Saturday crossword
First Things First Across
1 Pocket for falafel
5 Crossing sign?
9 Some old notebooks
13 Came up short
17 USNA part: Abbr.
18 Snuck
19 Eponymous store founder
20 Gulf State native 21 Willie Mays won 12 in 12 consecutive years
24 Brake components 25 “More!”
26 Left hanging
27 John Wayne types
28 In the offing
30 “99 Luftballons” singer 31 Org. created in a 1949 sports merger
33 Lyft offer
34 German exclamation 37 Pitt of “The Big Short” 39 “Mad Men” actress 42 Glasgow’s river 44 Vineyard grape 46 Decorative metalwork 47 “And there you have it!” 48 “No worries”
49 Kept out of sight 50 Brewery named for a Dutch river
53 Stonehenge worshiper 55 Brahms’ “Variations on a __ of Paganini”
57 Putin’s former org. 58 Wish Tree artist 59 Canada’s most populous province
61 Pot growth from overwatering
64 Sonata finale, perhaps 66 “I __ differ”
68 Certain group leader 70 Hunter with a belt
71 Von Trapp girl who sings “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” with Rolf
72 Eye twinkle
73 Enable
75 Subject for Keats
76 “__ Kapital”
78 Capri or Elba, locally 80 Jack in the deck 82 Settles, as a debt
84 GI bill?
86 Stout quantities
88 Enter the pool, in a way 90 Exotic vacation, maybe 92 Praline nut
93 Ed with Emmys
94 Early ‘60s group that included John Glenn
97 Cherry-pick
99 Sound near a “Beware of Dog” sign
100 Dog attractor
101 East, to Goethe
102 Shelter chorus
104 Kite trailer
106 Philly cagers
108 Hotel convenience
111 Heir and heiress
115 Way to step
116 1990 movie with a muscular teacher
118 Like acid in some disinfectants
119 Fascinated by
120 Citrus hybrids
121 James of jazz
122 Tech gadget review site 123 Trade org.
124 Island in a computer game
125 Roulette bet
Down
1 Printer output
2 Tapped image
3 It’s 1 on the Mohs scale 4 Accessory
5 Expert
6 Big name in denim 7 Home to the first collegiate business sch.
8 Groan elicitor
9 1967 Spencer Davis Group hit
10 Stinging rebuke
11 Pioneering fast food name
12 Part of TBS: Abbr.
13 Fraternity O’s
14 “Rip Van Winkle” author
15 Protect from hackers, hopefully
16 Insults
18 Golf-friendly forecast 20 __ Mae: Whoopi’s “Ghost” role
22 Diving bird
23 Succeed in
27 Whirlpool brand
29 Totally absorbed
32 Push-up top
34 Take the stage
35 Garbed
36 Component of hair bleach
38 Purify, as whiskey 40 Reuters rival
41 Fullback on the NFL’s 1960s All-Decade Team 43 Unnerves
45 Pessimist’s words 48 Wyo. neighbor 49 Captain’s post
51 Inner: Pref. 52 Minnesota’s state bird 54 “See?!”
56 Polite addresses 57 Stay fresh
60 Cleaning cloths 62 Language that gave us “galore”
63 Annual fact book 65 Daphnis and Echo, e.g. 66 Fuzzy image
67 Its legislature is the Oireachtas
69 Hard rain?
74 Signs off on
77 Colt .45s, since 1965
79 Venue for free discussion
81 Constantly
83 Sanction, as a college 84 London trash cans 85 Prospector’s target 87 Letter-shaped bolt holder 89 __ on the side of caution 91 Cries of dismay
92 As such
93 Tea party attendee 94 Inlaid design
95 Rival of Tesla
96 __ Trophy: annual PGA honor for lowest scoring average 98 Doesn’t fade
103 Yielding to gravity 105 Tablecloth material 107 DVR button
109 Farm swarm 110 Besties 112 Numerical prefix 113 “Moi?” 114 Go toe-to-toe 116 Korean carmaker 117 Slowing, to an orch.