TRIPLE SPOONERISMS
ACROSS
1 Anesthetic of old
6 Forcefully remove
12 Very good, as a job
18 Purple candy’s flavor,
often
19 Sea-dwelling
21 Things a spy may
have many of
23 Stares slack-jawed
24 What caused the nosebleed on the playground? 26 Sponsor of U.S. Olympic swimmers 28 Ball hit for fielding
practice
29 Burro’s call
30 Tagline in an ad for Elmer’s GlueAle?
35 Holiday-song closer 36 Bygone channel that aired “Veronica Mars”
37 Chill in the cooler
38 Finish filming
40 Gets up
43 Bernadette
of Broadway
45 Succumb to
sleepiness
50 High-flown,
as writing
52 Big ox
53 Discreet attentiongetter 57 Lash with a bullwhip 58 Deliberative bodies 60 Description of a yeti? 63 Parodied
65 Capacitate
66 Tip jar fillers
67 Novice parasailer’s
fear? 73 Ingredient in a Roy
Rogers
74 Coarse
75 What a Möbius strip
lacks 76 Containers for electric
guitars?
80 They’re easy to take 85 Unfamiliar
86 Quite a few
87 It hangs around the
neck
89 Sandwich with
Russian dressing
90 One-room apartment,
to Brits
92 Motifs
95 Like the questions in
20 Questions
96 Very worst
99 “Law & Order” actor
Jerry
101 Sealer for sailors? 102 Drawbacks
106 Best place to buy a platter of fruit-flavored sodas?
111 Square footage
112 Bishop’s headgear 113 Paradisiacal
114 Mend fences after
Caesar’s civil war? 120 Maker of PowerShot cameras 122 Apathetic response to “What’s new?” 123 Leave behind
124 Something to live by 125 Market offerings 126 Trick-taking game 127 “Napoleon
Dynamite” star Jon
DOWN
1 Easter ____
2 It’s a bunch of garbage 3 Discovers by chance
4 Pentathlon items
5 Complete policy overhaul, in D.C.-speak
6 1987 action film originally given an X rating for violence
7 Winter driving hazard 8 Shell-game object
9 Cooper’s wood
10 Game with 108 cards 11 Small scraps
12 Hedgehog predator
13 Second, or worse
14 Quibble
15 Dresses
16 There’s enormous
interest in it
17 Nut in pralines
20 Caddie’s selection
22 ____ terrier
25 From scratch
27 Fizzler
30 Lays down the lawn? 31 Classic seller of
compilation albums 32 Seek moolah from
33 Alphabet ender
34 According to
39 Cal ____
41 Setting for a period
piece 42 Instrument whose name means “three strings”
44 What shopaholics do 46 “The Martian” star
47 Long-armed climber,
for short
48 Joins
49 Own (up)
51 Kick out
54 Dance akin to the
jitterbug 55 Prized Siberian
animal
56 Bathroom floor, often 59 Podcast that won a
2014 Peabody Award 61 Detectives run them down
62 More rare, perhaps 64 Resonator guitar
67 John Kennedy ____, author of “A Confederacy of Dunces”
68 Charlton Heston title
role
69 Aids in golf course
maintenance
70 Irrefutable point
71 Play at maximum
volume 72 R.&B.’s ____ Brothers 73 Sideways scuttler
77 Cutlet?
78 “Life Itself”
memoirist Roger
79 Swahili for “lion”
81 Actor’s last line,
maybe
82 Stayed sober
83 Rules for forming
sentences 84 Mock sound of
disinterest
88 Exhausted
91 Tufted songbirds
93 Sweetie
94 Multiplex count
97 Dark-meat options
98 Jimmy’s “Late Night”
successor
100 Deceived
102 “High Hopes”
lyricist Sammy 103 Snacks in stacks
104 Opposite of o’er
105 “Frida” star Hayek 107 Spanakopita
ingredient
108 Ones who grasp elbows in greeting, by tradition
109 “How revolting!” 110 Drum-kit component 115 Lab coat? 116 FISA warrant objective 117 Genetic macromolecule 118 Unmatched
119 One of the Three Stooges 121 Winner of the most medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics: Abbr.