Following Protocol
Across
1 Totally wiped 5 College Board
exam for jrs. 9 Fondant colorer 12 Dream big 18 Roman aqueduct
section
19 Active volcano on
Sicily
20 Timely benefit 21 Bedouin, e.g. 22 HTTP 504: Knight fails to return to castle before portcullis closes for curfew 25 Soft cotton fabric 26 Literary comparisons 27 Organs that affect
balance 28 Boutonniere
counterpart
29 Bed cover
30 “Turn up the heat!” 31 Fade, say 33 Triangles on a map,
typically: Abbr. 34 Flower in some
O’Keeffe paintings 35 HTTP 403: Knight not approved to embark on second search for the Holy Grail
40 Snap veggies
41 Sign into law 42 Push notifications 43 DOJ staffers 45 Ryan of “Star Trek:
Picard”
46 Puglia lang. 49 HTTP 419: Knight’s squire’s apprenticeship no longer in force 53 Gets fit
57 Routine material 58 Store securely 59 Blues label based in
Memphis
60 Icy layer 61 “Pressure” singer
Lennox
62 Tennis unit
65 Some fossils
67 Citi player
69 16th POTUS 70 Baby carrier 72 Spindly
74 Villain’s hideaway 76 “The Sparks Brothers” director Wright 78 Commuters’ region 80 HTTP 500: Knight fails to tip waitstaff at banquet
83 Meh 84 Lump of soil 86 Finnish tech giant 87 Lowered a lot, as
prices
90 New cadet 92 Rowdy crowds 96 HTTP 405: Knight illegally aims for opponent’s head during joust
100 French friend 101 Fairy tale meanie 102 White peg in
Battleship
103 Car port?
104 Waterfall on a doughnut production line 105 Fuel mining site 107 Angry speech 109 Toyota sedan
112 Suggest
113 Medieval protocol for knights, or an alternate title for this puzzle?
116 Rise
117 “Sadly ... ”
118 Spark interest? 119 For a __ pittance 120 Hi-fi system
121 Civil rights initialism 122 Brouhahas
123 115-Down votes
Down
1 Sack
2 Error remnant 3 Probiotic yogurt
brand
4 Rap anthem by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five 5 Ring out
6 Warm compress
target, maybe 7 Termite eaters 8 Mai __: cocktail 9 “Monsters, Inc.”
factory product 10 “Pinkie promise?” 11 Isengard attacker 12 Weapons expert 13 Sweet and __ 14 Make the grade 15 “Better get a move
on!”
16 Royal tenures 17 “Ready Player One”
author Cline 20 Santa costume need 23 Sharp quality 24 Warrant 28 Attention
29 Swing dance move 30 “The Graham
Norton Show” airer 32 Recruit
35 Big bash 36 Agate kin
37 Speaks with a sore
throat
38 “No good __ goes
unpunished” 39 Swab for 27-Across 44 Model/activist
Holliday
45 Like tiaras 47 Parmesan substitute 48 __ support
49 Like a sponge 50 With hands on hips 51 Teensy
52 Fishy topping 54 Goofy sort 55 Splitting tool 56 Coeval
57 Spielberg shark
thriller
59 Sister on
“Succession” 63 Flow partner 64 You, in Montréal 66 Driveway-patching
gunk
68 Actress Hatcher 71 Place for a pickme-up?
73 Cheesy layered snack 75 Keep up on the
issues?
77 One prone to
histrionics, informally 79 Hershey caramel
candy
80 Faygo or Fanta 81 Get-up on Sunday
morning?
82 __ out a living 85 “Time to blow this
popsicle stand” 88 Come clean about 89 Sulky mood 90 Ninth planet, until
2006
91 Fishy topping 93 Ill-fated “Grey’s Anatomy” resident George
94 Nutty
95 Match at the poker
table 96 Coffee-and-chocolate
concoctions 97 Narcissist 98 Hypnotic state 99 Areas of expertise 104 Sen.’s domain 106 Greenhouse unit 108 Genesis figure 109 Included in an
email thread
110 “How terrible!” 111 Divests (of )
113 Uber or Lyft
alternative
114 Tampa’s st.
115 Affirmative