SUNDAY CROSSWORD: LE PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Complete jerk 7 Experience
equanimity
15 Word with ghost or
pirate
19 Inventor Tesla 20 Champion 21 Old-fashioned trial
transcriber 22 “When will the leaky faucet get fixed?” e.g.?
24 “____ Speaks!” (Marx brother autobiography) 25 Equinox mo.
26 PC key
27 Actor Astin
28 Spam generator 29 Gridiron gains: Abbr. 30 Bygone theater
chain
33 Lithe
36 Spam containers 37 Opposed to, in
dialect
39 Song from back in
the day
41 German physicist with an eponymous law
42 Focal points 43 Worldly
45 Hoot
46 Part of a how-to
manual
47 Oklahoma city named for a character in a Tennyson poem 48 Curt summons 49 Remarks further
50 It may be unlimited
in a phone plan 51 One-named singer whose last name is Adkins
52 Faulkner’s “As ____
Dying”
53 Setting for a classic Agatha Christie novel
54 Opt for “deluxe,” say 56 Baby louse
57 The brother in
24-Across, for one 58 Harvester of the
future
59 Potentially
offensive, say 62 Easy pill to swallow? 64 Candy bar whose name is an exclamation
66 2015 inductee into the World Golf Hall of Fame
68 Bloke
69 Covers, as the bill 70 Labneh go-with 72 Most popular dog breed in the U.S., familiarly
73 Gives a whirl 75 Without: Lat.
76 A bunch of 77 Common stain on a
baseball uniform 80 Adversaries
81 Bit of spice,
figuratively 82 Writers not likely to win literary prizes 83 Floppy features of
basset hounds 84 Asset
85 Possible cause for
road rage
86 Boos
87 Editorial override 88 Word before crow or
dirt
89 Prop for a painter 90 Former attorney
general Holder 91 Salty droplet 92 Home to the University of Georgia
94 Begins giving solid
food, say 96 Green-lights 99 Floating
101 Whip
103 Imitate
104 Country bordering
Oman, for short
105 Versatile neutral
shade
106 Where you’d find
sap for syrup?
111 Sam the ____
(patriotic Muppet) 112 Condition treated
with insulin
113 Rang
114 Wedding invitation
enclosure, in brief 115 The other you
116 Protests, in a way
DOWN
1 Fidgety
2 Spawned
3 Says “John, Paul, ...
and Ringo”?
4 Post ____ (occurring after the event)
5 Basic
6 Brewski
7 Help-page
initialism
8 URL ender
9 Times outside office hours, in personals
10 Goes berserk 11 About 6.5 inches, on
a standard piano 12 Virginia senator
Tim
13 From ____ Z 14 Currency that features “The Tale of Genji” on one of its bank notes 15 Show up naked,
perhaps?
16 Emma Watson’s role in the Harry Potter films
17 Not marked
permanently, say 18 Lounge chair
location 21 “Yellowjackets”
airer, for short 23 Summer abroad 28 Plant fiber used to
make some jewelry 31 M__U__H?
32 It’s a slippery slope 34 Loss of the winning
ticket?
35 A layoff, crudely 38 Like venison
40 Salon specialties 43 Exploiting
44 Kind of map
46 Leo with the 1977 No. 1 hit “You
Make Me Feel Like Dancing” 49 Cornhole player’s
asset
50 New beginnings
51 It may be vegetal or
fruity
53 Lightly bite, as a pup
might
54 Sappho
and Mirabai 55 Certain fed.
security 57 Alternatives to
shakes
58 Drinks that are
“slammed”
60 King and queen? 61 Exhibiting the effects of too little sleep, say
63 The three R’s? 65 Stays optimistic 67 Bottomless void 71 Quill go-with
74 Note in the C minor
scale
75 Raw power
76 Salon job,
informally 77 Develops,
as an idea
78 Like some highquality bonds 79 They might tie the
room together 81 Bout enders, for
short
82 Caballero, e.g.
84 Bog contents 85 Hosts
86 Nag
89 Dress for graduation 93 Razzle-dazzle 95 Contented sigh 97 Superman’s birth
name
98 A pomegranate can contain a few hundred of these
100 Corkage ____
102 Name of either brother in a classic Nickelodeon sitcom 106 Computing pioneer
Lovelace
107 Teeny
108 Rule, informally
109 Menu eponym
110 Pint contents