SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
FINAL OFFER
ACROSS
1 Curse
5 Unit of current 8 Developer of
1982’s E.T., a video game so bad that hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges were secretly buried in a New Mexico landfill 13 Stealing attempts on the diamond? 19 Look extremely stylish, slangily 20 ____ People’s Democratic Republic
21 Classic actress Sophia
22 Lacking freshness
23 Always glad to be seated in the back of the boat?
26 Printed cotton fabric
27 Think of together 28 Perfectly placed “Batman” punch? 30 Behind the line of scrimmage
32 Pried, with “in”
33 Look ahead
36 Unfilled spaces
40 Part of New York City’s Museum Mile, with “the” 43 Charlatans
46 “Catch you later!” 47 Buddhist temple structure
50 Penny going through the wash once again? 53 Subject of Walter Lord’s “A Night to Remember”
54 Epson product 55 Facebook profile feature
56 Soup served at the church social?
58 Persuade by force 61 Sheep’s kin 63 Commencement 64 Church officer 65 Grape-Nuts maker
66 Ark groupings 68 Feudal workers
72 In a lively manner 74 What a pointless meeting probably should have been handled by 76 California in San Francisco, e.g. 77 Afternoon gatherings of Mensa?
81 Force at sea
83 Monk’s title 84 Withdrew
85 Having no feeling in one’s texting hand? 89 Assumed name
90 One of the so-called “Three Crowns of Florence,” along with Petrarch and Boccaccio
91 Source of the idioms “fat of the land” and “fire and brimstone”
92 As we speak
93 Small anatomical opening, as in a bone
96 These can go for a lot of bucks
97 Check for mistakes 100 Party tray meat 103 Ad for heartburn medication?
109 Puts forward
114 State you’ll never get to
115 “Quit your snickering, Damon!”?
117 Hitting the floppy disk icon, say 118 Islamic rulers
119 Hill resident
120 Soup pod 121 Dangerous fly 122 Dividing membranes
123 ____ flour
124 “No man hath ____ God …”
DOWN
1 Labor-regulating
org.
2 “Such a pity!” 3 Bugs
4 Doc’s needle 5 Without reserve 6 Yucatán natives 7 Fancifully
worded
8 Drink rarely drunk
with a straw 9 ____ Bora, area of Afghanistan
10 ____ American Heritage Month (April)
11 Foul rulers
12 Says without feeling
13 Start of a magician’s phrase 14 Send over the moon
15 Waited at a red light, say
16 FedEx, maybe
17 Order by the border 18 “Please ____ your tray tables” (plane request) 24 World-renowned 25 Sanskrit scripture 29 Part of many California place names
31 Get out of Dodge, so to speak
33 Caustic compound 34 Needing a passcode, maybe 35 Even one
37 Latin clarifier 38 Easy-to-bend metal
39 Greek vowel 40 Lead-in to rail 41 Computer menu with Undo and Redo
42 Dash gauge
43 Word with freeze or fixing
44 Choice word
45 “Don’t just ____ there!”
47 Digital passcodes 48 Viewed optimistically
49 ____ snake 51 Japanese city where Lexus is headquartered 52 Classic muscle cars
53 Cards with the most pips
57 Bread
59 Map section 60 Irascible
62 Some Hollywood up-and-comers 65 Responded in court
67 Cowardly sort
69 Turn down
70 Units of distance in physics
71 Sticks a fork in 73 Piece of news 75 Drinks usually drunk with straws 76 Compos mentis 77 Stark who was crowned king in the “Game of Thrones” finale 78 Eight-year member of Clinton’s cabinet 79 State
80 Glance at, as headlines
82 Animal for which the Canary Islands are named 86 Opposite of WSW 87 -s or -ed
88 Modern prefix 90 Practices lexicography
93 One vain about his looks
94 “You ____?” 95 Greetings to some mainlanders 97 Ground-dwelling songbird
98 Bit attachments 99 Old enough
101 Kind of acid
102 Like most mouthwashes 103 Brownish shade 104 Greek vowels 105 Classic pop-art sculpture with a slanted “O” 106 “Personally …”
107 Cut out
108 Male deer 110 Singer/songwriter Lee
111 Appropriate
112 “Suis” is part of its conjugation
113 Comic book publisher Lee 116 Where to find MA and PA