Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“NUTS!” ACROSS
1 Spanish for “prairie”
6 __ wind
11 “Carmina Burana” composer
15 Breaks down
19 Verdi creations
20 Milan fashion house
21 Letter-shaped support
22 Hose color
23 Hex nut?
25 Paints the town red
27 Sinus-clearing aids
28 Boilermaker ingredient
30 Go in for
31 Cool, in a way
32 Palm nut?
34 Encircle
37 “__ Bop”: Cyndi Lauper song
39 Fiver
40 “Curious George” co-author Margret
41 City on the Skunk
42 Audrey of “The Da Vinci Code”
45 Flavorful
47 It’s almost always fishy
50 Date nut?
52 Brewers’ gadgets
54 “Sorry, can’t do it”
55 Customary
58 Mischievous glance
59 Bit
62 “Sorry not sorry”
64 Old Bruins nickname
65 Wing nut?
71 Butternut?
74 Folksy Guthrie
75 Abdominal scar, actually
77 Earth goddess
78 One in the alley’s back row
81 Pueblo building material
84 Breakfast cereal magnate 89 Zigzagged, in a
sport 91 Doughnut?
94 Drink with a painful homophone
95 Packed (with)
97 “Phooey!”
98 Family figure?
99Kind of blanket or paint
100 Bubbly prefix
102 New Haven collegian
103 FDR had three of them
104 Wheel nut?
110 Card game cry
111 “C’est magnifique!”
112 “How ya __?”
113 Punter’s metric
118 Reggie Jackson nickname based on his postseason success
120 Chestnut?
122 Impress
123 “Game of
Thrones,” for one
124 Dodge
125 Hawaiian veranda
126 Squirrels’ haunts
127 Train station, e.g.
128 Bob who was the voice of Future Ted
Mosby in “How I Met Your Mother”
129 Muscular, in modern lingo
DOWN
1 First to move, usually
2 Indy champ Luyendyk
3 Glove
4 Protest group, perhaps
5 Sooty receptacle
6 Allow as a handicap
7 “LOTR” menaces
8 Delt neighbor
9 Tangy Mexican sauce
10 More desirable to collectors
11 Massage parlor services
12 Triple Crown stat
13 Packers QB before Rodgers
14 Streaming service offer
15 “Match Game” regular Charles Nelson __
16 In base eight
17 Fighters’ pact
18 Word that’s its own synonym when a “b” is added to the end
24 Family title?
26 Fly past
29 Due-in hr.
32 Former embryo
33 Bourbon order
34 “Funny not funny”
35 Pianist Gilels
36 Arizona College of Nursing city
37 “Here’s a thought ... ”
38 Center of activity
42 Move en masse
43 Many times o’er
44 Aerial enigmas
46 Old Spanish dough
47 Splash (through)
48 Split to come together
49 Request from
51 “Will do”
53 Novelist Waugh
56 Golf green insert
57 Mauna __
60 Preserved, as sardines
61 Like
63 Chinese sauce additive
65 Prefix with belt, in slacks
66 What a wavy line may mean in music
67 Long bones
68 Advent air
69 Eggs in a lab
70 “Chopped” host Allen
72 Costa __
73 Sign of boredom
76 Western wolf
79 Skunk cousin
80 “Haven’t the foggiest”
82 “Phooey!”
83 Week add-on
85 Inventor’s protection
86 Nasty sort
87 Ooze
88 A fourth of doce
90 Out of juice
92 Penn of the Harold & Kumar films
93 Hosp. test in a tube
96 MC Chris genre
99 Big name in jam
101 Maracanã Stadium city
103 Watches
104 “Did my heart love till now?”
speaker
105 Main artery
106 As much as possible
107 Capital near Casablanca
108 Empaths pick them up
109 __ Gay
110 Serengeti bovine
113 London’s __ Park
114 Help in a risky way
115 Passport fig.
116 It may include several courses
117 One in a wet quintet
119 __ trip
121 Exposed, with “up”