RACK ‘EM UP
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano, of Oakland, Calif., is a data scientist. Matthew Stock, of Gainesville, Fla., is a master’s student in school counseling. They met through the online indie crossword community as fans of each other’s puzzle blogs. This puzzle was constructed entirely over email, but as Matthew writes, ‘‘We’re long overdue for a video call!’’
Note: Once filled in, the contents of the six shaded squares will spell a word associated with this puzzle’s theme.
ACROSS
1 New dog owner’s
purchase
6 Dog-adoption grp.
11 Pop group with an
‘‘army’’
14 Setting for ‘‘Heidi’’
18 ‘‘We’re not standin’ in
their way!’’
19 Pepper grinder?
20 Put to work
21 Word with good or
blood
22 Extra lives or additional gems, for a freemium game
24 [Gasp!]
26 Pastoral setting?
27 ‘‘Who am I? Twofour-six-oh-____!’’ (‘‘Les Misérables’’ lyric)
28 Cracker shape
29 ‘‘____-Olution’’
(2002 rap album)
30 Avoided a tag, in a
way
31 ‘‘The kids these days have gotten way better than me’’
35 Two-million-year-old discovery in 2022 in the frozen soil of Greenland
36 Cereal bit
37 Something to butter
up
38 Text communication
inits.
41 Shaggy hairstyle
42 File-creating
command
44 Actress Thompson
48 Former minor-league team that played at Aloha Stadium
51 Spot for food and
craft beer
53 Opt
54 Significant stretch
55 Crane look-alike
57 ‘‘Do you really see me that way?’’
58 Range rover . . . or something to do in a Range Rover
59 Craft that uses drafts
63 What a cracker might crack
64 Something for the rest of the military?
65 Scrabble bonus seen six times in this puzzle
70 ‘‘The Chase’’ channel
72 Was published
73 In which ‘‘Ciamar a tha thu?’’ means ‘‘How are you?’’
74 Booped body parts
77 Member of the fam
78 Count for a jury
80 I, in German
81 Slip past
82 Product lines?
84 Something delivered by Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper
89 Kofi of the U.N.
90 Pan feature
91 Yank
92 When repeated,
[‘‘Is this thing on?’’]
93 Battle royale
96 Nickname next to a
heart emoji, perhaps
97 Cyrillic pronounced letter like the ‘‘zz’’ of ‘‘pizza’’
98 ‘‘The English Patient’’ actress 104 Attenuated 108 ‘‘South,’’ in Hanoi
109 Place to chill,
paradoxically
110 Home of the Hockey
Hall of Fame: Abbr.
111 Device that works
with Carplay
113 Single guy?
115 Executive’s acumen
117 Apt domain for
basketball’s King
James
118 Scanning inits.
119 Something to believe
in
120 Didn’t just assume
121 Part of the body to
slap
122 Queen ____
123 To be, in Spanish
124 Easily irritated
DOWN
1 Film-archive bits
2 Kidney-related
3 Maker of the
Flashback console
4 Lukewarm
5 Birds with deep
booming calls
6 ‘‘Better Call Saul’’
channel
7 Very sexy
8 Texas city that’s home
to Frito-lay
9 Lawyer’s bundle of
work
10 ‘‘____ you not
entertained?’’
11 ‘‘Au contraire!’’
12 Cannon fodder, at times
13 Appear that one may
14 Urgent time to start gathering tax documents: Abbr.
15 Tiktok star Gray
16 B.Y.U.’S city
17 Scatter about
21 ‘‘Here’s the thing . . . ’’
23 A group of them is called a ‘‘crash’’
25 Texter’s reaction button 28 Post
32 Syrupy covering for ham
33 Protagonist in ‘‘2001: A Space Odyssey’’
34 Crockpot filler
35 ____ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table
38 ‘‘____ All That’’ (1990s teen comedy)
39 Soda-shop order
40 Vegetable often eaten without utensils
42 Aviculture : bird ::
heliciculture : ____
43 Campfire remains
45 Out-of-this-world outfit 46 Rikishi compete in it 47 Slightly
49 Taiwanese tech giant
50 Pink-furred cat in ‘‘Garfield’’
51 Antipasto dish of tomatoes on grilled bread
52 Campus military org.
56 Make more meaningful
60 B.S., for one
61 Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it
62 Direction giver’s
suggestion: Abbr.
66 Jab
67 Tony winner Renée
____ Goldsberry
68 High-strung
69 Coin collection
70 Enclosed rhyme
scheme
71 Cereal bit
75 Poet St. Vincent
Millay
76 Creep out, perhaps
78 Counterpart of ‘‘been
there’’
79 Sgt. or cpl.
83 Engine parts
85 Bigwig
86 Coup d’____
87 Time when most
people are asleep
88 One birthed in Perth
90 Shrug or wave
94 Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, takes the form of one
95 Place in a crypt
98 Announce one’s
presence, in a way
99 Invisible household
hazard
100 ‘‘My luck’s bound
to turn around!’’
101 Adorable sort
102 Beginning stage
103 Crete’s highest point,
for short
104 The ones nearby
105 Indicates ‘‘Out of my
way!’’
106 Miniature map
107 High-maintenance,
say
112 Exam with ‘‘calculator’’ and ‘‘no calculator’’ math sections
114 G.I.’S rations
115 Dating inits.
116 Negative Boolean
operator
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