Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
New York Times Crossword Puzzle
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”