The Hamilton Spectator

WEEKLY CROSSWORD: Ten Minutes to Win It

- By Amie Walker Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis

Across

1 Printer supply 4 Stretch often named for a leader

7 __ Fresh: fastcasual Tex-Mex chain 11 Overthinks

things, say

19 Like many

bathmats 21 Legend

22 Cheap digs 23 Rip-roarin' 25 Selected during Duck, Duck, Goose, say 26 Create an outstandin­g design? 27 Foreboding 29 Lacking 30 Knitting __ 32 Actor Carell 36 Designer initials 39 PBS painter Bob 41 Kiosk at some wedding receptions

46 “I'll take that as

__”

47 Vellani who plays Kamala Khan on “Ms. Marvel” 49 Great Plains

people

51 Drops in 52 “Changing the

subject ... “56 Spot for primer and shadow, maybe

57 March family

creator

58 Theater backdrop 59 Forum admin 61 River near the

Great Pyramid 62 “Ouch!” 64 “Ben-__”

65 Bro kin

66 Kenan Thompson's show, for short 67 More than a little mentally fatigued 72 Tuba sound 74 Function 75 Appear in print 76 Took away from,

as profits 80 Painter Magritte 81 “Barry” network 82 “The Naked

Chef” chef Oliver 84 Pop singer

Britney

85 Golden years 87 Staley Da Bear,

for one

90 Mosaic piece 92 Writer Silverstei­n 93 Banana skin 94 Palette choice 95 Blank

expression? 97 Hard to find 99 Tolkien series, to

fans

100 Lauder of

cosmetics 101 Standing Rock

people

104 Goes back out 108 Slept soundly

after a big day 112 Gilda who won an Emmy for 66-Across 116 Documentar­y photograph­er Lange

120 Slow-moving

tree-dweller 122 High-stakes gridiron situation, and a feature of eight long puzzle answers

123 Playpen cry 124 Effectiven­ess 125 Cultural sphere 126 Fitbit unit

127 Whiz

128 Sounds of

understand­ing

Down

1 Memo phrase 2 Meal- and exercise-tracking app

3 Gearshift

topper 4 Renée __ Goldsberry of “Girls5eva” 5 Wash out

6 On point 7 Ecological

communitie­s 8 Play opener 9 Become a member

10 __ Domini 11 Decides one will 12 Feathery neckwear 13 Longtime NASCAR sponsor 14 Super vision? 15 Women

16 Pop

17 School near Windsor

18 Fed. IDs 20 Emotionles­s 24 Semi-oxidized teas

28 Arena attendant 31 “Aw, nuts” 33 “Arrival” arrivals 34 Cast a ballot 35 Member of a TikTok subculture 36 __ Lama 37 Genuflecte­d 38 Top-__ 40 “Couldn't agree

more”

41 Audre Lorde

creation

42 Like a liberal commercial aviation agreement

43 K.T. of country

music

44 Govt. security 45 Jekyll's

counterpar­t 47 Preface, briefly 48 Words to live by 50 Not great, qualitywis­e

53 Gulf Coast region 54 Earthy colour 55 Radiate 60 Dept. of Labor div.

63 Ticket leftover 65 Justice

Sotomayor 68 “That __ no

concern to you” 69 Short-form blog

platform 70 Homecoming cry 71 Mountainou­s

Asian republic 72 Co-owner of the

Pequod 73 “Consequent­ly ...” 77 Chip to dip 78 Brook swimmer 79 Blender brand 80 Flatbread made

with atta flour 81 Deli subs

82 Civil rights leader

Lewis

83 Madrid museum 86 __ pool

88 Willow variety 89 Onion kin

91 NFL passing stat 96 Three-faced

Greek goddess 98 Pub device 99 Soup scoop 102 Surgeon,

informally 103 Sample

104 Classic Icelandic saga

105 Unrefined one 106 Champagne

choice

107 Breaks down 109 Spots for checks

and balances? 110 Whack 111 Browser button 113 “Strega __”: Tomie dePaola Caldecott Honor book

114 Set in stone, say 115 Matthew of “The

Americans” 117 Coddling, for

short

118 Giggle syllable 119 Seemingly

forever

121 Clean Air Act org.

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