CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Get along

8 New York’s longest parkway, with “the”

15 Eats

19 Exodus figure

20 Well turned

21 “The Nutcracker”

protagonist

22 LxA

24 Actor Gillen of “Game of Thrones” 25 Vodka in a blue bottle

26 Test for college srs. 27 Instrument that represents the duck in “Peter and the Wolf” 28 Lacework technique

30 The Caribbean’s ____ Islands

33 Put at stake 35 Police group with an assignment 36 Mystery Writers of America trophy 39 x–y=x–y

42 Certain red

algae

45 Middling mark

46 Fishmonger,

at times

47 (A- or B+)/7

50 Postwar German sobriquet 54 Abbr. on a phone dial 55 Brest friend 56 Single hair on a carpet, maybe 59 Theresa May, for one

60 “Likewise”

62 Only places to find anteaters in the U.S. 63 Caboose

65 On point 67 √666

71 Dawn goddess 72 Blank section at the start of a cassette 74 Drop acid 75 Tennis’s Nadal 77 “Bus Stop” playwright

78 Short cuts

79 “Hey ____”

80 Director Caro

83 Free all-ad

publication 86 $$$/X

90 Spanish-speaking Muppet on “Sesame Street” 93 A short while?

94 Brewery named for a New York river

95 3.BB

100 Mullah’s decree 101 Like unbaked bread

102 Box score bit 103 Noted dog trainer

106 Founder of Egypt’s

19th dynasty

108 WSJ announcements 110 Drop to zero battery 111 Curse word 115 Some giggling dolls

XEsq

116 120 Prognosticators 121 Hobbyist 122 Turned yellow, say 123 Goes off course 124 Actress Portia 125 One way to turn

DOWN

1 Two-stripe NCOs: Abbr.

2 “Sure, I guess” 3 “No sweat” 4 Airport security apparatus 5 Follower of Christ?

6 Like cornflakes, after sitting for a while 7 1,000 large calories

8 K’ung Fu-____ (Chinese name for Confucius)

9 “Now I get it!”

10 Russian blue or Egyptian Mau 11 OxyContin, e.g. 12 Archenemy 13 Martinique, par exemple 14 Dermatologist’s concern 15 Fashionable set 16 Angular measurement 17 Relating to radioactive element No. 92 18 Wrist ornament 21 Booking for a wedding 23 Grassy stretches 29 First female singer to have three simultaneous solo top 10 singles 31 Elvis’s middle name 32 Guitar inlay material 34 Seller of Famous Bowls 36 Gas brand with an oval logo 37 Pitched low 38 Attempted something

40 Opening to an apology 41 Tapering haircut 43 Nonmoving part of a motor 44 Blobbish “Li’l Abner” creature 48 Painter whose masterwork is said to be the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes 49 Earth Science subj.

51 The ____ Road in America (Nevada’s Highway 50) 52 Wynken, Blynken and Nod, e.g. 53 Things that people are warned not to cross 57 Letters sometimes followed by :D 58 Handle online 61 Soldier food, for short

62 Throw in the microwave, slangily

63 R&B group with the 1991 No. 1 hit “I Like the Way” 64 She, in Portuguese 65 Father-anddaughter boxing champs 66 Phnom ____

68 Mystical ball, e.g. 69 Kind of year: Abbr. 70 Former national airline of Brazil 73 Sticks on the tongue? 76 Made an attempt 78 Verve

79 1993 Salt-N-Pepa hit whose title is a nonsense word

81 Didn’t doubt

82 Notion

84 Sappho, e.g.

85 Annual athletic awards show 87 For sale in malls

88 Theater

reproof

89 Dope

91 Contraction in a

Christmas song 92 Like Quakers 95 Actor Gibson of “2 Fast 2 Furious” 96 Doctor

97 Demolition tool 98 Stick on, as a

poster

99 Exclamation that might accompany a curtsy

104 Lab-assisted, after “in” 105 Admit 107 Device that comes with 79-Across 109 ____-chef

112 Years in the Roman Empire 113 Abound 114 Fictional Mr. 117 Old-fashioned cry of despair 118 Part of TGIF: Abbr.

119 WWII rationing agcy.