SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
HIDDEN TACTICS
Instructions: The center of this puzzle represents a 70-down/55-down, in which you can achieve a 122-across by moving the 25-across.
ACROSS
1 Cleaning product in a dangerous 2010s viral internet challenge
8 “Home” in a classic song
16 Jack of children’s rhyme
21 “Agreed”
22 Escapes, as molasses 23 Irregularly notched, as a leaf
24 Protein found in hair and hooves 25 See instructions 27 Watson’s creator 28 Pain for a tiler, maybe
30 Yearbook
31 Side represented by
34 Adams and Elgort 35 Doctor’s order 37 Dorothy’s caretaker in “The Wizard of Oz” 40 Irritate
41 Irritable
42 Verify the addition of
43 Nabisco product with an exclamation point in its name
49 That guy’s
50 Ill repute, to a Brit 52 Santa ____ winds
55 Some ovations 60 Become attentive 61 Succeeds
65 Cowboy flick
66 Eve’s counterpart 67 What a plant may exude
69 Freak out
71 Treasure
72 When doubled, a Thor Heyerdahl book
73 Mother ____ 74 [Grumble, grumble]
75 Pith holders
76 Set aside for now 78 Score elements: Abbr.
79 Digital message 80 Old gold coin
81 Map of Hawaii or Alaska, often
82 1974 Gould/ Sutherland C.I.A. spoof
83 Lushes
84 Deteriorate with age
86 Cut into bits 88 Prevents, legally 89 Letters near an X-ray machine 90 People native to Tennessee and the Carolinas
92 “While I have you ...,” in a text
95 Classic 1922 film subtitled “A Symphony of Horror” 98 Brown-headed nest appropriator 104 “Fighting” college team
107 Maker of pens and lighters
108 Sheer fabric
109 First commercial film shown in stereophonic sound 111 Key of Bizet’s first symphony
116 Side represented byO
117 87 is a common one
118 Conspicuous 121 Yuletide contraction 122 See instructions 125 Arrests
128 Outpost for an osprey
129 No longer needed for questioning 130 Senator Tammy Duckworth or former Senator Max Cleland
131 Symbol of
directness
132 Arrived at, as an
answer
133 Swollen area
DOWN
1 Hangout often
near a pool 2 Glacial hue
3 Like Mount
Kilimanjaro
4 Doe in ‘’Bambi’’ 5 Polling fig.
6 French
acceptances
7 Title 1962 film
villain
8 Valentine heart,
e.g.
9 Urban cacophony 10 Slate, e.g.
11 Touch up, as styled
hair 12 Some airborne particulates
13 What dashes may represent in internet searches 14 Kind of reaction 15 Ike’s W.W. II command
16 Veto on movie night
17 Figure in many a fairy tale 18 Mischievous 19 One-named singer with the 2002 No. 1 hit “Foolish”
20 Some cuppas 26 No longer edible 29 Computing acronym
32 Silicon Valley startup V.I.P.
33 Baby fox 35 Unexceptional 36 Prefix with planet 38 St. Louis’s ____ Bridge, the oldest span over the Mississippi
39 Biblical high priest
40 The “u” spelling of 50-Across, e.g.: Abbr.
43 Figures in the Sistine Chapel
44 Part of Africa or an orchestra
45 Your signature might be in this 46 Came down hard 47 Terrific
48 Chatter 51 City that hosted the 1974 World’s Fair
53 Rare beneficiaries of royal succession 54 Together 55 See instructions 56 Dating-app distance metric 57 Stat
58 Lush
59 Son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon 61 Enter incorrectly 62 Jawbone of ____ (biblical weapon)
63 How early Beatles songs were recorded
64 Best
66 Suffix on many an infomercial product’s name 68 Self-inflicted ritual death of a samurai
70 See instructions
73 Leash
77 Dulce de ____ (confection) 82 Notice
85 ____ Luis Obispo 87 One of 24 in un giorno
88 Those: Sp.
90 Banned aerosol propellant, for short 91 Green: Prefix
92 Like some lenses 93 Wrong pipe, so to speak
94 Spends December through March (in) 96 Bit of judo attire 97 One-named singer with the 2014 hit “Chandelier” 99 Indianapolis-to-St. Louis dir. 100 “Phooey!”
101 Ape
102 Calls it quits 103 Boutique stock 105 Barbie’s younger sister
106 Long (for)
108 Part of an
M.A. program application 110 Religious sch. 111 Called out
112 Any of the Apennines
113 In ____ (grumpy) 114 War hawk
115 Situation after a leadoff single
118 Ball ____
119 Big org. in Saturdayafternoon TV 120 “Indiana Jones” setting
123 Half of a 1955 union merger 124 Singer’s syllable 126 They’ll sound sped up at 45 r.p.m. 127 French director Besson