Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Lightheaded
6 Underwater workplaces
13 One of four on the annual
tennis calendar
18 Navel formation?
19 Not renewed
21 1836 siege setting
22 First name on the high bench
23 Follower of deuce
24 Wordsmith Peter Mark ____
25 Lot of back and forth?
27 Alternative to grass
29 Place for a prize ceremony
30 Nellie who wrote “Ten Days
in a Mad-House”
31 Point of no return?
34 Certain corp. takeover
35 It’s meant to be
36 NBC hit since ’75
37 Ingredient in a Dark ’n’
Stormy
38 Muslim holy men
40 Designer inits.
42 “Awesome!”
43 Lead-in to line
44 Rod who was the 1977 A.L.
M.V.P.
45 “Bridesmaids” co-star
47 Food with an unfortunatesounding last two syllables
50 Really fancy
51 Dreams up
55 Sophocles tragedy
56 Get further mileage from
57 Vegetable or pasta, e.g.
58 Drip, drip, drip
59 Annual sporting event that is
this puzzle’s theme
62 Outside: Prefix
63 Really green
64 Stingy sort?
65 Many a presidential hopeful:
Abbr.
66 Treasure-map markers
68 Ostracize
69 Lead-in to boy or girl
70 Standard info on stationery
nowadays
72 U. of Md. player
73 Spot
74 Conjunction in the Postal
Service creed
76 The Eagles, on scoreboards
78 Pérignon, for one 79 “Nature is the ____ of God”:
Dante
81 Something to live for
83 Chaney of silents
84 One at home, informally
85 Ape
88 “Zip it!”
89 Things found in clogs
90 Bourbon Street’s locale,
informally
92 Frenzy
94 Stadium name near Citi Field
96 Spectators’ area
98 “Harlequin’s Carnival”
painter
99 James ____, Belgian painter in
the movement Les XX
100 Flowchart symbol
101 Saskatchewan native
102 It represents you
104 Old-timey
106 First and last black key on a
standard piano
108 Gas type: Abbr.
109 Location of 59-Across
114 Fly-by-night?
115 Canapé topper
116 Computer command
117 Time to vote: Abbr.
118 Italian car, informally
119 Lead-in to “Man,” “Woman”
or “Fool” in Top 40 hits
120 Further
121 Part of U.S.T.A.: Abbr.
122 City grid: Abbr.
123 Enthusiasm
124 Lion or tiger
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1 Employs
2 Not for keeps
3 Low soccer score
4 Wittily insults
5 Number on a trophy
6 “Alas …”
7 One of a well-known septet
8 Inits. in 2010 news
9 Broadway’s Cariou
10 Computer key
11 Utterly uninspiring
12 Oscar-nominated George of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
13 Designer Jacobs 14 Emotionally detached 15 Jungle predator
16 Code you don’t want to break
17 Returned to earth?
19 “I can’t talk now”
20 Louisville standout
26 Candidate for rehab
28 Square dance maneuver
31 Oscar-winning film of 1984
32 Revel
33 College in Boston
37 Whole host
38 “Why should ____?”
39 Win every game
41 Security agreement
43 One way to answer a server?
46 Winning words
47 Guy 48 Dweller along the Bering Sea
49 The “L” of L.C.D.
52 Genius Bar employees
53 Relish
54 Rugged, as a landscape
60 Impotent
61 Paradigm
64 Submerge
67 Cybertrash
71 Force (into)
72 When the diet starts, perhaps
75 Locale for Charlie Chan
77 Dating-profile section
78 Denims
80 Purchases at tire shops
81 Do well with
82 Fit to be tied 86 How the Quran is written
87 Film-related anagram of
AMERICAN
88 City in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle
89 Clear the air?
91 “I’ll take that as ____”
93 Proficient in
95 Much TV fare during the wee
hours
97 Towers over
103 Blue hue
105 Metal fastener
107 Three-person card game
110 Vox V.I.P.s
111 Forever and a day
112 Red Sox Hall-of-Famer, to fans
113 “Bravo!”