Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
PROVING THEM WRONG
ACROSS
1 Overawe
4 Things falling out of Vogue? 11 Words to a Spanish sweetheart
16 Mover but not a shaker (one hopes)
19 Atlantic 10 Conf. school 20 Where techno music originated
21 Belly 23 Camel’s-hair color 24 Surplus
25 Where the Sun shines? 26 Doesn’t let it go
28 “Star Wars” name
29 Got into a mess? 30 Pie-eyed
31 Wee bit
32 Call it a day … or a career 33 Sunday delivery: Abbr. 34 Woolly ruminant
35 Very lowbrow 37 Fabulous fabulist 39 Achievement 40 Riverboat hazard 42 Linguists’ interests
46 Boat that landed on 94-Down 49 Final, countrywide competition
53 ____ tap
54 Go (for)
55 Salary negotiator 56 Alternated
58 Dress down
60 Winner of 11 Grand Slam tennis titles
61 Common seasoning for Italian sausage
62 Elected
63 Sports axiom refuted by this puzzle
69 “The Handmaid’s Tale” author
72 Not with it
73 Place in a 1969 western 77 Serious devotee 78 Papal-conclave members 82 Ghostly
83 He said, “It’s not bragging if you can back it up” 84 Group with five members in this puzzle, with “the” 85 Court plea
87 Sleep stage
88 Relief
89 Play the part of 90 Father of Phobos, the god
of fear
92 Sound of the South
97 Liability of note?
100 Swagger
102 ____ Minella (Muppet
monkey)
105 City ENE of Cleveland, O.
107 Lady’s title
108 Anticipate
109 Ball bearer
110 Fruit-soda brand
111 Temple of Isis site
112 Where General Mills is
headquartered
114 Bank trouble?
116 Dated
117 “Be there in a jiffy!”
118 Encountered
119 Not be straight
120 Cold War-era inits.
121 Eppie’s adoptive father, in a
George Eliot novel
122 Suffragist Elizabeth Cady
____
123 Not opposin’
DOWN
1 Is up to the task
2 Winston Churchill, notably
3 One concerned with aging?
4 Wedding pair
5 State since 1864: Abbr.
6 McQueen or King
7 Things that corrections correct
8 Tour hiree
9 Aggressive types
10 Typical intro?
11 Heavy winds
12 Maternally related
13 Colleague of Freud
14 Encountered
15 Relatives of bobolinks
16 Only African-American to win an Oscar, Tony and Emmy for acting
17 Relevant, legally
18 With 47-Down, driver’s
question
22 “Say cheese!”
27 County name in 30 states
32 House speaker after Boehner
36 Sidesplitter
38 ____ platter
39 “Runaway” singer Shannon,
1961 41 “I’m off”
43 “My dear man”
44 Novelist Patchett
45 Fastball, in baseball slang
47 See 18-Down
48 Sharp
49 Pick up
50 Back
51 Unaccompanied
52 Company name ender after
“&”
53 First U.S. city to host the
Olympics
57 “Baseball” documentarian
Burns
58 Half a step?
59 What ballplayers look forward to after playing on the road
61 Sustained
62 Cartoon collectible
64 Mortar carrier 65 Hampton ____
66 Words of confidence
67 Court plea, briefly
68 Opera set in 1800 Rome
69 Not even close?
70 Floor piece
71 German hunting dog
74 1904 Jack London novel
75 Your, to Yves
76 Caste member
78 State with five teams in the
84-Across: Abbr.
79 Double-platinum album for
Steely Dan
80 Mythological bird
81 Harriet Beecher Stowe novel subtitled “A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”
82 Lining up against
84 Ways of doing things, for
short
86 Numerical prefix 88 Parlor pieces
91 Bankrupts
93 Points (to)
94 See 46-Across
95 Actress Ryder
96 Admits
98 Charlotte ____ (Caribbean
capital)
99 Proffer
100 Greek island where Pythagoras and Epicurus were born
101 Delivery that’s usually
expected
102 Prop for a lion tamer
103 Insurance giant
104 Some calls on a police hotline
106 Kind of chips you shouldn’t eat
111 Before being outed, for short 113 H.S. study
115 Native Oklahoman