Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 A is one
8 Ozone-harming compounds,
for short
12 Actor Guy
18 ‘‘How awesome!’’
19 Play with, as a cat might a toy
mouse
20 Naysayers
21 Five guys?
23 It might have desks and
drawers
24 Shade of purple
25 Those: Sp.
26 Green giant?
28 Ambulance driver, for short
30 Finished first
32 ‘‘____-ching!’’
33 Just
34 Like basalt and obsidian
37 Something sent on a Listserv
40 Police broadcast, for short
41 ‘‘Special Agent ____’’ (animated Disney show about a bear)
42 Main character in Larry McMurtry’s ‘‘Lonesome Dove’’
43 Apt name for a Christmas
caroler?
44 ____ Clarendon, first openly
transgender W.N.B.A. player
48 Jolly rancher?
51 Hole
52 Diagnosis characterized by
repetitive behavior, in brief
53 Focus of a marathon runner’s
training
54 Grand opening?
55 Sides (with)
58 ____ school
59 Dessert with some assembly
required
61 Grammy recipient Lisa
63 What pro bono lawyers waive
65 General mills?
69 The British 20-pence and
50-pence coins, geometrically
71 Member of a South Asian
diaspora
72 Photo finish
75 Every last drop
76 Bank, often
78 Exams offered four times a
year, for short
81 Grown-up pup 82 ‘‘I promise I won’t laugh,’’
often
83 Certain guiding principle
84 Texas instruments?
87 Meadow grass with brushlike
spikes
90 Fermented Baltic drink
91 ‘‘Ugh, gross’’
92 Stag’s date?
93 Doc treating sinus infections
94 X, in linear functions
95 Dolphins’ div.
97 Like many a company softball
game
99 ‘‘That stinks!’’
100 Subj. devoting extra time to
idioms
102 ____ milk
103 Band aid?
107 Truce
109 Litter-box emanation
113 Efflux
114 Old navy?
117 Like many a grillmaster
118 Supermodel Kate
119 Headache helper
120 Took a little look
121 [Hey, over here!]
122 Rough patch
DOWN
1 Standing on
2 Texter’s ‘‘Hilarious!’’
3 Soy something
4 Ones working block by block?
5 Hoodwink
6 Drift apart
7 Certain Ivy Leaguers
8 Pac-12 school, informally
9 Qualification shorthand
10 ‘‘Ple-e-e-ease?’’
11 Help when writing a letter
12 Its national drink is the pisco
sour
13 State of disorder
14 Some vacation rentals
15 Lube up again
16 Old pal
17 Actress ____ Creed-Miles
19 South American capital
20 Figures
22 Statements of will?
27 ‘‘The power of global trade’’
sloganeer 29 ____ Millions
31 Into crystals and auras, say
34 Its calendar began in A.D.
622
35 Inflated feeling of infallibility
36 Letters on a stamp
38 ____ B or ____ C of the Spice
Girls
39 Actor Alan of ‘‘Crimes and
Misdemeanors’’
40 Binghamton Rumble Ponies
or Birmingham Barons
41 ‘‘My b!’’
43 Sign
44 Feudal lord
45 Plots of western films?
46 Brain-freeze cause, maybe
47 Does a summer job?
49 Warrant
50 Magic can be seen here
51 Relating to land, old-style
56 They can help you see or
taste 57 Like the odds of finding a
needle in a haystack
60 Airline based near Tel Aviv
62 Deserving of a timeout, say
64 Big spread
66 ‘‘No need to elaborate’’
67 Like the Hmong language
68 ____ Ng, author of ‘‘Little
Fires Everywhere’’
69 12/24, e.g.
70 ____ Perlman, role for Timothée Chalamet in ‘‘Call Me by Your Name’’
73 Means of divination
74 ‘‘What ____?’’
77 Indicate availability, in a way
79 ‘‘Weekend, here I come!’’
80 Side dish at a barbecue
85 Upsilon preceder
86 Producer of the world’s most
widely read consumer catalog
88 Genre for One Direction
89 ‘‘.?.?. finished!’’ 90 Ties
94 Android alternative
95 Exclamation after a sigh
96 Teeny-tiny
97 Sporty wheels
98 Eccentric
99 Explorer Richard who made the first flight over the South Pole
101 Attempt to control the
narrative, in a way
103 Lava, e.g.
104 Took to court
105 Omar of ‘‘Love & Basketball’’
106 Rolls around while
exercising?
108 Quick talk
110 What nyctophobia is the
fear of
111 Slobbery cartoon character
112 ‘‘____ over’’ (words after
letting off steam)
115 Often-contracted word
116 Tech sch. in Troy, N.Y.