It Takes Two
Across
1 Daffy Duck feature 5 Throws, as the shot 9 Real grind 13 Second most populous city in
the Dakotas
18 Chip in a chip 19 Brand with a wasabi-flavored variety in China 20 Necklace-fastening
site
21 Most of the Earth’s
surface
22 *Extra
25 Brought up
27 Paint fight sounds 28 Corned beef
concoction
29 Latte maker 30 31-Across prefix 31 Cruise stopover 32 *Bad
34 Since
36 Small island 38 Afore
39 Make out, in
Manchester 40 *Liar
45 Attends to
47 In an absurd fashion 48 Popular roller
coaster name 50 Squatters build them 55 Saucy
56 Big Apple designer
initials
58 Choice words? 59 Some campus
coaches
60 Messy room
metaphor
61 Bakery output 62 Plot size 64 Intellectual
65 *Hail
68 Apollo and Artemis 71 System developed
at Bell Labs
72 Get rid of
73 Banned pesticide 76 Whizzes
77 Waze option: Abbr. 78 Ostentation
79 Toon explorer with
a talking purple backpack
80 Like 20 Questions
questions
81 More irritable 84 Like a probability distribution with two peaks
86 Say “I do,” maybe 88 *Ladybird
90 Suit in a Spanish
deck of cards 94 Madre’s sister 95 Mois après avril 96 “The Big __ Theory” 97 *Wait
100 Burn slightly 102 Air 2 or Pro
106 In general
107 They’re sometimes
goodies
109 Expert advice
111 Sympathize
112 *Hush
114 Fed settings
115 Second half of a
children’s game 116 Olympian queen 117 __ mad: to the max 118 Practices in a ring 119 Language that gave
us “plaid”
120 Boundary-pushing 121 Villain in “The
Lion King”
Down
1 “Dancer in the Dark” Palme d’Or
winner von Trier 2 Clumsy
3 Hardly new
4 Item common to
bikes and pianos 5 D.C. bigwigs 6 Address without
lat. or long. 7 Detachable strip 8 Serious
9 Ignore pointedly 10 In recent history 11 Offer a view
12 “__ Out”: 2017
Jordan Peele film 13 Made inroads 14 Biting, as wit 15 Shows over 16 Actress Greer with the longest-ever Oscar acceptance speech
17 Kind of punch 23 Order to relax 24 Verbal protest 26 Freaking
29 Carried
31 Quarter barrels for
a beer bash 33 Controlling power 35 Perseveres, with
“on”
37 Old nuclear agcy. 40 Dicey spots? 41 Working without __ 42 Not, quaintly 43 Explosive stuff 44 Like some roads
and receptions 45 Gourmet mushroom 46 Pipsqueak 49 Seuss character who “speaks for the trees” 51 Alternative media
namesake 52 Perfectly fine
53 __ Johnson, Anthony Anderson’s “Black-ish” role 54 Pre-1991 Georgia,
e.g.: Abbr.
57 DOD intel arm 59 Dramatic artist 61 Whiz kid 62 Choreographer de
Mille
63 TV franchise with
a Vegas spin-off 64 Digital conflict? 65 Before ... or after 66 Wacko
67 Head of MI6? 68 Senator Klobuchar 69 Issa of “Insecure” 70 Papers in a job recruiter’s office,
briefly
73 Bird last seen in 1662 74 Apothecary’s weight 75 Story
77 Urban opposite 78 Nose (into)
79 “I’m so dense!” 81 Purely decorative
detail
82 “__ body meet ... ” 83 Bring forth
85 The Temptations’
first #1 single 87 Dieted 89 Embarrassed 90 Reason for shoe
inserts 91 Perseverance and
Curiosity
92 Track’s 400 meters 93 Layers 95 Free-for-alls 98 Where a tot might
come from? 99 Grass accessory 101 Anne of “Psycho”
(1998)
103 Aquatic arenas 104 Bertha was locked
in one in “Jane Eyre” 105 Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX
winning coach 108 Denzel’s role in “The Little Things” (2021)
109 Beseech
110 __ pressure
112 Dir. the Kings travel
to play the Lakers 113 Tango’s cobirthplace: Abbr.