Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY KATHY BLOOMER 10/16/2022

ACROSS

1 Complete jerk

7 Experience equanimity

15 Word with ghost or pirate

19 Inventor Tesla

20 Champion

21 Old-fashioned trial

transcribe­r

22 ‘‘When will the leaky faucet

get fixed?’’ e.g.?

24 ‘‘____ Speaks!’’ (Marx brother

autobiogra­phy)

25 Equinox mo.

26 PC key

27 Actor Astin

28 Spam generator

29 Gridiron gains: Abbr.

30 Bygone theater chain

33 Lithe

36 Spam containers

37 Opposed to, in dialect

39 Song from back in the day

41 German physicist with an

eponymous law

42 Focal points

43 Worldly

45 Hoot

46 Part of a how-to manual

47 Oklahoma city named for a

character in a Tennyson poem 48 Curt summons

49 Remarks further

50 It may be unlimited in a phone plan 51 One-named singer whose last name is Adkins

52 Faulkner’s ‘‘As ____ Dying’’ 53 Setting for a classic Agatha

Christie novel

54 Opt for ‘‘deluxe,’’ say

56 Baby louse

57 The brother in 24-Across,

for one

58 Harvester of the future

59 Potentiall­y offensive, say

62 Easy pill to swallow?

64 Candy bar whose name is an

exclamatio­n

66 2015 inductee into the World

Golf Hall of Fame

68 Bloke

69 Covers, as the bill

70 Labneh go-with

72 Most popular dog breed in

the U.S., familiarly

73 Gives a whirl 75 Without: Lat.

76 A bunch of

77 Common stain on a baseball

uniform

80 Adversarie­s

81 Bit of spice, figurative­ly

82 Writers not likely to win

literary prizes

83 Floppy features of basset

hounds

84 Asset

85 Possible cause for road rage 86 Boos

87 Editorial override

88 Word before crow or dirt

89 Prop for a painter

90 Former attorney general

Holder

91 Salty droplet

92 Home to the University of

Georgia

94 Begins giving solid food, say 96 Green-lights

99 Floating

101 Whip

103 Imitate

104 Country bordering Oman,

for short

105 Versatile neutral shade

106 Where you’d find sap for syrup?

111 Sam the ____ (patriotic Muppet)

112 Condition treated with insulin 113 Rang

114 Wedding invitation enclosure, in brief

115 The other you 116 Protests, in a way

DOWN

1 Fidgety

2 Spawned

3 Says ‘‘John, Paul, .?.?. and

Ringo’’?

4 Post ____ (occurring after the

event)

5 Basic

6 Brewski

7 Help-page initialism

8 URL ender

9 Times outside office hours, in

personals

10 Goes berserk

11 About 6.5 inches, on a standard piano 12 Virginia senator Tim 13 From ____ Z

14 Currency that features ‘‘The Tale of Genji’’ on one of its bank notes

15 Show up naked, perhaps?

16 Emma Watson’s role in the Harry Potter films

17 Not marked permanentl­y, say 18 Lounge chair location 21 ‘‘Yellowjack­ets’’ airer, for short

23 Summer abroad

28 Plant fiber used to make

some jewelry

31 M __ U __ H?

32 It’s a slippery slope

34 Loss of the winning ticket? 35 A layoff, crudely

38 Like venison

40 Salon specialtie­s

43 Exploiting

44 Kind of map 46 Leo with the 1977 No. 1 hit ‘‘You Make Me Feel Like Dancing’’

49 Cornhole player’s asset

50 New beginnings

51 It may be vegetal or fruity 53 Lightly bite, as a pup might 54 Sappho and Mirabai

55 Certain fed. security

57 Alternativ­es to shakes

58 Drinks that are ‘‘slammed’’ 60 King and queen?

61 Exhibiting the effects of too

little sleep, say

63 The three R’s?

65 Stays optimistic

67 Bottomless void

71 Quill go-with

74 Note in the C minor scale 75 Raw power

76 Salon job, informally

77 Develops, as an idea 78 Like some high-quality bonds 79 They might tie the room

together

81 Bout enders, for short

82 Caballero, e.g.

84 Bog contents

85 Hosts

86 Nag

89 Dress for graduation

93 Razzle-dazzle

95 Contented sigh

97 Superman’s birth name

98 A pomegranat­e can contain a

few hundred of these

100 Corkage ____

102 Name of either brother in a

classic Nickelodeo­n sitcom 106 Computing pioneer Lovelace 107 Teeny

108 Rule, informally

109 Menu eponym

110 Pint contents

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