SUNDAY CROSSWORD: SPORTS NUTS
ACROSS
1 One known as “the
Alive, the Eternal” 6 Checkout option 11 Org. featured in
2011’s “Contagion” 14 Tiff
18 ____ Rose, Catherine O’Hara’s character on “Schitt’s Creek” 19 Chevron subsidiary 20 Language in the Tai
family
21 Kind of skirt
22 Your ex’s new date whom you just can’t stand? 25 Tabloid twosome 26 Lose sleep (over) 27 Off
28 “Su-u-ure”
29 Half of a legal
warning
30 There are 24 in a
cuboctahedron 32 Make a big stink 34 Kegels, e.g.? 39 Getting up there 42 Poet Rainer Maria
____
43 “____ yourself” 44 First winner of the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel (1965) 46 It’s just passing 47 Therapists’ org. 48 Director Craven 51 First square of a
crossword? 55 Walking the dog,
for instance
58 One might bend
over backward 59 Who actually lives in Lapland, some say
60 Accord maker 61 Author of 29
Federalist Papers 64 Laugh and a half 65 Playwright who wrote, “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” 68 “I’ll be your waiter
tonight,” e.g.? 70 Raison d’____ 71 Do a certain
developer’s job 72 Something a mover or a movie might have 73 Threesome
75 The “B” in its name
stands for “brush” 77 Oldest independent state in the Arab world 78 Genre for “Booksmart” and “Clueless” 82 Conspiracy theory so wild that it can’t be aired?
86 Trident look-alike 87 ____ jam
88 Small bird
89 “I did it!” 90 Southern cooking
staple
92 Things you can crack without damaging them 94 Affix with a click 96 Plan to leave at a very specific evening time?
100 Orangish shade
103 Fill with joy 11/7/21
104 Stirs up
106 Doctor Zhivago
107 Where subs are
standard
109 Semiaquatic
creature
113 Missing
114 Blackjack dealer? 117 Niche mag
118 Stick (out)
119 Product that
increases volume 120 “Moonlight”
actress Janelle
121 Joie de vivre
122 One doing inside
work
123 Chain whose name derives from its founders, the Raffel brothers
124 Orchard products
DOWN
1 Book before
Obadiah 2 Converted apartment, perhaps
3 “That’s ____” 4 Question after an argument has died down
5 Solo traveling in
space
6 Crafts
7 Frequent subjects of Taylor Swift songs
8 Measures, in music
9 Word that can precede or follow pack
10 Actor Menzies who won an Emmy for “The Crown” 11 Fills (in)
12 One hell of a
writer?
13 One way for packages to arrive, in brief
14 Protect
15 “Quiet!” rudely 16 Lager alternatives 17 Subdued
19 “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking” brand 23 Herb used in
smudging rites 24 Theater award 29 Stars 31 Approached 32 Actress Moreno 33 ____ Kong 34 Melee 35 Abdominal procedure, for short
36 Skin-care brand 37 Dry biscuit used as
baby food
38 Op. ____ (footnote
abbr.)
40 Any slice of pizza,
geometrically 41 Greek goddess associated with witchcraft 44 Archaeologist’s
workplace 45 Workers’ advocate,
informally 49 Young
partner?
50 Back way, often 52 Winona of
“Stranger Things” 53 Work, work, work 54 Texas border city 56 “C’est la vie” 57 “Ay” follower 61 “Now We Are Six”
author
62 Crush, as a test 63 German denials 65 Members of a
certain den 66 Enter without
permission
67 A wood frog’s ability to freeze itself in winter and an octopus’s ability to change color, for two 69 Vaccine holder 74 In with
76 Props for
majorettes
78 Bird with an annual 18,000mile round-trip migration 79 Instrument that’s a homophone of 69-Down 80 Crucifix inscription
inits. 81 ____ New
York (Brooklyn neighborhood) 83 2020 Democratic
also-ran
84 It’s nada to Nadal 85 Actor/comedian
Barinholtz 91 Dieted
93 Summer
shoe style
95 Bed of straw 96 Who’s talking on
the phone? 97 Personality that’s
hard to read 98 Pass over, in a way 99 Mathematician John Forbes ____ Jr.
101 Visually evaluate 102 Out of practice
104 Boo-oo-oo, say
105 Boo-boo
107 Smear
108 Site for some creative entrepreneurs
110 What Vulcan’s forge lay underneath, in myth
111 Sport
112 “____ chic!”
114 Party people, for
short?
115 Repeated word in the U.S. postal creed
116 Rapscallion