The Globe Puzzle Page
ACROSS
1 Mass Pike toll program
7 Strait of __ (body of water bordering Singapore)
14 Study of light
20 __ & Louise
21 Mistaken
22 Bank location
23 Title awarded to a culinary contest winner?
25 “Like a rock,” e.g.
26 Move like a kangaroo
27 The Cavs, on scoreboards
28 Sad sound
29 Scrabble champion Richards
30 Welcomes at the door
33 Insistent on using name brands only?
37 Like many superheroes
39 High ball?
41 “Beats me”
42 Sarkozy’s predecessor
44 Subcontinental royals
48 Versatile blackjack card
49 Hosp. heart ward
52 Prudent rebuff?
54 “Gah, this keeps happening”
57 Material from a mine
58 Potato bag
60 Bull sounds
61 Kissing on the subway, e.g.
64 Less form-fitting
66 Hesitant sounds
69 Ancient region along the upper Nile
70 Popular parody?
72 Deadline to join the rowing team?
74 One of the Three Musketeers
75 Driller’s deg.
76 Old timer?
77 12/31, for short
78 Globe consumer 80 Leave out
82 Top-left key
83 El Capitan or Uluru
86 Grandstander on the playground?
93 & 94 Motorists’ org.
95 Sparkle
96 Make possible
97 Leader of the 1930 Salt March
100 __ school
102 Pleased with oneself
103 Two cabbies refusing to yield the right of way?
109 Smear
111 Mary Ann __, a.k.a. George Eliot
112 Trompe l’oeil genre
114 All-consonant sandwich
115 Encl. with a wedding invitation
118 Language
120 All it takes to kill the mood?
123 Passengers
124 Kia SUV
125 Head
126 Can’t get enough of
127 Suffragist Elizabeth Cady __
128 Pasta with a bend
DOWN
1 Cut chemically
2 Nomadland director Chloé
3 Porcine character of kids’ TV
4 Ctrl-__-Del
5 Squarely
6 Goes to sea
7 Podcasting need 8 Years, in Portuguese
9 Singer Lewis
10 Alan of Argo
11 Tomb raider Lara
12 Vampire’s bed
13 Canine vocalization
14 Delivery docs
15 Royal son
16 WNBA great Catchings
17 The Princess Bride swordsman Montoya
18 Alto staff marking
19 Bookcase division
24 Rush drummer Peart
31 Bone-dry
32 Asgard resident
34 Zen meditation riddle
35 F1 driver Rosberg
36 Playwright Clifford
37 Loops in
38 “I figured it out!”
40 Dismissive cry
43 Frog’s sound
45 Painter Albers
46 Admire from __
47 Senior Army NCO
49 Diamond makeup
50 Urbanize
51 Risky
53 Tried to persuade
55 Make void
56 Malady for Ben Franklin
59 Composer Jerome
61 Big __ (drug companies)
62 Pamper
63 Nearby
64 Roger Federer’s hometown
65 “In that case...”
67 Cashed in
68 Cheese choice
71 List heading
72 Endearment that sounds like two letters
73 Saved browser data
76 Window ledge
79 Mirthful
81 Flavor enhancer
84 “Look, I did it!”
85 Violinist Hilary
87 Hydropower facility
88 Keeping the beat?
89 Welcoming
90 Passage representing the duck in Peter and the Wolf
91 Annual vaccine target
92 Nourished
97 Sushi go-with
98 Guarantee
99 Words of denial
101 Unpaid balance
103 Neon __ (fish)
104 Eschew
105 Tic-tac-toe sides
106 Citizens __ House (Boston performing arts venue)
107 Donald of Steely Dan
108 Anterior
110 Champagne glass
113 Dog in Oz
116 Several
117 Young newts
119 Switchback shape
120 CIA forerunner
121 Oxford teacher
122 Pen point