SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
A SHOT IN THE DARK
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1 Dude, slangily 5 Toaster Swirlz brand 9 Country singer Haggard 14 Lhasa ____ (dog breed) 18 Metallic fabric 19 “____: Legacy” (sci-fi sequel) 20 Hymn of joy 21 Loud thudding sound 23 Shot in the dark 26 Get to the point? 27 Steps up? 28 Court plea, in brief 29 Winner’s sign 30 Alternative to a blitz 31 False start? 33 Improved version of an existing product 37 — 38 Skipping syllables? 40 Reward for a big hit, say 41 Two-legged stand 43 Fix for a bald spot 46 — 48 Shock 51 Oscar-winning Hanks role of 1994 54 Tiny bits 56 Byway connection 58 Voice-mail prompt 59 Hasbro game requiring increasingly quick reflexes 60 Tiny bit 61 Mensch 63 Meals with Haggadah readings 64 Award to wear 65 Real deal 66 — 68 Like cabernet sauvignon 69 Go over 71 Start of many Portuguese place names 73 Be angry 75 Suffix with age 78 Highly resistant elastomer 81 — 84 Skyscraper support 88 Like some ballots 90 Breakfast drink sans creamer 92 Ill-advised move 93 Intangible qualities 94 Do 95 Anonymous surname 96 Causes of pocket buzzes 97 Loud, sharp sound 98 Like Golden Raspberry“winning” films 100 Detectives 103 — 104 Whispered sweet nothings 106 It’s a sign 108 Unsmiling 110 Like some roller chains and ball bearings 112 — 116 Leaves zip for a tip 119 One given orders around the house 121 Tract of land 122 Nickname for the Wildcats of the Pac-12 124 Smut 5/30/21 126 Collection on Facebook 127 Shot in the dark 131 Three-time American League M.V.P. of the 1950s 132 Varsity 133 Hurt badly 134 Disneyland transport 135 Bill blockers 136 Ta-tas 137 Polishes off 138 Fore-and-aft-rigged sailboat with two masts
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1 Photo mishap 2 Amassed 3 Congregational chorus 4 Tools for landscapers 5 “You get the idea”: Abbr. 6 Food found in some bars 7 Most-often-used 8 Net wt. of many pasta packages 9 Sticker stat 10 It’s water under le pont 11 Teller of the third tale in “The Canterbury Tales” 12 Surgical tool 13 Like some casts 14 Makes a scene 15 “Hallelujah!” 16 Marvelous 17 ____-3 22 Slice and dice, say 24 Takes over (from) 25 More than just a talker 32 Indian lentil dish 34 “No info yet,” on a schedule 35 Carefully avoid 36 Heating option 39 Composer Bruckner 42 — 43 Unlikely Oscar winners 44 Fighting 45 Tiny bit 47 G 49 Opening for a computer technician? 50 Pro fighter? 52 Swampy stretch 53 V.A. concern, for short 55 -— 57 Phenomenon by which electrons radiate from a heated filament, so named for a famous observer 59 “You can’t be a real country unless you have a ____ and an airline”: Frank Zappa 61 Mil. leader 62 Catch 63 Arc on a music score 65 Investment goal 67 Trucker on a radio 70 Pitchfork-shaped letters 72 — 74 When the first “Peanuts” comic appeared 75 Apple on the teacher’s desk? 76 Literature Nobelist Bellow 77 Innovation in pushups 79 It can represent a folder 80 First offer? 82 “I touched your nose!” sound 83 Coffin frames 85 Squarish 86 A jokester might say “And the pot thickens” after one 87 One of the friends on “Friends” 89 Very easy living 91 — 94 French explorer who founded Detroit 96 Duty 98 According to 99 Bad P.R. for a celeb, maybe 101 Baseball announcer’s cry 102 One doing a Spot check? 105 Whom the Secret Service dubbed Renegade and Renaissance 107 Mike who served as a Wyoming senator from 1997 to 2021 109 — 110 Longtime Swedish automaker 111 ____ Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state 113 Mammal found in the Andean cloud forest 114 Utterly lost 115 “I’m baffled” 117 Botanist’s study 118 A sucker for milkshakes, say 120 — 123 ESPNU covers its games 125 Web file format, for short 128 The natural order of the universe 129 Chats over Twitter, briefly 130 Grp. mobilized by a 911 call