Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

IT’S ALL ON THE TABLE

- edited by Will Shortz

A note on Texas hold’em (useful for completing this puzzle): Players seek to combine up to two of the cards they hold with cards laid out on the table to make the best possible five-card poker hand.

ACROSS

1 Italian almond-flavored cookies

9 Highland boating spot

13 Thick slices

18 Local at St. Mark’s Square

19 Put right

21 Bridal path

22 Plant with clusters of tiny

white flowers

23 Come forth

24 Do OK, academical­ly

25 Instinctiv­e

26 Source of the phrase ‘‘Look before you leap’’

28 Opportunit­y for making

profession­al connection­s

30 Little cells

31 Traditiona­l Easter entree

33 MGM rival, once

34 Part of a sword

35 Hurriedly

38 More versed in esoterica, maybe

41 Reason one might not go out

for a long time?

43 ‘‘Forbidden’’ fragrance

46 Biblical verb with thou

47 One after the other

50 Model Banks

52 Bhutanese bovines

53 Fire-resistant tree

57 Fruit also called blackthorn

58 Works as a mixologist

60 Raid and plunder

62 Taken (with)

65 Waterworks, e.g.: Abbr.

66 Zip

69 Put on the map, say

71 Control element in medical trials

73 Anger

75 Do some hemming, but not hawing

76 Zip

78 Waters of the world, figurative­ly

80 From Serbia or Croatia, say

81 Anne Hathaway’s role in 2010’s ‘‘Alice in Wonderland’’

83 Actress Perlman of ‘‘Cheers’’

85 Uses a ride-ordering service

86 Public discussion venues

88 1975 Wimbledon winner

90 Daybreaks

92 Roulette bets with nearly 1:1 odds

94 Old imperial title

96 Steve Martin, Tina Fey and Drew Barrymore, all more than five times

101 Fraser of 1999’s ‘‘The Mummy’’

103 Groups within groups

106 100 percent

107 Part of U.S.D.A.: Abbr.

108 Original first name of Mickey Mouse

111 It can have a French or pistol grip

112 What can keep a bubble from bursting

115 Trumpeter Armstrong

119 F.D.R. initiative for workers’ rights

120 Sci-fi author Asimov

121 ‘‘That’s cool, man’’

123 Some loungewear

126 ‘‘Whole ____ Love’’ (Led Zeppelin hit)

127 Artifacts

128 Held in high regard

129 Scornful look

130 Philosophe­r Descartes

131 1998 Matt Damon film featuring this puzzle’s game

DOWN

1 Pop culture sister site of The Onion

2 ‘‘I’m back’’

3 Flowers like marigolds and petunias

4 Takes on, as a tenant

5 French summer

6 ‘‘____ consummati­on/ Devoutly to be wish’d’’: Hamlet

7 Yarn

8 Aplenty

9 Apollo vehicle, for short

10 Legislativ­e vacancy

11 Insertion mark

12 Like a geocentric orbit in which the orbital period is more than 24 hours

13 Wise

14 Actor Schreiber

15 Footnote indicator

16 They might be down for a nap

17 Economy part

19 Some tow jobs, for short

20 Aired again

27 Hour, in Italy

29 Resort chain since 1950

30 Tuna type

32 QB stat: Abbr.

35 The Tabard in ‘‘The Canterbury Tales,’’ e.g.

36 They’re picked by the picky

37 Schleps

39 123-Across’s holding that wins this puzzle’s game

40 Letter starter

42 Indicator on a clock .?.?. or one of four in this puzzle?

44 How words may be recited

45 Language in which ‘‘khoobsurat’’ means ‘‘beautiful’’

48 Frolic

49 ‘‘America’’ singer, 1981

51 Noted sparkling wine region 53 Some gear for a gig

54 Register ring-up

55 Fore, for the H.M.S. Pinafore

56 Consume

59 Recycling receptacle­s

61 Site of a counter offer?

63 Literature, theater,

filmmaking and others

64 Rave attendees, for example

66 ____ the way

67 Title meaning ‘‘commander’’

68 Benching targets, informally

70 Statistics, e.g.

72 Home of Iolani Palace

74 Place to wear goggles

77 Cardinal point?

79 Good judgment

81 Small songbird

82 Fireplaces

84 Em or Bee, e.g.

86 Missouri site of 2014 civil rights protests

87 Think too highly of

89 Entering gingerly

91 Counterpar­t of ‘‘Thx’’

93 Humphrey Bogart role

95 Common component of a tiki-bar cocktail

97 Honest and caring

98 Diana Ross, once

99 One picking up the tab

100 Spot

101 ‘‘Purple’’ and ‘‘Thai’’ herbs

102 Polite refusal

104 Big swigs

105 Sign of a full house

109 Public-transit customer

110 Patterned fabric

113 Kismet

114 Place to dine on a train

116 Account creator, maybe

117 ‘‘____ Excited’’ (Pointer Sisters song)

118 Yearly January speech to

Congress: Abbr.

122 Chill

124 Give new hope to

125 1960s campus activist grp.

 ?? PUZZLE BY GREG SLOVACEK ?? 07/31/2022
PUZZLE BY GREG SLOVACEK 07/31/2022

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