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Sam Donaldson is a law professor at Georgia State University, teaching contracts to first-year students and wills, trusts and estates to upperdivision ones. He is the author or co-author of several textbooks on these subjects. Since 2011, Sam has written the annual Orca Awards for the blog Diary of a Crossword Fiend, his choices for the best American crosswords across all publications. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 ‘‘The King of Latin Pop’’ 9 ‘‘The Tale of ____ PuddleDuck’’ (Beatrix Potter children’s book) 15 Give an address 20 Onscreen twins, often 21 Ruler of the afterlife, in
Egyptian mythology 22 Benefit of some online
purchases
23 Chore for a censor? 25 LaBelle or LuPone 26 With, at a café
27 The Cards, on scoreboards 28 Chore for a satelliteTV technician? 30 Wayne’s sidekick in old
‘‘S.N.L.’’ skits
32 What a digital
subscription might end 34 Current location 35 Certify formally, with ‘‘to’’ 36 Scientist who said:
‘‘I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious’’ 40 Wet-weather wear 42 Chore for a security guard? 47 Notchlike 50 Wildcatter’s target 51 ____ Na Na
52 ‘‘Othello’’ setting 54 Like a list of lists of
lists
55 Kristen of ‘‘Bridesmaids’’ 57 ____ Verde National Park 60 Having zero talent for 63 Wisconsin senator
Johnson
64 Person to look out for 67 Chore for a rower? 69 ‘‘Chandelier’’ singer, 2014 70 ‘‘Be honest!’’
72 Hoppy medium? 73 Chore for a knight? 77 Eats daintily 82 Japanese vegetable 83 Icy moon of Jupiter 84 Author James
85 Air Force One maker 86 Calf-length skirt 88 Bakery enticements 90 ‘‘Come to think of it
. . . ’’
93 Proven postulate 94 Zen principle
97 Chore for a dogwalker?
101 More watered down 103 Statement before a
demonstration 104 Children’s author
Richard
106 Insurance giant 109 It’s spotted at the
craps table
110 Fool, in Canadian slang 114 Chore for an N.F.L.
owner?
117 Pro at deductions 119 Daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
120 ‘‘The Princess Bride’’ character ____ Montoya
121 Chore for a bowlingalley employee? 125 Carrying a key? 126 Forthcoming
127 Goes wild
128 Horse ____
129 Double-black diamond section of a ski mountain, with ‘‘the’’ 130 With a firm grip
DOWN
1 Conference attendee’s
clip-on
2 Tropical sorbet flavor 3 Magic, once
4 The people’s choice 5 B’way posting
6 Kitty paper
7 Utah resort town
8 Fixed charge
9 Average guy
10 Abbr. on a city-limits
sign
11 Certain Spanish
Surrealist paintings 12 Ticked off
13 Cause of a small
setback
14 World’s largest tennis
stadium, familiarly 15 Hitting the right note 16 Common Christmas
entree
17 Where Groucho, Chico and Harpo spent a night
18 Crispy cookie brand 19 Live
24 Like most modern TVs,
informally
29 Judo levels
31 Coxae, familiarly 33 Most common
surname in Brazil 37 Math degree
38 Former SeaWorld
attraction
39 San Francisco’s ____
Valley
41 Patent
42 Scattered about 43 Nintendo gaming console with a pileup of vowels
44 Tourney format, for
short
45 Baked
46 Potential result of
social unrest
48 ____ mess (traditional
English dessert) 49 Cold and humid 53 ‘‘Germ’’ that’s passed from one child to another
56 Heroic exploit 58 Bewitch 59 Redundant name for
a drink
61 Captain with a
whalebone leg
62 Bad thing for a bluffer 65 Ceremony
66 Home to the landmark
Koko Crater
67 Poet ____ Scott-Heron 68 Served as
71 It’s due south of
Hollywood
73 Shoving match, in a way 74 Thor’s father
75 Motel 6 alternative 76 Strike
78 Tops
79 Isolated team of workers, in businessspeak
80 ‘‘I guess’’
81 6:00 broadcast 84 Didn’t just assume 87 Noble thing
89 German exclamation 91 ‘‘That hits the spot’’ 92 Michelle of ‘‘Crazy Rich
Asians’’
95 Helmet opening 96 Scottish terrier type 98 Actor Robert of
‘‘Spenser: For Hire’’ 99 Eyes, informally 100 Like the rank of major
general
102 Lambaste
104 Barbecue rods 105 Vessel whose name anagrams to where it might be used 107 Woods who voiced
Cinderella
108 Open space in a forest 111 Snarky challenge 112 Swashbuckling Flynn 113 Like investing in a
start-up
115 Loops in, in a way 116 Small cut
118 Bad fit
122 Six-pt. plays
123 Chapel Hill sch. 124 Houston sch.