SUNDAY CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 English cheese that’s American slang for “money” 8 Grasps on to
13 Kids just before bedtime, often
20 Cannes setting
21 Beelike
22 Diva’s “voyage”
23 Ham it up
24 Name meaning “peace”
25 Mark caused by a top?
26 Hundredth of a euro
27 *“Mr. Winkler still hasn’t
decided on his next role!”
30 Doily feature
31 Ballpark fig.
32 Helped out
33 First-year
35 Purchase for an ailing lawn
36 *“Queen Victoria must retire now”
41 Desserts for
3/14 celebrations
43 Add a video to a website 44 Quietly acknowledges
47 Gyllenhaal or Tapper
48 Container for kimchi
51 Comfy sleepwear, for short
52 Airline in “American Made”
55 Cry like a baby
57 Shapiro of NPR
58 Road trip stop
60 Sculptor’s focus,
sometimes
62 ___ Speedwagon
63 “Meh,” in slang
64 Twain called the “Queen of
Country Pop”
66 Self-evident sentence 67 Actress Dennings
68 Howl at the moon
69 Some intl. diplomats
70 Motley
71 Disco ___ of “The Simpsons”
72 “Get outta here!”
74 Smoke, in slang
75 Pale
76 Openers?
77 “We’re in trouble now ...”
79 Central Park shade producer 80 UPS rival
81 Chipotle dip, for short
83 Flowering
85 Vacation spot that’s off the grid?
88 Like hot fudge sauce
89 Clown’s red wear
90 Party sometimes with glow sticks
91 QB’s trick play
93 Hexagonal hardware
94 Sign in the heart of some downtowns
96 Wonky
98 “Eww, stop talking!”
99 NATO nation
100 Chunk of butter
101 Mouth-watering smell 103 Enjoy going downhill?
104 Spot-on
105 Muckraker Jacob
107 Three-pointed hat 109 Bigwig from Abu Dhabi
111 Ms. Gorbachev
113 Panda Express staple
115 NBA legend Thomas
118 Modify, as a law
119 Levi’s alternatives
120 Bean or Penn
121 R&B singer ___ Marie
122 Atomizes
123 “Mais oui!”
124 Down in the dumps
125 Having a kick
DOWN
1 “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” singer Jim 2 Places with a lot of buzz 3 Track meet contest
4 Hot goss
5 “Narcos” org.
6 Comics redhead
7 Making some go red, perhaps
8 It might make you go red
9 The Grand Ole ___ (music venue) 10 Actor Schreiber
11 Carvey of “Becoming Bond”
12 Gobbled down, in slang
13 Streaker?
14 “Open” autobiographer
15 “No,” in France
16 “___ be fine”
17 Opera highlights
18 ___ de Mayo
19 Hit 70, perhaps
28 “The Matrix” hero
29 Glass of NPR
32 Sounds of understanding
34 Farm producer
36 Golfer’s prop
37 Roadie’s haul
38 “Great Society” prez 39 Director Craven
40 Weep and wail
41 Outcast
42 *April Fools’ Day officials?
45 *Voldemort’s admins? 46 Betraying one’s nerves, in a way 47 Door frame parts
48 Player of Hikaru Sulu
49 Centipede company
50 Fails to uphold, as a promise 52 Parenting approach that can be divisive
53 Put pen to paper
54 Julian who founded WikiLeaks
56 Flower in some Chinese art 58 Spartan institution? (Abbr.) 59 *Urban Dictionary and other sassy references?
60 *Birds that are tone deaf? 61 “Srsly?!”
65 Sources of imperfection, in a way
66 Scuttlebutt that makes pros nervous
73 “___ quiet!”
76 Unstable subatomic particle
78 Quadrennial international games 82 Navy vessel named after a WWII commander
83 Debtor’s notes (Abbr.)
84 Huff
86 Guns the engine
87 Stomp (down)
88 Bearded beast
92 Newborn fox
95 Remote batteries, often
97 Scrape (out)
102 Like Monk, on “Monk”
106 “Well, ___ that special?”
107 Diagram useful for solving some puzzles
108 March Madness org.
110 “That makes sense now”
111 Astrological sign depicted in the middle of today’s grid
112 French bud
113 Soar through the heavens
114 Finale
116 Kitchen-invading pest
117 Horse fodder