SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
Instructions: When this puzzle is finished, change one letter in the last word in the answer to each asterisked clue to name a food. The replacement letters, in order, will spell an appropriate phrase.
ACROSS
1 It got some “Xtra” flavor in 2001
7 San Antonio pro 11 Atkins diet no-no 15 What’s called a cashpoint by Brits 18 Wage ____
19 Add to the team 20 ____ squash 22 One-named singer with the 2014 hit “Chandelier” 23 *Looks that can be difficult to pull off 25 *”It’s 2 a.m. already?!”
27 Half up-front? 28 Tikka masala go-with
29 Gravitate (toward) 31 Singer Morissette 32 Actress de Armas of “Knives Out” 34 “How was ____ know?”
35 Place for speakers 37 Trig function
38 *Data visuals similar to histograms 41 *Swimming hazards in the ocean 44 Crossword-loving detective on “Brooklyn NineNine”
45 ____ Dhabi 46 Celebrations of lives, for short 48 Dance arrangements, familiarly
49 One making frequent pitching changes?
51 Back of the neck 52 It’s spoken in Aberdeen
53 “Who ____ knows?”
54 Elderly
55 “I call dibs!”
56 [I’m mad!]
59 Honor for a play 60 Place in the earth 62 South African currency
63 Operatic showpiece
64 *”Man, that was cheap!”
66 *Holder of the single-game W.N.B.A. scoring record (53 points) 68 Something to do before a deal 69 Super, in slang
70 Lisa who “ate no basil,” in a palindrome 71 Missiles and such 72 Animal in a “Sound of Music” song
73 Big Super Bowl purchase
74 Easy as falling off ____
75 Nickname for a really thin guy 76 What Mercury and Venus lack 77 Religious observance that’s also a past-tense verb
78 “That ship has sailed”
81 Small-time
83 Cause of red-eye 84 Ate
85 Regret
86 *Diner choice 88 *Something visually arresting 91 Chief
92 Coin with 12 stars on one side 93 Ancient greeting 94 El Misisipi, e.g. 95 Source of some South American wool
98 Get groceries, say 100 Sole
102 Film excerpt 105 *Duplicate, in word processing 107 *Disappear suddenly 110 Long-handled tool 111 One with a track record
112 Spore producer 113 Keys of some songs
114 Loan fig.
115 Political worker 116 “A fickle food,” per Emily Dickinson 117 Superlatively pleasant
DOWN
1 Children’s playroom, often
2 Zen garden accessory 3 Running argument?
4 Frame in a box score
5 Hebrew for “son” 6 ____ Mawr College
7 Sword’s place 8 Almost a score of Mozart compositions 9 Receptacle for ancient
Greek votes 10 11-Down and such 11 Small siestas 12 Low-pH
13 Follower of CD 14 La ____ Tar Pits 15 Donkeyish
16 Have a connection with
17 Hordes
21 Org. behind 14 of the 15 mostwatched TV broadcasts in U.S. history
24 Capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan
26 They help with printing and pointing
30 Made line changes 33 Body of water greatly shrunk by 1960s Soviet irrigation
36 To the point
38 Howl
39 Opposite of the Latin “odi”
40 Busy as ____
41 Less green, say 42 Title woman in a No. 1 Beach Boys hit
43 Learn by ____ 47 Score of zero, in slang
50 Ins
52 Pollution portmanteau 56 People who would object to this clue because of it’s punctuation
57 Fixes
58 Issa of “Insecure” 59 “How disastrous!” 60 “No way!” 61 Nonnegotiable things
62 Sound a warning 63 Spanish month that anagrams to a zodiac sign
64 Bit of gum 65 ____-faire
66 Birds on Minnesota state quarters
67 Bad smell
70 “Ugh!”
73 -elect
74 Alarmingly 75 Daytime TV fare 76 Back-to-school time
78 “Well, that’s that!” 79 Follower of 76-Down: Abbr. 80 Suffix with election 81 Skater’s leap 82 Candy discard
83 Not to go
86 Ballroom dance from Cuba
87 Sent packing 89 Actress De Carlo of “The Munsters” 90 Out-eat?
96 E.M.T.’s procedure
97 Tiny battery
99 Smoke
101 Welsh form of “John”
103 Goddess pictured with a solar disk above her 104 Excellent, in dated slang
106 Grade-school subj.
108 Shade of green 109 Muslim-American icon