if i were you ..., 0812, By ROSS TRUDEAU

ACROSS

1 Begin

6 Commercial aunt since

1889

12 Prep to find fingerprints 16 Checkup sounds 19 Deduce

20 Rabid supporters 21 Steel head?

23 Land O’Lakes and

Breakstone’s?

25 Part of the SkyTeam

Alliance

26 With severity

27 The only way to get

respect, so they say 29 Kind of torch 30 Commies 31 Ministering?

35 Giant in direct sales 37 Pro or con

38 Vientiane native 39 Stag’s mate

40 Laundry unit

41 “Inside the N.B.A.” analyst beginning in 2011 43 Wunderkinds, say 47 “Damn, I can’t seem to get a ball into fair territory!”? 53 Fabrication 54 Chicago airport code 55 Wide divide

56 Lose an all-in hand, say 57 Vitriol

58 Aziz of “Master of None” 60 Most susceptible to sunburn 61 Biblioklept’s targets 62 Like a trip overland from Venezuela to Bolivia? 67 Musical closings 70 Easy buckets

71 Tiny, multitentacled creatures 75 Operating system since the early ‘70s 76 Mother ____ 77 “Robinson Crusoe” author

80 Fútbol stadium cry 81 Ingredient in a Cuba libre 82 Expensive line of nonsense someone throws you?

85 Novel endings, maybe 87 Informal assertion of authority

88 Indigo source

89 Part of NGO 90 Orders

93 “Feed me!,” maybe 94 Tannery stock 95 “What are you hauling in there?” and “How many axles you running?” 100 Course

101 Actress Moreno

102 One putting others down 103 Ivory, e.g. 106Inastate

108 Entering your middle name, then date of birth, then adding a “1,” etc.? 112 Missile in a mating ritual 113 Best of all possible

worlds

114 Amounts to

115 Amount to

116 “... ish”

117 Nitpicky know-it-all 118 Scoring factor at a

crossword tournament

DOWN

1 Bros, e.g. 2 Letter-shaped fastener 3 Subsequently 4 Sadly unoriginal works 5 In vogue 6 Box of 12? 7 Manning with two Super Bowl M.V.P. awards 8 “I want my ____” (1980s slogan) 9 Suggestion from a financial adviser, for short

10 Rami ____ of “Mr. Robot” 11 Attack vigorously 12 Title role for Jamie Foxx 13 Like the Statue of Liberty at night 14 Most common U.S. surname

15 Wee one 16 Trattoria option that means “garlic and oil” 17 Poem name whose singular and plural forms are the same 18 Slowness embodied 22 Betrays, in a way 24 “Treasure Island” monogram 28 Genetic messenger 31 Excessive lovers of the grape

32 Classical theater 33 Concrete 34 Temptation location 35 Big name in soda cans and foil

36 Show grief

37 Guest bed, in a pinch 42 Extended writer’s blocks? 43 Scrapbooking need 44 Big success

45 Good source of calcium 46 Grasps

48 Hosiery shades

49 This Hebrew letter: 50 American Girl products 51 Keep watch for, maybe 52 Overdo it on the praise 57 “The Lord of the Rings” actor Billy

59 He fought alongside Achilles 60 Remote button 61 Aspirin maker 63 Narrow valleys 64 Oreo ingredient until the mid-’90s

65 One ogling

66 “You just blew my mind!”

67 Medical breakthrough 68 “Movin’ ____”

69 Tiny 72 Wide-swinging blow 73 CBS’s “Kate & ____” 74 Peddles

76 Harbor sight

77 Box of 12, say 78 “Ticklish” toys 79 Raced

82 [The light turned green! Go!]

83 Free trial version 84 Where you might open a whole can of worms? 86 Track down

90 Move in the direction of 91 Jerk

92 Rise to the occasion 94 Comedic duo? 95 Skipping syllables 96 Difficulty

97 2022 World Cup host 98 Alternatives to cabs 99 About to blow one’s

top

100 3, 4 or 5, usually 103 What a 76-Down pulls 104 Certain buy-in

105 Vet’s malady, for short 107 Kerfuffle

109 Turf

110 Luxury-hotel amenity 111 Get gold from one’s

lead? Answers will appear next week