Crossword g Puzzle 2
ACROSS
1 Playground game with hoops
6 Blobby sci-fi villain
11 Biker’s
protective wear
19 In the know
20 Fitness motto starter
21 Removes faded flowers from
22 Fit
24 Brand with a Jumpman logo
25 Regret
26 School near Windsor
27 Stiles of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
28 “Friends” friend
29 Arrives like a brainstorm
34 A, to Beethoven
36 Fair
37 Formal talk
39 Deer sir
43 Droid from Naboo, familiarly
46 Volume unit
48 Go inside
50 Long, long tail?
51 Start of a hopeful chant
55 Tower engineer
57 Simone’s state
58 Dagger of yore
59 Mosque official 61 Bound to be
62 “I, Claudius” role 63 Collapsed
66 Like some fried food
68 Letters on a bathroom tube
69 Absolutely zero
72 Dealer-busting org.
75 Meter starter
76 Compared with
77 Places where quiet is often demanded
78 Cut of the loot
81 River past Logroño
84 It’s raised at a circus
85 Obligation
86 Many surfers
88 Ignore mistakes, say
92 Letters on a GI’s letters
93 Absorb, as a spill
95 Twitter rampage
96 Hale-Bopp, for one 97 Alphabetically first V8 ingredient
99 Yawning cause
101 Place to make a rial deal
103 Some tributes
105 Disney theme park
111 Part of many a plot
113 Bristol bye-bye
115 Bit of politeness from a hat-tipper
116 That guy, to Guy
117 Subject of many a watch
119 Family film feature
123 Enthusiastic to a fault
124 Elicit a chuckle
125 A detective may act on one
126 Spoofs
127 Minibike kin
128 __ music
DOWN
1 Clues for DNA analysis 2 Accept the blame
3 Wild party
4 “No seats” sign
5 Job listing abbr.
6 “Precisely like this”
7 “Take __ at it” 8 Bingo cousin
9 Marcel Marceau clown persona
10 Snacked
11 Princess with cinnamon-bun locks
12 Not kidding
13 Asleep in Eng. class?
14 Cause of sticker shock at the florist?
15 They may be unsung
16 “CSI” actor George
17 Old food label figs.
18 I-9 ID
21 Thoughts of the beach while in class, e.g.
23 MIT offerings 27 Boxing div.
30 Suspects
31 Jordanian queen dowager
32 José’s hand
33 A light bulb may symbolize one
35 “It’s clear now”
38 Multi-lingual
Irish singer
40 First golfing U.S. president
41 Pulitzer-winning author James
42 __ standard
43 Bowl, say
44 Was highly regarded
45 Formal wear item
46 1983 Indy 500 champ Tom
47 Fancy moldings
49 Throw very hard
52 Berkshire racecourse
53 Deadlocked
54 Alleged creation of Buffalo’s Anchor Bar
56 Wray of “King Kong” 60 Herd mentality output?
64 Golfer’s gouge
65 Pasta restaurant closing?
67 RPI and NIH
69 Cards, for short
70 Tiberius’ tongue
71 Blessed __
72 Casual Friday fabric
73 Musical workout, at times
74 Singer’s perfect pitch, say
75 “... chips-down” link
77 “Ciao”
78 Swedish auto
79 Bit of optimism
80 Lotion additive
82 Fuzzy memory
83 One taking a class over
87 Juice with a lizard logo
89 Picard’s counselor
90 Jon of “Mad Men” 91 Checkout action
94 Stamps
98 Figure with a cape
100 __ kit: Ancestry. com item
101 Signed off on
102 Speechless player
104 Like morning fields
106 Stimulate
107 Memory miscue
108 Pass-rushing group, briefly
109 Prevention amount
110 Strength
111 Inventing middle name
112 Card holder, maybe
114 Pub mugfuls
117 Jazzy genre
118 Yokohama yes
119 Omelet filler
120 70-Down trio opener
121 Bright students’ org.
122 “How obvious”