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Monsters Incorporated By Matthew Stock ACROSS
1 Movie that may feature a meetcute scene
7 Components
13 Odysseys, e.g.
19 “God Is a Woman” singer Grande
20 Inviting call
from a treehouse
21 Sicilian seaport
22 Just okay
24 Generational
divides
25 One of the Big Five in Hollywood’s Golden Age
26 Name in a will
27 Befuddled
gesture
29 Golfo contents
30 Hip hop dance
move
32 Poorly lit
34 “Okay, that’s
enough from me”
36 Hitting the
market soon
40 North Carolina
university
41 Nights of
anticipation
42 Lines from an
admirer
43 “Aaaand that’s
mine now!”
44 Challenges
46 Smidge 47 Boatloads
49 Horde
51 Wet wipes
brand
53 Historian Cobb who writes for The New Yorker
54 _ _ guzzler
55 The Yoko of “Dear Yoko” and “Oh Yoko!”
57 Egg _ _ yung
58 Madagascar
primate
61 Spur to action
63 Proclaims
65 “That’s my
cue!”
66 Style maven
69 “v funny”
70 Film versions made by devotees
72 Line of work for
a dog walker?
73 “Misery” Oscar
winner
74 Comedian
Notaro
75 _ _-ball pens
76 Novelist Tan
77 Didn’t play
80 Keycard
receivers
82 Maker of Berryblossom White tea
84 Balm additives
85 Nintendo
console
88 “Political Gabfest” podcast producer
90 Supercharged
93 Vinyl records,
briefly
94 “I’d rather not”
95 _ _ out a win
(almost lost)
96 Bread options in
morning buffets
99 Ferrera of
“Superstore”
101 Philosophy
102 _ _ skills
103 Some political campaign research, for short
104 Ashtray debris
107 South Asian
rice cake
109 Ballyhoo
110 Snag in a plan
112 Strong ale brewed by Trappists in the Low Countries
117 Countercounterculture folks
118 Sports venues
119 Painter Diego
120 Contemptuous
looks
121 Fight like a
country kid
122 Tomorrow
DOWN
1 Competed in a
track meet
2 Spanish gold
3 Flew south for
the winter, say
4 Valet’s array
5 Low-scoring tie
6 [I’m a goat!]
7 _ _ box
8 Leaf-eating
pests 9 Many a taxexempt organization
10 “Jeepers!”
11 Uno y dos
12 Brief meeting?
13 Argued over
prices
14 La Liga cheer
15 “No siree”
16 Take longer than
necessary
17 Energize
18 Argentine singer Mercedes known for “Gracias a la Vida”
21 See 113-Down
23 “How could you even sugGEST that?”
28 Puts on the line
30 Bossa _ _
31 Bikini, e.g.
33 _ _ juice
35 Sinuous ski race
36 After taxes
37 Currency
38 Musician honored as a National Hero of Barbados
39 Mireille of “Big
Love”
45 Console
47 Spanish 101
verb
48 [What a relief!]
50 Fatty tuna, to a
sushi chef
52 Topples the
Jenga tower, say
53 Summer month
54 Like
undercooked
brownies
56 Many a “Call the Midwife” character
58 Brings up
59 Inbox fillers
60 Genghis Khan’s
realm
62 Surname well known in Stars Hollow
63 “Black Panther” role for Chadwick Boseman
64 “Cool,” in dated
slang 66 Fiver
67 Quarreling
68 “Insecure” star
Rae
71 Feather _ _
73 Mass-transit
option
76 Bleu hue
78 Curveball
element
79 Sunset
direcci—n
81 Big A-ha
moment?
83 Trip to the plate
85 Clobbered 86 _ _ of Wight 105 Retro ski lift 87 Mag. unit 106 Blood fluids 89 Food 108 Cut with a
91 Antioxidant surgical beam
beverage brand 111 Cassis aperitif 92 Thumbs-up 113 With 21Down,
gestures guitarist
94 38-Down, in the National
notably Inventors Hall of
97 Radio knob Fame
98 Make quite an 114 TNT part
entrance 115 Time period
99 Splatter guard often named for
100 Sticks by the an art movement
pool table 116 _ _ down the
103 Possesses law