Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
PREPOSITION PROPOSITION
ACROSS
1 Sound of a dud
5 Personnel overhaul
12 End of the block?
15 Pitcher’s feat, slangily
19 Peace activist Wiesel
20 Rear seating compartment in
old automobiles
21 Replaced someone on a base
23 Wagers for a gym exercise?
25 Big name in luxury S.U.V.s
26 Successfully persuades
27 At the most
28 Sub
30 Opposite of stiff
31 Figures on slots
33 Bad thing to see under a
truck’s hood?
35 Small breather?
38 Customer-service worker
40 “Man and Superman”
playwright
41 Anxious feeling
42 Wastebasket or folder,
maybe
43 Avoided trans fats and
refined sugars, say
47 Part of NASA: Abbr.
48 Unrecruited athlete’s
bottleful?
52 ____ al-Hussein (Jordanian
royal)
53 Private eye
55 Word after flight or credit
56 “Zounds!”
57 ____ dish
58 It’s not in the bag
61 Intake in many an eating
contest
62 Makes drunk
63 Certain note passer, for short
64 Timely entrance?
69 Kitty
70 “Here’s the thing …”
72 Lawn coating
73 Grueling workplace, so
to speak
75 Man first mentioned in
Exodus 2
76 Something removed at a
T.S.A. checkpoint
78 Purple smoothie flavorer
80 German “you”
81 Caught in ____
82 Understudy’s delivery? 85 Nonsense singing
88 Closet rackful
90 Suffer from a lockup
91 Zeros
93 “Fight, fight, fight for
Maryland!” singer, familiarly
94 Duke of ____, character in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”
96 Reaches by plane
97 Scam alert?
101 Paragons
103 Hoppy brew
104 Info provider
105 Optimist’s credo
106 What an A.P. class likely isn’t
110 Throws at
112 Fight clubs?
115 Serving to quell violent protests
116 Free, as a seat
117 Web links, briefly 118 Trickle
119 Certain baseball positions: Abbr.
120 Lunchtime errands, e.g.
121 ____ Classic (cable channel)
DOWN
1 Juices (up)
2 Something a chimney sweep
sweeps
3 Permeate
4 Gossips
5 Pennzoil competitor
6 Low-cost lodging
7 Playwright Chekhov
8 Bags that might have
drawstrings
9 Startled squeals
10 Neighbor of Oman, for short
11 Press, as a button
12 Vertical, to a sailor
13 Saying “Eww!,” say
14 Make hard to read
15 Org. that’s nearly one-fourth
Canadian
16 Speak before Parliament, e.g.
17 Comaneci of Olympics fame
18 Time in Tokyo when it’s
midnight in New York
22 ____ salad
24 App customers
29 10/
32 Scene 33 Founder of Philadelphia
34 Strong strings
35 Sister
36 Man ____ mission
37 Soundtrack for a brawl?
39 Proceed well enough
42 Story featuring divine
intervention
43 ____ premium
44 Compositions often chosen
for encores?
45 Seuss title character
46 Sad, in San Juan
49 Department
50 Small dam
51 Smoking or stress
54 Forfeits
57 Hits with snowballs
58 Nonexpert
59 Portrayer of Mr. Chips 60 Ball support
61 Something “shaken” in a trick
62 The Ravens, on scoreboards
65 Take too much of, briefly
66 Call for
67 “To repeat …”
68 Self-absorbed
71 Hope that one may
74 Doesn’t go on at the right
time
76 Exit
77 Gives birth to
78 “Eso Beso” singer
79 Doctor treating patients
82 G.I. reply
83 Any of the Galápagos
84 Singer known for her
85-Across
86 Skill
87 Chinese menu name 89 More likely to escalate
92 Member of a four-time Stanley Cup-winning team in the 1980s
94 Emcee’s item
95 Spring river breakup
96 Certain Summer Olympian
97 Gyro holders
98 Barely ahead, scorewise
99 Interior decorator’s asset
100 Brisk paces
102 Gracias : Spanish :: ____ :
German
105 Avid about
107 Some Nikons, for short
108 Go, “Ow, ow, OW!”
109 Professional grp.
111 Apt rhyme of “nip”
113 Card-game cry
114 Some doorways