Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“ACCENTUATING THE NEGATIVE” By GAIL GRABOWSKI
ACROSS
1 “Proud Mary” pop gp.
4 “Glad that’s over!”
8 Vineyard measure
12 Contaminate
19 Grammy winner Corinne Bailey __
20 Lille lover’s word
21 Coward in drama
22 More ecoconscious
23 Like frayed laces on hockey skates?
26 Forward motion
27 Stretches on the job
28 Wafer like
30 Brontë governess
31 Road trip expenses
32 Area
51 creatures, it’s said
33 Tail end
35 Málaga mlle.
38 Flight school hurdle
39 Dig up buried Burma-Shave relics?
44 Roomba, briefly
45 Contrail makeup
47 Defense org.?
48 Wet suit material
50 Elm Street surname
53 Advice to a sinner
55 Junkyard fillers
56 Seemingly forever
57 Brief period of apathy?
61 Iowa Straw Poll city, once
62 Do as Vassar did in 1969
64 NOYB part
65 Text addition? 66 Feminine side
67 “Say no more”
68 Deceptive operation
70 It has all five black keys in its scale
72 Grab with a toothpick
75 Vital opening?
77 Verizon subsidiary
78 Song often sung
in Italian
79 Flip, in a way
81 German gent
82 Committee leader who’s a bit on edge?
85 Biodegrade
86 Frustrate
88 Really go for
89 “The Ten Commandments” role
91 Team culled from
other teams
94 URL ending
95 Marner of fiction
96 Jeans go-with
97 Orthodontist’s concerns
100 Contest on horseback
104 Queen’s offspring
106 Some square dancers
107 Title after vows, perhaps
108 Passover feast
109 Ten Benjamins
111 Erode
115 Rinky-dink
116 Morgan of “The Bucket List”
119 Pets that help with luggage after a trip?
121 Challenge for a flight attendant
122 Work (out)
123 Sistine Chapel mural setting
124 Release, with “out”
125 “Ain’t gonna happen!”
126 Straddling
127 Learning method
128 Part of GPS: Abbr.
DOWN
1 Some prefer them thin
2 Braggart’s comeback
3 Pharmacy order
4 Guitar amp units
5 Singles, say
6 Moody music genre
7 “Blue-Backed Spelling Book” author
8 Join the game, in a way
9 Small decisionmaker
10 2018 Masters champ Patrick
11 Trees with berries
12 Vardon Trophy org.
13 Limited offer come-on
14 Assess
15 King and a Norman
16 Rattle football linemen?
17 TV’s Jim Rockford, for one
18 Cockney adverb
24 Under Cupid’s spell
25 “Frozen” snow queen
29 Pull back, with “in”
32 Huge, to a poet
34 Eligibility factor
36 Suffers a sudden
decline
37 Links rarities
39 Overturns
40 What stars may represent 41 Doggie bag treat
42 Chill (with)
43 __ paint
46 Flu symptom
49 Negligent
50 They’re often tapped
51 Underlying cause
52 Do a “Wheel of Fortune” job?
53 “Anne of Green Gables” setting
54 Imposing building
58 Often-minced veggie
59 Quran deity
60 Word of support
63 Met works
69 Frat letter
70 Pre-BBQ treatment
71 Difficult times
73 Alternative medicine plant
74 Initial orders?
76 “Un Ballo in Maschera” aria
78 Equally eccentric
80 Funny Bombeck
81 Paris abductee
83 Arabian
Peninsula port
84 Energetic risktaking type, so it’s said
86 Spreadsheet filler
87 Sign __
90 Regard
92 2010 World Cup host: Abbr.
93 One and only
95 Sgt. played by John Wayne in “Sands of Iwo Jima”
98 Patriotic chant
99 Apple since 1998
101 Lofty standards
102 Stahl of “60 Minutes”
103 Hush-hush meetings
105 “The Rapture of Canaan” novelist Reynolds
108 Excel
110 Sharif of “Che!”
112 Flanged fastener
113 Lhasa __
114 Bee-eater’s prey
115 Tech news site
116 __ base
117 Brazil map word
118 Name change indicator
120 Flap