Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

TODDLER TALK

- NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Unloading point

5 Trait for a ballerina

10 ‘‘Wanna hear a secret?’’

preceder

14 Not much

18 The ‘‘O’’ of OWN

20 Portrayer of Captain Davies

in ‘‘Roots’’

21 Bind with rope

22 Abacus column

23 Helpful

24 Accept payment from

Batman?

27 Eponymous Irish city

29 ____ pickle

30 Counterpar­ts of faunas

31 Cause for celebratio­n at a

pachyderm sanctuary?

36 ____ lecithin (chocolate

additive)

37 What most pens can’t do

38 Jane portrayer in 1981’s

‘‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’’

41 Worry about, informally

45 Flip (out)

46 Rock band that you might think would always be an opening act, with ‘‘the’’?

48 Ex-Giants QB Manning

49 Finish scooping out a big

stir-fry?

54 Signal approval

55 Inexplicab­ly missing, say

56 Brontë who wrote ‘‘Agnes

Grey’’

57 Target of permethrin cream

58 Not very convincing

60 Highly skilled

61 Rare race outcome

63 Unimaginat­ive birthday gift

64 Is stertorous

65 Puritan’s goal in 17th-century

Salem?

69 Changes topics in a debate,

perhaps

73 Scrapes (out)

74 The Rose Bowl, e.g.

79 Czar who co-ruled with

Peter I

80 Goes head to head

81 Indiana athlete

83 Sunburn soother

84 Specialist publicatio­n, for

short

85 Monopolize

86 Something a Parmesan

vendor might offer?

89 Unflappabl­e state of mind 90 Baron Cohen of film

92 One of all fours?

93 Container words

94 2019 film whose title means

‘‘to the stars’’

96 A dance and a dip

98 Cartoondom’s Olive ____

100 What a stoner actor smoked

during rehearsal?

107 Beginning and end of

‘‘America’’

109 ‘‘Ha-ha!’’

110 Noise heard during the London Blitz

111 Domain for Jameson and Maker’s Mark?

116 Curl target, informally

117 Manual alternativ­e

118 Soul singer Bridges

119 Bank investment?

120 Spanish dagger or Adam’s needle is a variety of it 121 New York football team, informally

122 Apt rhyme for ‘‘crude’’ and

‘‘rude’’

123 It may need to be broken to

move

124 Lucretia ____, abolitioni­st and

women’s rights advocate

DOWN

1 Childbirth assistant

2 Choose to participat­e

3 Concern for Superman

4 Superman’s birth name

5 Like many a teenage boy’s

facial hair

6 First Asian tennis player to be

ranked No. 1 in singles

7 Press

8 Bishop’s jurisdicti­on

9 Long period

10 Like some evidence and bulbs

11 Doctor’s order

12 I.R.S. ID

13 Live broadcast no-no

14 In

15 One creating draft after

draft?

16 Andean empire member

17 Some clicks of the tongue

19 Slice of toast?

25 Comes out ahead

26 Dolts

28 Market launch, for short

32 Amphibians that may have

toxic skin

33 Clichéd 34 Shakespear­e villain with more lines than the title character

35 Kindle download

39 Skip the big ceremony, say

40 They’re found around Scots

41 Bony fish with prized eggs

42 ‘‘Bottled poetry,’’ according to

Robert Louis Stevenson

43 Active Sicilian volcano

44 Filled with wonder

47 Without concrete evidence

50 ‘‘Ad Parnassum’’ and ‘‘Fish Magic,’’ for two 51 Metaphor for a shared experience

52 Be more important than

53 Exaggerate­d kiss sound

55 Fuss

59 Legal title: Abbr.

60 He wrote lyrics to ‘‘My Way’’

for Sinatra

62 Channel with a lot of house

renovation shows 63 Keeps in the loop, in a way

64 Give a start

66 Prez with a rhyming

campaign slogan

67 Lab work

68 Cause of some brain freeze

69 It comes in California and

New York styles

70 Covered in vines

71 Celebrity who holds the Guinness world record for ‘‘Most Frequent Clapper’’

72 Half and half?

75 Gallivants

76 On the safe side

77 Ancient kingdom in modernday Jordan

78 Elusive, in a way

80 Words to learn, briefly

81 In itself: Lat.

82 ‘‘Oh, come on!’’

85 Aggressive pitch

87 Physically fit

88 Rock song?

90 Big cut of tuna

91 Fill with wonder

95 Attaches, as a button

97 Some shop tools

98 ‘‘Now it makes sense!’’

99 ‘‘____ So Bad’’ (Tom Petty

song)

101 Flying ____ drop (pro

wrestling move)

102 Shocks, in a way

103 Hip bone

104 Classic brand of wafers

105 Upright

106 The Apostle of Ireland,

familiarly

107 It might come in a branded

tote bag

108 Buddy

112 ‘‘____-haw!’’

113 Laid up

114 Formerly called

115 Perón of politics

 ??  ?? 02/21/2021 BY KATIE HALE AND CHRISTINA IVERSON
02/21/2021 BY KATIE HALE AND CHRISTINA IVERSON

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