GET OUT OF HERE!
Tony Orbach, of Montclair, N.J., is a construction-project manager, saxophonist and crossword constructor. Tony’s love of puzzles runs in the family. ‘‘My father was a big crossword solver, and as a teen, I would look over his shoulder and help.’’ Tony once made a Puns and Anagrams crossword for his dad. ‘‘He loved it and made me one in return.’’ By ‘‘my father,’’ incidentally, Tony means the actor Jerry Orbach of Broadway and television fame. — W.S.
70 Clishmaclaver or
1 Impromptu musical bavardage, to get-together, use some fancy informally language
8 Counting tools 72 Trim
13 Most up to the task 73 A/C measures
19 Not much 74 Hwy. offense
20 Oddball 77 Amenity offered at 22 Commotion an internet cafe? 23 Archaeologist’s 79 Nickname for assertion about a baseball great finding? Ernie Banks
25 Jackson not in the 81 Gets out in
Jackson 5 dodgeball, say
26 Benchmark: Abbr. 82 Sticks in
27 Members of the 83 Yes, in Brest
genus Lepus 84 Bit of reading at a 28 Some overseas bar mitzvah?
seasons 86 Director Lee
30 Common 87 Entertain vinaigrette 89 Deconstruct for ingredient analysis
31 Russian pancakes 90 Stand-up’s bombs? 33 Swim-team guru? 95 Keys near G’s
36 Geri ____, late jazz 98 Actor Rutger of
pianist ‘‘Blind Fury’’
38 Authority 99
Keister
39 Used to be 100
Less friendly
40 Hire Phil Collins’s
101 Assistance longtime band for a gig? 104 Peninsula shared 44 Brand that comes by Italy, Slovenia
out a head? and Croatia
45 Explosive sound 106 Art-shop worker’s
manual?
49 Curtain-call actions
110 Urbanize
50 One of 32 in the
Thai alphabet 111 Spit it out!
51 The Serengeti, 112 Part of a canopy
e.g.? 113 The plus side
54 TV journalist Curry 114 Cuisine that
55 Long specializes in beef
barbecue
56 Press
57 Covers with goo 115 No-parking-zone
fixture
58 Speck
59 Quits
62 Shadow during an
eclipse
63 Knowing everything that’s available to view on Netflix?
67 Look forward to
68 Clay-based
69 Unpleasant
ACROSS
DOWN
1 Pokes
2 Bushels
3 ‘‘Whoa!’’
4 Geneviève, for one:
Abbr.
5 Imprinting indelibly 6 M.I.T.’s business
school
7 Mathematician Poincaré with a famous conjecture 8 Flabbergasts
9 ____ E. King, singer and co-composer of ‘‘Stand by Me’’ 10 River islet
11 Ye olde news
announcers
12 ‘‘Same here!’’
13 Knee part, for short 14 Fan group?
15 Like ‘‘alter ego’’ and
‘‘alma mater’’
16 Prayer hands, for
one
17 ‘‘. . . or ____ think!’’ 18 Part of L.G.B.T.Q. 21 Short race, for
short
24 Your: Fr.
29 ‘‘When the country was fallin’ apart, Betsy Ross got it all ____ up’’ (‘‘Maude’’ theme lyric)
32 Albanian coins
33 Something that’s
often rigged
34 TV’s Burrell and
baseball’s Cobb
35 Looks longingly
36 Band that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest
37 Minnesota’s state
bird
38 Orlando-to-Miami
dir.
41 Role for Patti LuPone and Madonna
42 Brand X
43 Flock member
44 Spotted bean
45 ‘‘Well, I’ll be,’’ to
a Brit
46 Offspring of a
43-Down
47 Taiwanese PCs
48 Big butte
51 A dime a dozen,
say?
52 It can help you get
a grip
53 Drops (down)
heavily
55 Beautifully worded 56 Joe Jackson’s
‘‘____ Really
Going Out With Him?’’
58 Van Gogh painting that once fetched a record amount at auction ($53.9 million)
59 Hair-pattern
protector
60 ____ nous
61 Get in gear?
63 Dubbing need
64 Used a stun gun on 65 ____ pants
66 Take a dive, maybe 67 Digital-imaging company that used to make film 71 Apt rhyme for
‘‘baloney’’
73 Dating notation:
Abbr.
74 Start of a seasonal
request
75 ‘‘Fluff Yeah’’ slipper
sandals, e.g.
76 ‘‘Gotcha’’
78 Helical bit
79 Be off the mark
80 GPS calculation:
Abbr.
81 Exam for H.S. jrs. 84 Original tale of
robot rebellion
85 Boxed a bit
86 Untethered
87 Biblical mount
88 Team spirit
90 Spanish term of affection between young women
91 Spring in northern
Africa
92 Many rescues
93 Gooseflesh
inducing, maybe 94 Some coin tossers
No. 1213
95 Serve well?
96 Liquor-store
purchase
97 Suspicious
100 Where Shiraz is
located
102 Pic to click
103 Corp. division
105 Exclamations of
regret
107 Combine
108 Green of ‘‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’’
109 Always, in verse