Chicago Tribune (Sunday)

State of Disrepair

- BY DAN SCHWARTZ & SHANNON RAPP EDITED BY PATTI VAROL AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS

Across

1 Landlocked African nation 5 Teng known as the “Eternal Queen of Asian Pop” 11 Broker’s charge 14 Shadow 18 Basketball Hall of

Famer Leslie 19 Spotted cat 20 Spanakopit­a cheese 21 Jasmine __ 22 Natural wonder that’s roughly 1,100 times bigger than the Grand Canyon? 25 Neighborho­od 26 __ scheme

27 Afro puff, for one 28 Actor Holbrook 29 Post-breakup

parties? 31 Front-of-the-rack

sizes, often 33 “Show Me where I went wrong!?” elicitor, maybe? 37 “__ it first!” 39 Reservoir creator 40 Family member 41 “You __ one job!” 42 Muscat’s land 45 Speech fillers 47 Good at repairs 50 “Too bad” 52 Hawkeyed writer of “To the Lighthouse”? 56 Scolds harshly 58 Deux halved 59 Large chau gong 60 Tartan pattern 62 Title of honor 63 Tablelands 65 Body art 67 Listens to 69 Question before making a Pine Tree disappear? 77 Finish (as)

78 Pro vote 79 “Metropolis: The Chase Suite” artist Janelle 81 Bigelow product 83 “August: __ County” 86 “Thank U, Next” singer Ariana 90 Tiny ammo 91 Insect marching in a column

93 The NHL’s North Stars in 1967, for one?

96 Draws from a Juul, say 97 Heavy-duty cooler

brand

99 Big name in cheese

balls

100 Inactive

101 Writer/activist __

B. Wells

102 Actress Fey

104 Place for a mineral

scrub

107 Stitched

109 Wolverine’s snack

dispenser?

114 California wine

valley

118 Woodland deities 119 Prefix with tourism 120 Broadcasts

122 Some spouses 123 “Smooth Operator”

singer

124 Secluded place in Lhasa to think about Treasure? 128 Italian automaker

since 1899

129 Big personalit­ies 130 “Turn it up!”

131 Encourage

132 Ish

133 Wages

134 Size up

135 “Don’t dele”

Down

1 Applauds

2 Start of a call

home, perhaps 3 Yoga position 4 Truly brilliant 5 Unit of measure for

elephants or cargo 6 Neutral shade 7 Harvests

8 Skipped over 9 Chihuahua neighbor 10 DOJ arm concerned

with explosives 11 Are blue

12 UFO pilots, probably 13 Uses Blue Apron, say 14 Land parcel 15 Carrier in French

Polynesia 16 Olympian Nathan

Chen, notably 17 Grazing ground 20 German woman 23 Aromathera­py array 24 “Lookee here!” 30 Counterpar­t of

“ser,” in Spanish 32 Steamy spot

34 “If u ask me” 35 Spanish “Very

good!”

36 Slow Churned

brand 38 Caprice

42 Egg cell

43 Went for the gold? 44 Playground retort 46 Convened

48 Swiss peak 49 Super Bowl org. 51 Complete a

Monopoly circuit 53 “Showtime!”

54 Cry miserably 55 Luxury hotel chain 57 Mild Dutch cheese 61 Pacific tuna 64 Lemur with long fingers and ratlike teeth

66 Tab, for one

68 Shio or shoyu dish 70 Noodles served in

dashi

71 Lowering in rank 72 Clean air agcy. 73 Star in Lyra 74 Deserve

75 Retired, maybe 76 Group of schemers 80 “Twilight” vampire 81 Industry-wide

expo

82 Latin American

pastries 84 Ultrasound goop 85 Outer: Pref. 87 Sparky the Sun

Devil’s sch. 88 Minor criticisms 89 Naps

91 Tel __, Israel 92 Sean of “Stranger

Things”

94 Swanky 95 Condition sometimes treated with hearing aids 98 Handheld

Nintendo system 103 Arched foot part 105 Duelers at some

bars?

106 Ill will

108 Amazes

110 Because of

111 Scores 100% on 112 Foldable bed

113 Wear with time 115 In the open

116 On-ramp sign 117 So far

121 Mario Kart

console, for short 123 NorCal hub

125 Two-time French Open winner Swiatek

126 In the style of 127 __ Technica: tech

news website

 ?? © 2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. ?? Last week’s answers can be found in today’s “Puzzle Island Solutions.”
© 2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Last week’s answers can be found in today’s “Puzzle Island Solutions.”

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