Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“GAME DAY”
BY LYNN LEMPEL
ACROSS
1 Interpretation
5 Left on board?
9 Smartphone array
13 Church reading
18 Falafel bread
19 Civil rights leader Medgar
21 Vault
22 Submit for judging
23 Bind with a cord
24 Piece of history
25 Gumbo pod
26 Lines on GPS displays
27 Vague amount
28 Prompt to a Twister player?
31 Over the speed limit
33 Glove material
34 Half-baked, as a plan
37 Impulse
38 Bursts
40 Former NBA star Ming
42 Figs.
43 Correspond
45 Encouragement to a Yahtzee player?
50 One in a dory
51 Biblical preposition
52 Dory’s companion
53 “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” co-star
54 Psychology 101 subject
55 Brief times, briefly
57 Coarse
59 Heavenly octet
61 Benchmark
63 “Salt Fat __ Heat”: Samin Nosrat cookbook
65 “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” co-star
67 D’backs, on a sports ticker
68 Actor Alan who hosts the “Clear+Vivid” podcast
69 Sad request to one’s Hangman opponent?
72 Microwaves
76 “Summertime Sadness” singer Lana __ Rey
78 Equally matched
79 Climate change sci.
80 Entertainment industry grand slam, for short
81 Diminished
85 Vegas calculation
87 Arborist’s patient
89 Atmosphere
90 One way to think
91 Prosecco kin
93 Trim, perhaps
95 Originate
97 Advice to a checkers player?
100 Connective tissue
101 Sports drink suffix
102 Sculling need
103 Botanist Gray and actor Butterfield
104 Crown array
105 __ opener
108 Like the River Shannon
111 Forced (on)
114 Prayer for a chess player?
118 Damage
119 Geometry surface
121 “A __ technicality!”
122 Real doozies
123 Globetrotter’s need
124 Knuckle or knee
125 Prune, before drying
126 Singer Ronstadt
127 Turn over __ leaf
128 Some TVs
129 Fed. IDs
130 Over
131 Spill the beans
DOWN
1 Bug-hitting-the-windshield sound
2 Yamaha with a bench seat
3 With 73-Down, assertion to one’s Scrabble opponent?
4 “Not gonna happen”
5 Read
6 1980 Olympics track medalist Steve
7 Count (on)
8 The Jonas Brothers, e.g.
9 In flight
10 Black tea
11 Sudden burst of emotion
12 Quarrel
13 Woman on Argentina’s 100 peso note
14 Bamboozles
15 Slanted
16 Spearheaded
17 “__ America”: 2020 miniseries about the ERA movement
20 Artist who works with a chisel
28 On-call devices
29 Impetuous
30 French fashion giant
32 Priceless?
35 Like two 2015 Max Scherzer games
36 Will of “Blue Bloods”
38 Thoughtful
39 Classical pianist Alice Sara __
41 Resting on
43 Sports stadium
44 Nikolai who wrote “The Overcoat”
45 Italian fashion giant
46 __ pale ale
47 Do a slow burn
48 Allowing access
49 Charge, in a way
56 Philadelphia NFLer
58 Overturn
60 Chili scoop
62 Fabricated
64 Dedicate, as time
66 Strategic steps
70 First-aid dispenser
71 Opposite of sur
73 See 3-Down
74 Grace under fire
75 Spread around
77 Medieval Icelandic collection
81 Hindu royalty
82 Give the slip
83 “Huh?”
84 Survey results, e.g.
86 Beachcombing prize
88 Enter gingerly
92 Dries up
94 Strands in a lab
96 Wheel parts
98 Lots and lots
99 __ out: resolve
104 Attacks
106 Jazz saxophonist Rollins
107 “Waiting for Lefty” dramatist Clifford
109 TV Land fare 110 Agenda entries
111 Extended conflicts
112 Stand for something?
113 Southern twang
115 Roadie’s vanload
116 Witticism
117 Pinkie-side arm bone
119 Comfy loungewear
120 Lav
123 Napa Valley tub