Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
COMPLIMENTARY
ACROSS
1 Iams competitor
5 Pretend
12 Song sung by Garth Brooks on
Jay Leno’s last “Tonight Show”
20 Podcast host Maron
21 Fred Flintstone’s boss
22 Weathers, as a hurricane
23 “That’s me you’re looking for”
24 Compliment to a lawmaker?
26 Lesley who played Mrs.
Patmore on “Downton Abbey”
28 ____ the sly (be secretive
about)
29 Drug used to combat
A.D.H.D.
30 Short writing assignment,
informally
32 Really like
35 Really like
36 Compliment to a composer?
39 ____ voce
43 Deep, deep hole
44 Crème de ____
46 Lucky strike?
47 Toe, to a tot
50 John, Paul or George, but not
Ringo
52 Alternative to first class
55 Lake vessel
56 Water cooler?
58 Cornbread variety named for
where it’s baked
59 Film role for the dog Skippy
60 Meditative discipline
62 Compliment to a lecturer?
64 Compliment to a
taxonomist?
67 Compliment to a champion
speller?
68 Smallville
69 2002 Literature Nobelist
Kertész
70 Snack with a rock climber on
its wrapper
71 Head of communications?
72 Gettysburg general
73 Like many holiday candles
74 Gal of “Wonder Woman”
77 Banned game projectiles
78 [not my mistake]
79 “Why, you little …”
81 Word with prayer or paddle
84 Claim in e-cigarette ads
87 Compliment to a charity
organizer? 93 Dorm V.I.P.s
95 Major exporter of uranium
96 Hand-to-hand combat
weapon
97 Long lines?
100 Athlete honored on Richmond’s Monument Avenue
102 Drained of color
103 Compliment to a vegetable
gardener?
107 What the “s” stands for in
“scuba”
108 Enhanced medium for talk
radio
109 Draw upon
110 “____ Enchanted” (2004 film)
111 Result of a computer crash
112 Got back at
113 Difficult situation
DOWN
1 Key of Mozart’s “Odense” Symphony
2 Thin layer
3 ____ to sell
4 Color-changing creatures
5 “Yo te ____” (Spanish 101
phrase)
6 How boors behave
7 Some inclement weather, in
broadcast shorthand
8 “Oh, by the way …”
9 GPS system, e.g.
10 Suffix with señor
11 Bog
12 Weapon resembling the letter psi
13 Posterior
14 Beat after a buzzer beater 15 Rubbish 16 Alternative to Parmesan 17 Chuck ____, four-time Super Bowl-winning coach
18 Pick out
19 Uranians and Neptunians
25 Lack the courage to, for short
27 Musical set in St.-Tropez, familiarly
31 Actress Hoffmann of “Transparent”
33 Half: Prefix
34 What dark clouds might
represent
37 Small bone, as in the ear
38 Quai D’Orsay setting 40 Prepared to shoot
41 Beings on TV’s “Doctor Who”
42 West Coast beer brand,
informally
45 Modern payment option
47 Musical medley
48 Wits
49 Not hold back, to a poker
player
51 Ottoman title
53 Twice tetra
54 More sharply dressed
55 Container for amontillado
56 Easternmost of the Lesser
Antilles
57 Kitchen device
58 Meriting only half a star, say
60 French city where D’Artagnan lived in “The Three Musketeers” 61 MSN, for one
62 BonanLP
63 Site for an A.C.L. tear
65 Took off
66 Words said before bed?
72 Peace Nobelist Yousafzai
73 ID card fig.
74 Lose rigidity
75 Not worth ____
76 Florida’s Miami-____ County
77 Lightsaber wielder
80 Worlds external to the mind
82 Activity in libraries and movie
theaters
83 Diplomatic agreement
85 Record label for Whitney
Houston
86 One of the friends on
“Friends” 88 Milkshake, in New England
89 Author Gerritsen and actress
Harper
90 What one might seek after a
computer crash, informally
91 Opera with the aria “Ave
Maria”
92 Skim
94 Vice President Agnew
97 Stone that’s a star
98 It may be checkered
99 Till section
101 Scrape
103 Crestfallen
104 Tony winner Hagen
105 Dallas hoopster, briefly
106 Roll on a golf course