SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
GRAVITY’S RAINBOW
ACROSS
1 Rackets
6 Spruce or fir 15 Japanese city that shares its name with a dog breed 20 Home to the Ho Chi
Minh Mausoleum 21 Homemade headgear for pretend pirates 22 Conducted, as a
campaign
23 Undo, legally 24 Highly specialized
knowledge
25 Color whose name is derived from “lapis lazuli” 26 Frequent comics collaborator with Jack Kirby
28 Belief
29 Hubbubs
31 “See? I knew what I was talking about!”
32 Gives an edge 33 Indignant denial 34 Bozo
35 “I 30-Down the
fool!” speaker 37 GPS suggestion:
Abbr.
38 What might follow
you
39 1966 Donovan hit 43 Sinatra, to fans 47 Band whose “Gold: Greatest Hits” has sold over 30 million copies
50 Raised a false
alarm
52 Tennis’s Nadal,
informally
56 Fruit with crimsoncolored flesh 59 Guest feature? 60 Popular folk-rock
duo
62 Place for a canal or
a kernel
63 1968 self-titled folk
album
65 A.L. West team, on
scoreboards 66 Rubik with a cube 68 Ice cream holder 69 Cal’s gamewinning kickoff return against Stanford in 1982, familiarly 71 World’s deepest
river
73 Little tasks that
crop up 75 Wood-shop item 77 Investigate, à la
Sherlock Holmes 79 Wunderkinder 82 Implement for an
Amish driver 86 Features of classic
cars
87 It’s covered in paint in the SherwinWilliams logo 89 Oscar-winning song from “Slumdog Millionaire” 90 “Likewise” 91 Media watchdog
agcy.
92 “Strange Magic”
band, for short 93 Medium for Kehinde Wiley’s “President Barack Obama”
94 Took a load off 7/11/21
95 Mars
100 Harmful bits of
sunlight
105 Remove calcium
deposits from
106 Sharp shooter, for
short?
108 Harder to grasp
109 Changes by
degrees
111 Whole bunch
112 You might cry if
you slice it
115 Word rhymed with “ami” by Lafayette in “Hamilton”
116 Like MerriamWebster’s inclusion of the word “irregardless,” originally
119 College admissions
fig.
120 Delta hub, on
luggage tags
121 Birth-control
option, briefly
122 In the blink of ____ 123 Deli or
bar order
124 Stags or bucks
125 Biblical possessive 126 Alcoholic’s affliction, briefly
127 Complicated, as a
relationship
128 Retired flier, for
short
129 Explosive stuff
DOWN
1 California-based soft-drink company 2 Divisions of long
poems
3 Historical records 4 Place for a pitcher 5 “I’m such a
dummy!”
6 Olympic poker? 7 Military hospitals,
briefly
8 Period of history 9 Back in
10 Fresh, in a sense 11 Aoneandatwo 12 Bursts in on
13 And the rest, for
short
14 Twin in Genesis 15 Prizewinner 16 Instrument often played for comedic effect
17 Tennessee Williams’s “The Night of the ____” 18 Babysitter’s
handful
19 “____ Fideles” 27 ____ Simmons, real name of the late rapper DMX 30 See 35-Across 36 Affectionate attention, briefly
37 One enforcing
traveling rules 39 Kind of jacket 40 “Ish”
41 Xbox 360
competitor 42 Chicken
43 Total domination,
in gamer-speak 44 Whole bunch 45 Racy
46 Polite form of address similar to “Mr.” or “Ms.” 47 Criminally aid 48 Yawn-inducing 49 Make yawn 51 Campus leader 53 With the bow,
musically
54 Bungle
55 Vipers with
upturned snouts 57 Part of a religious title that means “ocean” 58 Southern California
county
60 “Mood ____” (Duke Ellington classic)
61 Quit drinking 64 Golf’s ____ Ko, youngest golfer to be ranked No. 1 67 In draft form 70 High degrees, for
short
71 Setting for many a Super Mario Bros. level
72 Temporarily
out
74 Pesach observers 76 Most peaceful 78 Groups of bees? 79 “You can’t expect me to believe that!”
80 Laughable 81 Typical way to take
a multivitamin
83 Is legally entitled 84 “It’s a possibility
for me”
85 Family members that get talked down to?
88 Kind of massage 89 Travels
96 ____ River, part of the Texas/ Oklahoma border 97 Even-tempered 98 Skedaddled
99 They might be
made after a fight 101 Runs again
102 Without fail
103 State flower of Illinois or New Jersey
104 ____ Faire (event with jousting, for short)
107 Is mad about
109 Source of the milk
for chèvre cheese 110 The “R” of R.B.G. 113 Ready
for business
114 Condé ____
117 What might make
a ewe turn
118 Spanish monarch