SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
BECAUSE I SAID SO!
ACROSS
1 Fish-tank buildup 6 Bog product
10 P.M. times
14 Suisse peak 18 Disney film with a
titular heroine 19 Pricing word 20 Christmas color for
Elvis
21 Pork cut 22 Mechanic’s go-to
parenting phrase? 26 Painter whose motifs include ants and eggs
27 Give the nod 28 “Check it out for
yourself”
29 Mauna ____ 31 French liver 33 Some remote
power sources 35 Up to 11 meters for
a pterodactyl 37 Personal trainer’s go-to parenting phrase?
43 Like some
restrictions 44 Stephen King’s first
published novel 45 Your and my
relative?
46 Roof overhang 48 Horror star Chaney 49 In the past 50 Affectionate
greeting
51 Arid
52 Small building
block 55 Conductor’s go-to
parenting phrase? 63 Liquor in tiramisù 64 TV drama with spinoffs set in Hawaii and New Orleans 65 Cornerstone abbr. 66 Eightfold
69 Animal working in the D.M.V. in “Zootopia”
72 Texas politician
Beto
74 It’s a drag
75 Singer James 77 Share
accommodations 79 Mathematician’s go-to parenting phrase? 86 Emmy-winning
Ward
87 Lemon ____ 88 Insult
89 Hosp. area
90 Clean Air Act org. 92 “Star Wars” order 93 Word seen at the end of many Jean-Luc Godard movies
94 From where 97 From the get-go 100 Air traffic controller’s go-to parenting phrase? 103 Accepts the facts 105 Her pronoun
partner
106 Farmyard mamas 107 2003 Will Ferrell
movie
108 Spooky
110 Lacking the
resources
113 Not out of the
running 117 Librarian’s go-to
parenting phrase? 121 Google ____
(Zoom alternative) 122 Chemical suffixes 123 Backless shoe
124 Maybe one, maybe
both
125 GPS calculations,
in brief
126 “I did it!”
127 Jabbers
128 Jen ____, 2021-22 White House press secretary
DOWN
1 Surrounded by 2 Tragic showgirl of
song
3 Chutzpah
4 Like PETA
5 ____ de vie
6 Gift for writing 7 Noshes
8 Feel that gym
session
9 What something might appear out of or disappear into
10 Epitome of
simplicity 11 Guam’s features a sailboat and palm tree
12 “The Burden of
Proof” author 13 Like many resorts 14 Ingredient in homemade hand sanitizer
15 Reed of the Velvet
Underground 16 Sellers franchise,
with “The” 17 Charm
23 Poker option 24 Solo
25 Baroque painter
Guido
30 ____ port in a
storm 32 Nail-polish brand with a “Tickle My France-y” shade 34 Part of a homemade Halloween costume
36 Animal that turns
white in the winter 37 Large number
38 “I am not what I
am” speaker 39 Pioneering sci-fi film that was snubbed for the Best Visual Effects Oscar for its use of computers 40 Road-trip
determination 41 Decade in which many in Gen Z were born
42 Main ingredient in
poi 47 Kind of diagram 50 In this matter 51 Arose
53 City on the Irtysh
River
54 Parcel (out) 56 Elementary particle named for a Greek letter 57 Called a strike, say 58 Like some potato chips and language
59 Part of NATO:
Abbr.
60 Jardins d’enfants,
par exemple 61 Tech-and-culture magazine since 1993
62 Has left the office,
e.g.
66 Jay-Z and Kanye West song that samples “Try a Little Tenderness” 67 Pigeon coop 68 What a bad dancer
is said to have 70 Large number 71 ____ Ledbetter,
a.k.a. Lead Belly 73 Newswire co.
76 A4 automaker 78 “____ it!” (informal challenge)
80 Rock used to make
ultramarine 81 Pretentious 82 Snack cakes with
creamy swirls
83 It might be changed or made up
84 “Look!” in Latin 85 Took to court 91 Miscreant’s record,
maybe
92 Like a clear night 93 Rival you kind of
like
94 “That’s amazing!” 95 Color
classification 96 Naval Academy
grads
97 Basic personal
information 98 “Spill it!”
99 Flow slowly
101 “Not gonna
happen!”
102 Counts (on)
104 Tropical vine
109 “Brown ____ Girl” 111 Pool shade
112 Kind
of discount
114 Nothin’
115 Words of
reassurance
116 Actress Garr
118 Hot spot in
England?
119 Airport inits.
120 Dance with a
paradiddle step