Norse battle god

113. Gobs

114. Spanish peepers

115. Perched on

116. TV’s Kelly

117. Name on “Fargo” posters

118. Black stone

121. Land in leau

122. Infomercials, e.g.

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