Creatures of Habit
ACROSS
1 Squirrel’s cheekful
6 Whole bunch
10 “I did it!”
14 Spumante specification
18 Faith with a shrine in the Hanging Gardens of Haifa
19 Healing succulent
20 Silent stars?
21 “The Chi” creator
Waithe
22 Canine that thinks it’s an old-timey news announcer?
24 Bikini in the Pacific,
e.g.
25 Eager
26 Any minute now
27 Corvallis sch.
28 Ridiculous
29 Flanged fasteners
30 Willingness to support
32 Bird that thinks it’s a
television show host?
36 Contacted privately, in
a way
38 Craps cube
39 Egyptian peninsula
40 Ingredient in some
vegan marshmallows
42 “The curl experts” hair
care brand
45 Tourney favorite
48 Marsupial that thinks
it’s an actor?
51 Agcy. that oversees
PubMed
52 Snare
54 Cambridgeshire
cathedral city
55 Brewery shipments
56 Cheer syllable
58 Snapple rival
Last week’s solution:
“Gains” 60 “Homeland” org.
61 Opposite of 33-Down
62 Sets to zero, as a scale
64 Runs very slowly
65 Alight
67 Tabbies that think
they’re collies?
71 Pound sounds
72 Pot payments
74 Minor in Hollywood
75 Inflict upon
77 Italian three
78 Big name in financial
services
80 Fashion monogram
81 Cable network that’s a
nonprofit
82 Trouble
83 Observe
84 Cozy room
86 Insects that think
they’re outfielders?
90 Teensy bit
93 Wool type
94 Olympic swimmers
Crocker and Thorpe
95 “Groovy”
96 Picture of Pluto?
97 “Star —”
99 Lambs that think
they’re census takers?
104 Swim events
107 Takes a victory lap,
maybe
108 Reads (over)
109 Frozen solid?
111 Caramel candy sold in
a tube
113 Word after “Lavender” and “Purple,” in song titles
114 Red Monopoly piece
115 Bird that thinks it’s a
restaurant critic?
118 Finished
119 — City: Pittsburgh
120 “— did I just watch?”
121 Don
122 Try again
123 Little helper?
124 Simplicity
125 Pedometer units
DOWN
1 Basics
2 Pod used as a chocolate
substitute
3 “Such a flirt!”
4 Occasion to carry an
umbrella
5 Diarist Anaïs
6 Carpentry tools
7 Social capital
8 Pioneering ISP
9 Pt. of HDTV
10 Phoebe or Cronus
11 Surrounded by
12 Mutation that removes
a DNA sequence
13 Interpretation first provided for a SOTU address in 2021 14 Comfort item for some
tots
15 Light show?
16 Principle celebrated on the first night of Kwanzaa
17 Iotas
20 —-pedi
23 Used up
28 Stores with Småland
play areas
29 Gives a zero-star
review, say
31 Cry from a Mega
Millions winner
33 Opposite of 61-Across
34 Ball caps or bottle caps
35 Remove from the top of
an inbox, say
37 Musher’s
conveyance
40 Partnerships
41 Jam at a Pride Parade
43 Awake before
the alarm 44 Headwear sported by Rihanna on the cover of British Vogue
46 Consider, as an idea
47 Prepares at a state fair,
perhaps
48 Gym
49 Lye, in a lab
50 Syst. between
Baltimore and D.C.
53 Fez danglers
57 Enters
59 — cucumber
62 Blast letters
63 “This is your last
warning!”
66 Droplets on a cobweb
68 LP or EP, e.g.
69 Official religion of
Djibouti
70 Deer sir
73 Turns blue?
76 Burning
79 Sired
81 Easter Island’s country 85 Nasal irrigation vessels
87 Backstage crew
88 First Nations people
89 Like some intricate
designs
91 Before birth
92 “I love everything
you’ve done here”
98 “I’ll drink to that”
99 Hunger for
100 Ran very slowly
101 Receive
102 Put on the market
103 Breads with pockets
105 Rich cake
106 Single-masted sailboat
107 Mjölnir wielder
110 Give credit to
112 Possesses
114 Employee benefit
option, for short
115 Manchego source
116 Cry of recognition
117 Path finder in a
Pathfinder, briefly