CROSSWORD PUZZLE: WEST-SOUTHWEST By Julian Lim
ACROSS
1 Amenity in G.M. vehicles
7 RN’s workplace
10 “Awake in the Dark” author 15 Down at the bar?
19 Peace and quiet
20 Tease constantly, with “on” 21 Bottom lines?
22 Spanish Steps city
23 What an unsteady tightrope
walker may do?
25 Number cruncher,
in Wall Street lingo
26 Spelling clarification
27 CPR experts
28 “____ to My Family” (song by the Cranberries)
“It’s just too $%#@ hot!,” e.g.? Fasten again, as documents Dish cooked in an underground oven
35 Bolshoi debut of 1877 36 Thesis defenses, e.g. 37 Thereabouts
39 Me-day destination
40 What a beekeeper receives
at work?
45 Pettily punishes
50 Dynamite
51 Explode on Twitter, say
52 “____: Ragnarok” (2017 blockbuster) 54 Catty comments 55 Upstanding person
57 Flood protector
59 Bird that carries Sinbad to safety 61 “Little Fockers” actress Polo 62 Little auk, by another name 65 Japanese audio brand 66 Cousin of a clarinet
67 Why the knight went shopping? 73 Letters no longer seen on most phones
Ingredient in une quiche Source of the words “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;/It is the green-ey’d monster ...” 76 Bohemian
77 “Hate Me Now” rapper, 1999 78 2019 award for “What the
Constitution Means to Me” 79 “Magnifico!”
84 Fully grown fillies 86 Statistician’s calculation 88 Cruz known as the Queen of
Salsa
91 Regenerist skin-care brand 92 Upfront?
94 Hogs, after being scrubbed clean? 97 Even a little bit
99 Take ____ from (follow)
100 Thrill
101 Resident of the lowest circle of
hell, in Dante’s “Inferno”
106 Spring setting in San Antonio:
Abbr.
107 Border of a lagoon, say
111 What the ecstatic janitor did? 113 Porcine pad
114 Paul of “There Will Be Blood” 115 Actress Taylor
116 “Stop it, I’m blushing”
117 “Michael Jordan’s Top 10 Free 29 31 34 74 75
Throws” and others?
120 Rental units: Abbr.
121 Ballet shoe application 122 Shakespearean prince 123 Cuts off
124 Interlock
125 Choral composition
126 NFC South city: Abbr. 127 Kids’ camp crafts project
DOWN
1 Figure-skating champ Brian 2 Reinvented self-image
3 Tiffs
4 Spots to shop for tots
5 The Sun Devils’ sch.
6 One squat, for example
7 What soap bubbles do
8 Pet shop purchase
9 “Yuck!”
10 Sublime
11 Toto’s creator
12 They’re full of questions 13 Holds on to one’s Essence, say? 14 Fasteners of some heels
15 Go at a glacial pace
16 Book before Joel
17 Boat sometimes built around a whalebone frame
Soul, e.g.
Give a shout 18 24
122
If you’re hopping mad, can you ___?
125 Roadside stopover
126 Read (over) attentively
127 Nickname that anagrams to
“irate”
128 “O’er the land of the ___ ...” 129 Use an iron on
130 Cartooning and crossword
construction
131 Kindergarten adhesive
132 Own (up)
DOWN
1 Get by somehow
2 Source
3 Like many diaries
4 Start liking
5 Matterhorn, e.g.
6 “The Hardy ___” (mystery series)
Digital novels
Rogaine alternative? Pre-1991 atlas abbr.
What’s tougher than nails? ___ Aires
Wholehearted “Indubitably!”
Flattens, informally
“Won’t you let me?” Append
Pacific island republic 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 29 Nothing of the ____
30 Digital sounds?
32 Something up one’s sleeve 33 Original site of the Elgin Marbles 34 Beyoncé, for one
38 “How neat!”
40 Uncle ____
41 Heartbreak
42 Martin who wrote the
“Baby-Sitters Club” series 43 Conclude (with) 44 Coarsegrained igneous rock 46 Tagging along 47 Martial-arts-based workout 48 Trial’s partner
49 Went cross-countrying, say 53 Spiked wheel on a boot spur 56 Farm-to-table program, in brief 58 Shish ____
60 Scientist who said, “The cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star-stuff”
63 First string
64 Puts out
65 How obedient dogs walk 67 Gets a head?
68 Host of an Apple TV+ book club 69 In again
70 More sardonic
71 Paperless airplane reservation 72 Trifling amount 18 24 25 32 34 35 36 39 41 43 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 54 55 57
58 61 62 63 64 68 70 72 74 75
Overly expensive
Sport-___ (all-purpose vehicle) Glad
Many AMA members
Where It. lies
Destroys violently
Trim with shears
Agenda entry
Catch in a web, say
Start to sink?
Natural ability
Colorado resort
“___ all come out in the wash” Solidifies
Plant with bugs?
Palette selection
Tall shade tree
Basic components First-stroke peg
Enter a tournament
Senate process for ending a debate
Gun, as an engine
Soybean and canola Scoreless score
Muse of love poetry Provides, like a view Rice-A-___
Verizon or T-Mobile
Slip in a poker pot
Dance move
Caspian feeder 78 Because (of)
80 Sky fall?
81 Whitney of cotton gin fame 82 Headed
83 “Later!”
85 Button on an old video game controller
Org. that publishes the journal Emotion
Prepare for a guided meditation, perhaps
90 Cavity fillers
93 Homogeneous
95 ____ Gobert, 2018 and 2019 NBA
Defensive Player of the Year 96 Benchmark: Abbr.
98 “Over here!”
101 Religion symbolized by a
moon and star
102 Make a choice on Tinder
103 Isle of Man men, e.g.
104 Gorillalike
105 Suite meet?
108 Made lighter
109 One might begin “Dear Diary ...” 110 “All That Jazz” director
112 Screenwriter Lee, sister of Spike 113 De-bug?
117 ____ cha beef (Chinese entree) 118 V-J Day prez
119 Ni‘ihau necklace
87
89 76 “Que ___?”
77 Costa-Sol connector 79 Definite article
81 ___ long way (last)
82 Piercing tool
83 Explosive letters
86 Deep longing 87 Fleshy-leaved plant
89 Venus de ___
93 Loafer adornments 95 Overturn
96 Premium TV channel, briefly 98 Bride’s new title, perhaps 100 Trojan War counselor
101 Racer at a kid’s party
103 Goddess of dawn
104 Strong, dark brews
105 Release, as steam
106 Make certain
107 Parts of movies
108 Sunglasses
109 Animal that can learn sign
language, for short
110 Indulge
111 Fill with joy
112 Earnings
113 Much of 1999?
115 ___ Heel (UNC athlete)
119 Order such as a warrant
122 Health resort
123 Yorkie’s bark
124 “Golly!”