WEEKLY CROSSWORD: Shh!
Across
1 Fairy tale brute 5 Bamako's country 9 Lethargy 15 Bygone Swedish car company 19 Maggie Smith's “Good Bones,” e.g. 20 Agenda
21 Oat Milk Blend shampoo maker 22 Combustible pile 23 Startling revelation for a couch potato? 25 Menu of familysized KFC options? 27 Just-in-case item 28 “Let Me Love You” R&B singer 30 Like many a safari cat
31 Water cooler sound
33 Had to have 35 Apex predators of
the ocean 39 Rowan Atkinson character 42 Butters up, perhaps 44 Religious residence
45 Not theirs 46 More oozy 48 Makes jigsaw puzzles, perhaps 49 Brief “If you ask me” 50 Full-time employee at a corn processing plant?
54 Tiny criticism 55 Kanga's kid 56 Credit __: Zurich bank 57 Director Reitman and tennis great Lendl
58 Golf bag item 59 Fred of “Schmigadoon!”
61 __ now and then
62 Heat unit
64 Sp. titles 65 12-Down and 50-Down, maybe 68 Pride sound 69 Command to a guard dog 71 Bits
72 Feels like
75 “I hate it” 76 Chat with online 77 Fine 80 Hornswoggled 81 “On the other hand ... ”
82 Did too much heavy lifting? 84 Med. condition with repetitive behavior 85 Bistro VIP 87 Paged 88 Garden center bagful
89 Ruler divisions 90 Mexican market 93 Like an overtired child, maybe 95 Co-star of Nimoy and Shatner 96 Type of canoe 97 Russian refusal 98 Derek's ex-wife on “Grey's Anatomy” 100 Sushi bar drink 103 Wall recess 107 Really, really
cheap liquor? 111 Ruse for crashing family reunions? 113 Genre for some Tokyo-based bands
114 Does the job
perfectly
115 Costa __
116 Blob's lack 117 Small tastes 118 __ out of: slyly avoided 119 Particle accelerator particle
120 Jedi Council
leader
Down
1 Backs (out) 2 Ascend
3 “For My Broken Heart” singer McEntire 4 Surfaces 5 Radar gun reading: Abbr. 6 Parallel to 7 Shoestring 8 Blue Pac-Man ghost
9 Can opener 10 Small eggs 11 Flow back 12 Aromatic Sri Lankan exports 13 Upturned, as a box
14 Naan alternative 15 Ball-shaped 16 Sailor's affirmative 17 Equal 18 Exacta or trifecta 24 Actress Ward 26 Dormitory annoyance 29 Cyclops feature 32 Separates, in a way
34 Mouse hat feature 36 Food Network production featuring a chef's work surface? 37 More chichi 38 Modus operandi 39 Catherine's “Schitt's Creek” role
40 Buzz 41 Sweeping segment of a prop comic's act? 42 Mercury and Mars 43 River inlets 44 Pizzeria output 47 Actor/director Ken 48 Fashion letters 50 Aromatic Indian export
51 Busy place
52 Iris layer 53 Roller coaster parts
60 Wrath
61 Some Spielberg movie collectibles 62 In shape 63 Sombrero, e.g. 65 Icy coating 66 Elevator name 67 Soft mineral 68 Zoomed past 69 Turn in 70 Large lizard with dewlaps 71 Chatted with online, for short 72 Moist towelette
73 Implied 74 “Strange to say ... ” 76 Nights before 77 Some athletic shoes
78 Listen to 79 Research on a political rival, briefly 82 Frozen fries maker 83 Howard or Alcorn, for short
86 Tour de France mountains 88 Hit the spot 90 Iditarod driver 91 Narcissist's problem
92 “Be My Baby” memoirist Spector 94 Actress Russo 96 Hustle genre 97 Maker of sweet wafers 99 Sketch 101 Preternatural glow 102 Make a scarf, say 104 Jimmy __: fashion brand known for expensive shoes 105 Difficult
106 Actress
Thompson
107 Pros using
mixers, for short 108 Nail polish brand 109 Cut (off)
110 Takeoff approx. 112 Hasty escape