Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“ELECTRONIC GAMES” By GARY LARSON

ACROSS

1 Immense

9 Spurred (on) 14 Starts of many

names 18 Procedure

enforced locally 20 Magician’s cry 21 Certain something 22 Unlikely getaway

car alternative? 24 Time left in an

online auction? 26 Utmost degree 27 River-to-sea

connection 29 Policy that includes higher menu prices 30 Stitches 33 Meadow mom 34 Zest

36 Civil rights

legislation? 41 Many a Middle

East native 44 Craved

45 Bowling ball

material 47 Hood’s weapon 49 Where to get

down

50 World view,

perhaps 52 Serengeti

stampede? 55 Multidisciplinary strength-training program 57 Guitarist Paul 60 Tell a thing or two 61 B’way need 62 Under pressure 66 “The Plough and the Stars” playwright 67 Three-hanky

films?

70 Red choice 73 Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, e.g. 74 Single circuit 77 Supremely

spooky

79 Bit of legal advice 80 Promise that one

will 83 Bong for special

occasions? 86 Beast of burden 87 Shower

88 Certain house

mem. 89 Emmy-winning creator of “Six Feet Under” 93 Solvent 94 Thames academy 97 Big place to fool

around in? 100 “Take Me Home, Country __”: John Denver hit 102 Simple sack 103 Court figs. 104 Take the heat

off?

107 Early Yankee

nickname 109 “Rhoda”

production co. 112 Eve?

115 Midnight sail? 119 Auto race signal 120 Pried (into) 121 Glues

122 Daly of “Judging

Amy”

123 “The Teflon Don” 124 Climbing plant

features

DOWN

1 Word spoken

during pouring 2 Throng 3 Bad pun response 4 Ad about being

green, briefly 5 Zip

6 Wrath

7 “Cat Scratch

Fever” musician 8 Shiny print

9 Boston suburb 10 Elapse 11 Supermodel

Carangi 12 Nevada copper

town

13 “The light __!” 14 Synagogue

singer

15 Quattro maker 16 Support, with “up” 17 Words of wisdom 19 Down 23 16th-century English architectural style

25 Whit

28 Top of the line 30 Takes out

31 A and O, but not

E, I or U 32 Relieve (of) 34 Soccer game

highlight

35 Long bones 36 Campaign sign

word 37 Idiosyncrasy 38 FAA overseer 39 Stanley of the

NHL?

40 MLB scoreboard

letters 42 Mexican waters 43 Sew with temporary stitches

46 Sign on the back 48 Nonbinary

gender pronoun 50 Perfect, as a

collectible coin 51 Web site

53 Il __: Mussolini 54 Some appliances 56 Place to soothe

the sole? 57 Horne and

Dunham 58 “College Football

Live” channel 59 Item on a rack 63 Sob syllable 64 Scot’s “Crikey!” 65 Features of some

’Vettes

67 2000 title role for

Julia

68 Happen upon 69 Results of

Googling 70 Cuckoo clock

quartet

71 Bank construction 72 Ain’t like it oughta

be?

74 “Vive __!”

75 “I did not think to shed __”: “Henry VIII”

76 Freighters’

destinations 78 Like some floors 81 “Portrayer” of

Duck Dodgers 82 Southwestern

lizards

84 Screen or bomb 85 Rhinitis-treating

MD

86 South American

greeting 90 Owner of Grey Goose and Dewar’s 91 Speck

92 Leave alone 93 Time in a

personal ad 95 Anaheim’s county 96 Result that’s

expected 98 Spread apart, as police during a search 99 Hospital stat? 101 Surrounded by 104 Slick

105 Without serious

thought

106 Penn name 107 Root often

pickled

108 Tech giant based in Armonk, N.Y. 109 Star followers 110 Neutrogena

shampoo brand 111 Jumble

113 Excessively 114 V-J Day

president 116 Beaujolais, par

exemple

117 From the past,

as a story 118 Pirate’s cry