“IT TAKES TWO”
Across
1 Daffy Duck feature 5 Throws, as the shot 9 Real grind
13 Second most populous city in the Dakotas
18 Chip in a chip 19 Brand with a was a bi flavored variety in China 20 Necklace-fastening
site
21 Most of the Earth’s
surface
22 *Extra
25 Brought up
27 Paint fight sounds 28 Corned beef concoction
29 Latte maker 30 31-Across prefix
31 Cruise stopover 32 *Bad
34 Since
36 Small island
38 Afore
39 Make out, in Manchester
40 *Liar
45 Attends to
47 In an absurd fashion 48 Popular roller coaster
name
50 Squatters build them
55 Saucy
56 Big Apple designer
initials
58 Choice words? 59 Some campus coaches
60 Messy room metaphor
61 Bakery output
62 Plot size 64 Intellectual
65 *Hail
68 Apollo and Artemis 71 System developed at
Bell Labs
72 Get rid of
73 Banned pesticide 76 Whizzes
77 Waze option: Abbr. 78 Ostentation
79 Toon explorer with a talking purple backpack
80 Like 20 Questions
questions
81 More irritable
84 Like a probability distribution with two peaks
86 Say “I do,” maybe
88 *Ladybird
90 Suit in a Spanish deck
of cards
94 Madre’s sister
95 Mois après avril
96 “The Big __ Theory”
97 *Wait
100 Burn slightly
102 Air 2 or Pro
106 In general
107 They’re sometimes
goodies
109 Expert advice
111 Sympathize
112 *Hush
114 Fed settings
115 Second half of a children’s game
116 Olympian queen
117 __ mad: to the max 118 Practices in a ring 119 Language that gave
us “plaid”
120 Boundary-pushing 121 Villain in “The Lion
King”
Down
1 “Dancer in the Dark” Palme d’or winner von Trier
2 Clumsy
3 Hardly new
4 Item common to bikes and pianos
5 D.C. bigwigs
6 Address without lat. or long.
7 Detachable strip 8 Serious
9 Ignore pointedly
10 In recent history
11 Offer a view
12 “__ Out”: 2017 Jordan
Peele film
13 Made inroads
14 Biting, as wit 15 Shows over
16 Actress Greer with the longest-ever Oscar acceptance speech
17 Kind of punch 23 Order to relax 24 Verbal protest 26 Freaking
29 Carried
31 Quarter barrels for a
beer bash 33 Controlling power
35 Perseveres, with “on”
37 Old nuclear agcy. 40 Dicey spots?
41 Working without __ 42 Not, quaintly 43 Explosive stuff
44 Like some roads and
receptions 45 Gourmet mushroom 46 Pipsqueak
49 Seuss character who
“speaks for the trees” 51 Alternative media
namesake 52 Perfectly fine
53 __ Johnson, Anthony Anderson’s “Blackish” role
54 Pre-1991 Georgia,
e.g.: Abbr.
57 DOD intel arm 59 Dramatic artist
61 Whiz kid 62 Choreographer de
Mille
63 TV franchise with a
Vegas spin-off 64 Digital conflict?
65 Before ... or after 66 Wacko
67 Head of MI6? 68 Senator Klobuchar 69 Issa of “Insecure” 70 Papers in a job recruiter’s office, briefly
73 Bird last seen in 1662
74 Apothecary’s weight 75 Story
77 Urban opposite 78 Nose (into)
79 “I’m so dense!” 81 Purely decorative
detail
82 “__ body meet ...“83 Bring forth
85 The Temptations’ first
#1 single
87 Dieted 89 Embarrassed 90 Reason for shoe inserts
91 Perseverance and
Curiosity
92 Track’s
400 meters
93 Layers
95 Free-for-alls
98 Where a tot might
come from?
99 Grass accessory
101 Anne of “Psycho”
(1998)
103 Aquatic arenas
104 Bertha was locked in
one in “Jane Eyre”
105 Chicagobears’ super
Bowl XX winning coach
108 Denzel’s role in “The
Little Things” (2021) 109 Beseech
110 __ pressure
112 Dir. the Kings travel to
play the Lakers
113 Tango’s co-birthplace: Abbr.