Seeing Progress
ACROSS
1Playground game
with hoops 6 Blobby sci-fi villain 11 Biker’s protective
wear
19 In the know 20 Fitness motto
starter
21 Removes faded
flowers from
22 Fit
24 Brand with a
Jumpman logo 25 Regret
26 School near
Windsor
27 Stiles of “Whose
Line Is It Anyway?” 28 “Friends” friend 29 Arrives like a
brainstorm
34 A, to Beethoven 36 Fair
37 Formal talk
39 Deer sir
43 Droid from Naboo,
familiarly 46 Volume unit
48 Go inside
50 Long, long tail? 51 Start of a hopeful
chant
55 Tower engineer 57 Simone’s state 58 Dagger of yore 59 Mosque official 61 Bound to be
62 “I, Claudius” role 63 Collapsed
66 Like some fried
food
68 Letters on a
bathroom tube 69 Absolutely zero 72 Dealer-busting org. 75 Meter starter 76 Compared with 77 Places where quiet
is often demanded 78 Cut of the loot 81 River past Logro–o 84 It’s raised at a circus 85 Obligation
86 Many surfers 88 Ignore mistakes,
say
92 Letters on a GI’s
letters
93 Absorb, as a spill 95 Twitter rampage 96 Hale-Bopp, for one 97 Alphabetically first
V8 ingredient 99 Yawning cause
101 Place to make a rial
deal
103 Some tributes
105 Disney theme park 111 Part of many a plot 113 Bristol bye-bye
115 Bit of politeness
from a hat-tipper 116 That guy, to Guy 117 Subject of many a
watch
119 Family film feature 123 Enthusiastic to a
fault
124 Elicit a chuckle
125 A detective may
act on one
126 Spoofs
127 Minibike kin
128 __ music
DOWN
1 Clues for DNA
analysis
2 Accept the blame 3 Wild party
4 “No seats” sign
5 Job listing abbr. 6 “Precisely like this” 7 “Take __ at it” 8 Bingo cousin 9 Marcel Marceau
clown persona 10 Snacked
11 Princess with cinnamon-bun locks
12 Not kidding 13 Asleep in Eng.
class?
14 Cause of sticker
shock at the florist? 15 They may be
unsung
16 “CSI” actor George 17 Old food label figs. 18 I-9 ID
21 Thoughts of the beach while in class, e.g.
23 MIT offerings 27 Boxing div. 30 Suspects 31 Jordanian queen
dowager
32 JosŽ’s hand
33 A light bulb may
symbolize one 35 “It’s clear now” 38 Multi-lingual Irish
singer
40 First golfing U.S.
president 41 Pulitzer-winning
author James
42 __ standard
43 Bowl, say
44 Was highly
regarded
45 Formal wear item 46 1983 Indy 500
champ Tom 47 Fancy moldings 49 Throw very hard 52 Berkshire
racecourse 53 Deadlocked 54 Alleged creation of Buffalo’s Anchor Bar
56 Wray of “King Kong” 60 Herd mentality
output?
64 Golfer’s gouge 65 Pasta restaurant
closing?
67 RPI and NIH 69 Cards, for short 70 Tiberius’ tongue 71 Blessed __ 72 Casual Friday fabric 73 Musical workout, at
times
74 Singer’s perfect
pitch, say
75 “... chips-down” link 77 “Ciao” 78 Swedish auto 79 Bit of optimism 80 Lotion additive 82 Fuzzy memory 83 One taking a class
over
87 Juice with a lizard
logo
89 Picard’s counselor 90 Jon of “Mad Men” 91 Checkout action 94 Stamps
98 Figure with a cape 100 __ kit: Ancestry.
com item
101 Signed off on
102 Speechless player 104 Like morning fields 106 Stimulate
107 Memory miscue 108 Pass-rushing
group, briefly
109 Prevention
amount
110 Strength
111 Inventing middle
name
112 Card holder,
maybe
114 Pub mugfuls 117 Jazzy genre
118 Yokohama yes 119 Omelet filler 120 70-Down trio
opener
121 Bright students’
org.
122 “How obvious”