THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
ACROSS
1 Crux
9 Denver gridders
16 Butte relative
20 “Later!”
21 1990s Oldsmobile
22 “Downhill” star
Novello
23 Going just the way one begged for it to go? [Curry]
25 Medieval peon
26 Scrawny
27 Former Common
Market abbr.
28 35mm camera abbr.
29 Uruguay’s — del Este
30 Tarzan actor Ron
31 Palme — (prize at
Cannes)
33 “You could hear
— drop”
37 Property appraiser
39 Rabbit action
40 Reputation as a great pilot? [Salonga]
42 “You’re on!”
46 Be a snitch
47 Fleeceable females
48 Late-night host Jimmy’s collection of TVs? [Zadora] 50 Kissing target
52 Martini liquor
55 Tire trouble
56 Leafy recess
57 Proscribe
58 Hot-air bath
60 Tokyo cash
61 Family guy
62 “Happy Days”
actor Scott
64 Luggage-screening
official, for short
67 Headline after a Harley stalls? [Meyers]
71 Waits on hand and
foot
73 Not yet final, legally
74 Family guy
75 Lincoln-to-Topeka dir.
78 Surrounded by
79 ’16 Olympics site
81 Group of
sub-sub-athletes
83 Retort to “You
weren’t!”
84 Tear
85 Bit of change
87 Comparably dense to the one here? [Arden]
89 Bamboozle
91 “Later!”
93 Guaranteed-tosucceed
94 Weep while excavating fossil fuel? [Ortiz] 99 Ballplayer Ripken
100 It’s turned to go in
and out
101 Designer Saarinen
102 Buddhist sect
103 Rep.’s rival
106 Tools with teeth
107 “Angie” actor
Stephen
109 “No more seats”
abbr.
111 Mrs., in Madrid
112 Take — view of
(frown on)
113 Cook another egg after cooking a dozen? [Tarbell]
119 French film theater
120 Demigods
121 Traditional Chinese
drink
122 Saloon casks
123 Not too soft, as
pasta
124 2014 Ben Affleck thriller that would make a good alternate title for this puzzle
DOWN
1 Cabinet wood
2 Ear-relevant
3 Twisted wit
4 Nape’s place
5 “— found it!”
6 Female rabbit
7 Marine duck
8 R&B singer India.—
9 Valise, e.g.
10 Rival of LG
11 “Ex’s & —” (Elle King hit)
12 Light bites
13 Bottom level
14 Exceed, as a proper limit
15 Bummed out
16 Treats badly
17 Nevertheless
18 In a sense
19 Kennel noise
24 Raleigh loc.
29 Certain toy dog, for
short
31 Knucklehead
32 Sign of total
acceptance
34 Longtime New
Yorker cartoonist
35 March day to
“beware”
36 Packers’ org.
38 Tools with teeth
39 Go no further
40 League
41 Pueblo pot
42 Uncertain
43 Narrative
44 Like desks with
sloping covers
45 Intrinsically
49 1930s-’40s pitcher
Newsom
51 The “I” of ILO: Abbr.
52 Question asked while covering someone’s eyes
53 Hotel cousin
54 “King” Cole
57 Singing group for
lads
58 Verbalized
59 Get riper
61 Arctic floater
63 French “here”
65 Crooner Neil
66 Unwillingness to yield
68 Cackling bird
69 Singer Amos
70 — Field (Mets’ home)
71 Uber arrival
72 Pal, in Paris
76 Je ne — quoi
77 “To be,” to Augustus
80 Cuzco native
82 “Behold,” to
Augustus
83 “— never fly!”
85 Tribal bunch 86 Holliday-Earp
gunfight site
87 Docile
88 Lee of Marvel
89 Some ancient
warships
90 Pen fillers
92 Dot in la mer
94 Dated music
display case
95 Band gofer
96 Joining, as oxen
97 Fell in line
98 Light bite
102 Mark-leaving
swordsman
103 “— know it!”
104 Set foot in
105 Taj —
108 “Look — now!”
110 Diana of “The
Avengers”
111 China’s — Xiaoping
113 Rx org.
114 Sweetums
115 Suffix with exist or
differ
116 Philosopher Lao- —
117 Half of twenty
118 Wide shoe width