WEEKEND CROSSWORD
“PARTING COMPANY” BY BRAD WIEGMANN ACROSS
1 Gadgets with teeth 6 Most favorable
13 Nuts seen in bars 20 Look forward to
21 Direct approach
22 Theoretically
23 Longtime ABC News anchor [Hero, 1]
25 ‘The Odd Couple’ couple, e.g.
26 Menu selections
27 Old Tokyo
28 Per __
29 One of eight Yankee World Series victories
32 P.O. box item
34 Final Four game
37 ‘Ready Player One’ hero Wade __
41 Marvel supersoldier [Villain, 1]
47 Asteroids producer
48 Byzantine architecture features
49 Mardi Gras city, informally
50 Jaye’s ‘The Crying Game’ role
51 Novel category
53 Third of eight
55 Basic bruise treatment
58 Santa signal [Sidekick 2]
60 Biblical bloomer [Princess 2]
62 Physical exam letters 63 Mystiques
64 Org. for netmen
65 Had the nerve
66 Regional flora and fauna
68 Wanders about
71 Convenient, like some winter resorts
74 Blowup aid
77 Courage
79 Sch. with the mascot SuperFrog
82 Kids’ building materials [Sidekick 1]
85 Groups of problemsolving specialists [Princess 1]
88 Film noir plot device
89 Types
91 Attribute
92 Robin Roberts’ show, initially
93 Take __: snooze
95 Up to
97 Toast starter 98 Ineffective pitcher’s fate, in baseball lingo [Villain 2]
102 Nose wrinklers
103 Common stained glass element
104 Org. concerned with flight risks
105 ‘... to say the __’
108 Yankee quipper?
111 Old AT&T rival
114 Economic divisions
119 Lost for now
122 One-hit wonder [Hero 2]
125 Pip’s love interest in ‘Great Expectations’
126 Put back
127 Nancy Drew series author
128 Rice and wheat
129 Invite to one’s home
130 Oscar winner Redmayne
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1 Darth Vader accessory
2 John Irving’s ‘A Prayer for __ Meany’
3 ‘The Simpsons’ creator Groening
4 Oktoberfest quaff
5 Freaking out
6 Too big for one’s own good
7 Script writer
8 Messi’s uniform number
9 Nastase of tennis
10 It’s often made up in advance
11 Luanda’s land
12 Guitarist Paul
13 Food wrapped in silk
14 Soon, to a bard
15 Union member?
16 Rapper Stanley Burrell, familiarly
17 Prefix with Pen
18 Like a few hours after midnight
19 H.S. bigwigs
24 Yeshiva grad
28 Florence’s river
30 Friendly opening?
31 Violinist __ Frank
33 Soldier’s helmet
35 Place for a slam dunk
36 Result of a drip, at times
37 Cola __
38 Reef formation
39 Got under control
40 Off-road vehicle
42 Sounds of thunder
43 Original Dungeons & Dragons co.
44 Touched down
45 Nutmeg spice
46 Synthetic resin used in paint
48 Budding star’s big moment
52 Former Labor secretary Elaine
54 Something for two, in song
56 53-Across, to Merkel
57 Wasted 59 Terpsichore : dance :: __ : love poetry
61 Julep garnish
67 Model Sastre
69 NBAer-cum-rap star
70 __ libre: poetry form
71 Immortal football coach Amos Alonzo __
72 Last Oscars host (2018)
73 Like talent. many say
75 Lorelei et al.
76 Chinese culinary general
77 Note taker
78 Energetic type
80 Capital on the Nile
81 Brown shade
83 ‘Knives Out’ filmmaker Johnson
84 Blue __: Dory’s species
86 Knickknack
87 Cong. meeting
90 ‘Boy, am I dumb!’
94 Encouraging word?
96 ‘50s prez
99 They may be reserved
100 Core values
101 ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling’ group, with ‘The’
106 Ed with Emmys
107 Matching pair
109 Infuriate
110 Old cereal box stats
112 Piece of work
113 __ perpetua: Idaho motto
115 Ready to drive
116 Slanted page
117 Hindu princess
118 Old dagger
119 Eldest of the ‘Little Women’
120 El Al’s home: Abbr.
121 Metro stop: Abbr.
122 Renaissance artist __ Angelico
123 __ lane
124 Wrath