WEEKLY CROSSWORD: Seeing Progress

Across

1 Playground game with hoops 6 Blobby sci-fi villain 11 Biker's protective wear

19 In the know 20 Fitness motto starter 21 Removes faded flowers from

22 Fit

24 Brand with a Jumpman logo 25 Regret 26 School near Windsor 27 Stiles of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 28 “Friends” friend 29 Arrives like a brainstorm

34 A, to Beethoven 36 Fair 37 Formal talk 39 Deer sir 43 Droid from Naboo, familiarly 46 Volume unit 48 Go inside 50 Long, long tail? 51 Start of a hopeful chant 55 Tower engineer 57 Simone's state 58 Dagger of yore 59 Mosque official 61 Bound to be

62 “I, Claudius” role 63 Collapsed 66 Like some fried food 68 Letters on a bathroom tube 69 Absolutely zero 72 Dealer-busting org.

75 Meter starter 76 Compared with 77 Places where quiet is often demanded

78 Cut of the loot 81 River past Logroño

84 It's raised at a circus 85 Obligation 86 Many surfers 88 Ignore mistakes, say

92 Letters on a GI's letters 93 Absorb, as a spill 95 Twitter rampage 96 Hale-Bopp, for one 97 Alphabetically first V8 ingredient 99 Yawning cause 101 Place to make a rial deal 103 Some tributes 105 Disney theme park

111 Part of many a plot

113 Bristol bye-bye 115 Bit of politeness from a hat-tipper 116 That guy, to Guy 117 Subject of many a watch 119 Family film feature 123 Enthusiastic to a fault

124 Elicit a chuckle 125 A detective may act on one 126 Spoofs 127 Minibike kin 128 __ music

Down

1 Clues for DNA analysis 2 Accept the blame 3 Wild party

4 “No seats” sign 5 Job listing abbr. 6 “Precisely like this”

7 “Take __ at it” 8 Bingo cousin 9 Marcel Marceau clown persona 10 Snacked 11 Princess with cinnamon-bun locks

12 Not kidding 13 Asleep in Eng. class? 14 Cause of sticker shock at the florist?

15 They may be unsung 16 “CSI” actor George

17 Old food label figs.

18 I-9 ID 21 Thoughts of the beach while in class, e.g. 23 MIT offerings 27 Boxing div. 30 Suspects 31 Jordanian queen dowager 32 José's hand 33 A light bulb may symbolize one 35 “It's clear now” 38 Multi-lingual Irish singer

40 First golfing U.S. president 41 Pulitzer-winning author James 42 __ standard 43 Bowl, say 44 Was highly regarded 45 Formal wear item 46 1983 Indy 500 champ Tom 47 Fancy moldings 49 Throw very hard 52 Berkshire racecourse 53 Deadlocked 54 Alleged creation of Buffalo's Anchor Bar 56 Wray of “King Kong”

60 Herd mentality output? 64 Golfer's gouge 65 Pasta restaurant closing?

67 RPI and NIH 69 Cards, for short 70 Tiberius' tongue

71 Blessed __ 72 Casual Friday fabric 73 Musical workout, at times 74 Singer's perfect pitch, say

75 “... chips-down” link

77 “Ciao” 78 Swedish auto 79 Bit of optimism 80 Lotion additive 82 Fuzzy memory

83 One taking a class over 87 Juice with a lizard logo 89 Picard's counselor

90 Jon of “Mad Men” 91 Checkout action 94 Stamps 98 Figure with a cape

100 __ kit: Ancestry. com item

101 Signed off on 102 Speechless player 104 Like morning fields 106 Stimulate 107 Memory miscue 108 Pass-rushing group, briefly 109 Prevention amount 110 Strength

111 Inventing middle name

112 Card holder, maybe

114 Pub mugfuls 117 Jazzy genre 118 Yokohama yes 119 Omelet filler 120 70-Down trio opener 121 Bright students' org.

122 “How obvious”