SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
FEELING POSSESSIVE
ACROSS
1 “No ____, Bob” 5 Commuting options 10 Thunderstruck 15 Lead-in to cure or cab
19 Peace symbol 20 Absolutely necessary
21 Snack brand with a hyphen in its name
22 Simoleons 23 Oil futures?
26 The Australiashaped “Pride of Australia,” for one 27 Pool side
28 Crest
29 Sack
31 Parent’s exhortation
32 Real bind
33 People who might answer “What’s up?” with “The sky” 35 Castle moat?
39 ____ Scott-Heron, writer of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” 40 Entitled guys?
41 Kind of rating system in chess 42 Audio option 43 Slangy greeting 45 Sales prospects 48 Smoky tendrils 50 Shoves, to a poker player
53 Ed of “Up” 54 Daredevil Knievel 55 Sugar and cocoa content? 57 ____ the Orange (Syracuse mascot) 58 Scoop, so to speak 60 Braces might fix them 61 Auto company headquartered in Yokohama 63 Veg-O-Matic maker
64 Over there
65 Humble home 67 Wavy dos 70 International date line?
72 Bordeaux besties 74 They prevent accidental scribbles
76 ____ room 79 ”Lights! Camera! Action!”?
82 Biblical twin 83 Midas’s downfall 85 Reprimand to a rubbernecker
86 Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible 87 Pale purple
88 N.B.A. analyst Burke
89 Police alerts, for short
91 What goes around the head at Diamond Head 92 Preposterous
94 The “en” in “enby” 95 ”And ... cut!”? 98 Personal theory that isn’t in the source material
101 Fed. statute that took down the Gambino crime family
102 Mama’s boy
103 Not working, say 104 He literally jumped the shark on “Happy Days”
105 85 to 115, typically 109 Skier Lindsey 110 Stock prices? 114 Monthly utility bill: Abbr.
115 Rapper with seven posthumous albums
116 Persona
117 Quantum ____ 118 Utility figure
119 “Killers of the Flower Moon” tribe 120 Wears on
121 River swirl
DOWN
1 Some email attachments
2 Beat handily
3 “I’m done talking” 4 Called into question
5 Binary 6 Homebodies? 7 Go after
8 Actual title of “The Piña Colada Song” 9 Drunken state 10 Comet alternative
11 Come down with 12 See 30-Down 13 Pours poorly 14 Pays (up) 15 Noodles and floaties?
16 Chess move with a French name 17 Render more youthful, as with C.G.I.
18 Sweden has more than 200,000 of them (of which only 1,000 are inhabited)
24 Sudden contractions
25 God’s first word on the first day
30 With 12-Down, world champion boxer who retired an undefeated 24-0
32 Put up with 33 Novelist Cather 34 Not authorized
35 Cut
36 Late-night host John
37 Finish behind 38 Breed of cattle 39 Swinger’s attire 43 Hinged fastener 44 “The Empire of the ____” (H.G. Wells short story)
46 Lions or Tigers, on a scoreboard 47 Theater sign 49 Leaf fossils?
51 Brand whose sales spiked after an appearance on “Stranger Things” 52 Portrayer of
Bob Newby on “Stranger Things” 55 Parade sight 56 Carriers of master keys, informally
59 ____ blue
62 Garden variety? 64 At 78, she became the oldest artist to have a No. 1 dance hit
66 Inits. on a “Choice” label
68 Indian spice mixture 69 Necessities for retiring?
71 Org. with the tagline “No More Victims” 73 Something furry on a fir
74 Practices mise en place
75 “____ Q” (rockabilly classic)
76 James Bond studio
77 Memorable time
78 Machine learning model that mimics the human brain 80 Company whose misconduct helped spawn the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002)
81 Muse with a lyre 84 Record label that famously turned down the Beatles 86 Supercell, e.g., for short
90 Europeans who speak a nonIndo-European language
93 Can’t not 95 Encouragement at
karaoke night 96 Skin condition 97 Turn on
98 What drones and
anxious parents do 99 ____ Gay
100 Hub
101 Bacardi, por
ejemplo
104 Part of a clock
105 Playwright William 106 Call for
107 Mortarboard tosser 108 Catch a glimpse of 111 Many an I.R.S.
employee
112 Witch
113 Coltrane’s
instrument