SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
SNOOZEFEST
ACROSS
1 Goes wherever the
wind blows? 6 Person who likes all your FB posts, perhaps
9 Key with five
sharps: Abbr. 13 Western film, in old
slang
18 Harriet’s partner on
1950s-’60s TV 19 China’s Chou
En-____
20 Paul Simon’s “____
Rock”
21 Tree that Athena
gifted to Athens 22 Inaptly named bear
of a tongue twister 25 Spanish rice 26 Letter-shaped
construction piece 27 Endeavor
28 Winter weather
hazard
31 Little black ____ 32 Art of verse 33 Jurisdiction of a Catholic church official
37 Get closer and
closer 40 Mapmaker’s subj. 41 Literary traveler to Lilliput and Brobdingnag 42 Transfixed 43 Former telecom giant that merged into Verizon 45 Ostentatious
display
48 Kicked back 49 Singer Lisa 51 Pre-euro currency 52 National tree of the
U.S.
53 Paradise lost 54 Scatterbrains 56 Grandma, to Brits 57 Frenzy 59 Rattlesnake’s
warning 60 Ambrose Bierce defined it as “A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue” 62 Totally over it all 63 Final creature encountered in “Dr. Seuss’s ABC” 68 Far-right state 70 Buckskin, e.g. 71 Something stretched out in a yoga class
74 Has over
75 Go after
78 Like varnished
wood
79 “Pretty please?” 80 Sci-fi travelers 81 Pan-fries
84 Violated a code of silence 85 Sportscaster Jim with the classic opening “Hello, friends” 86 Opportunities to win a vacation on “Wheel of Fortune” 90 Stocking stuffer 91 Actress Ana of
“Love, Victor” 92 “Alas ... ”
93 Bistro sign word 95 Francis’ tenure,
e.g.
96 Lively, on a score 97 Collect little by little 99 Makes
10/17/21
101 “Which Disney Princess Are You?” and the like
104 Big Ten powerhouse, for short
107 Eye shade
110 Basic skateboard
trick
111 Quick nap ... or a playful description of the 64-Down here
113 Conflagration
114 Diamond who went
platinum
115 Scottish denial
116 Popeye creator
Segar
117 Footnote abbr.
118 Icelandic work that influenced Tolkien 119 Key for getting out,
not in
120 Like May through August, unlike the other months of the year
DOWN
1 What “piano” can
mean
2 Côte d’____ 3 Nickname for
Isabelle or Isidore 4 Fashion designer
Lange
5 Actress Amanda of 2012’s “Les Misérables” 6 What B. B. King was
king of
7 Rattles
8 Opposite of
flatness
9 Members of bevies
and broods
10 Tie the knot 11 Mine: Fr.
12 Many a collaboration between Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
13 “C’est magnifique!” 14 Spanish composer
Isaac
15 “How to ____ a
____”
(popular Google search) 16 One of the Gabor
sisters
17 Radiation unit 23 Member in the genus Troglodytes, so named for its tendency to enter dark crevices 24 “Jeepers!” 25 Generational divide 29 Former queen of
Jordan
30 Nintendo princess 31 Order of roses 34 Kilt-wearing Greek
infantryman 35 Fixed, as tiling 36 Northern California town once home to the palindromic ____ Bakery 37 Chain that sells
chains
38 “Jeepers!”
39 Levels
40 Old fogy
41 Quiet valley 43 Partner of glamour 44 Comedian Fields 46 ____ garden 47 When repeated, one of the Gabor sisters 50 Mercedes-____ 54 Stupor
55 Multitude 57 Pac-Man navigates through one 58 Wood-shaping tool 60 They’re taken out in
alleys
61 Six-Day War leader
Weizman 62 No-nonsense TV
judge
63 Unsightly spot 64 Sleep indicators 65 Counterfeit
66 Spike the Beanie
Baby, e.g.
67 Having some pep 68 Alternative to Advil
or Aleve 69 Birthplace of the
Franciscan order 71 Kind of ray
72 Bit of tomfoolery 73 Nervous state 74 Seven: Prefix 75 Football sideline
reporter Kolber
©2021 New York Times 76 Brand of pretzels
and chips
77 Electric ____ 79 Kvetches 81 Pointy-eared dog 82 Big name in car
parts
83 Break away 85 Reason to
hang up
87 Victoria Falls river 88 Uniform
adornment 89 Center
of L.A., once 94 Sufficient,
informally 95 Aphids,
to ladybugs 97 Beyond cold 98 Woman’s name meaning “night” in Hebrew and Arabic
99 Pound and others 100 Worshiper of the
rain god Tlaloc
102 Took off
103 One of the Nereids
of Greek myth
104 Eleven, en français 105 Parts of
snowmobiles
106 Exploits
107 “The White Lotus”
airer
108 View from Lake
Como
109 Country music’s
____ Brown Band 112 In a bad way