AMERICA’S BIGGEST CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Anteaters 6 Grasping at

straws

11 Peaks

16 “We hold ___

truths ...” 18 Lucky number 19 Storeroom 20 Scale Everest 21 Deed holder 23 Butter bowl 24 Island guitar 25 Wall work 28 La Scala staging 30 Breathing

organs 33 Crime site 35 Wheat or

rice, e.g. 37 Raggedy doll 38 Speaker 40 Homework 42 Fib

43 Infield base 44 ICU worker 45 Like summer

tea

48 Old Nick 49 Inundate 50 Matter-of-___ 52 Call off

55 ___ de Janeiro 56 Pekoe

57 Born first 60 Stage whisper 61 Crazed 64 Scouts pitch

them 66 Buying binge 67 Bad smell 68 Melody 69 Female whales 71 Right to enter 74 Butt in 77 Neck part 80 Gravel weight 81 Starting square 83 Hurricane center 84 In tears 87 Front runner 89 Independence 90 Idaho veggie 92 Selfie 93 Historic period 94 Harper Valley

org.

95 Boeing product 96 Kindest 99 Number

102 Salary

105 Solar ___

107 Camp bed 109 Bauxite, e.g. 110 Blunder

112 Approval

114 Bought

115 Helper

116 Prefix for sweet 118 Sixth sense 119 Street

121 Breaking pitch 123 Turtle feature 125 Holey cheese 128 “Wonderful!” 130 Emulate

Edison

132 Rodent

133 Cain’s mother 134 Hurries

137 Doctrines

139 Played the role 141 Shoplift

142 Clean house 144 Fairway chunk 145 Speak

146 Henhouse

find

147 Like worker

bees

150 Decrease

154 American

uncle

155 Signed over 157 Crop up

158 Camelot suit 160 Goody

161 Sailcloth

163 Pappy

164 Gardner of

films

165 Belly

168 Gandhi’s land 169 Palm fruits 170 Photo finish 171 Dummy

173 “West Side

Story” song 174 Sneaks up on 175 Recollects

DOWN

1 Part of ATM 2 Sandwich bread 3 Compete 4 Answer

5 Part of USSR 6 Kind of floss 7 Horse barn 8 Rocker John 9 Put the blame on 10 Surplus 11 Ship’s first

voyage

12 Rainy-day item 13 In addition 14 2022 hurricane 15 Most powerful 17 Spring resort 22 1812

happening 26 Time on the

throne

27 “___ and

gentlemen ...” 29 Haphazard 31 Siberian river 32 Happy 34 Dracula and

Basie

35 Not harsh 36 See eye to eye

39 Actor

Costner 41 Coffee stirrer 46 Prevailing

weather 47 Fantasized 50 Like race

winners 51 True

53 Tack on 54 Freighter

load

58 Rot

59 Scatter seed 62 To boot 63 Hiawatha’s

boat

64 Took a stab at

65 Deuce beater 67 Squid

relatives 70 Hinted at 72 Seventhinning ___ 73 Babes 75 Synagogues 76 Fixes

78 Hotel

offerings

79 In solitary 82 “___ say

die!” 85 Lassos 86 Mad 88 Curve

91 In the past

97 Foreign

goods

98 Job holders 100 Runway

walker

101 Harvests

103 Altered

104 Is important 106 Two times 108 Solemn

pledge

111 BBQ favorites 113 Separates

laundry

117 Long time 120 Beer

122 U.S. airline 123 Long looks

124 Additional 126 Brain waves 127 Vendor

129 Fall

130 Stands for 131 Striking

135 Monopoly

purchase

136 Unfamiliar

faces

138 Newsstand

item

140 Forest

creature

141 Fly like Lindy 143 How salmon

swim

147 Violin

148 Olympic

honors

149 Painter’s

stand-on

151 Cleans the

slate

152 P.O.

purchases

153 Apricot juice 156 Shade tree 159 Alma ___ 162 “Peekaboo,

I see ___!”

166 Silent

167 Longbow

wood

171 Poorly lit

172 Born