WEEKLY CROSSWORD: “Excuses, Excuses!”

Across

1 Jorts fabric

6 North Africa's __

Mountains 11 Cranberry sites 15 TV ads for good

causes

19 One who may live by the Strait of Hormuz

20 Go

21 Old Testament

twin

22 Actress Wilson of “His Dark Materials”

23 “I always wanted to be a ballerina, but I ... ” 27 Specimen for a

volcanologist 28 Gown

29 Long Beach's location, informally

30 “I __”: Election

Day sticker 31 North Carolina

university 32 Uniform

accessory 33 Ambulance

wailers

34 “I always wanted to be a baker, but I ... ”

40 __ bar

41 German article 42 Northeastern

octet

43 Show clearly 46 Small tastes 48 Vega, e.g. 49 Phony

53 “I always wanted to be a Gregorian monk, but I ... ” 57 Undefeated boxer

Laila

58 Means of access 59 Goatee spot 60 Key of Beethoven's “Eroica” 62 Soy-based frozen

dessert brand 65 Think of, as a

solution 67 “__ Place”: 1990s TV drama 69 Classic Windows

catchphrase 70 Bygone Dodge

subcompact 71 Messy scuffle 72 Customizable Wii

Sports avatar 73 “I always wanted to be a perfumer, but I ... ” 81 French infinitive 83 Give more than a

darn?

84 Midday

85 On the clock 86 Setting for many Stephen King novels

88 After the whistle 90 Wallpaper hanger's calculation

91 “I always wanted to be a gardener, but I ... ”

98 Sugar shack

surrounders 99 Actress Mireille 100 MLB stat

101 Massive old

computer

102 Amazon crime series based on Michael Connelly novels

104 Fanny pack's

spot

106 Needle a bit 109 “I always wanted to be a wedding officiant, but I ... ” 113 Not aweather 114 Canine pal of Nermal and Garfield

115 British elevators 116 Pie feature 117 Young 67-Down 118 Batik artist 119 Sherwin-Williams

product

120 Toast opener

Down

1 “Say So” singer __ Cat

2 Some Down Under sprinters 3 Graham in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 4 QB misfire 5 __-of-the-road 6 Pasta specification

7 Till stack 8 Muscles near

delts

9 Batting stat 10 Vacillate

11 “You __!”: “Yep!” 12 Dept. of Labor

arm

13 Fine __: Irish

political party 14 Dine by candlelight, maybe

15 “The Canterbury

Tales” character 16 Beverage brewed

with solar energy 17 Go to

18 Gets rid of 24 Appliance in some hotel room closets

25 Reggae pioneer

Peter

26 Like a ram or a

lamb

31 Balanced

32 Curry of the NBA's “Splash Brothers” 33 Bypass

34 Home with cells 35 Tel __, Israel 36 Main points 37 Taking action 38 Captain of

industry 39 Novelist

Turgenev 40 Family room 44 Pants part 45 Award quartet for John Legend, for short

47 Grapefruit wedge 48 __ guard 50 Lighting effect 51 “Poor, pitiful me!” 52 Puny parasite 54 “... __ quit!” 55 Sulu player John 56 Choose

61 Routes without

tolls

62 Person of the

Year designator 63 Skip over 64 So-so

65 Some med. plans 66 Company abbr. 67 Guys

68 “Frozen” sister 70 Advent 71 Ramadan, e.g. 74 Essential fatty __ 75 Brooks's country

music partner 76 Gets into shape? 77 Castle trench 78 Standard

79 Koala hangout 80 Genre of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones 82 Tries to live up to 87 Smart __

89 Most uncanny 91 Cooking oil

option

92 Weighed in 93 “The Addams

Family” uncle 94 Foot part 95 Totally worthless 96 Recipe amt. 97 Built for NASA,

say

98 Athlete's award 102 Soul mate? 103 Scrape covered

with a Paw Patrol

bandage, e.g. 104 Library

convenience 105 Memo abbr. 106 Cowpoke's poker 107 “Will there be

anything __?” 108 Dampens

110 Drift off

111 Fjord kin

112 One of five principal resources in the game Catan