Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
SILENT FINALES
ACROSS
1 Late Queen of Soul
7 Places for bears or villains
12 What a recipe may be written
on
20 Puts up
21 Veep under Nixon
22 Formal defense
23 Photo caption for the winning team’s M.V.P. being carried off the field?
25 Get an F in physics?
26 Bert of “The Wizard of Oz”
27 Powerful swell
28 In the style of
30 First-generation JapaneseAmerican
31 Houdini feat
33 Rey, to Luke, in “The Last
Jedi”
36 Place for a stud to go
38 What you’re effectively saying when you sign a waiver?
41 Longtime athlete on the U.S.
Davis Cup team
45 Line through one’s teeth?
47 Torment
48 Full of subtlety
50 Capital of Albania
52 Atlas or Titan, for short
53 Street through the middle
of town
54 Energy secretary Chu under
Obama
55 ____ neutrality
56 Actress Long
58 Extended diatribe
59 Moon race?
61 Router attachments
63 It’s just below 0: Abbr.
64 Medieval poets
67 Piece of writing that’s half in
verse?
70 Some paid rides, informally
71 First leg of an itinerary
72 Avenging spirits in Greek
myth
73 Bad thing to hit with a
hammer
75 “Casey at the Bat” poet
Ernest
77 Wee bit
78 “I’m f-f-freezing!”
80 Coined money
84 Aids for determining
pregnancy, e.g.
86 Pizazz
87 Fellini’s “La ____” 88 Inducing forgetfulness
89 Outlook alternative
91 Dollar signs without the bars
92 Word after who or how
93 Dropping the baton in a relay race, e.g.?
98 Bit of ink
99 Optimum
101 Senator Feinstein
103 Blues legend Waters 106 “____ complicated” 107 Area near the shore 109 Publicans’ servings 112 Area near the shore 115 Warning not given on a golf course?
118 Something on the rise today 119 Actress Belafonte
120 Start to inhabit
121 Baja California city
122 “The Zoo Story” playwright 123 Movie trailer, e.g.
DOWN
1 Name of what was once the world’s second-largest saltwater lake
2 Tabula ____ 3 “Hematite, magnetite — take your pick”?
4 Line that ended with Nicholas II
5 “____ Grace” (title of address) 6 “To quote myself …”
7 Los Angeles neighborhood next to Beverly Grove 8 Wide-eyed
9 Memo starter
10 Half of a cartoon duo 11 Make official?
12 Super Bowl III M.V.P.
13 Nail polish brand with the colors Teal the Cows Come Home and Berry Fairy Fun 14 Talking-____ (reprimands) 15 Big female role on HBO’s “Westworld”
16 Two things you might find in Sherwood Forest?
17 As long as one can remember 18 Work (up)
19 “The Hallucinogenic Toreador” painter 24 Apartment building V.I.P. 29 Mentally sluggish 32 Producer of “60 Minutes” 33 Seniors’ big night out 34 European stratovolcano 35 Astronauts’ wear
36 Young newts
37 Came down
39 Spike
40 Human Rights Campaign
inits.
42 Minor altercation
43 Soccer shot resulting from a
corner kick, often
44 Lawn tools
46 Like Tara, several times in
“Gone With the Wind”?
49 Singer DiFranco
51 Multitime music collaborator
with Bowie
52 Some magazine perfume ads
53 Conductor
56 Country on the Arctic Circle:
Abbr.
57 “Yes for me”
60 The Wildcats of the Big 12
Conf. 61 Brit. legislators
62 [Shrug]
64 Forcibly oppose
65 Following close behind
66 Some celebrity charity events
68 Shirking work, maybe, for
short
69 “The Hurt Locker” menace,
briefly
70 Scads of
72 Club known for 66-Down
74 Enterprise starter
76 Barely make (out)
78 Two-masted vessel
79 Small stream
81 Places for specific social
classes to park?
82 “Any ____?”
83 Heading in the right
direction?
85 Fastener with a flange
86 Bête noire 89 Small bother
90 Pageant whose 1986 runnerup was Halle Berry
94 Procedural spinoff starring
LL Cool J
95 Antarctic penguin
96 Person who’s hard to take
97 Most conservative
100 Page of a movie script?
102 1994 tripartite treaty
103 De bene ____ (legal phrase)
104 In those days
105 Tommy of tennis
107 Temporary cover
108 Hopper
110 Writer ____ Stanley Gardner
111 Tiresias, in “Oedipus Rex”
113 Some gametes
114 Join
116 Capitals’ org.
117 Ruby of “A Raisin in the Sun”