WEEKEND CROSSWORD
TOTALLY OUT OF IT
ACROSS
1 Four-string guitar
5 Bits of land in el agua
10 Luca Brasi in “The Godfather,” e.g.
16 Soft infant food
19 Life — know it
20 New Mexico or Colorado county
21 Useless
22 Division of history
23 Start of a riddle
26 Mantra syllables
27 Old-time cleaning cake 28 Tennis’ Safin
29 Not skilled in at all
31 Heavy weight
32 All — sudden
35 Spoken
37 French movie theater 38 Riddle, part 2
44 President Biden
45 Speaks
46 Singer Turner
47 Tell el — (Nile excavation site)
50 It fills la mer
51 Riddle, part 3
57 Becomes familiar with anew 59 Per-unit price
60 Mortise insertion 61 Ambulance VIPs 62 Decorative dashboard finish 66 Chain in biology
67 Riddle, part 4
73 China’s Chou En- —
74 Like many soda bottles, volume-wise
75 Purposely ignore
76 Book of charts
79 IRS form IDs
80 “— is a virtue”
84 Riddle, part 5
87 In honor of
89 Small river
90 — -mutuel betting 91 Oxygen-requiring bacterium 93 Start for center or Pen 94 End of the riddle
102 Square yardage, e.g.
103 Instant replay option
104 Expressive rock genre
105 — Leppard (rock band) 106 Mythical man-goats
109 “In the red,” e.g.
111 Division of history
115 Concorde, e.g., in brief 116 Riddle’s answer
120 Grassland
121 Henner of “Taxi”
122 — Island (Providence’s state)
123 Old TV’s — May Clampett 124 Work unit
125 Workout wear
126 Planted
127 Some deli loaves
DOWN
1 Cry noisily
2 Ghostly pale
3 Real bargain
4 Electric eye, e.g.
5 “The Tall Corn State” 6 Leave for a short time
7 Spy novelist Deighton 8 Exhibit works
9 “... or — told”
10 Drag racer
11 New York home of Cornell 12 Relative of a stickpin 13 Raging crowd
14 PDQ’s cousin
15 Emperor after Claudius I 16 City on the Illinois River 17 Ralph Lauren competitor 18 Pale hue
24 Actress Skye
25 Main parts of churches 30 Fuel rating
33 Galas
34 On the Red, e.g.
36 Former senator Trent 38 Open slightly
39 City in Alaska
40 Four-piece band 41 Writer Capote, to pals 42 Org. in many spy novels 43 Make a ski mask, maybe 48 Lagoon surrounder 49 Christen 51 Core group 52 Frisky swimmer 53 Uncool sort 54 About 55 Lower-class, to Brits 56 Growl threateningly 58 Warning initials above an internet link 59 Hair bases 62 Actress Kate of “Grey’s Anatomy” 63 Of sheep 64 “Casablanca” woman 65 Prized buy for a coin collector 67 Nail on a paw 68 Pledge 69 Brand of sneakers 70 Didn’t win 71 Hang it up 72 App that asks “Where to?” 77 Frolicking 78 Move back and forth 80 Open tourney, often 81 Necessarily 82 Sleeveless cloak 83 Arabian chief 85 Pooch noise 86 Misters 87 Agent’s cut 88 “... there — square” 91 Something hilarious 92 Fabric with raised designs 94 Grapple with, slangily 95 Slate clearer 96 Attachment to a dog or cat collar
97 “House” actress Wilde 98 Old-time Ford
99 NASA countdown term 100 Ferber of fiction
101 — regions (Hades) 107 Crater edges 108 Novelist Irwin 110 Corp. VIPs
112 Squeezed (out) 113 Be in power 114 Jubilant cries 117 Exist
118 “So that’s your trick!” 119 Wrecker’s job