“FLIP-FLOPS” BY MARYELLEN UTHLAUT
Across
1 Wretched
7 Mount Rainier gateway
13 Hoops statistic
19 Taste
20 In favor of Mideast unity
21 Arty
22 The drive-through diner scene that was cut became a __
24 Right after this
25 Fall garden?
26 Riverbank residue
27 Parisian season
28 Vote of support
29 What Jill has that Jack doesn’t?
30 Break
31 Stab
32 1956 title film monster
34 Smart
36 The girls who spent the night prioritized chat time at the __
41 LP’S 33 1/3
44 Browsing annoyances
45 Wordless agreement
46 Sugary ending
47 Reduce
48 Long
50 Shot __: competitive event
51 Privileged people
53 When the dog got loose, some house plants __
57 False front
63 Get into
64 What a stationary orrery part may represent
65 Clarifying Latin words
67 Grew dimmer
68 Sweetens, as yams
70 Iraqi currency
72 Modified for the better
74 Private
75 Barely sufficient
77 Stroke that makes a rally irrelevant
78 Surrealist Germanfrench painter
79 Gazes fixedly
81 The casual quarterback made an __
86 Expand
88 Bossy utterance
89 African capital on the 30th parallel
90 “It is a __ told by an idiot”: Macbeth
94 What chatty tongues do?
95 Poke fun at
96 Mrs., in Madrid
98 Apply a new hue to
99 A navel ring is a piercing one may __
105 It has pipes and keys
106 Source of some overhead footage
107 Apple operating system
108 Hadrian’s defense
112 Follow (along) closely
113 “It totally happened!”
115 Memorable first name in soccer
116 Small racer
117 Sailing
118 Indicating stress
120 The fast-learning police cadet had the __
123 Most trifling
124 Fail to take seriously
125 Red-skinned root
126 Current events?
127 Soaked through
128 Demands and gets
Down
1 Following
2 Business end of an ax
3 “North and South” trilogy author John __
4 Track contests
5 Bill’s partner
6 Confided in
7 Showing strain
8 One lining up for food?
9 Took care of the food
10 Strong speaker
11 Be resourceful
12 Prez on a penny
13 Feeling it after a workout
14 Lusters
15 Honorary title
16 Picnic pitcherful
17 NBA’S Steph Curry, frequently
18 Early photograph
20 Sea anemone, e.g.
23 Gives out
28 “__ of robins ...“: Kilmer
33 Refrains from
35 The Eiger, for one
37 Secure, as a job or a role
38 “Get __”: James Brown biopic
39 Choose at the polls
40 Shipping hazard
41 Bread-making grain
42 Locket, for one
43 Singer/actress known as the “Queen of Pop”
49 Cause to become
50 Mae West’s “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted,” e.g.
51 Icelandic literary work
52 Sidelong glance
54 Consume
55 Kitty
56 Beethoven’s __
58 Response to the sublime
59 Largest Englishspeaking country
60 Google operating system
61 Cook, as much county fair fare
62 Announcer Hall
66 Gauge on the dash
68 Opposite of trans
69 Hot temper
70 Inane
71 Lowdown
73 “Give __ minute”
76 Often “old” eccentric
77 Big deal
80 Like fireplace logs
82 Within
83 Plant stem joint
84 Final Four org.
85 Moriarty, to Holmes
87 __ longlegs
90 Cheat on one’s sweet, say
91 Freshened up, in a way
92 Slowpoke
93 Often titled stretch
95 Massaged
96 Excalibur, e.g.
97 Put back as it was
100 Not sensible
101 Pecorino __ cheese
102 __ Kingdom
103 Laughing
104 Its capital is Kigali
109 Gelatin garnish
110 “Not in the __”
111 Framework strips
114 Book after John
116 Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle
119 Gift with an aloha
120 Brief afterthoughts
121 Metal source
122 Become more intense, as the moon