The Globe Puzzle Page
CENTRAL POSITION
ACROSS
1 Trip up?
6 Browser button
10 Tiny bit of makeup?
13 Position #3
18 Jah worshiper
19 Prepare for publication
20 Impecunious
21 Stuffed corn bread
22 Marmalade ingredient
24 Pace
25 1950s actor David
26 Wheeling’s st.
27 Do penance
28 Playground game
30 Territory that became two states
32 TV executive Arledge
34 Name that’s a fruit spelled backward
35 “That’s odd”
38 Umpire’s ruling that the ball hit the ground
41 Dorothy’s dog
44 Writer/director of Pinocchio (2022)
48 Church bench
49 French philosopher Georges
50 Does nothing
51 __ bargain (selling your soul to the devil)
53 Hatchling’s home, pre-hatching
54 “Assuming . . . ”
56 Fails to be 58 Ritually perfume
59 Position #4
61 First-year law student
62 Make inquiries
63 Position #1
64 Desperate attempt
69 Non-literal expressions
72 Japanese theater form
73 Proper partner?
74 “lol 2 funny”
78 Part of TMNT
79 As well
81 Pothead
83 With 44-Down, The Starry Night painter
84 Be a member of
86 Corn
87 On the ball
89 Self-esteem 90 Present history?
94 12, in Toledo
96 Cool with the plan
97 Material for hose
98 Was sure of
100 Make catty comments
102 Actually: Lat.
106 Southeast Asian staple
110 Argue against
113 Contains
114 Be part of the cast of
115 Give a darn
116 Some heists . . . and the six “positions” in this grid, relative to the long answers
118 Actress Holly Robinson __
119 Above
120 Evening, on a marquee
121 Very, very
122 Annual sports awards
123 Maiden name indicator
124 Position #2
125 Grier of the Rams’ Fearsome Foursome
DOWN
1 Audience
2 Insect stage
3 “Wicked Game” singer Chris
4 Peak in a range: Abbr.
5 Unimportant thing
6 Protagonist
7 One-eyed Norse god 8 Position #6
9 Takeoff guess: Abbr.
10 Successfully negotiate
11 Do, re, or mi
12 Pi r squared, for a circle
13 Colorful chocolate candy
14 Doubting question
15 Growing more advanced
16 Fencing sword
17 Tall and thin
20 “1999” singer
23 Online business
28 What frunks are under, in electric vehicles
29 Indira Gandhi’s father
31 Toddler’s boo-boo
33 Switch options
36 Give in
37 Spoke in a monotone
39 Texter’s “later”
40 Layer of paint
42 Pull apart, as hair
43 Deed holder
44 See 83-Across
45 Exhort
46 Some rebates and ballots
47 Honor for 44-Across
49 “Just a __”
52 First inning of extras
55 Patrick White novel
56 “Sorta, yeah”
57 Disbelieving sort
60 Sprinting star of Seoul 1988, familiarly
62 “__ du lieber!”
63 Circus Maximus city
65 Appliance brand
66 As well
67 “Let It Go” film
68 Dress clothes
69 Still not up
70 Painter Rivera
71 Perfectly synchronized
75 Declare
76 Difficult
77 Industrious insect
79 Envelope abbr.
80 “Stay” singer Lisa
81 Wall Street 500 publisher
82 Entertaining storyteller
85 The NCAA’s Hoyas, briefly
86 Decluttering expert Kondo
88 Solitary
91 “Uh-uh!”
92 Position #5
93 Marathoner Kipchoge
95 Bad blood
99 __ Tages (some day, in German)
101 Bert’s roommate
103 Attempts
104 Buffalo skater 105 English class assignment
106 Mock
107 2023 WNBA champions
108 Major for a B-school applicant, perhaps
109 Pan’s opposite
111 With 112-Down, “That’s fine” in Spanish
112 See 111-Down
116 Neither Rep. nor Dem.
117 This Is Me . . . Now singer, informally