Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
BECAUSE I SAID SO!
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1 Fish-tank buildup
6 Bog product
10 P.M. times
14 Suisse peak
18 Disney film with a titular
heroine
19 Pricing word
20 Christmas color for Elvis
21 Pork cut
22 Mechanic’s go-to parenting
phrase?
26 Painter whose motifs include
ants and eggs
27 Give the nod
28 ‘‘Check it out for yourself’’
29 Mauna ____
31 French liver
33 Some remote power sources 35 Up to 11 meters for a
pterodactyl
37 Personal trainer’s go-to
parenting phrase?
43 Like some restrictions
44 Stephen King’s first
published novel
45 Your and my relative?
46 Roof overhang
48 Horror star Chaney
49 In the past
50 Affectionate greeting
51 Arid
52 Small building block
55 Conductor’s go-to parenting
phrase?
63 Liquor in tiramisù
64 TV drama with spinoffs set in
Hawaii and New Orleans
65 Cornerstone abbr.
66 Eightfold
69 Animal working in the D.M.V.
in ‘‘Zootopia’’
72 Texas politician Beto
74 It’s a drag
75 Singer James
77 Share accommodations
79 Mathematician’s go-to
parenting phrase?
86 Emmy-winning Ward
87 Lemon ____
88 Insult
89 Hosp. area
90 Clean Air Act org.
92 ‘‘Star Wars’’ order
93 Word seen at the end of many Jean-luc Godard movies 94 From where
97 From the get-go
100 Air traffic controller’s go-to
parenting phrase?
103 Accepts the facts
105 Her pronoun partner
106 Farmyard mamas
107 2003 Will Ferrell movie 108 Spooky
110 Lacking the resources
113 Not out of the running
117 Librarian’s go-to parenting
phrase?
121 Google ____ (Zoom
alternative)
122 Chemical suffixes
123 Backless shoe
124 Maybe one, maybe both 125 GPS calculations, in brief 126 ‘‘I did it!’’
127 Jabbers
128 Jen ____, 2021-22 White
House press secretary
DOWN
1 Surrounded by
2 Tragic showgirl of song
3 Chutzpah
4 Like PETA
5 ____ de vie
6 Gift for writing
7 Noshes
8 Feel that gym session
9 What something might appear out of or disappear into
10 Epitome of simplicity
11 Guam’s features a sailboat
and palm tree
12 ‘‘The Burden of Proof’’ author 13 Like many resorts
14 Ingredient in homemade
hand sanitizer
15 Reed of the Velvet
Underground
16 Sellers franchise, with ‘‘The’’ 17 Charm
23 Poker option
24 Solo
25 Baroque painter Guido
30 ____ port in a storm
32 Nail-polish brand with a
‘‘Tickle My France-y’’ shade 34 Part of a homemade
Halloween costume
36 Animal that turns white in
the winter 37 Large number
38 ‘‘I am not what I am’’ speaker 39 Pioneering sci-fi film that was snubbed for the Best Visual Effects Oscar for its use of computers
40 Road-trip determination
41 Decade in which many in Gen
Z were born
42 Main ingredient in poi
47 Kind of diagram
50 In this matter
51 Arose
53 City on the Irtysh River
54 Parcel (out)
56 Elementary particle named
for a Greek letter
57 Called a strike, say
58 Like some potato chips and
language
59 Part of NATO: Abbr.
60 Jardins d’enfants, par
exemple 61 Tech-and-culture magazine
since 1993
62 Has left the office, e.g.
66 Jay-z and Kanye West song that samples ‘‘Try a Little Tenderness’’
67 Pigeon coop
68 What a bad dancer is said
to have
70 Large number
71 ____ Ledbetter, aka Lead Belly 73 Newswire co.
76 A4 automaker
78 ‘‘____ it!’’ (informal
challenge)
80 Rock used to make
ultramarine
81 Pretentious
82 Snack cakes with creamy
swirls
83 It might be changed or made
up
84 ‘‘Look!’’ in Latin
85 Took to court 91 Miscreant’s record, maybe 92 Like a clear night
93 Rival you kind of like
94 ‘‘That’s amazing!’’
95 Color classification
96 Naval Academy grads
97 Basic personal information 98 ‘‘Spill it!’’
99 Flow slowly
101 ‘‘Not gonna happen!’’
102 Counts (on)
104 Tropical vine
109 ‘‘Brown ____ Girl’’
111 Pool shade
112 Kind of discount
114 Nothin’
115 Words of reassurance
116 Actress Garr
118 Hot spot in England?
119 Airport inits.
120 Dance with a paradiddle step