Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

“UH, WHAT?”

- edited by Will Shortz 09/23/2018

ACROSS

1 Like a bull in a china shop

7 Blue

11 Band whose songs are featured in a hit 2001 musical and 2018 movie

15 Tube tops

19 Where Hemingway wrote

“The Old Man and the Sea”

20 Instrument whose name sounds like a rebuke of Obama’s dog

21 Case load?

22 River that formed an extension of the Mason-Dixon line

23 One who’s just moved from

Portland?

26 Bit of baseball gear

27 “Jeez, I heard you already!”

28 Number

29 Game played with a dog

30 Peak

31 Tennis great who wrote the

2009 tell-all “Open”

32 Major science journal

33 Satchel for a guy

35 Convert a morgue worker

into a spy?

37 Google ____

38 Pre-euro currency

39 Smooch

40 Leave gobsmacked

41 Common plural verb

42 Staple of many a “Real

Housewives” episode

44 One of the Leewards

48 LeBron basketball sneaker,

e.g.?

51 Foe in “Wonder Woman”

55 –––

56 Ready for the recycling bin

57 Field trip chaperone

59 Surrender

60 Celebrity chef Oliver

61 Hunger for

62 Will of “Arrested

Developmen­t”

64 Determined to do

65 Flower said to cover the

plains of Hades

68 Brand of 33-Down

69 Intense blowback against a signature Trump policy proposal?

72 Large mobile devices, to use

a modern portmantea­u 74 Hair net

75 Amazon threat

76 Muppet eagle

79 Highest draft category

80 Garbage barge

81 Tour de France setting

82 Bad person to get paired with

for a class assignment?

87 Bender

89 “Present!”

90 Like more

91 Gulf mogul

92 Rulers during the Time of

Troubles

93 Jewish mysticism

94 Harmonized

98 Triple-A requests

99 Nickname for a superserio­us

congressma­n?

101 Trainer of Rey in “The Last

Jedi”

102 Eager

103 Fixtures in every Vegas

casino

104 Ontario city across the river

from Buffalo, for short

105 Craftsy online store

106 Cay

107 For takeout

108 Exemplar of cruelty

DOWN

1 Follower of “ah-ah-ah”

2 Fun adventure

3 Colored layer

4 Hungarians, by another name

5 Noses around

6 Northerner

7 One of the Gilmore Girls

8 Old sports org. with the

Kentucky Colonels

9 U.S. food giant

10 Suck-up

11 Red with embarrassm­ent

12 Fad toy of the 1990s

13 Tendency

14 What’s better when it’s fine?

15 Awaken

16 Yellowfin

17 Workers who are always

retiring?

18 “Take that!”

24 Strain

25 Tweet, e.g. 29 Language of Omar

Khayyam’s “Rubáiyát”

31 Glows

32 Caution on an airplane wing

33 Dip for mozzarella sticks

34 Affecting radically

35 x

36 Biceps exercise

37 Attack on a big scale

38 Uncool

42 Gig for an aspiring electronic

musician

43 Root word?

44 Citation

45 What “…” may represent

46 What “#” means in chess

notation

47 Slim

49 Surrendere­d

50 “Take a hike!” 52 Like an uncorrupte­d file

53 Academy Awards prop

54 Popular Belgian brews,

informally

58 Hurt

60 Ballet jump

63 Music genre at a rave

64 Provider of green juice?

65 Bother

66 Put away

67 Vietnamese broth-andnoodles soup

70 “Yeah, right”

71 Academy Awards prop

73 Garden toilers

76 Saliva

77 Words from a T.S.A. agent

before a pat-down

78 Punk rock hairstyles

80 Guarantee 81 U.S.P.S. package status

83 Purchase at a sports stadium

84 Sophistica­ted

85 How whiskey is often served

86 Financiall­y solvent

87 Blue man group?

88 Something made to be

destroyed

91 Where soccer was invented:

Abbr.

93 Hitchcock triple feature?

94 Should that be the case

95 “Hey ____” (start of a phone

voice command)

96 R&B great Redding

97 A bit of disputin’ from Putin?

99 Chairlift item

100 Clickable tag on BuzzFeed

beside “LOL” and “WTF”

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