PUZZLE SOLUTION
ACROSS
1 Supreme Court justice who once compared the majority’s reasoning to “the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie” 7 Low part 12 Classify 18 A dozen for Hercules 19 Silk case 20 Words of defiance 22 Admission of a lack of familiarity with Mr. Hockey? 24 Business feature? 25 Ancient Persian 26 Like sailors’ talk 27 Celebrity cook Paula 29 Curse (out) 30 Fusses 32 Kyoto concurrence 33 Less serious works by the author of “Brighton Rock”? 36 Take responsibility for 38 Makes fast 40 Roman law 41 One making a roaring start? 45 Only one person can do it 46 Fits comfortably 50 Toque 52 Reason for Brosnan fans to watch 1980s TV? 55 “Home, ____” 56 Beach fronts? 58 A title might be presented in it: Abbr. 59 Being dragged along 60 John Lennon’s middle name 61 Brand name whose middle two letters are linked in its logo 62 Cameo stone 63 Some briefs 64 Round house? 65 Trying to sell one’s “Au Revoir les Enfants” video? 68 Where safety goggles may be worn 71 Don Juan’s mother 73 Plowmen’s cries 74 “Rhyme Pays” rapper 75 “Catch-22” pilot 76 Deplete 78 Flaky stuff 79 Foam 80 Challenge for a virologist 82 Explosive side of a former tennis great? 85 Fruitcakes 87 Libation with a floral bouquet 88 Noted second-place finisher 90 Make sense of 91 “Smack!” 92 Maybe not even that 95 Rockies game 96 Comic’s copy of“The Importance of Being Earnest”? 100 “Oh, no!” 102 Home of Future World 106 Soil: Prefix 107 Upbeat 108 Rocky debris 110 Brazilian berry 111 Applaud 113 Assign blame to the singer of “Blurred Lines”? 117 “Lake Wobegon Days” writer 118 Writing award won multiple times by Alice Munro 119 Where Quiznos and Mapquest are headquartered 120 Erotic 121 “All I ____ Do” (Sheryl Crow hit) 122 Tavern vessels
DOWN
1 Slenderizes 2 Midshipman’s counterpart 3 Residence 4 Single copy of“The Bonfire of the Vanities”? 5 N.Y.C. line 6 Questions 7 Farfalle shapes 8 Sore 9 Great Lakes’ ____ Canals 10 Disperse 11 Fidgety 12 Net-worth component 13 Topsiders? 14 Spain’s Costa del ____ 15 Go too far 16 Actress O’Connor of “Xena: Warrior Princess” 17 Saturn’s largest moon 19 Rum mixers 21 “What we want most, but what, alas! we use worst,” per William Penn 23 “Uh-uh” 28 Questioning interjections 31 Like Vatican guards 33 Ripsnorter 34 Pressing work 35 Fidgety 37 Japanese drama 39 Some Thanksgiving decorations 41 Dead-end position 42 Modern-day home of the ancient Ashanti empire 43 Some sites on the National Mall 44 Home of Jar Jar Binks in “Star Wars” films 46 TV’s ____ Network (sports presenter) 47 Relaxes and has some fun 48 Chess’s ____ ratings 49 Singers do this 51 Nutrition-related 53 Confound 54 Resident of southern Mexico 57 Llama’s kin 61 Radio freq. 62 Come-____ 63 Nonkosher lunch order 65 Onetime title for Obama and Clinton 66 “They got me!” 67 Preceded, with “to” 69 Former kingdom of Provence 70 Military muckety-mucks 72 Midwesterners, stereotypically 76 Modern TV feature 77 Hundred Acre Wood resident 78 Farrow or Hamm 79 Mother of Ares 80 France’s ____ Polytechnique 81 Buy into “Common Sense”? 83 Post office? 84 Hardly fancy 86 “L’Amore dei ____ Re” (Montemezzi opera) 89 Sophocles tragedy 92 Sue Grafton’s “____ for Innocent” 93 Come in under the radar, say 94 Artist Neiman 96 Raise, with “up” 97 Eyes 98 Poisonous snake 99 Producer of wrinkles, it’s said 101 Comprehension 103 First year in Constantine’s reign 104 Like some port vessels 105 Levels 108 ____ Fein 109 LAX figs. 112 Jupiter’s locale: Abbr. 114 “Got it!” 115 Hankering 116 Riled (up)