The Hamilton Spectator

WEEKLY CROSSWORD: Moving In

- By Pam Amick Klawitter Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis

Across

1 Performs an operation, in a way

5 “One Kiss” singer __ Lipa

8 Southweste­rn building block

13 Buzzing cloud

18 Sans-__: font style

20 Liberty Mutual's industry: Abbr.

21 Toyota's luxury division

22 Common newspaper name

23 Saudi neighbor

24 Task for the caregivers of a Trojan War hero?

27 __ optics

28 Tolkien saga, briefly

29 Forbes rival

30 Vitamin C source

31 Chicago business district

34 Bootleg booze

36 Method of preserving souvenir tops?

42 March on Washington fig.

43 Split __ soup

46 Most candid

47 Iris covering

49 Bring in

50 Lead

51 Activity in a Toronto pastry shop?

55 Ethiopian capital

58 Aliens, for short

59 Certain lamp resident

60 “Breathe Me” singer

61 Fuel-efficient bikes

63 Bertie played by Hugh Laurie

65 Tall tales about one's climbing experience?

69 Many an episode of “This Is Us,” e.g.

73 Kir __: French cocktail

74 Naughty

77 To no __: in vain

78 Tallahasse­e sch.

81 “Some Like It Hot” co-star

84 Greeting that may come with barks and licks?

88 Dry Italian wine 89 __ Major

90 “Let's go, amigos!”

91 Concession speech deliverer

93 School org.

94 __ drop

95 Rodent who's really angry he missed the migration?

99 Rizzo of “Midnight Cowboy”

101 Horn of Africa nation

102 Tubman of Judy Blume's “Fudge” series

105 SUV stat

108 Taylor Swift's “Look What You __ Me Do”

109 Genius Bar tablets

114 Good-natured fun leading up to an election?

117 Gymnast Comaneci

118 On, as an alarm

119 Garlicky mayonnaise

120 “Da 5 Bloods” director Spike

121 Serengeti grazer

122 John Irving's “A Prayer for Owen __”

123 Painter Picasso

124 AARP folks

125 Hook's sidekick

Down

1 Starting from

2 __-glace: rich sauce

3 Dull

4 Trigonomet­ry function

5 Cockney, e.g.

6 7UP nickname, with “the”

7 Kutcher of “Jobs”

8 Tide alternativ­e

9 Sub station?

10 Team members

11 Anheuser-__

12 Abbr. on some cornerston­es

13 Christmas Eve visitor, familiarly

14 Shoe measuremen­t

15 Boy in “The Kite Runner”

16 Eye care brand

17 Inbox fillers: Abbr.

19 Some evergreens

25 Pressing need?

26 Big name in water purificati­on

32 Growth chart nos.

33 Printing measure

35 Portent

36 Wardrobe item on HBO's “Rome”

37 Taters

38 Klum of “Making the Cut”

39 Setting of the

2022 film “RRR”

40 Lymph __

41 Fortitude

43 Smock stain

44 Bert's BFF

45 Tick off

48 “Illmatic” rapper

49 Just scrapes (by)

51 Crunch's rank

52 Disable the security system for, say

53 Zilch

54 Eagerly expectant

56 “Famous” cookiemake­r

57 Ring match

62 Polite address

63 Artful

64 Two Grants

65 Ten-time NBA All-Star Anthony, to fans

66 “Me? Never!”

67 Fourvière locale

68 Yin counterpar­t 69 Escorted to the penthouse, say

70 For all to see

71 Light wood

72 Pay stub abbr.

74 Witch craft?

75 Arcade pioneer

76 Lounge piece

78 Subject line abbr.

79 Old car from Sweden

80 Fruit that's not so cute

82 Ship sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898

83 Hong Kong's

Hang __ Index

85 Tiki bar drink

86 RSVP cards, often

87 Sees

91 Asserts without proof

92 Plumeria garland

94 Illness

96 “Lara Croft: __ Raider”

97 Inbox fillers

98 Original “SNL” cast member Gilda

99 Turn red, say

100 __ vincit amor

102 Car warranty call, usually

103 Fabled loser

104 Watson of “Little Women”

106 “No __”: “Piece of cake”

107 Fish organ

110 BFFs

111 Singer Lambert

112 Have a meal

113 “Soldier of Love” singer

115 Space

116 “About Me” info

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