The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CROSSWORD NEW YORK TIMES
OH, ONE LAST THING By Andrew J. Ries / No. 1217
ACROSS
1 Neighbor of Sudan 5 Queen in the “Star Wars” movies 12 Basics 16 Things that people like to have ripped?
19 First sentence of a news story 20 Party animal 21 Comedian who was a regular on “The Steve Allen Show” 23 Sources of lean meat 24 Comparatively strong, like some French wine? 26 Grime
28 “Yo!”
29 Went by 30 Fearful
32 1998 De Niro thriller 34 Highway noise barriers
38 One who’s in it but doesn’t win it
40 Egyptian leader obsessed with his appearance? 43 Certain Lincoln Center soprano? 45 It may pop on a plane
46 Dietary std.
47 China’s Chiang
____-shek
48 Yes or no follower 49 Light on one’s feet 51 Submissive
52 Fleet
56 “Totally awesome!”
57 Bit of food … or feud?
58 Part of a house 59 Peach ____ 61 ____-frutti 62 Buttonhole, e.g. 63 Shooting craps while waiting for one’s train?
67 Actress Hatcher 68 All skin and bones 69 “I had a dream, which was not all a dream” poet 70 George Eliot’s “____ Marner” 71 Finely decorated 72 Antagonist 74 Much of Mongolia 78 Automaker sold by GM in 2017 79 Territory
80 White undercoat 82 Broadbrim, e.g. 83 Inits. for getting
around the Loop 84 Protagonist in David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” 85 Comment from a cook who cools the cheese sauce before serving? 89 Woodwind that’s OK to play? 93 Something that’s free of charge
94 Weapon seen on
the Kenyan flag 95 Big stinks
96 Done, slangily
97 Units for binge
watchers
100 Actor Patel of
“Lion”
101 “Don’t ____ me” 104 Cupid’s catchphrase? 110 Part 111 Attention hog’s cry 112 Vigilant
113 “The Dukes of Hazzard” spinoff 114 Intimidate 115 One of eight in “The 12 Days of Christmas” 116 Egg-shaped Hasbro toys introduced in 1971 117 Certain soft drinks, informally
DOWN
1 Score marking
2 Powerful engine, for short 3 Nighttime Cartoon Network programming block
4 Wipe off the map 5 Start of MGM’s motto
6 Quaint “I believe”
7 Like Wrigley Field’s
walls
8 Brave
9 Landon who lost in a landslide 10 Pastoral locale 11 Big name in 1980s-90s
TV talk
12 State capital that’s the setting of “Ironweed” 13 Betty ____ 14 Mean, lowdown sorts
15 Court conference 16 CNN commentator Navarro 17 The Cougars of the West Coast Conf. 18 Determination in a prenatal exam 22 Holiday meal 25 Came down 27 Long lunch?
31 It’s to be expected 32 Leveled 33 Eleven: Fr. 35 Cheesy dish 36 Seminal symbol of mass production 37 Lose
38 Paul who sang “Lonely Boy” 39 King who said, “Nothing will come of nothing” 40 Woman’s name that means “truth” 41 Disloyalty 42 Loft filler 44 Director of 1991’s “Mississippi Masala”
49 Genesis brother 50 Early Beatle
51 Sam who ran the bar on “Cheers” 53 Unconcerned with right and wrong
54 Parts of supermarkets 55 &57 Very nearly 58 Topic at the
Kinsey Institute 60 32-ounce purchase at 7-Eleven
61 Mining supply 63 Free
64 Chasm 65 It decreases a QB’s rating: abbr.
66 Busy hosp. areas 67 Best of the best 70 Knee-highs, e.g. 72 Doesn’t know for a fact, say
73 ____ buco 75 Secreted signal 76 El ____ 77 Cricket rival of Harrow 79 Material once set afire and put in a catapult
80 Grasp, informally 81 Human, typically,
diet-wise
84 Announcement upon a grand arrival 85 Entertainment with camels, maybe
86 It sank after WWII 87 Go cold turkey 88 Said
90 Goaltender Dominik in the Hockey Hall of Fame 91 Wrinkle-free, say 92 Lincoln’s place
96 Wild
98 Old-movie dog
99 ____ Valley
100 Give a beating 102 Go forcefully (through) 103 1979 Roman Polanski film
104 Inc. relative
105 Win on “Hollywood Squares”
106 “I shall return,” e.g. 107 Des-Moines-toDubuque dir.
108 Add years
109 Sentence fragments: abbr.