The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CROSSWORD NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Word repeated in
“Mi ____ es su ____” 5 Skipped town
9 Good name for a botanist? 14 Certain vacuum tube
20 Taiwan-based electronics giant 21 Per item 22 Shred
23 Make airtight 24 Caterer’s platter 26 Off 27 Director of “Eat Drink Man Woman,” 1994 28 Morticia, to Fester, in 1960s TV 29 Expecting help? 31 Beat generation figure?
33 Tidy
35 ____ Muhammad, mentor to Malcolm X
37 “Mm-hmm”
38 Reagan-era scandal
42 Old Germanic tribe
44 Passes out
48 Oral examination? 50 Initiations have them
52 Dish made from a fermented root 53 Grace’s surname on “Will & Grace” 54 Neutron’s home 56 Jazz singer who acted in the “Roots” miniseries 59 Whopper maker 60 Hematite, e.g.
62 Like 100%
inflation
63 ____ Kippur
64 Sorbet-like dessert originally from Sicily
65 ____ port
68 Wrist watch?
69 Like this puzzle’s circled letters vis-à-vis their Across answers
73 Brewer’s need
76 Long ____
77 “Nuh-uh!”
78 “Horrible!”
81 Reaches
84 Nearest country to Cape Verde 85 Grammy winner Erykah ____
86 Talkative sort 90 Competitor of Rugby
91 “Li’l” fellow 92 “I’m with ____” 93 Hell, informally 95 It might take only seven digits
97 Sampled
100 Be rumple-free 102 Leaves for baggage claim, say 103 Star followers
105 Vitamin B3
107 Prefix with normal 108 Cause of a tossed joystick, maybe 112 Block from getting close to the basket 115 Gridiron gains 118 Comic ____ Nancherla 119 Stage in getting aPh.D.
121 Some rustproof rails 123 Chasms 124 Newsroom fixture 125 Frozen breakfast brand
126 “Let’s do it!” 127 Risks a ticket 128 “Siddhartha” novelist
129 In case 130 Washington team, familiarly
DOWN
1 ____ Crunch
2 Smoothie flavor
3 Tennis star’s feat 4 Place for exhibitions 5 Word with noodle or nurse
6 Viscount’s superior
7 Big scholarship awarder, for short 8 Mint-family herb 9 “Down goes ____!” (1973 sports line) 10 Mojito ingredient 11 Nail-polish brand
12 When jams are produced 13 Place for an altar 14 Long line in Russia 15 Let
16 “Amen to that” 17 Earthen pot 18 What it takes two to do 19 One-on-one Olympics event 25 Chuck in the air 30 Not mainstream, briefly 32 Separations at weddings? 34 Body work, in brief 36 Lead-in to boy or girl 38 Birthplace of the Renaissance
39 RCA component 40 Put claw marks in 41 Sharer of Russia’s western border 43 Setting for many GI stories 45 Much of Aries’ span
46 Postgraduation stressors, for some 47 Lengthy attack 49 Refining, as muscles 51 Lead-in to cone 55 “You only live once,” for one 57 Baked-beans flavor
58 Mötley ____
60 Schedule-keeping
org.
61 Team scream
64 “10-4”
65 Longest American
north-south rte. 66 “Fiddler on the
Roof” setting
67 In spades
69 Future attorney’s hurdle, for short 70 Memphis-toNashville dir. 71 2018 World Cup champs 72 Prayer ending? 73 Workplace for a cabin boy 74 Antiquated anesthetic 75 Pong creator 78 All-female group with the 1986 No. 1 hit “Venus” 79 One-named singer whose last name is Adkins
80 Pitches
82 Albany is its capital: abbr. 83 Gorsuch’s predecessor on the bench
84 Two of diamonds? 85 Trusted news source in the Mideast 87 Friend of Descartes ... or, in English, question pondered by Descartes?
88 “What chutzpah!” 89 Early record holder
91 Puts to rest 94 Pricey-sounding
apparel brand? 96 Tinder, e.g.
98 Surface
99 “Well, I’ll be”
follower
101 B’way buys
104 It covers a lot
of ground
106 Recognition
for a scientist 108 Comic’s
offerings
109 Per item
110 Stud finder?
111 One wearing black eyeliner and ripped jeans, say 113 Desire 114 Makes out? 116 Cause of some insomnia 117 Application figs.
120 Dummkopf
122 Boozehound