The Commercial Appeal

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Screen Sharing

- By Adam Wagner / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Lets extra light

in, in a way

8 Get on the stick? 12 Music-genre

prefix

15 Arm of the Dept. of Homeland Security 19 Deforestat­ion,

for example 20 Not home

21 Pool tester 22 Line through

two poles 23 Salma Hayek:

1996, 2002 26 Bop on the head 27 Driven, say 28 “____ Flux” (onetime sci-fi series)

29 Yellow belly? 30 Pair in gossip 31 Dev Patel: 2008,

2016

36 Jerkwad

39 What remains,

with “the” 40 Quail : bevy :: ____ : parliament 41 Liechtenst­einer’s currency 42 Amount of tips earned by a street performer, maybe 45 Equipment used to play the oldest organized sport in North America 47 Choose

50 Brad Pitt: 2001,

1995 54 Accompanie­r of

smoke

56 Texter’s “I

think ... “57 Catherine of “Schitt’s

Creek” 58 Outstandin­g

finds 59 Broadband inits. 61 “You mean I’m

wrong?!” 64 Utilize a company policy for new parents, say

66 When tripled, playful onomatopoe­ia for shooting laser beams 67 “Here, have a

taste” 68 Owen Wilson:

2005, 2006 71 Baseless rumors 74 The lowest

número primo 75 Pickup line? 79 It’s at the beginning of this clue

80 Noted fashion

monogram 81 Equal 82 “Sunrise” singer

Jones

83 Focus of some smartphone updates 84 Before, in poetry 86 Joaquin Phoenix:

2014, 2013 89 Problems with phonograph records 92 Contents of college blue books

94 Early online forum that popularize­d terms like “FAQ” and “spam” 95 Put on again 97 Some dolls sold in a Universal Studios gift shop 98 When “Alexander Hamilton” is sung in “Hamilton”

101 Mathematic­ian

Lovelace

102 Al Pacino and Robert De Niro: 1974, 1995 (twice!)

108 Brother of

99-Down

109 Ramirez of “Grey’s Anatomy”

110 Historic trade ally of the Monacan people 111 Dark yellow

shade

115 -elect

116 Modern tech feature for watching two programs on one screen ... or an alternativ­e title for this puzzle

120 Bug-eyed

121 High-value

deposit

122 Shore soarer

123 Absolutely

devoured 124 Takes from

125 TV’S “____

Lasso”

126 Name on a toy

truck

127 Places for rubs

and scrubs

DOWN

1 Expert

2 Song title shared by hit singles for Ja Rule and Flo Rida

3 In the ____ 4 High points 5 Kind of force created by the moon

6 Ending with “brown.” or “auburn.” 7 What tahini is

made from 8 Tush

9 Thanks (to) 10 Actress Gadot 11 Olive ____ 12 In any way 13 Sleazeball­s 14 Kind of muscle 15 Chess’s ____ Caruana, onetime youngest grandmaste­r in U.S. history (14 years 11 months) 16 Flowerhorn cichlids and vampire tetras, for example 17 Worker who wants to strike?

18 “Go on, shoot” 24 Sister brand of Saucony and Stride Rite 25 Small valleys 32 Cybersquat­ters make fake ones

33 What 2 is vis-àvis 1

34 “Hmm ... “35 Badger 36 Barrels of fun 37 Satirist ____

Baron Cohen 38 Entree served

with a knife 43 Price jockeying of competing airlines

44 Not paying

attention 45 Walgreens

competitor 46 ____ Khan of Khan Academy fame

48 Prefix with

present

49 Goes to hell 51 “Golly gee!” 52 Stock ticker symbol for a longtime clothing brand 53 Corrects in text 55 Brought on 60 River of old song 62 “Clever ____ are never punished”: Voltaire 63 [swoon]

65 Meat Loaf’s “Rocky Horror” role

66 Surfaces, e.g. 67 Start of many a

limerick 69 Massive

adversary 70 Whom you might ask, “Where will I be in 10 years?” 71 Forensic pros, in

brief

72 Words of eventual understand­ing 73 “‘Fraid not” 76 Supermodel

Shayk

77 Went up against 78 Sorority letter 80 Shortest answer from a Magic 8 Ball

81 Measures of

acidity 85 Modern joust venue, informally 87 Org. with a

noted bell

88 Van Gogh’s “La

____ Étoilée” 90 Walking sticks? 91 Packed-house

inits.

93 Went after 96 Expensive

Super Bowl purchase 98 Shower times 99 Brother of

108-Across

100 Timorous

102 Member of a

Turkic group

103 Onetime streaming platform of the 2010s

104 Took a bow?

105 Submission­s to a

casting director 106 Like wool

sweaters, often 107 Teensy bits

112 Thick component of orange juice

113 Broca’s ____, segment of the brain linked to speech

114 Snoring symbols

in Surrey

117 [That smells

terrible!]

118 Regret

119 ____ sense

 ?? ??

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