AS HEARD AROUND THE DINNER TABLE
SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
ACROSS
1 Commuter’s ticket 8 They take bows 15 G-rated, say
19 “It’s not coming to
me”
20 Floral brew 21 Quintessential ingredient to borrow from a neighbor
22 Dine out 24 Competitive setting
in Fortnite
25 Like many phone
cards
26 Oftenmispunctuated word
27 Lets it all out, say 28 Aurora, to the
Greeks
31 Powerful weapon,
for short
32 Pop option 34 Firefly, e.g.
35 Aid in some
makeshift repairs 38 Blackhead remover 40 Company that
created Pong 41 They can make a
huge impact 42 Spongy mushroom 43 Movie character who said “I love you” to 110-Across 45 Network supported by “Viewers Like You”
46 Literary character who cries, “I am madness maddened!” 50 Bog
51 Ill humored 52 “Cool!”
55 Act theatrically 56 “Meet the Press”
host Chuck 57 Attractions for
antique hunters 60 Donnybrooks 61 Ironically funny 62 Part of many a
weight-loss ad 64 Buck chaser? 65 Something checked at a T.S.A. checkpoint
67 One vs. 52?
68 Go on and on 69 “Cool!”
70 Crib
71 Bad impression? 72 Tiny bit of work 73 Famed Deco
designer 74 Whitman of
“Parenthood” 77 Aftermath of a
toddler’s meal 78 Train that stops in New Haven and New York
80 They often don’t mature until they turn 30
84 Yucatán native 85 Lie out on a
scorching day 89 Landmark at the
entrance to Narnia 92 “Yeah, but still ... “93 Online handicrafts
marketplace 94 Bareilles who sang
“Love Song” 95 Tribe native to the
Great Basin
96 Suit fabric 11/20/22
97 Agcy. impersonated in some scam calls
98 Crouched in terror 101 Private
102 Vegetarian options ... or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically
108 “The Three Musketeers” action scenes
109 Flatten
110 Movie character who replied “I know” to 43-Across 111 They may be long
and shocking
112 Clink
113 Gray matter?
DOWN
1 Tom Hanks movie featuring a giant piano
2 It might turn out to
be a drone
3 Barfly
4 Blue diamond in
“Titanic,” e.g. 5 Lab-culture
medium
6 Star close to
Venus?
7 Take responsibility 8 Bandleader Shaw 9 Share the ____
(sign)
10 Fort Collins sch. 11 “____ Loss” (2022 No. 1 album by Drake and 21 Savage)
12 Cyber Monday merchant
13 Mall security guard, pejoratively 14 Exams with a 4001,600 range 15 Soup-serving dish 16 Interfacers with publishers
17 Layer between the crust and the core
18 Need for a tough crossword, perhaps 21 Command for creating a revised draft
23 Sushi-bar drink 28 Wax-coated cheese 29 Like words this clue the in?
30 Easily frightened sort
32 Where you might go down in the ranks? 33 Bauxite or galena 34 Things usually made in the morning
36 What’s in
37 ‘Fore
38 MADD ad, e.g. 39 Lefty
41 Apple wireless file transfer
43 Do nothing 44 Paris bar tender? 46 Reddit Q. and A. 47 “The nerve!” 48 Finally
49 Under siege 51 Turned red, say 52 Like an allegro
tempo
53 Landed
54 Subjects of VH1’s “I Love the ... “series
55 ‘Fore
56 Packaging string 58 Actress Ward 59 Many teens’ rooms,
to parents 60 Pulitzer-winning columnist Stephens 62 “Du-u-u-ude!” 63 Large coffee
vessels
66 Made a fast stop? 68 “Previously on ...”
segment
74 “The kissing
disease” 75 “Coming face to face with yourself,” per Jackson Pollock 76 Otherworldly 77 Minority in
New Zealand’s parliament 78 What goes “up to
11,” in “Spinal Tap” 79 Pot grower? 80 Skinflints 81 Does well on a test, say
82 Wild donkey
83 Fellow
85 Along
86 Many a Monopoly property
87 Ear piece?
88 Marx’s co-author for “The
Communist Manifesto”
89 They can be passed but not failed
90 Franklin who sang “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” 91 Robin Hood’s love 94 On the wagon
97 Little mischiefmakers
98 Veggie that’s often pickled
99 Virgil described its “cloud of pitchblack whirling smoke”
100 Sign of neglect
103 Channel that airs old MGM and RKO films
104 ____ BankmanFried, fallen crypto mogul
105 Excessively
106 Boston’s Liberty Tree, for one
107 Kind of sauce for dim sum