Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“Human Resources”
ACROSS
1 Puff up
6 Brief survey
12 Gestation location
16 Printer spec.
19 Word of thanks
20 Holy scrolls
21 Former sea in Central Asia
22 Geologic age
23 *Witch’s dialect?
25 French Calvinist of the 16th and 17th centuries
27 Fed. benefits agency
28 Unfreeze, as a plane’s wing
29 Avian crop
31 Kid-lit character who says, “It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it”
32 Jazz drummer Max
33 Slopes headgear
35 __ nut chewing
36 Insect appendage
39 *Snowman’s joint?
41 Chimney residue
42 Organ array
43 Psych 101 topic
44 *Rocket scientist’s trap?
48 Accepted doctrine
54 Unfavorable renown
55 Bill of fare
57 Messing of “Will & Grace”
58 Breaks a commandment
59 “Hamilton” creator
62 Teller of tall tales
63 Umami source, briefly
66 *Baker’s digits?
70 “Danny and the Dinosaur” writer Hoff
71 “Woe is me!”
73 Marine creatures
74 Greek campus group
76 Ariz. neighbor
78 Smooch
79 Sneaker strings
84 Withdraws to safety
87 *Gingerbread man’s chomper?
88 Ultimate degree
89 Preadolescent
91 Actress Skye
92 *Soda jerk’s noggin?
97 Feline grooming sites
100 Outfielder Ramirez who won two World Series with the Red Sox
101 Offend
102 Wine grape
103 Gameenhancing toy by Nintendo
105 Traffic blocker?
106 BLT part
107 Golfer’s goal
110 Oscar-winning film featuring a bunny named Judy Hopps
112 Nonverbal communication, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues?
115 Pressure for payment
116 Fit together neatly
117 Hammed it up
118 Crèche figure
119 Crèche figure
120 Salinger title heroine
121 L.A. suburb mentioned in Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’”
122 Emotionally demanding
DOWN
1 Some autobahn autos
2 Luau wreaths
3 Killer whale
4 “Yikes!”
5 Secured, in a way
6 Aegean region that includes Athens
7 Doggie
8 Fish-eating bird
9 Dust cloth
10 Laugh
11 Login handles
12 “Sad trombone” sound
13 Christian sch. in Tulsa
14 2023 Kentucky Derby winner
15 *Smurf’s plasma?
16 Mean
17 Not as prosperous
18 Recon acquisition
24 Official at Oberlin, e.g.
26 Gave the onceover
30 Runners in hot weather: Abbr.
32 Auxiliary rockets, for short
33 JV player, perhaps
34 Verse writer 36 Focused gp.
37 1995 NL Rookie of the Year Hideo
38 Perfectly
39 Map dot
40 “That’s just nasty”
42 “To __ it mildly!”
45 Chi-Town daily, with “the”
46 Calculator button
47 Left, on un mapa
48 __ annual basis 49 Ladder step
50 Argentine tennis player Juan Martín __ Potro
51 Silk ties
52 __ vision
53 Cloth measure
55 Annoys a little
56 Empire State
canal 59 Diagnostic pics
60 “Moll Flanders” author
61 Stop, in Strasbourg
63 Nutmeg spice
64 Balkan native
65 Glitzy gathering
67 Make off with
68 New Haven alumni
69 Tots seasoning
72 [Not my mistake]
75 Disciple of Laotzu
77 *Comic’s humerus?
79 Scand. nation
80 81-Down resident
81 Structure with layers?
82 Italian rumbler
83 Billy Joel’s “__ Got a Way”
85 NFL stat
86 Asian cuisine with drunken noodles and massaman curry
87 Boarding pass information
89 Walter Mitty creator James
90 Greet warmly 92 Widely known 93 Kitchen bulbs 94 Military group 95 Not learned 96 Wiretapping org. 97 Insect that resembles a locust
98 Soon, poetically
99 Citizen of a Polynesian archipelago
100 Miata maker
102 Grew ashen
104 “See how the morning __ her golden gates”: Shakespeare
106 Mega- or gigaending
107 Leaf (through)
108 On in years
109 Depend (on)
111 Doctrine suffix
113 Tijuana pair
114 French article