Director’s Cut
ACROSS
1Get gray, say
8 Iraq port city 13 Knighted English
composer
18 Bust of Pope Paul V
sculptor 19 Language family including Finnish and Hungarian
20 “I Hope You Dance”
singer Womack 21 *Marvel hero with a red-white-and-blue costume
23 *Soviet newspaper 24 Like a racehorse’s
hooves
25 Apple pie order 26 Last-second online
auction bids
27 OXO tool
29 Comet, to some 30 Summer hrs. along
the Mississippi 32 Humdingers 34 *Hunk
36 *Take only the best 38 Android alternative 39 Halloween
decoration 40 “Family Guy” kid with a footballshaped head
41 __ Beta Kappa 42 Diva’s numbers 44 Base-level rideshare
option
46 Host before Carson 49 *Instrument played
with mallets 53 *Citrus used to
flavor tea
57 Cattle catchers 58 Cantina fare 59 ‘60s-’70s epithet based on a 21st-century Emmywinning
drama 60 Appliance found in
Provence? 61 Survivalist Stroud 62 Okra or orca unit 63 “Dracula” author
Stoker
64 Phisher’s crime 68 Throat problems 70 Grand Canyon
sights
71 *Turkey’s area 72 *Symbol of
worthlessness 74 Cravings
75 Slightly lit
76 Kindle technology 77 Back on a ship 80 Gem weight units 82 Water source 83 Little terror 86 *Camper’s knot 89 *Ridiculous, as an excuse
93 Worked on a Royal 94 Fragrant neckwear 95 Giants manager
Kapler
96 Cruel boss
97 SoFi Stadium team 99 Family planning
topic, familiarly
102 Big apes
103 *”Walk This Way”
rap trio
104 *Oscar-winning
role for Judi Dench 107 Made a case
108 Seventh of eight 109 Part of town to
avoid
110 They may be skinny 111 Finish by
112 Rock’s Lynyrd __
DOWN
1 Ottawa-based
media org.
2 Take on, as tenants 3 Mythological lyrist 4 Boundless 5 Jeweled headgear 6 Oxford, to Oxonians 7 Fruta en una colada 8 City in NW
Germany 9 “Breaking Bad”
actor __ Paul 10 Arrived headfirst,
perhaps
11 General Mills cereal 12 Landmark health
legislation, briefly 13 Ë la King?
14 Jump to one’s feet 15 Talked back to 16 List-shortening
words
17 Transfer __
19 Fish sauce taste 20 Health care
provider: Abbr. 22 Floating above, say 26 Like Waldo’s shirt, in
kids’ books 27 Inflation meas. 28 Russian cabbage? 31 MTN __ 33 Mountain footwear,
maybe
35 Pass out 36 __-Alt-Del
37 Heat up again? 40 Matches, as a bet 42 Stage backdrop 43 Gives a thumbs-up 44 Raised
45 Leaning
47 Spend time in a
cellar, perhaps 48 Returned, as a
football kick 49 Cultivated 50 Houston Texans
coach Smith 51 “Carmen,” e.g. 52 Henri’s “Hi” 53 Symbol of authority 54 Pfizer rival
55 More than just talk 56 Language of
southern India 59 Temperamental 62(The) big leagues 65 Bank charge 66 French alternative 67 Has at
68 Dandy fellows 69 Move
surreptitiously 70 Bengals, on
scoreboards 72 Accompanying 73 Bite like a puppy 75 Tight-lipped
77 Do something 78 Bit of fishing tackle 79 Santa Monica Mountains’ __ Canyon
81 U.S. __ 1, East Coast
hwy.
82 Immune system
component 83 Picturesque
language
84 English church
honorific
85 Furry friend
87 WWI battle city 88 One of a quartet of
‘50s singing siblings 89 Domed top for a
threaded fastener 90 Relatives of Tonys 91 Polite two-word English term of address 92 Oranjestad native 95 Actress Davis 98 Fast-food NYSE
ticker symbol
100 Beer foam
101 Mad __: word
game
103 Rule that Gandhi
opposed
104 “À__ pasa?”
105 __ Starkey, longtime drummer for The Who
106 Once possessed