CROSSWORD PUZZLE/Edited by Joyce Nichols Lewis
“MAKE CIRCLES” By VICTOR BAROCAS ACROSS
1 Agreed 6 Compressed video format 10 Altar constellation 13 Reach 22, in a game 17 Features of Byzantine domes
18 Retro diet, to put it mildly 19 Keaton role in “The Founder” 20 Sufficient, to the Bard 21 Coleoptera insect
24 Stir (up)
25 Copier copy: Abbr. 26 “Queen of Salsa” Cruz 27 Quaker cereal 28 Instrument in George Harrison’s “Within You Without You”
29 Beats soundly
31 Much of western Queensland 35 Select 37 Human-beast portmanteau 38 Gaggle members 39 Flabbergast
40 Basic shelter 42 Blacken
43 Gazelle cousin 48 Moscow Olympics mascot 52 Sage
53 One spotted at the zoo 55 Highlands headgear 56 Theodore Cleaver, casually 58 Like Ophelia, ultimately 61 Two-time Conn Smythe Trophy winner
62 “We’re approved!”
65 Type of center
68 Spring sign
70 Activist Davis
71 Styled after 72 Scientist with 19 Emmys 73 Sink one’s teeth into 74 Feel remorse over 75 “Jabberwocky” word meaning “evening” 79 Pride event abbr. 81 Faith with pillars 84 Long-distance exploration program
90 Math points
92 Virtual human companion 93 Joker’s prey
94 Ducks with a distinctive blue-green coloring
96 Won’t take no for an answer 99 Ill will
101 Musical work
103 Like businesses on Yelp 104 Massive hunters
105 Pilgrim to Mecca
106 When repeated, #5 on Rolling Stone’s 2007 list of “40 Songs That Changed the World”
108 Bitter __
111 E-ZPass payment
112 Scotland native
116 Sooner State city
117 “__-daisy!”
118 Lloyd or Paul of
Cooperstown
119 River to Lyon
120 Mother of Pollux
121 General on menus
122 Border
123 Vandalized, in a way
DOWN
1 Roman god of the sky 2 App symbol
3 Level for building, as land 4 Moose kin 5 Decathlon event 6 Christmas trio 7 Mood-brightening 8 Gloaming, in verse 9 Hunk
10 Like Dickens’ Dodger 11 Battle on a log
12 Low card in a wheel straight 13 B-deficiency illness 14 Baltimore NFL great 15 Comfort
16 Shake it on the dance floor 18 Buds
19 Knightley of “Bend It Like Beckham”
22 Cub Scout badge 23 Ancient pre-Iranian civilization
28 Engine power source 30 Major 1973 decision
32 No later than 33 Ecological community 34 “Yuck!”
35 Govt. health org. 36 Triumphant laugh 37 West in old movies 41 Varnish ingredient 42 Train unit
44 Be equivalent to 45 Magic act sound
46 Shirt protector
47 Emmy winner David 49 Opening
50 Site of many Dutch embassies, with “The” 51 “Famous” snack guy 54 Morse “E” 56 Earnings booster 57 Tannenbaum topper 59 Use
60 Humdinger
63 Striped cat
64 Apt
65 Big name in WWI espionage
66 Wine lover’s word 67 Problem for a sloop
69 Dig (into)
76 Troy, N.Y., school 77 Ancient region of presentday Turkey 78 Unregistered user 80 Received an AOL message 82 Longtime host of “Scientific American Frontiers” 83 Shapes
85 Coming to
86 Some calculators 87 Helper with a harness 88 And the rest: Abbr.
89 I-5, e.g.
91 NC joined it in 1861 94 Power in old films 95 “Elements” writer 96 Parental argument ender 97 “But there is __ in Mudville
... ”
98 Annoyed state
100 Relaxed
101 Monopoly miniature 102 Makers of many links 103 Essen’s river
107 S-shaped molding
109 Hawaii’s state bird
110 1857 plaintiff Scott
112 His relics were the subject
of a 1970s Met exhibit 113 Niagara Falls reaction 114 Suffered from
115 Hound