Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“NUTS!” By MICHAEL SCHLOSSBERG
ACROSS
1 Spanish for “prairie” 6 __ wind 11 “Carmina Burana”
composer 15 Breaks down 19 Verdi creations 20 Milan fashion
house 21 Letter-shaped
support
22 Hose color
23 Hex nut?
25 Paints the town
red 27 Sinus-clearing
aids 28 Boilermaker
ingredient
30 Go in for
31 Cool, in a way 32 Palm nut? 34 Encircle
37 “__ Bop”: Cyndi
Lauper song 39 Fiver
40 “Curious George” co-author Margret
41 City on the Skunk 42 Audrey of “The
Da Vinci Code” 45 Flavorful
47 It’s almost always
fishy
50 Date nut? 52 Brewers’ gadgets 54 “Sorry, can’t do it” 55 Customary 58 Mischievous
glance
59 Bit
62 “Sorry not sorry” 64 Old Bruins
nickname 65 Wing nut? 71 Butternut? 74 Folksy Guthrie 75 Abdominal scar,
actually
77 Earth goddess 78 One in the alley’s
back row 81 Pueblo building
material 84 Breakfast cereal
magnate 89 Zigzagged, in a
sport 91 Doughnut? 94 Drink with a painful homophone 95 Packed (with) 97 “Phooey!” 98 Family figure? 99Kind of blanket or
paint
100 Bubbly prefix 102 New Haven
collegian
103 FDR had three
of them
104 Wheel nut? 110 Card game cry 111 “C’est
magnifique!” 112 “How ya __?” 113 Punter’s metric 118 Reggie Jackson nickname based on his postseason success
120 Chestnut? 122 Impress
123 “Game of
Thrones,” for one 124 Dodge
125 Hawaiian
veranda
126 Squirrels’ haunts 127 Train station, e.g. 128 Bob who was the voice of Future Ted
Mosby in “How I Met Your Mother” 129 Muscular, in
modern lingo
DOWN
1 First to move,
usually
2 Indy champ
Luyendyk 3 Glove
4 Protest group,
perhaps
5 Sooty receptacle 6 Allow as a
handicap 7 “LOTR” menaces 8 Delt neighbor 9 Tangy Mexican
sauce
10 More desirable to
collectors 11 Massage parlor
services
12 Triple Crown stat 13 Packers QB
before Rodgers 14 Streaming
service offer 15 “Match Game” regular Charles Nelson __
16 In base eight 17 Fighters’ pact 18 Word that’s its own synonym when a “b” is added to the end 24 Family title?
26 Fly past
29 Due-in hr. 32 Former embryo 33 Bourbon order 34 “Funny not funny” 35 Pianist Gilels 36 Arizona College
of Nursing city 37 “Here’s a thought
... ”
38 Center of activity 42 Move en masse 43 Many times o’er 44 Aerial enigmas 46 Old Spanish
dough
47 Splash (through) 48 Split to come
together 49 Request from 51 “Will do” 53 Novelist Waugh 56 Golf green insert 57 Mauna __ 60 Preserved, as
sardines
61 Like
63 Chinese sauce
additive
65 Prefix with belt, in
slacks
66 What a wavy line may mean in music
67 Long bones 68 Advent air 69 Eggs in a lab 70 “Chopped” host
Allen
72 Costa __
73 Sign of boredom 76 Western wolf 79 Skunk cousin 80 “Haven’t the
foggiest” 82 “Phooey!” 83 Week add-on 85 Inventor’s
protection 86 Nasty sort 87 Ooze
88 A fourth of doce 90 Out of juice 92 Penn of the Harold & Kumar films
93 Hosp. test in a
tube
96 MC Chris genre 99 Big name in jam 101 Maracanã
Stadium city 103 Watches 104 “Did my heart
love till now?”
speaker
105 Main artery 106 As much as
possible
107 Capital near
Casablanca 108 Empaths pick
them up
109 __ Gay
110 Serengeti bovine 113 London’s __
Park
114 Help in a risky
way
115 Passport fig. 116 It may include
several courses 117 One in a wet
quintet
119 __ trip
121 Exposed, with
“up”