THINK TWICE
ACROSS
1 Confound
6 Sarcastic internet
laughter
10 Most Times
Square signage 13 Performance
check
17 Dark hair and a warm smile, for two
19 Samoan
capital
20 To’s opposite
21 Full-length
23 Something that
bugs criminals? 25 Blabberer
27 Duplicitous
28 Musicianship
30 ____ dress
31 Pasture
32 Signed off on
33 Ukr. or Lith.,
formerly
34 Places for
development
36 Corn kernel,
e.g.
38 Actress
Merrill
40 Genre for BTS or
Blackpink
43 Added to the
staff?
45 Alerts
48 ____ of lies
49 Aquafina : PepsiCo :: ____ : Coca-Cola
52 #$%& and @%¢! 55 Practice whose name means, literally, “union” 57 Words before
“before”
58 “Deck the Halls”
contraction
59 Symbol on the Connecticut state quarter
60 Stop along the
highway
61 Quite
64 Finished brushing
one’s teeth, say 66 Racial-justice movement since 2013, in brief
67 “Really, though?” 68 Word in many
font names 69 Betray ... or a hint to four answers in this puzzle
73 ____ the Cat (fictional feline of children’s books) 74 Thin incision
75 Some $200 Monopoly properties, in brief
76 Set of 50 on the
Argo, in myth
77 Coaxed (out of)
79 Insurance giant
bailed out in 2008 80 Word before cap
or pop
81 Awesomest bud 82 Spirit in Arabian
myth
83 Arizona county or
its seat
85 Pushing up
daisies
90 Neighbor of
Mozambique
92 Nonwriting credentials for Conan Doyle and Chekhov, informally
93 Seller’s need
95 Artificial habitat 97 Abolitionist
Lucretia
98 The avant-garde “artists” Congo and Pierre Brassau
100 Hedy of the 2017 documentary “Bombshell”
103 Kind of chip
105 Question of
perplexion
108 “The Raven”
writer’s inits.
109 Like
110 Big believer in the freedom of assembly?
112 Press ____
113 What the
beleaguered are behind
115 Classic folk story that teaches a lesson of sharing 118 Be up for some
biking?
120 Fast runners 121 Advanced math
degree?
122 Ninny
123 Sternutation 124 Real cutup
125 Landscaper’s
supply
126 In the past
127 “As You Like It”
forest
DOWN
1 Novelist Margaret 2 Absorb the beauty of, as a scene
3 Lacked the
gumption to
4 Gladly, old-style
5 Jazzy James and
Jones
6 First lawenforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer
(1910)
7 Nail-polish brand 8 List of performers 9 Star man?
10 Half of a ‘55
union merger
11 “That’s enough arguing out of you!”
12 Lip-puckering
13 Things that may be rubbed after din-din
14 Playwright Will who was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist
15 Crew implement 16 One getting special instruction
18 Ink holders in
pens and squid 22 “Just like ____!” 24 Like morning people vis-àvis night owls, around dawn
26 Response to “How bad was it?”
29 Extends, in a way 35 Lead-in to call
37 Cause for an onslaught of yearly txts
39 “If the pessimists
are right ...” 41 Stroke
42 East: Ger.
44 Wednesday, but
not Friday
46 Accelerator
particles
47 Overwhelm
48 Some tax
breaks
50 Boos and
cheers
51 Light
53 Latin list
ender
54 Some Hershey
candies
56 Bought in
61 Time-consuming assignment to grade
62 Xanax alternative 63 Monthly publication of the National Puzzlers’ League, with “The”
64 More convinced 65 “The Magic School Bus” was its first fully animated series 66 Sound at the end of December, appropriately?
67 Beach with a girl who “swings so cool”
70 Part of many a
corsage
71 Bite site
72 Job to do
78 High-quality cannabis, in slang
80 “Success!”
81 Decorate
82 “I. Can’t. Even.” 84 Spain’s Duchess
of ____
86 Classic novel
with the line “You must be the best judge of your own happiness” 87 Environmental
opening
88 When repeated, a
reproof
89 Overturned
91 Most chiffonlike 94 Figure out
96 Not thinking
No. 0822
97 The Supremes’
record label
99 Bad temper
100 Makeup target 101 Where a “Married at First Sight” contestant meets his or her mate 102 Language in which “kia ora” is a greeting
104 Up on
106 Confused
responses
107 Fight site
111 Long runs?
113 “A man’s
character is his ____”: Heraclitus 114 “Suds”
116 Prefix with
classical
117 Prof’s degree
119 Post on
Insta