WORDUCKENS
ACROSS
1 Social media dogpile markers, in slang
9 Salt’s “halt!”
14 More than lionize
19 “Yeesh”
20 Narrow lane
21 Metals industry giant
22 Question asked in a daze 23 *Private ( Actress ( Reword ) Jessica ) eye
25 ___ Arbor
26 Tire gauge fig.
28 Meme depicting dejected actor Reeves
29 *Starbucks ( High-fat ( Rests ) diet ) size
35 “BTW ...” 36 Gatekeepers? (Abbr.)
38 “Star Wars” queen
39 “Love me ___”
41 Biologist Charles
44 One glass, or two cups 45 Amazon delivery?
47 Chin feature
50 Use an index for directions? 51 Aced it
53 *Asks ( Big ( Minus ) amount ) desperately
55 Thorny bush
57 Cylinder
59 Twerps
60 Molten meal
62 Mass that’s not massive
64 Amish tractor pullers
65 Big name in RC cars
69 Apt rhyme for “snit”
70 *Old ( Small ( Ire ) talk ) loves 74 Tic-tac-toe winner
75 Gin berry
77 Web destinations, for short
78 Big gulp
79 Snoopy cartoonist Charles 81 Egypt’s region
84 Class with supply curves, for short 86 Vibes
87 *Deli ( Spanish ( Sneaker brand )
eight ) orders
91 Maker of Crunch bars
93 Rapp of 2024’s “Mean Girls”
94 Fail to blink
95 Man found in both the Bible and
“thesaurus”?
96 Unaccounted for
99 Shining bright
101 Checks, as boxes
103 Commander and chief
105 Sarge, for one
106 Grain in Cheerios
109 *African ( October ( Walkers,
briefly ) birthstone ) nation
111 Climbing gym pouch
115 Type of bread
116 Pittsburgh’s ___ Park
117 *Water ( Smallville ( Mononymous
singer ) surname ) line
120 Turkish fruit exports
125 Final Greek letter
126 Berlin’s metro
127 Eerie electronic instrument
128 Hose down
129 Home Depot competitor
130 Type of day that refers to Earth’s rotation with respect to distant stars
DOWN
1 German automaker
2 Sound from a hot tub
3 Hopping the fence, say
4 Spiny desert creature
5 Agcy. whose existence was once a
secret
6 Reddit event (Abbr.)
7 Group of whales
8 Salon sounds
9 Singer DiFranco
10 By way of
11 Knee connectors
12 Bundle
13 Roosevelt’s nickname
14 Court ... or word after “court” 15 Idris of “Hijack”
16 “Arguing with you is impossible” 17 Not getting distracted
18 Creature in a Mongolian polo variant
23 “___ mio!”
24 “Just playing”
27 NFL “scorigami,” for one 29 Briefly touch on?
30 French friend
31 Ingrid’s “Casablanca” role 32 Tarnish
33 Nits to pick
34 Classic NBC courtroom drama 37 Colonizing insects 40 Exponential, as growth 42 Church section
43 Bird home
46 Lose the battle but win the war, say
48 Paper fortunetellers, geometrically 49 Belief
52 “Fair point”
53 Chicago landmark, with “the” 54 Some trig curves
55 Tight buds
56 Bother
58 Military higher-up
61 Give off
63 Booker T. & the ___
66 “My pleasure”
67 Coke or Pepsi
68 Flow like lava
71 ID and press pass 72 Maa-ladies?
73 Sing like Ella
76 Run the show
80 One swaying in Hawaii
82 Furniture giant 83 Doughnut-shaped 85 Author Zora ___ Hurston 87 Part of a cereal grain found in many cereal names 88 Cause of a hamstrung hamstring? 89 Rubbernecker
90 Bay Area industry
92 Took to court
95 Catch sight of
97 Singer Rita
98 Drug for Timothy Leary 100 “___ Lisa”
102 Metal band with a misspelled name
104 Hope (to)
107 Original “American Idol” judge Paula
108 Aerobics portmanteau 110 Three-____ (sports dynasty achievements) 112 Onetime Nintendo competitor 113 “Mercy me!”
114 Chew (on)
117 Jan. and Dec.
118 Most common word in English 119 ___ and outs
121 Eagles’ city, for short 122 Outer color of a rainbow 123 Aunt, in Argentina
124 NBC sketch show