FINAL OFFER
MaryEllen Uthlaut is a writer and homemaker in Charleston, S.C. Some years ago she was at her local library doing research for an article when she stumbled across a book about crosswords that had been misshelved. She checked it out, read it and started constructing. Her first-ever puzzle appeared in The Times in 2010. This is her third crossword for the paper and her first Sunday. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Curse 5 Unit of current 8 Developer of 1982’s E.T., a video game so bad that hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges were secretly buried in a New Mexico landfill 13 Stealing attempts on the diamond? 19 Look extremely stylish, slangily 20 ____ People’s Democratic Republic 21 Classic actress Sophia 22 Lacking freshness 23 Always glad to be seated in the back of the boat? 26 Printed cotton fabric 27 Think of together 28 Perfectly placed ‘‘Batman’’ punch? 30 Behind the line of scrimmage 32 Pried, with ‘‘in’’ 33 Look ahead 36 Unfilled spaces 40 Part of New York City’s Museum Mile, with ‘‘the’’ 43 Charlatans 46 ‘‘Catch you later!’’ 47 Buddhist temple structure 50 Penny going through the wash once again? 53 Subject of Walter Lord’s ‘‘A Night to Remember’’ 54 Epson product 55 Facebook profile feature 56 Soup served at the church social? 58 Persuade by force 61 Sheep’s kin 63 Commencement 64 Church officer 65 Grape-Nuts maker 66 Ark groupings 68 Feudal workers 72 In a lively manner 74 What a pointless meeting probably should have been handled by 76 California in San Francisco, e.g. 77 Afternoon gatherings of Mensa? 81 Force at sea 83 Monk’s title 84 Withdrew 85 Having no feeling in one’s texting hand? 89 Assumed name 90 One of the so-called ‘‘Three Crowns of Florence,’’ along with Petrarch and Boccaccio 91 Source of the idioms ‘‘fat of the land’’ and ‘‘fire and brimstone’’ 92 As we speak 93 Small anatomical opening, as in a bone 96 These can go for a lot of bucks 97 Check for mistakes 100 Party tray meat 103 Ad for heartburn medication? 109 Puts forward 114 State you’ll never get to 115 ‘‘Quit your snickering, Damon!’’? 117 Hitting the floppy disk icon, say 118 Islamic rulers 119 Hill resident 120 Soup pod 121 Dangerous fly 122 Dividing membranes 123 ____ flour 124 ‘‘No man hath ____ God …’’
DOWN
1 Labor-regulating org. 2 ‘‘Such a pity!’’ 3 Bugs 4 Doc’s needle 5 Without reserve 6 Yucatán natives 7 Fancifully worded 8 Drink rarely drunk with a straw 9 ____ Bora, area of Afghanistan 10 ____ American Heritage Month (April) 11 Foul rulers 12 Says without feeling 13 Start of a magician’s phrase 14 Send over the moon 15 Waited at a red light, say 16 FedEx, maybe 17 Order by the border 18 ‘‘Please ____ your tray tables’’ (plane request) 24 World-renowned 25 Sanskrit scripture 29 Part of many California place names 31 Get out of Dodge, so to speak 33 Caustic compound 34 Needing a passcode, maybe 35 Even one 37 Latin clarifier 38 Easy-to-bend metal 39 Greek vowel 40 Lead-in to rail 41 Computer menu with Undo and Redo 42 Dash gauge 43 Word with freeze or fixing 44 Choice word 45 ‘‘Don’t just ____ there!’’ 47 Digital passcodes 48 Viewed optimistically 49 ____ snake 51 Japanese city where Lexus is headquartered 52 Classic muscle cars 53 Cards with the most pips 57 Bread 59 Map section 60 Irascible 62 Some Hollywood up-andcomers 65 Responded in court 67 Cowardly sort 69 Turn down 70 Units of distance in physics 71 Sticks a fork in 73 Piece of news 75 Drinks usually drunk with straws 76 Compos mentis 77 Stark who was crowned king in the ‘‘Game of Thrones’’ finale 78 Eight-year member of Clinton’s cabinet 79 State 80 Glance at, as headlines 82 Animal for which the Canary Islands are named 86 Opposite of WSW 87 -s or -ed 88 Modern prefix 90 Practices lexicography 93 One vain about his looks 94 ‘‘You ____?’’ 95 Greetings to some mainlanders 97 Grounddwelling songbird 98 Bit attachments 99 Old enough 101 Kind of acid 102 Like most mouthwashes 103 Brownish shade 104 Greek vowels 105 Classic popart sculpture with a slanted ‘‘O’’ 106 ‘‘Personally …’’ 107 Cut out 108 Male deer 110 Singer/ songwriter Lee 111 Appropriate 112 ‘‘Suis’’ is part of its conjugation 113 Comic book publisher Lee 116 Where to find MA and PA