Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
MIND THE GAP
ACROSS
1 Experts
6 Accord
12 The Harry Potter novels, e.g. 18 External parasites 20 Minuscule, cutesily
21 Not yet packed, say 22 Another nickname for Old Abe … or a description of the circled letter?
24 Got fit
25 Funny Brooks
26 Eight: Prefix 27 Astronaut’s place … 29 Aves.
30 Let out, as a sigh 33 Venus, but not Serena 34 Truckful
35 A lid usually covers it at night 37 Naval rank: Abbr. 38 Counterpart of Venus 42 Screen or partition … 47 Kitchen-sink attachment 50 Much-disputed part of an airplane
51 Where decongestant spray goes …
53 Animal with a snout 54 Candidate’s goal
57 “____ time” 58 Discontent 59 Alternatively
60 Kind
61 Cellular messenger
62 CBS drama beginning in 2018 63 Negative connector 64 Cyberexpert’s worry … 69 ____ Poke (caramel candy) 72 ____-rock
73 Each “O” of BOGO 74 “____ and the Real Girl” (2007 comedy)
75 “What have I done!”
79 Part of an auto garage’s business
81 Hawaiian mash-up? 82 Product much advertised during football games 83 Clutch
84 Office device … 87 “That’s my intention”
89 At the end of the day 90 Heist figure … 93 General ____ chicken 94 Bear: Sp.
96 Soon
97 Memphis-to-Nashville dir.
98 Coinage during the 2008
presidential election
101 “Spider-Man” baddie
103 ____ drive
106 Bit of good fortune …
111 Something you might get your
mitts on
112 By birth
113 Away from work for a while
114 Store banner …
118 Early ____
119 Scowling
120 Worry in East Africa
121 Something to chew on
122 Some see-through curtains
123 “Ni-i-i-ice!”
DOWN
1 Common phobia source
2 Overturn
3 Omani money
4 Powerful arm
5 What a “singleton” is, in
baseball lingo
6 City from which the U.S.
moved its embassy in 2018
7 Big retailer of camping gear
8 Middle-earth denizen
9 About
10 Keep busy
11 Dr. Seuss title animal
12 Be a lousy bedmate, say
13 Physicist Mach
14 Little protestation
15 “Ain’t I somethin’?!”
16 Cabinet dept.
17 Kind
19 Is on the up and up?
21 Part of a place setting
23 Mom-and-pop org.
28 Followers of talks
31 “____ tu” (Verdi aria)
32 Chose not to
34 Whigs’ opponents
36 “Water, water, everywhere,”
per Coleridge
38 “You’re in my spot!”
39 Like an increasing amount of immigration to the U.S. nowadays
40 Rizzo in “Midnight Cowboy” 41 More cunning
42 The “r” of r = d/t
43 Kind of hygiene
44 Experts in the field?
45 Publisher’s announcement
46 Wet
48 Visits a school, maybe
49 Feeling with a deadline
approaching
52 Like carbon 12, but not
carbon 14
55 Trip up
56 Intrinsically
60 Eyeball layer
61 Calif.’s 101, e.g.
62 Containing iron
65 Gung-ho
66 Quick signatures, quickly 67 Grammy winner Corinne
Bailey ____
68 Poet who originated the
phrase “harmony in discord”
69 Apostle of Ireland, for short
70 Lounges
71 Have because of
76 Respond to a bumper sticker,
maybe
77 Bill
78 Lilac or lavender
80 Section at a zoo
81 Distant source of radio waves
82 “X” isn’t really one
83 Void
85 Wallop
86 Org. founded under Nixon
88 General rule
91 “Aw, nuts!” 92 Converts to binary, e.g.
95 Literally, “great O’s”
98 “Pretty slick!”
99 Expression of dismay
100 “Gah!”
102 Egg: Prefix
103 Join
104 Have a feeling
105 Bring into the world
106 Truckful
107 Computer command
108 Problem for a plumber
109 Remained fresh
110 ____ chips (trendy snack food)
115 Scot’s refusal 116 Scottie’s warning
117 ____ Amsterdam (name on colonial maps)