Crossword

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The answer to this week’s metapuzzle is a famous novel.

ACROSS

1 Book with the line “Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation” 7 Nonverbal agreement 10 “Much ___ About Nothing” 13 “Please, I want to know!” 19 Make public, as an affidavit

20 Piece performed to honor an athletic victory in ancient Greece 21 “My boy ...” 22 Yemen’s region 23 Perform excellently (Malinda Lo)

25 Univ. students focusing on chemistry and computer programming, say (Jane Austen)

27 In the before times 28 Heavens

29 Divert, as a train 30 “Don’t sweat it” 31 Hard plant product 32 Cul-de-___ 35 “Ready to go?” reply 37 Erase

40 Toasted Kellogg’s treat 43 Mars’s counterpart 47 2015 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee Mark 50 What “ciao” can mean 51 One paying for services 53 Postal motto word 54 Concept identified by Durkheim as the breakdown of values 57 “Wisdom” director Estevez

60 OTC medication monitor 61 What Michael Caine was awarded in 2000 (Elie Wiesel)

63 Bike part with a fruit in its name (Émile Zola) 65 Jenny’s love of film 66 Ones giving people body checks?

67 Product of pondering 68 Like fried chicken wings 71 Trident-shaped letters

73 “Inside voices!” 74 Constitutional conferral 76 “C’est la ___!” 77 Savings vehicle, briefly 78 Five-in-a-row board game 79 ___-socialism (ideology involving green politics) 80 Playwright Clifford 82 Nickname of William Howard Taft’s birth city 84 Veinte divided by diez 85 Like dragon eggs in the “Game of Thrones” universe

87 Hoppy drink, briefly 89 Painting, pottery, etc. 91 Protests 94 Explosive event, briefly 96 Home of the Ouzoud Falls 100 Quinn of “Songcatcher” 101 Baja California, e.g. (Toni Morrison) 104 “Neighbors” actor Zac 105 “A League of Their Own” co-star

107 Activist Jim whose Supreme Court case legalized same-sex marriage in America 109 Attorney’s letters 110 Parque das Ruínas city 111 Glutinous substance 112 Same-___ delivery 113 Subtext

123 Them’s the breaks

125 Pro who’s no longer on a rookie contract 126 Points at a dinner table? 129 Music City Miracle team 130 London setting of “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”

131 Evoke

132 Having qualms

133 No longer spinning, say 134 “Mo Bamba” rapper Sheck ___ 135 Needing a friend

DOWN

1 Transformative stage 2 Like a bug in a rug

3 On the matter of 4 Halle Berry’s zodiac sign 5 “The Fifer” painter 6 Online magazine that hosts the LGBTQ podcast “Outward”

7 Useless

8 Trash trait 9 Moisture in a meadow 10 Kick-___ (amazing) 11 Hawaiian duo?

12 Like some near-perfect games 13 Denounces strongly 14 Deliver a stump speech 15 ___ Mahal (Grammywinning blues musician) 16 Black, to a sonneteer 17 Money spent in Istanbul 18 Mascara application site 24 Pronoun for Laverne Cox 26 Quiet

31 ___ shanty

32 Usain Bolt’s apt asset 33 Busy Ga. airport 34 “Stranger Things” actor McLaughlin

36 Mai ___ (rum cocktail) 37 Policy explainer, often

38 Top 10 song for Bruce Springsteen in 1985 39 Like a table made with silver and gold? 41 82 Across’s state 42 Capitale d’Italia 44 Cites

45 Minus sign look-alikes 46 “Quickly,” to 66 Across 48 Quite enthusiastic 49 Payment in a casino 51 POTUS’s military title 52 Hate, hate, hate 55 Really, really, really 56 Why someone may commit a crime 58 Citizen of Kolkata 59 National University of ___ (Vientiane school) 62 Like some Latin chants 64 Expresses an opinion intensely

69 Like torches

70 Affirmative rebuttal 71 Practitioner of Crystal Cubism

72 ___ Lankan

75 Legal wrong 78 Villain of the X-Men who plays with fire 81 “Woe is me!” feeling 83 Chevy cars that spell CARS when three letters are removed 86 “Pushing Daisies” actress Friel 88 Where oinks are heard 90 Weeping willow, e.g. 91 It’s flipped in a library 92 Engages in mythomania 93 So-so

94 “Your Next Bold Move” singer DiFranco 95 Bathing setting 97 Belief about the truth 98 Sweetened soft drink

99 Nothing but 102 Changed slowly 103 Epic tales 106 Requiring a tux, say 108 Shirley Caesar’s genre 114 Student fencers’ org. 115 Play stations with PlayStations, perhaps 116 Number given on a date 117 Teeny-tiny 118 Nothing but ___ 119 Sprouted

120 Hair in a lair 121 Janis’s comics spouse 122 Cross the threshold 123 “Battlestar Galactica” theme song composer Phillips

124 ATM card no. 127 Hapless salesman on “The Simpsons” 128 Where oinks are heard