Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

THAT’S ONE WAY TO PUT IT

- edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Draw in

8 Tight garment

14 Come before

21 Stingy sorts

22 Blogger’s pick for a pic

23 Utility worker

24 Falling down

26 Mean

27 Very: Ger.

28 Earth goddess

29 G.P.A. killers

30 “Sprechen ____ Deutsch?”

31 Robert of “The Sopranos”

32 Speeding ticket

37 Prep for the runway, maybe

40 Ball ____

41 Besmirch

42 Emotionall­y demanding

43 Climbing Mount Everest, e.g.

45 Be Kind to Editors and

Writers Mo. [for real!]

48 Notable features of

Stockholm and Amsterdam

51 It “exists when one goes against one’s conscience,” per Pope Francis

52 Fire places

55 D.C. lobby for seniors

57 Locale for two of the Quad

Cities

58 Egyptian cobra

61 Lying

66 Heat, as to soften metal

67 “u r hilarious!”

68 How scallops are often

prepared

69 French horticultu­rist after whom a variety of fruit is named

72 Cause of insomnia, maybe

74 Design detail

77 Google ____

78 Run too far or lift too much

81 Go over in blackjack

84 In working order

87 Layoff

94 Old sitcom character who

was 229 years old

95 Utah’s ____ Canyon

96 Get 29-Across

97 Railway offshoot

98 “So that’s it!”

99 Florae and faunae

101 Down

103 Mariners

105 TWA competitor 108 Classic Jag

110 Who “can’t buy you love” in

an Elton John hit

113 “There, there”

114 Tax increase

120 Cheers in un estadio

121 Canon camera

122 Take off quickly

123 “If I ____ penny for every ...”

124 Some W.S.J. topics

128 Summer Olympics host

after Barcelona

130 Dead

133 Custom-fits

134 Took off quickly

135 Pasta recipe phrase

136 Show contempt for

137 At the scene

138 “We should avoid doing

that”

DOWN

1 New Testament book

2 Pilgrims’ pronoun

3 Radio host John

4 Life in the big city, to some

5 Bee: Prefix

6 Dance with a kick

7 John Irving protagonis­t

portrayed by Robin Williams

8 Wine holders

9 Spermatozo­a targets

10 Dance-party enthusiast

11 Wooden

12 Worries no end

13 Five-point rugby play

14 Stripes mismatch,

traditiona­lly

15 Amazon, e.g.

16 Oklahoma City-to-Tulsa dir.

17 Develops (from)

18 Charlotte ____, Virgin Islands

19 Very last part

20 Pep

25 André ____, 1947 Literature

Nobelist

30 Narrow waterway

33 Part of an accusation in Clue

34 Laker named to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016

35 Small anatomical container

36 Landing post-E.T.A.

37 12 cc, maybe

38 Country star Church 39 Alternativ­e to a name: Abbr.

44 Draw, as a scene

46 Ratcheting wheel

mechanism

47 Adjust with Photoshop,

maybe

49 Japanese drama

50 Knocks over

53 Even

54 Trauma reminder

56 School support grps.

58 Corona, for one

59 Repeated cry at a dance

class

60 Most profs

62 Mother-of-pearl

63 Out in court

64 Boost the horsepower of

65 Dish served with chopsticks

in a bowl

69 Florida beach city, informally

70 Like the head of a tennis

racket 71 Lowly worker

73 Bit of wind

75 Those, in Tijuana

76 Complainin­g fish?

79 “Hots”

80 “Creme sandwich”

introduced over a century ago

82 Animal depicted in Edwin Landseer’s “The Monarch of the Glen”

83 Work, work, work

85 Air-conditione­r fig.

86 Entrap

88 Army NCO

89 Alien autopsies, crop circles

and the like

90 Liquid-____

91 Pet food with a paw-print

logo

92 Where to accent “Laotian”

93 Pinstriper

99 Store blowout

100 Suffix with brew 102 Underbrush clearer

104 Occasional­ly

105 W.W. II shipping worries

106 Oman’s leader, e.g.

107 Antarctic penguin

109 Officially prohibit

111 Lamb, e.g.

112 It goes up to about 1700

115 Aquarium fish

116 Swelter

117 Holiday celebratio­ns

118 Holy Roman emperor called

“the Great”

119 Country rocker Steve

125 One of the Ivies

126 Not conned by

127 Let stand, editoriall­y

129 Neither’s partner

130 U.N. observer since ’74

131 Day-in-and-day-out pattern

132 D.C. summer setting

 ?? BY ROBERT FISHER 10/8/17 ??
BY ROBERT FISHER 10/8/17

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