PROVING THEM WRONG
ACROSS
1 Overawe 4 Things falling out of
Vogue? 11 Words to a Spanish
sweetheart 16 Mover but not a
shaker (one hopes) 19 Atlantic 10 Conf.
school 20 Where techno music
originated 21 Belly 23 Camel’s-hair color 24 Surplus 25 Where the Sun
shines? 26 Doesn’t let it go 28 “Star Wars” name 29 Got into a mess? 30 Pie-eyed
31 Wee bit
32 Call it a day … or a
career 33 Sunday delivery:
Abbr.
34 Woolly ruminant 35 Very lowbrow 37 Fabulous fabulist 39 Achievement 40 Riverboat hazard 42 Linguists’ interests 46 Boat that landed on 94-Down 49 Final, countrywide
competition 53 ____ tap
54 Go (for) 55 Salary negotiator 56 Alternated 58 Dress down 60 Winner of 11 Grand Slam tennis titles 61 Common seasoning
for Italian sausage 62 Elected
63 Sports axiom refuted
by this puzzle 69 “The Handmaid’s Tale” author
72 Not with it
73 Place in a 1969
western 77 Serious devotee 78 Papal-conclave members 82 Ghostly
83 He said, “It’s not bragging if you can back it up” 84 Group with five members in this puzzle, with “the” 85 Court plea
87 Sleep stage 88 Relief
89 Play the part of 90 Father of Phobos, the god of fear 92 Sound of the South 97 Liability of note? 100 Swagger
102 ____ Minella (Muppet monkey) 105 City ENE of Cleveland, O. 107 Lady’s title 108 Anticipate
109 Ball bearer 110 Fruit-soda brand 111 Temple of Isis site 112 Where General Mills is headquartered 114 Bank trouble? 116 Dated
117 “Be there in a jiffy!” 118 Encountered
119 Not be straight 120 Cold War-era inits. 121 Eppie’s adoptive father, in a George Eliot novel 122 Suffragist Elizabeth Cady ____
123 Not opposin’
DOWN
1 Is up to the task 2 Winston Churchill, notably
3 One concerned with aging? 4 Wedding pair 5 State since 1864: Abbr. 6 McQueen or King 7 Things that corrections correct 8 Tour hiree 9 Aggressive types 10 Typical intro? 11 Heavy winds 12 Maternally related 13 Colleague of Freud 14 Encountered 15 Relatives of bobolinks 16 Only AfricanAmerican to win an Oscar, Tony and Emmy for acting 17 Relevant, legally 18 With 47-Down, driver’s question 22 “Say cheese!” 27 County name in
30 states 32 House speaker after Boehner 36 Sidesplitter
38 ____ platter 39 “Runaway” singer
Shannon, 1961 41 “I’m off”
43 “My dear man” 44 Novelist Patchett 45 Fastball, in baseball
slang
47 See 18-Down 48 Sharp
49 Pick up
50 Back 51 Unaccompanied 52 Company name ender
after “&”
53 First U.S. city to host
the Olympics 57 “Baseball” documentarian Burns
58 Half a step? 59 What ballplayers look forward to after playing on the road 61 Sustained 62 Cartoon collectible 64 Mortar carrier 65 Hampton ____ 66 Words of confidence 67 Court plea, briefly 68 Opera set in 1800 Rome
69 Not even close? 70 Floor piece 71 German hunting dog 74 1904 Jack London novel
75 Your, to Yves 76 Caste member 78 State with five teams in the 84-Across: Abbr. 79 Double-platinum album for Steely Dan 80 Mythological bird 81 Harriet Beecher Stowe novel subtitled “A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp” 82 Lining up against 84 Ways of doing things, for short 86 Numerical prefix 88 Parlor pieces 91 Bankrupts 93 Points (to)
94 See 46-Across 95 Actress Ryder 96 Admits 98 Charlotte ____
(Caribbean capital) 99 Proffer
100 Greek island where Pythagoras and Epicurus were born 101 Delivery that’s usually expected 102 Prop for a lion tamer 103 Insurance giant 104 Some calls on a police hotline 106 Kind of chips you shouldn’t eat 111 Before being outed, for short 113 H.S. study 115 Native Oklahoman