Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
TODDLER TALK
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