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Once the grid is complete, the pieces each take four turns. Each turn, a piece captures a square to create a new word across. As usual, the pieces can land on black and white squares.

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Across
1.Actor Robert of The Godfather Part II
6.Superhero played by Chadwick Boseman
17.Marry in a rush
19.NYSE symbol for Thermo Electron
21.Promises for future payment
22.Pyrrho's term for freedom from worry
24.Virtue
25.___ party, a meetup for gamers
26.J. J. Abrams TV show starring Jennifer Garner
28.Freaks out
29.See 67-Across
30.Snowslide in Santiago
32.A logic gate
33.Addendum to a letter (abbr.)
34.Hams it up on stage
35.Dot ___ bubble
37.Country
39.Great ___
40.You in 14-down
41.Main character of Back to the Future
42.Place to go for a pedicure
43.Ich ___ ein Berliner
44.Implore
46.Language of the Qur'an
49.What __ Love? (Haddaway song)
50.Jonestown, for one
52.Let the cat out of the ___
53.Continent with a union
55.Show ___, slang term for the entertainment industry
56.Jazzy Count
59.Country enduring an eight-year civil war
60.Small whirlpool on the beach
62.Body part with a hammer
63.Revised
65.Smallish batteries
67.With 29-Across, m or kg, for instance
68.Fire breathing mythical beasts
70.Bon ___, witticisms
71.ASAP
73.To ___, with love
75.Body of 100
77.Actor Jackman
78.iPhone feature powered by 72-Down
79.Heat
81.Boarding school near Berkshire
82.Seventh letter of the Greek alphabet
83.Insect that sounds like it wants to run away
84.Opposite of pros
85.Twosome
87.Wife of Cronos
89._____ Cloud, shell of icy objects surrounding the solar system
90.Musician Garfunkel
91.Something despised
96.Course, as a river
98.Musical mark indicating a pause of unspecified length
102.Brightest star in Orion
103.Vitamin A1
105.Christmas movie starring Will Ferrell
107.Third-largest city in Italia, after Roma and Milano
108.Fake hair
109.Language that gave us egg and them
111.Heart of ___ (Joseph Conrad novel)
113.Speed of storytelling, as a novel
114.He has an eponymous delta function
117.Lit party
118.First in turn order (abbr).
119.Portuguese title for Paolo or Tiago
120.American space org.
121.Friend of Wynken and Blynken
122.Google video chat app
123.What the ugly duckling turns out to be
125.Setting for NYC
128.Precursor to the CIA
129.Word following mess or first aid
130.Dine
131.Macronutrient in fruits, vegetables, and grains (abbr.)
132.Quadrilaterals with two pairs of adjacent congruent sides
133.Strap attached to a bit
135.Words said at the altar
136.Rod
137.He conjectured that a simply-connected closed 3-manifold is a sphere
139.Thus
140.Competition for spelling or quilting
141.Father's sister, for example
142.Appropriate
143.Chipped flint nodule
145.Villain killed by Kylo Ren (spoiler alert)
147.Tootsie Roll gumdrops
149.Host Michael of SNL's Weekend Update
150.One who folds sharply
152.Huff, bad mood
153.Logical gate
154.Quid pro ___
155.Second in turn order (abbr.)
156.Mother of Apollo and Artemis
157.Call of Duty: Black ___
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1.Type of Greek column
2.Essence
3.Thing in the middle of a tennis court
4.Mythical city at the bottom of the sea
5.Homer Simpson's favorite torus
6.Third in turn order (abbr.)
7.What a book from the library can be on
8.___ lang syne
9.Show with New York, Miami, and cyber spin-offs
10.Extinct North American pigeon
11.@
12.Back of the neck
13.Light rail
14.Capital of Lower Saxony
15.Usually neon sign
16.Forced through a sieve, as potatoes
17.Flightless bird
18.Judge Goodman on Dancing With The Stars
20.One of three countries on the island of Borneo
23.Someone who calms with words
27.Via ___, Roman road
31.Type of jockey
32.One who eats corn in spirals
36.Cursed play
38.Musical work
39."Dancing Queen" group
44.Preceder of "get one free!"
45.Attends
46.Prime minister of Japan
47.Free oneself of something
48.One of three spherical coordinates
51.___cycle
53.Thing connecting vertices
54.Fourth in turn order (abbr.)
57.Things blocked by a browser extension
58.Less difficult
61.First word of "Jingle Bells"
64.Roman garments
66.1999 role for Stiles
68.Concern for the EFF
69.Leader Turner of a slave rebellion
72.See 78-Across (abbr.)
73.He brings presents in December
74.Org. processing returns (or an anagram of 73-Across)
76.Tooth protection
77.Gabi Wilson's stage name (abbr.)
78.Reducing speed
79.Dance move that looks like a wiggly push-up, with "the"
80.Oolong or rooibos, for instance
83.29-across that is not 67-across
84.Automobile
86.Egyptian sun god
88.Malagasy or Swazi, for instance
92.Syllables at the beginning of a chorus
93."___ don't lie" (Shakira song)
94.Food critic Anton from Ratatouille
95.Sample taken for chemical analysis
97.3000 infantry and 300 horses, in Latin
99.Setting of Hamlet
100.2012 movie directed by Seth MacFarlane
101.Daminozide
104.Dr. ___, James Bond villain
106.Muniz of Malcolm in the Middle
107.Must
108.Japanese horseradish
110.Pair of scrubbers at a board
112.Circumvented
115.Hands out, as roles
116.Home of SF and LA
118.Two pints
122.University official
123.Poet from Lesbos
124.Scribed
125.Type of fundamental group in algebraic geometry
126.Podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig
127.Fly transmitting sleeping sickness
132.Oak tree's nut
134.Midday
136.Goes over 21, in blackjack
138.Part shared by humans and woods
140.Wager
141.Upon
142.Appear in a play
144.Another name for chlorendic acid
146.Fifth in turn order (abbr.)
148.Musician Yoko
151.Sixth in turn order (abbr.)