SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
BRING YOUR ‘A’ GAME
ACROSS
1 Half of a 1960s folkrock group
6 Action
12 Car thief’s tool 19 Govt.-backed investment 20 Another name for the cornflower 22 Vacuum tube with five active components
23 What the church’s music director wanted to do? 25 Stick in a church 26 Difficult problem 27 “I’m With ____” (2016 campaign slogan)
28 Broadband overseer, for short 30 Up
31 Nasty words 32 Truism about unwanted sound? 35 Dull
39 Indian term of address
40 Call ____ early night
41 Sch. on the Mississippi River 44 Robustness
45 Pounds
47 Chatter
50 Greatly dismay one of the Beatles? 55 Picture cards 56 Carousel figure 57 Staple in Creole cooking
58 West Indies city that’s home to Lynden Pindling International Airport
61 Classic Halloween costume
62 Affirmed under oath
63 Literary character whose house is uprooted by a tornado
64 Shade similar to claret
65 Times when your archenemy shows up?
68 Decorative throw 71 Quaint giggle
72 In a daze
76 Native of Hrvatska, e.g.
77 One of the Ramones
78 Dipped in egg and bread crumbs, then fried
79 Consider 80 Unimpressive brain size
81 What the antigovernment activist does?
83 Acct. holdings 84 Setting of a 1903 Victor Herbert operetta
87 Spanish letter with a tilde
88 Little kid
89 ____ doble
(dance)
91 What’s not a good fit?
92 Halloween haul
96 “Aye” or “Oui”? 100 Anne of fashion 103 Pertaining to the lowest possible level
104 Rep.’s opponent 105 One of the N.H.L.’s original six teams: Abbr.
107 Scholarly
109 Facing a judge 111 Geronimo, when his beard was just coming in?
114 Former Indianapolis arena 115 Didn’t go out 116 America’s foe in an 1898 war
117 Noted satellite of 1962
118 Some green sauces
119 Very small
DOWN
1 Some book-fair organizers, for short
2 “The Good Doctor” airer
3 Arouse
4 Class Notes subjects
5 Get into with little effort
6 One who asks “Got your ears on?”
7 Rio hello 8 Significantly
9 Take from the top? 10 Nut seen on the back of a dime 11 ____ chi ch’uan (martial art)
12 Liven (up) 13 Billionaire
Blavatnik
14 Recites, as a spell 15 Sight from Catania, in brief
16 Frontman whom People magazine once named “sexiest rock star” 17 “Methinks … ” 18 Matches
21 Co. that might hire influencers 24 Radiation units 29 TV show with the theme song “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
33 Sch. whose mascot is Brutus Buckeye 34 Suffers (from)
36 1887 Chekhov play 37 Spots at the card table
38 “____ bit confused”
41 Director von Trier 42 Gush
43 Hairstyle that calls for a lot of spray 45 Do some prescheduling 46 Ending with “umich.”
48 Black birds
49 Actor Noah of “ER” 51 Prophet believed to be buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs
52 Eye luridly
53 Foreign language seen on U.S. money
54 In mint condition 56 Avatar
59 Park place? 60 Extremely dry 61 Symbols of change, in math 63 Protected on a boat
64 Bathroom sealant 66 Ravaged, as mosquitoes might 67 Spoke aloud
68 Rock band whose lead guitarist notably dresses in a schoolboy uniform
69 Actor Armisen 70 Flies into a violent rage
73 Sci-fi bounty hunter Boba ____
74 Golfer Aoki
75 Reach out with one’s hands? 77 Susan of “L.A.
Law”
78 Abolitionist Horace 80 Spot for cannonballs
82 Part of a Victorian social schedule 84 Who wrote, “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper”
85 Enticing smells 86 In mint condition 90 Some honors 92 Polishing aids 93 Flatpack retailer 94 Go by
95 Mexican wrap 96 Cancel early 97 Former secretary of state Cyrus 98 Psychotherapist Alfred
99 Diminish
101 Like Machu Picchu 102 Some fruit-flavored sodas
106 ____-free
107 Caustic cleaners 108 Not allow 110 Residency org. 112 Trivial content 113 Benefits plan, maybe