Crossword g Puzzle 2
“SHH!” By JOHNCLARK LEVIN
ACROSS
1 Dried meat snacks
9 Whitewater craft
15 Son of Abraham
20 Got emotional
21 Greek island named for a storied flier
22 Rousey who was the first American woman to win an Olympic judo medal
23 *Discerning
24 *Building manager
26 “Little Red Book” writer
27 Author Tolstoy
29 Land between hills
30 Mensa prereq
31 Big __: Red Sox nickname
34 Truckers’ loads
36 Call, old-style
37 *Performer’s period on the job
43 “A Hymn to __”: “My Fair Lady” song
46 Not attentive
47 Bauxite, to aluminum
48 Conquer a hero?
50 Chaplin accessory
51 Decked out
52 Victoria’s Secret purchase
53 *Electricity
57 Is down with
58 Smelting by-product
60 Corp. alternatives
61 Unwitting test taker
62 Longtime U.K. record label
63 Greek fabulist
65 Bilbao bear
66 Locks in a barn
67 *Apportion
72 Point after deuce
73 Sticking point?
74 Jefferson Memorial column type
75 Catch a few winks
78 Handles clumsily
81 Give up
82 “__ la France!”
83 “The History of the Standard Oil Company” author Tarbell
84 *Follow
86 Neighbor of Ill.
87 Obstacles to good teamwork
88 Picnic crashers
89 Play it by __
90 Many Ph.D. students
91 Reminder
93 Make out
94 *Work a side hustle
99 __ old age
103 Poppycock
104 Votes in favor
105 Rod user
107 Teeny, tiny bit
108 Kind of PC port
110 Place for a mask
113 *Infatuated with, with “on”
116 Place for Amtrak passengers to unwind ... and a hint to how to interpret eight puzzle answers
120 Fiji neighbor
121 Tenant
122 Paragon of prestige
123 Mork’s leader
124 Hider’s revelation
125 Fish with the largest brain
DOWN
1 Originate (from)
2 Mother of Castor
3 “Aladdin” parrot
4 GI chow
5 Yom Kippur observer
6 Despot Amin
7 Fabric from Iraq
8 Graf __: WWII ship
9 Opposite of trans
10 Contact lens giant
11 Morning smell in “Apocalypse Now”
12 Vague threat
13 Emerald Isle
14 Egg container
15 Baghdad native
16 In a way, informally
17 Thin 77-Down
18 Fruity thirstquenchers
19 Horse preceder, when things are amiss?
25 Laid low
28 “Gone With the Wind” family name
31 Blotchy
32 Team’s #1 pitcher
33 Get-up-and-go
35 Sit in casks, say
37 Secret supply
38 Faith with Sunni and Shia branches
39 Pickle brand with a stork mascot
40 Medusa, for one
41 Neighbors of the Knicks
42 Latvian chess champ Mikhail __
44 Atahualpa subject
45 Track competition
49 Mideast port on the Mediterranean
50 Like chickenfried steak
52 Washroom fixture
53 Police record
54 “Frozen” sister
55 Cause for a romaine recall
56 Muppet who plays lead guitar in the Electric Mayhem
58 Flip-flop
59 The Beatles’ last studio album
64 Rosie of “Do the Right Thing”
66 Tiny Oreos
68 Place of refuge
69 Manet’s “Olympia,” e.g.
70 Anti-war
71 “The Imitation Game” encryption machine
76 Rescue from a shelter
77 17-Down, e.g.
78 K-12 fundraising gps.
79 “Rule, Britannia” composer Thomas
80 Pool party arsenal
81 Italian “dear”
85 Run for it
86 Sought-after Japanese beef
87 Ages and ages
90 Dressy accessory
91 “Gangnam Style” rapper
92 Sushi topping
95 “Pick me! Pick me!”
96 A jiffy
97 Repair shop offer
98 __ rasa: blank slate
100 Volunteer’s offer
101 Type of pie popular in Southern cuisine
102 Mess up
105 In the matter of
106 American-born Jordanian queen
107 Airs now
109 Area meas. about the size of a pinkie toenail
110 Part of the navel is one
111 Guinea pig lookalike
112 Affectedly cultured
114 New England sch.
115 Future Ph.D.’s test
117 McKellen who played Gandalf
118 February Va. hours
119 Flight safety org.