Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

- SILENT FINALES By Joon Pahk / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Late Queen of Soul 7 Places for

bears or villains

12 What a recipe

may be written on 20 Puts up

21 Veep under Nixon 22 Formal defense

23 Photo caption for the winning team’s M.V.P. being carried off the field? 25 Get an F

in physics?

26 Bert of “The Wizard

of Oz”

27 Powerful swell

28 In the style of 30 First-generation

Japanese-American 31 Houdini feat

33 Rey, to Luke, in “The Last

Jedi”

36 Place for

a stud to go

38 What you’re effectivel­y saying when you sign a waiver? 41 Longtime athlete on the U.S.

Davis Cup team

45 Line through

one’s teeth?

47 Torment

48 Full of subtlety

50 Capital of Albania

52 Atlas or Titan,

for short

53 Street through

the middle of town 54 Energy secretary Chu

under Obama

55 ____ neutrality

56 Actress Long

58 Extended diatribe 59 Moon race?

61 Router attachment­s

63 It’s just

below 0: Abbr. 64 Medieval poets

67 Piece of writing that’s

half in verse?

70 Some paid

rides, informally

71 First leg

of an itinerary 72 Avenging spirits

in Greek myth

73 Bad thing to hit with a

hammer

75 “Casey at the Bat” poet

Ernest

77 Wee bit

78 “I’m f-f-freezing!” 80 Coined money

84 Aids for determinin­g

pregnancy, e.g.

86 Pizazz

87 Fellini’s “La ____” 88 Inducing forgetfuln­ess 89 Outlook alternativ­e 91 Dollar signs without the

bars

92 Word after

who or how 93 Dropping the baton in a

relay race, e.g.?

98 Bit of ink

99 Optimum

101 Senator Feinstein 103 Blues legend Waters 106 “____ complicate­d” 107 Area near the shore 109 Publicans’ servings 112 Area near the shore 115 Warning not given on a

golf course?

118 Something

on the rise today 119 Actress Belafonte 120 Start to inhabit

121 Baja California city 122 “The Zoo Story”

playwright

123 Movie trailer, e.g. DOWN

1 Name of what was once the world’s secondlarg­est saltwater lake 2 Tabula ____

3 “Hematite, magnetite —

take your pick”?

4 Line that ended with

Nicholas II

5 “____ Grace”

(title of address)

6 “To quote

myself …”

7 Los Angeles neighborho­od next to Beverly Grove 8 Wide-eyed

9 Memo starter

10 Half of

a cartoon duo

11 Make official?

12 Super Bowl

III M.V.P.

13 Nail polish brand with the colors Teal the Cows Come Home and Berry Fairy Fun 14 Talking-____

(reprimands)

15 Big female role on HBO’s

“Westworld” 16 Two things you might find in Sherwood Forest?

17 As long as

one can remember 18 Work (up)

19 “The Hallucinog­enic

Toreador” painter 24 Apartment building V.I.P. 29 Mentally sluggish 32 Producer

of “60 Minutes” 33 Seniors’

big night out 34 European stratovolc­ano 35 Astronauts’ wear

36 Young newts

37 Came down

39 Spike

40 Human Rights Campaign

inits.

42 Minor altercatio­n 43 Soccer shot resulting from a corner kick, often

44 Lawn tools

46 Like Tara, several times in “Gone With the Wind”?

49 Singer DiFranco 51 Multi-time music collaborat­or with Bowie

52 Some magazine perfume

ads

53 Conductor

56 Country on the Arctic

Circle: Abbr.

57 “Yes for me”

60 The Wildcats of the Big

12 Conf.

61 Brit. legislator­s

62 [Shrug]

64 Forcibly oppose 65 Following

close behind

66 Some celebrity charity

events 68 Shirking work, maybe,

for short

69 “The Hurt Locker”

menace, briefly 70 Scads of

72 Club known

for 66-Down 74 Enterprise starter 76 Barely make (out) 78 Two-masted vessel 79 Small stream

81 Places for specific social classes to park?

82 “Any ____?”

83 Heading in the right

direction?

85 Fastener

with a flange

86 Bête noire

89 Small bother 90 Pageant whose 1986 runner-up was Halle Berry

94 Procedural spinoff

starring LL Cool J 95 Antarctic penguin 96 Person

who’s hard to take 97 Most conservati­ve 100 Page of a

movie script?

102 1994

tripartite treaty

103 De bene ____

(legal phrase)

104 In those days

105 Tommy of tennis 107 Temporary cover 108 Hopper

110 Writer ____

Stanley Gardner

111 Tiresias, in “Oedipus

Rex”

113 Some gametes

114 Join

116 Capitals’ org.

117 Ruby of “A

Raisin in the Sun”

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