Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
CREATURE FEATURE
ACROSS
1 “Friendly” cartoon character
7 Pro
14 Symbols in calculus
20 Simple kind of antenna
21 Expenditures’ counterpart
22 Lacking a break
23 Add surreptitiously
24 Worrisome sight for a
swimmer
25 With spite
26 Some Houdini feats
28 John of spy fiction
30 Something extraordinary that
won’t soon be forgotten
32 Some northern Europeans
35 Bit of hydrotherapy
38 Caffeinated drink with
tapioca balls
39 Doled (out)
41 Opposite of colorblindness?
42 “____ Jacques”
43 Ones eligible for marathon
prizes
45 “Don’t bite the hand that
feeds you,” e.g.
46 Flight-board abbr.
47 Sinking feelings
50 Mistrusts
53 Mother or sister
54 Does more than ask
56 Dr. ____ Sattler, “Jurassic
Park” paleobotanist
57 Energy giant that fell into
ignominy in 2002
58 Elevs.
59 Peevish quality
61 Get a new mortgage
63 [Kiss]
65 Powerful D.C. lobby
68 Scylla or Charybdis
74 Speedy wide receiver,
perhaps
80 Skill
81 [Fingers crossed]
82 Buzz out in space
83 And so on: Abbr.
84 Staff leader?
86 & 87 What might cost you an
arm and a leg?
88 Silver-tongued
89 2004 also-ran
91 Martin who wrote “The
Pregnant Widow”
92 Evening, in ads 93 Southern sandwich
94 Is there in spirit?
96 Zen Buddhist goal
98 Makes fun of
99 Menace in 106-Down
104 Bad-mouth
106 Add spice to
107 Metaphor for deliberate
ignorance
109 Gobbled (down)
111 Seriously uptight
112 Fictional setting for 106Down
115 “A ____ believes no one” (old
saying)
116 Pottery
117 Caffè ____
118 Justin Bieber or Justin
Timberlake
119 Concerning
120 Conventions: Abbr.
121 “There, there”
122 Disgustingly obsequious
123 Class with drills
DOWN
1 Things investors take an
interest in?
2 Suffer
3 106-Down director
4 Pink, e.g.
5 Brought out
6 Christen anew
7 Tidiness
8 Proud, fiery types, they say
9 Save for later, in a way
10 Fathers or brothers
11 Santa ____
12 No longer in force
13 Gives meaning to
14 Horn of Africa native
15 Neon, e.g.
16 Transmission
17 Like the menace in 106-Down
18 Common knee injury site,
briefly
19 Locale for a trough
27 Fairy-tale “lump”
29 Hack
30 Hit BBC comedy, briefly
31 Peter of “The Maltese Falcon”
32 Handles deftly
33 Utmost degree
34 Farm machine 36 Something to angle for
37 “In Dulci Jubilo” and others
39 Modest skirts
40 Modern subject of F.A.A.
regulation
43 TV show with the season’s
highest rating, often
44 “____ U.S.A.” (1963 hit)
48 Sports arbiter
49 Pixielike
51 Cabaret accessory
52 Country-music channel, once
55 Decorative pillowcase
58 Adjudicate, as a case
60 “This is looking bad”
62 Lyricist Sammy
63 Singer Haggard
64 Golfer’s obstacle 66 Ska-punk band with the 1997
song “Sell Out”
67 Sunning area
68 Ax
69 Seasonal quaff
70 Small herrings
71 Is a crowd
72 Actor Morales
73 Deteriorates
74 Beginning
75 Precollege, for short
76 Text tweaks
77 Midcrisis hire, perhaps
78 Word with black or blood
79 Frozen-dessert chain
85 Leaves nervously exhausted
88 Thugs
90 Aromatic yellow citrus 93 Preppy wear
95 Himalayan native
97 Cheap and gaudy
98 Charged
99 Scrap
100 Actress Salma
101 Movie org. whose “100 Years … 100 Thrills” list has 106-Down at No. 2
102 Takes a load off
103 Superman, by birth
105 “Coo-oo-ool!”
106 1975 summer blockbuster
107 Morse clicks
108 Indian blueblood
110 Teensy amount
113 Yogi’s accessory
114 Oscar ____ (Hollywood
honor, informally)