RELATIVELY SPEAKING
ACROSS
1 “The Name of the Game” pop quartet 5 Driver’s lic. info
8 Nixed, at NASA
12 Back teeth 18 Adolescent 19 Concessions purchase 20 Very, informally 21 Bright red liqueur 22 Date night, or a midgame show starring Beyoncé instead of the coach’s nephew’s garage band?
25 Stovetop piper
26 Still going 27 Cappuccino topping 28 Prophetic sign 30 Pliable wood
31 English article
32 “And so forth” abbr. 34 Bohr played by Kenneth Branagh in “Oppenheimer”
37 Word with bright or big 39 Giving up a lazy Saturday to clean up a beach at sunrise, or waking up to pancakes instead of gruel?
45 Busy mo. for a 102-Across
47 Weep
48 Brazilian berry 49 Cancel
50 Ease of movement 53 Target
55 Food stamp org.
56 A chic gray bob and cat eye bifocals, or sleeping until noon and dancing until dawn? 59 Classified
60 Ethically indifferent 61 Skip over
62 Fast Amtrak train 64 Took first place 65 Underground systems 67 Fluffy craft supply 70 Writing tip? 73 Adventure game console
75 Soy block
76 “I am enough,” e.g. 78 Snouts
80 Cardstock instead of newsprint, or the work of a wordy student?
85 Feel (for)
86 Spanish diacritic 87 Meetings
88 Bite noisily
90 Operatic icon
91 Pub choice 92 Wolfed down
93 “The copy editor says this needs a capital letter,” or a judge saying “Not enough evidence” in a bass-baritone?
99 Flit
100 Greek fabulist
101 Wallach of “The Holiday”
102 Tax prep pro
105 Scolding sound 108 Spring
110 2-Down, for one 112 Ready at a moment’s notice
114 “Girl on Fire” singer Keys
116 God’s rest on the seventh day, or forty winks on a bunk bed? 120 Sharp grabbers 121 Large barrel
122 Fish caught in pots 123 Hippocratic __ 124 Orbital extreme 125 18-wheeler
126 “Happy now?”
127 __ bargain
DOWN
1 Up, in baseball
2 Canvas for many an arborglyph
3 Midler of “Hocus Pocus” 4 Against
5 Play-__: Fun Factory clay 6 Norwegian saint 7 Balderdash 8 Cappuccino topping, perhaps
9 __-Wan Kenobi
10 Jewel
11 Cookie used to make Halloween bat-shaped treats
12 Manage with whatever’s available 13 1968 to now, in professional tennis
14 “__ the games begin!” 15 Highbrow
16 Part
17 Whole lot
19 Heraklion’s island 23 Eternally
24 Event where pies win ribbons
29 “La Boh me” heroine 33 Prickly plants
35 Like fertile soil
36 Bolsa Chica State Beach’s locale, informally 38 Single-season bloom 39 Actress Pam
40 Take a shot at 41 Promposal goal 42 Appliance that performs under pressure?
43 In the buff
44 Happy
45 Dollar alternative 46 Give ’em the old razzle-dazzle, say 50 Weak spot
51 Many Oscar contenders
52 Not as well
53 Sale caveat
54 Hirsute cousin
57 Punk offshoot 58 Drain
59 Plots again
63 PR focus
66 Ending at, casually 67 Bioré target 68 Frequently, poetically 69 Oaty breakfast mix 71 Oscar nominee Dunne 72 Xylophone parts 74 Abounded (with) 75 Journalist Koppel 77 Water nymph
78 Salt formula
79 Nueve preceder 81 Singer Redding 82 “Love your skin” body brand
83 Woody area 84 Actress Witherspoon 89 Nutty confection 90 __ mining
91 Current units
94 Fold
95 Thin strips of land 96 Irked
97 Loses speed 98 German article 102 Gondola waterway 103 Tectonic __
104 First Greek letter 105 “Toodles”
106 Thwack
107 2.2 lbs., roughly 109 Univ. conferrals 111 Sport sword 113 Trim, as a photo 115 Horologist’s piece