New York Daily News

GO WEST, YOUNG MAN

- By Justin Werfel, edited by Jeff Chen

ACROSS

1 Lamb or chicken

5 Umpire’s call

9 Extra fat

13 Crypto offering, for short

16 St. Louis landmark

17 Music players of old

19 Prep for a bodybuildi­ng competitio­n 21 “What up, fellow pirate?” 22 Inventor of the printing press

26 The buck stops here?

27 “___ Joy”

28 Soothsayer

29 Team up at work, in a way

31 With 32-Across, metaphor for excessive bureaucrac­y

32 See 31-Across

35 Like Clark Kent

38 Salary

39 Foil alternativ­e

40 Education acronym that sometimes adds an “A”

41 “Eureka!”

44 Laundry detergent brand

45 Tardy

47 Ages

51 Musical film featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal 56 Subtle distinctio­n 58 Heebie-jeebies

59 Gimli’s weapon

60 Clears

62 Beige

63 Burn a bit

64 Hicks with an eponymous list 66 Scientist’s garb

68 King Charles III, e.g.

74 ___ Trench (deepest place on Earth) 77 Like the center of a Cadbury Creme 65-Down

78 Moonrise direction

82 “___ peanut butter sandwiches!” (The Amazing Mumford’s incantatio­n on “Sesame Street”)

83 Actress who won an Oscar for “The Iron Lady”

87 Mme., across the Channel 88 Camelot or Gormenghas­t

90 Flower arrangemen­ts 92 Headliner

95 What you used to be?

96 Feng ___

97 Umpire’s call

98 Three-time role for Keanu 99 Robert Burns, for one

103 Edison’s middle name

105 Logan Internatio­nal code 106 Undergroun­d comix magazine featuring Robert Crumb

110 Not many

112 Was really into

115 Home of many Goyas

116 Real hoot

118 Contend

120 Dawn goddess

121 Film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal ... and a descriptio­n of each set of circled letters

126 Fitting

127 Battery, e.g.

128 Flies high

129 Poker buy-in

130 “Bonjour, ___ amis!”

131 Fill

132 Patella’s place

133 Utters

DOWN

1 When repeated three times, “Catch-22” character

2 Wear away

3 Yearned

4 Not this

5 Sloth, e.g.

6 Gorilla, e.g.

7 Dian who studied 6-Downs

8 Periphery

9 Enemy

10 Architect Maya

11 “Sesame Street Fever,” for one 12 “___ noches”

13 Acme’s opposite

14 Halted

15 Trapped, as a cat by a dog

18 Song in “Guys and Dolls” 20 Alternativ­e to cursive

23 Basic logic gate

24 Hit that’s nearly a homer 25 Vanished

30 Where Heracles slew a lion 33 Highest possible grade

34 Hide, as a coin

36 Depart

37 Discourage

41 Basics

42 Roll call call

43 On the briny

44 Certain serpent

46 Laundry detergent brand

48 Not fooled by

49 Final Four org.

50 Dispatched

52 Author Windling who has won nine World Fantasy Awards 53 Literature Nobelist Thomas 54 Former grunt

55 Tack strap

56 At hand

57 Computer connector std. 61 Dispatch, as a dragon

64 Petri dish gel

65 See 77-Across

67 Trunk, in two senses

69 Like falling off a log

70 QB errors

71 Cultural NYC destinatio­n

72 Dutch astronomer Jan who postulated an eponymous “cloud” of comets 73 Aerie, e.g.

74 “Two Years Before the ___” (classic sea memoir)

75 Sacred river in “Kubla Khan”

 ?? © Andrews McMeel Syndicatio­n ?? 1/21
© Andrews McMeel Syndicatio­n 1/21

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