SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
POWER-UPS
ACROSS
1 Not fine 7 Expedition 12 Savory jelly
17 Tacks on 19 Mollycoddle 20 Sight on an English
farm
21 Slacker role for Jeff Bridges in “The Big Lebowski” 22 Superenthusiastic 23 Spelman College graduate, e.g. 24 “____ is an emotion in motion”: Mae West 25 See 30-Across 27 Morning weather phenomenon
29 See 33-Across
30 With 25-Across, get as much approval from an audience as possible 32 Dalmatians, e.g. 33 With 29-Across, like a deer in headlights
35 N.Y.C.’s first subway line
36 Singer Mann 38 Michelangelo masterpiece 40 Sunset Boulevard sight
42 Utah mountain range
45 What people tend to do when a rushhour subway train arrives
47 See 50-Across
48 See 53-Across
50 With 47-Across, not change anyone’s mind, say
52 Forest of Fangorn resident, in fiction 53 With 48-Across, stops wasting time 57 Dawn
59 Eternally damned 61 Promptness
63 Default consequence
65 Have an influence (on)
69 Iraqi port city 70 Mathematical concepts suggested eight times in this puzzle 74 “I’m telling the truth!”
75 One of the Seven Dwarfs
77 Yeats’s “The Lake ____ of Innisfree” 78 Bad place for a fly, in a saying
80 Showy shrub
83 Arch supporter
85 See 90-Across 86 Flat-topped cap
88 See 92-Across
90 With 85-Across, uncomfortably accurate
92 With 88-Across, sacrificed
94 Place that processes ore 96 Eponym of the world’s largest church
101 Some teambonding trips
103 State whose capital is Dispur 105 Drum that can be played with a brush 106 Hypotheticals
107 See 113-Across 109 Cleans, as a deck 112 See 116-Across 113 With 107-Across, bad sort of competition
115 “Freak on a Leash” metal band
116 With 112-Across, “Your misfortune is nothing special” 118 Jocular lead-in to “macation”
119 List ender
121 Abstract artist de Kooning known for her portraits 123 Obsessive cleaner, say
125 Important faculty for school
126 Brought home 127 Lively French dance popular in the Baroque era
128 Big name in nail polish
129 Rug rats
130 Brand whose sales skyrocketed after the release of “E.T.”
DOWN
1 Person who’s being
used
2 Sister of Laertes 3 They’re scored from 1 to 5
4 What’s found at one end of a rainbow 5 Comfy-cozy 6 Sources of Norse mythology
7 More throaty
8 Pale
9 Ukr., e.g., once 10 Spanish
“I love you”
11 Kind of cuisine that’s often eaten with one’s hands 12 Tied, in scores 13 ____ vide (culinary technique) 14 Do some heavy lifting
15 “Don’t pay attention to that” 16 Idle gossip 18 Convince
19 Cracks
20 Actor Dev of “Lion”
26 Lick (up)
28 Stop the flow of 31 House call?
33 Playful growl 34 Run-____ (hip-hop trio)
37 Alternative to an ellipsis
39 Some clickbait articles
41 Potentially risky thing to drop in a relationship
43 ____ Woo-shik, co-star of 2019’s “Parasite”
44 ____ cuisine 46 Sanders who played in a World Series and two Super Bowls 49 Charon’s domain 51 Lead-in to self
53 They might be caught in the rain 54 ____ Bator
55 Stun, in a way 56 Hard-hit line drive 58 One variety of love 60 Broadway’s ____-Fontanne Theater
62 Heckle
64 Part of a hammer 66 Butter alternative 67 “There warn’t no home like a raft ...” speaker
68 Lavish celebration 71 Hard Italian cheese 72 Level, for one 73 Isolated components 76 Deviation in flight 79 Exterminator’s target
81 Was bested by
82 Title horror film locale 84 Wrote poorly
86 They have your life hanging by a thread
87 They might involve impersonating a dealer
89 Kingdom east of Babylonia 91 Mini-albums, in brief
92 Ship with three banks of oars
93 Fly catcher
95 Dead Sea Scrolls sect
97 Envelope abbr. 98 Juggling, singing, magic, etc. 99 Scholarly
100 Tells off
102 Just peachy
104 ____ Pro
108 Dental covering similar to a crown 110 Water pipe 111 Dishonest attack 114 Foe of the Morlocks, in sci-fi 116 Major export of Tuscany
117 Place to hang holiday lights 120 Something drawn by a jerk, maybe 122 Sanctuary
124 What a digitigrade stands on