CROSSWORD PUZZLE/Edited by Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS
1 Abacus unit
5 Brother of Lucrezia Borgia 11 Lipstick shade 15 Insignificant
19 Drivetrain component 20 Rhododendron variety 21 Sport with masks
22 “Cake Boss” competitor, at
times
23 Usually retrospective
assessment
25 Cop (to), as a lesser charge 27 Service that manages
network messages 28 Ingenuous one
29 Kemper who plays Kimmy
Schmidt
30 Feed a line
31 “About time!”
34 Grabs with a toothpick 35 Brazen crime time 40 Palate-cleansing serving 41 Way to go
42 Winds into rings
43 Common scale extreme 44 Cathedral section
45 Shade of pink
46 It’s often designed to rise 53 Pull in
54 Zebra mom
55 Sound quality?
57 First Nations tribe
58 Cash or credit, e.g. 59 California county or its seat 60 Pub orders
62 Kilt features
65 South Beach, say
68 Ribs
69 It isn’t negotiable
70 “That’s not true!”
71 Go over
72 Barcelona-born muralist 73 Lightly washed
75 Comedy club sound
76 Old school dance
79 Tire measurement that can
be checked by the “penny test”
82 “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie” author 84 “Arbitrage” actor 85 Apples run on it 86 Bush, for one
87 Where van Gogh painted “Sunflowers”
88 Letter writing, sadly 92 Place to buy a train ticket 95 Fifth-century conqueror 96 Washington airport
97 Sushi bar offering
98 Put away for later 99 Unveiling shout
100 Showbiz honors
106 Buffet stack item
108 Combine ... and a hint to what’s hidden in eight long answers
110 Had to fork over
111 Letters before a viewpoint 112 Lowlife, slangily
113 Actress Watson
114 Pollster’s enc.
115 Ravioli filling
116 “Hear me out”
117 Resale caveat
DOWN
1 Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You
__”
2 Class struggle?
3 “Same Time, Next Year”
actor
4 Inscribe personally
5 Hidden
6 Basso Pinza
7 Fresh words
8 Carrier with a hub in Fiumicino
9 1906 Runabout, e.g. 10 Suffix with Jacob
11 Meal
12 Illuminated indirectly 13 Complaint
14 Word of support
15 “The Rose” singer
16 Big name in food safety 17 Do some electrical updating 18 Gallo family brother 24 Lose, as a tail 26 Be contingent (on) 28 “Doubt it”
32 Cash holders
33 Some HDTVs
34 Place for a rototiller 35 Fiber source
36 Boxing ring boundary 37 Kick out
38 Nut with a hat
39 Time long past
40 Stick it out
45 Protest principle
46 __ B’rith
47 Smelly 48 Nouveau-Mexique, par exemple
49 Vast expanse 50 “Topaz” novelist
51 Code carrier 52 Company with toy trucks 54 Sunbeam floater 56 Watts at a keyboard 58 1990s trade acronym 60 Annual parade VIP 61 Sign of remorse 62 Subtle summons
63 Look the wrong way? 64 Raison d’__
65 Wig out
66 “It __ Necessarily So”: Gershwin song 67 Smidgen
71 More or less, informally 73 Interval of inactivity 74 “Don’t You Know?” singer Reese
75 City near the CaliforniaNevada border
76 Pitch in
77 Cookie with a Thins Bites variety
78 Bug or brat 80 Increased in intensity, with “up”
81 Kid-vid explorer
83 Lines at the grocery 84 Beverage with antioxidants 86 Sizable hole
87 Really fancy 88 Catchers on the range 89 North American capital, or its river
90 Some wraps 91 Vehement speech 92 Sizzling
93 Battery choice 94 Jackie Paper’s imaginary
friend is one
96 Recent White House
daughter 99 Smartphone display 101 Newsroom cancellation 102 Roll with the punches 103 Electrical units 104 Patrick’s “Ghost” co-star 105 Ladies of Sp.
107 Barely lit
108 Knee injury initials 109 Nike’s __-FIT fabric