CROSSWORD PUZZLE: GET OUT OF HERE!
ACROSS
1 Impromptu musical get-together, informally 8 Counting tools
13 Most up to the task
19 Not much
20 Oddball
22 Commotion
23 Archaeologist’s assertion about a finding?
25 Jackson not in the Jackson 5 26 Benchmark: Abbr.
27 Members of the genus Lepus 28 Some overseas seasons 30 Common vinaigrette
ingredient
31 Russian pancakes 33 Swim-team guru?
36 Geri ____, late jazz pianist 38 Authority
39 Used to be
40 Hire Phil Collins’s longtime
band for a gig?
44 Brand that comes out a head? 45 Explosive sound 49 Curtain-call actions
50 One of 32 in the Thai alphabet 51 The Serengeti, e.g.?
54 TV journalist Curry
55 Long
56 Press
57 Covers with goo
58 Speck
59 Quits
62 Shadow during an eclipse 63 Knowing everything that’s
available to view on Netflix? 67 Look forward to
68 Clay-based
69 Unpleasant
70 Clishmaclaver or bavardage, to use some fancy language 72 Trim
73 A/C measures
74 Hwy. offense
77 Amenity offered at an internet cafe?
79 Nickname for baseball great
Ernie Banks
81 Gets out in dodgeball, say 82 Sticks in
83 Yes, in Brest
84 Bit of reading at a bar mitzvah? 86 Director Lee
87 Entertain
89 Deconstruct for analysis 90 Stand-up’s bombs?
95 Keys near G’s
98 Actor Rutger of “Blind Fury” 99 Keister
100 Less friendly
101 Assistance
104 Peninsula shared by Italy,
Slovenia and Croatia
106 Art-shop worker’s manual?
110 Urbanize
111 Spit it out!
112 Part of a canopy
113 The plus side
114 Cuisine that specializes in beef
barbecue
115 No-parking-zone fixture DOWN 1 Pokes
2 Bushels
3 “Whoa!”
4 Geneviève, for one: Abbr. 5 Imprinting indelibly
6 MIT’s business school 7 Mathematician Poincaré with a famous conjecture 8 Flabbergasts
9 ____ E. King, singer and co-composer of “Stand by Me” 10 River islet
11 Ye olde news announcers 12 “Same here!”
13 Knee part, for short
14 Fan group?
15 Like “alter ego” and “alma mater” 16 Prayer hands, for one
17 “... or ____ think!”
18 Part of LGBTQ
21 Short race, for short
24 Your: Fr.
29 “When the country was fallin’ apart, Betsy Ross got it all ____ up” (“Maude” theme lyric) 32 Albanian coins
33 Something that’s often rigged 34 TV’s Burrell and baseball’s Cobb
35 Looks longingly 36 Band that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest 37 Minnesota’s state bird 38 Orlando-to-Miami dir.
41 Role for Patti LuPone and Madonna
42 Brand X
43 Flock member
44 Spotted bean
45 “Well, I’ll be,” to a Brit 46 Offspring of a 43-Down 47 Taiwanese PCs
48 Big butte
51 A dime a dozen, say?
52 It can help you get a grip 53 Drops (down) heavily 55 Beautifully worded
56 Joe Jackson’s “____ Really
Going Out With Him?”
58 Van Gogh painting that once fetched a record amount at auction ($53.9 million) 59 Hair-pattern protector
60 ____ nous
61 Get in gear?
63 Dubbing need
64 Used a stun gun on
65 ____ pants
66 Take a dive, maybe 67 Digital-imaging company that
used to make film 71 Apt rhyme for “baloney” 73 Dating notation: Abbr.
74 Start of a seasonal request 75 “Fluff Yeah” slipper sandals, e.g. 76 “Gotcha”
78 Helical bit
79 Be off the mark
80 GPS calculation: Abbr.
81 Exam for HS jrs.
84 Original tale of robot rebellion 85 Boxed a bit
86 Untethered
87 Biblical mount
88 Team spirit
90 Spanish term of affection
between young women 91 Spring in northern Africa 92 Many rescues 93 Gooseflesh-inducing, maybe 94 Some coin tossers
95 Serve well?
96 Liquor-store purchase 97 Suspicious
100 Where Shiraz is located
102 Pic to click
103 Corp. division
105 Exclamations of regret
107 Combine
108 Green of “Miss Peregrine’s
Home for Peculiar Children” 109 Always, in verse