CRACKING WISE

ACROSS

1 52-story Boston skyscraper, familiarly 7 Brass instrument with

a mellow sound 15 ____ Malfoy, student at Hogwarts 20 Sorkin and Spelling 21 Kind of equinox 22 Puerto ____ 23 “Stop! You’re killing me!” 25 ____-garde

26 Give some lip 27 Uncut

28 More than willing 30 For whom the Lorax speaks 31 Internet home to “Between Two Ferns”

34 Latin for “womb” 38 Monsieur’s mate

41 Y or N, maybe 42 Shakespeare character who says, “This above all: to thine own self be true”

45 Actor Jason 47 Zugspitze, e.g. 50 A person skilled at deadpan has one 52 What “4” may stand

for

54 French river or

department 55 Beseech 56 Advert’s ending? 57 Designer Geoffrey 58 Carrier to Karachi 61 Tugboat sounds 65 Decked out 67 Unimpressed response to someone’s one-liner

72 ____ intolerance 73 Novo-Ogaryovo is the official one of the Russian president 74 Lavatory sign 75 Hawke of “Training Day” 76 Regrettable 79 Broadway’s Hagen 81 “Roméo et Juliette” segment 85 Coin-toss call 86 Stand-up chain started in Los Angeles

92 Big engine additive 93 Log-in needs 94 Verbally assail 95 “Iglu,” for “igloo”:

Abbr.

97 Cover over, in a way

99 Start limping

100 It might involve someone being “so poor” or “so old” 104 “____, amigo” 107 Count ____ 108 Nail-salon employees, at times 110 Its “reeds are a pain / And the fingering’s insane,” per Ogden Nash 114 Lipinski and Reid 115 “Jeez … lighten up!” 120 Be grandiloquent 121 To this day, Marie Curie’s are still radioactive 122 Mystery 123 Lacoste and Descartes

124 Star of 1976’s Oscar winner for Best Picture 125 Smoothed in a shop

DOWN

1 Some body art,

for short 2 “Hilarious!” 3 Noteworthy times 4 Lobster traps 5 Med. professionals who take a pledge named for Florence Nightingale 6 Welcomes 7 Plaster 8 Condition for filmdom’s

Rain Man 9 Suffix with speed 10 “Oh, what the hell …

I’ll do it”

11 “Uh, you’ve told me

quite enough” 12 Where Michael Jordan played coll. ball 13 Meadow call

14 Poet Ginsberg 15 “Game of Thrones”

creature

16 Joan who quipped ”A Peeping Tom looked in my window and pulled down the shade”

17 “Pick ____ …” 18 “Pretty please?” 19 Doing a pirouette, say 24 Poison ivy, e.g. 29 Some sneakers 30 Something carried onstage? 31 “Terrif!”

32 Fifth category of taste with a Japanese name 33 “Peter ____ Greatest

Hits” (1974 album) 34 High hairstyle 35 Doughnut figures 36 Late ’50s singing

sensation

37 One of many scattered in a honeymoon suite, maybe

39 Light bark

40 Cry from Homer 43 Kind of port for a

flash drive 44 Manage

46 Night vision? 47 Bowl

48 Maid’s armful 49 Made an appeal 51 Hymn starter 52 Habitation 53 Around the time of

birth

59 Chains 60 Car-rental giant 62 Poet who wrote “Fortune and love favor the brave” 63 Org. that offers Pre✓

enrollment

64 ____ fly

66 One on the left?:

Abbr. 67 Greatly bother 68 TV blocking device 69 Tops

70 Finish all at once, in a way 71 Things taken by government officials 72 “Sounds like a plan!” 77 “Don’t be ____!” 78 ____ Walcott, Nobel Prize-winning poet 80 Patriots’ org.

82 Bad state to be in 83 Mine transport 84 Modern party summons 87 Euros replaced them 88 Bustle

89 Grp. that puts on a show 90 Fleets

91 Wall St. bigwigs 93 Like Mount Narodnaya 95 Empty

96 Brings a smile to 98 Like some angels and dominoes 100 Champion 101 Airport that J.F.K. dedicated in 1963 102 Erin of “Joanie Loves Chachi” 103 Locks up 105 Concoct

106 Bug

108 Jester 109 Feeling 110 Anthony Hopkins’s “Thor” role 111 City NNE of San Antone

112 “My treat!” 113 “My stars!” 116 Cambodia’s Angkor ____

117 Court org.

118 Skit show, for short 119 What makes you you?