“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter...” poet Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

DIFFICULT (adjective)
1. hard to control
2. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
MATTER (noun)
1. a vaguely specified concern
2. some situation or event that is thought about
MATTER (verb)
1. have weight; have import, carry weight

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Across

1. Alan in the Television Academy Hall of Fame

5. Ices, in gangster lingo

11. Some Pride Parade wear

15. Place to get soaked

18. Much campaign rhetoric

19. Doo-wop revival group

20. Bygone bird

21. Curse

22. Italian chef’s concern?

24. Slogan for an urban environmentalist?

26. “Most definitely, madame!”

27. Miller offerings

29. Traditional techies

33. Unshakable

37. Primitive weapon

41. Fans, say

42. Sired

43. Goddess of the dawn

46. Classical-jazz fusion instrument?

48. Grove giveaway?

50. Dealing with the situation

51. Marseille monarch

52. Pay attention to

53. “Cute as a button,” e.g.

54. Risky

56. English town associated with bath salts

59. Good place to start

61. Pension collector

63. City once called Terminus

65. Metric masses, briefly

66. Sound from a haunted sty?

70. Org. with a movie archive

73. Orbital maxima

74. Offer an unrealistic bid

79. State named for its landscape

82. Output of atomizers

84. 1982 Richard Pryor movie

85. Foray

86. Name on backache pill packages

88. Really existed

90. Florence divider

91. Scores from a Japanese tournament?

93. Expert adwoman?

96. Schubert’s “The ___-King”

97. Grant-___

98. Like the word “kiwi”

99. Password creators

100. Evidence of revision

102. Chrysler Building style

104. Smooth fabric

106. Present occasion

108. Ring-shaped reefs

113. Music genre featuring loud women?

117. Coach’s pep talk?

120. Take to court

121. Buffalo's county

122. Argumentum ad hominem, e.g.

123. Pachacuti, e.g.

124. Martin Amis title

125. Academic officer

126. Nod, perhaps

127. Enough!

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Down

1. Beagle's bowlful

2. Place

3. Lucy's love

4. Regarding

5. Noted first baseman

6. Leia’s spouse

7. Pit-digging insect

8. Light horse-drawn vehicle

9. ___ Berry Farm (California amusement park)

10. Pitching goal

11. HST’s successor

12. Pistons forward Holland

13. Say further

14. Travel

15. Patisserie need

16. Remain undecided

17. Hewing tools

19. Biol. and chem., e.g.

23. Closing bars

25. Enlightenment-seeking discipline

28. British cavalry weapon

31. Foxtrot follows it

32. Sarge's superior

34. Formally endows with

35. Get mellower

36. Largest member of the deer family

37. Really scrub

38. Edible tubes

39. Group mailing tool

40. Central Asia’s ___ Mountains

44. Stares rudely

45. Take in

47. Self-optimize, in a way

48. Sows and cows, e.g.

49. Bad way to run

52. Court painter to Henry VIII

55. Sat. predecessor

57. ___ doble (dance)

58. Bad signs

60. Kite feature

62. Dando of the Lemonheads

64. Bird’s base

67. Lightweight tablet

68. That's wrong!

69. Electric bill abbr.

70. Passion, pour Pierrot et Pierrette

71. Rejection notice, often

72. Really digging

75. Gentlemen admirers

76. “...poem lovely as ___”

77. Solitary sort

78. David of “The Night Agent”

80. Auburn hue in many Venetian paintings

81. Long times, to Londoners

83. Arya Stark’s Needle, e.g.

85. K.C.-to-Nola direction

87. Of yore

89. Lady friend, in Lille

92. Sigma Follower

93. Delivery truck contents

94. Edible wheels

95. Allotted amount

98. Obsessions

101. City with a big Mardi Gras celebration

103. Grant in the movies

104. Fresh quality

105. His, in Le Havre

107. “Easy as falling ___ log”

109. Blues guitarist Rush

110. Empty pocket contents

111. Bonkers

112. Fly off the handle

114. Mine extraction

115. MI6 counterpart

116. Jennings on “Jeopardy!”

118. Dapper fellow

119. Tenth cal. page

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