Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis

“EXCHANGING WORDS” By TRACY GRAY

ACROSS

1 Beach community near Tourmaline Surfing Park

8 Bear claw or beaver tail

14 Hunk of granite

18 Seething

19 Former first lady, familiarly

20 Room

21 Big name in health insurance associatio­ns

23 Foam art medium

24 Lacking

25 Like many Etsy shops

26 “Don’t change a thing!”

28 Mirror fogger

31 Old Pontiac muscle car

32 Long time

34 Tabloid twosome

35 Quaint emporium

41 “The Voice” coach Gwen

45 Measles symptom

46 Pop star

47 Preschool activity with crayons

51 Bogus

53 Big exporter of saffron

54 Tart-tasting fruit 55 Firewood protector

58 Nintendo princess

59 Sheet type

62 Mmes., in Mérida

64 Electronic control mechanisms, briefly

66 Base for some sashimi

67 Go it alone

70 Actress Vardalos

73 Squanders

74 Entwined

75 Line that intersects a circle in two places

77 Threedimen­sional

80 61-Down follower

82 Belgian surrealist Magritte

84 “Hold __ your hat!”

85 Like pedishowin­g shoes

87 Hopeful expression after two failures

91 Lemon drinks

92 European capital known as the “City of a Hundred Spires”

95 Melodic passages

96 Tony Awardwinni­ng musical based on a Manuel Puig novel

101 Like the Atacama Desert

102__ port in a storm

103Mork’s planet

104Softwar­e test versions

108 “__ Files”: longrunnin­g truecrime series

111 Structural girder

113 __ snuff

115 WWII sub

116 Irving Stone novel about Michelange­lo

121 Where Ducks and Penguins play?

122 Diehards 123Same old same old

124 Garlands of okika or pikake

125 Star-shaped bloomers

126 Prodded

DOWN

1 Culture centers?

2 Book replaced by GPS

3 Short excursion

4 Like Nero Wolfe

5 Cured salmon

6 Ad follower

7 Penne __ vodka

8 Turn down

9 Heading for the whirlpool, say

10 Enjoy Stowe

11 Knotted accessory

12 Repaired, as car brakes

13 Jedi who said, “Always in motion is the future”

14 Extras in trunks

15 Newer, as an automobile

16 When Alexander meets Eliza, in “Hamilton”

17 Borscht base

19 Passat alternativ­e

20 Roulette wheel components

22 Craving

27 “Same for me!”

29 Many miles off

30 Cable series about an erotic magazine for women

32 Put forth, as energy

33 Med. condition portrayed on “Monk”

36 French wines

37 Beats by __

38 Amateur

39 Map line

40 Spanish “she”

41 Hugo Award genre

42 Cheeriosha­ped

43 Make happy

44 Arial, for one

48 Belfast’s province

49 Despondent

50 “Ivy and __”: kid-lit series by Annie Barrows 52 Breakout area, to dermatolog­ists

56 “Yours” alternativ­e

57 Deal with an email error message, maybe

60 On the money

61 80-Across preceder

63 Farm noun or verb

65 19-Down and others, briefly

68 Speaks

69 Onigiri wrapper

70 Grannies

71 Prologue

72 Bohr model subjects

73 Series of successes

76 Silver salmon

77 Cable cable, familiarly

78 Off-the-neck hairstyle

79 Chef Boyardee concoction

81 Prepare for an

83-Down, say

83 Apt rhyme for “cram”

86 Slanted columns

88 Laugh half

89 Many a Saudi native

90 French film

93 Southweste­rn people

94 Negroni need

97 Help for those at sea

98 Many “Westworld” characters

99 Builders of dome-shaped nests

100 “Works for me!”

105Mozart’s “Così fan __”

106 Peony pest

107 __ pad

108 Roll up

109 Stage honor

110 Chichén __: pyramid site

111 Grammywinn­ing album for Tyler, the Creator

112 Female horse

114 Yoked bovines

117 Scarf down

118 Hoppy quaff

119 Eggy quaff

120 Sought buried treasure, perhaps

 ?? ?? 9/24/2023
9/24/2023

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