Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

WHAT’S SHAKING?

- NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Boasts

6 Longtime anthropomo­rphic

aardvark on PBS

12 Australia’s national women’s

basketball team

17 Sounds “everywhere,” in a

children’s song

18 Gloomy

19 Soup server

20 Add insult to injury

22 “Whenever I want you, all I have to do” is this, in an Everly Brothers hit

23 Farming prefix

24 “Gracias a ____”

25 Jam producer

27 Jack Frost’s bite

29 Bits of terre in la mer

30 Churns

32 Author Harper

33 He loved Lucy

34 Dry

35 Tea type

36 “A Life for the ____” (Mikhail

Glinka opera)

38 1940s vice president who

went on to become president 39 “In Praise of Folly” writer

41 How to take glib promises

44 Dog/dog separator

45 Subject of many a

negotiatio­n

46 Days ____

47 Jeanne d’arc, e.g.: Abbr.

48 Enlivens

52 Big feller?

53 Fails to be

54 City on the Brazos River

55 Propeller blades?

57 ____ Crunch

59 Gobs

64 Item often numbered from

3to9

65 Boardwalk buy

68 Gush

69 Time magazine’s Person of

the Century runner-up, 1999 71 Strain

72 ____ Westover, author of the 2018 best-selling memoir “Educated”

73 Big name in theaters

74 Till compartmen­t

76 “Silent Spring” subject, for

short

78 Nothing-burger

80 Descartes’s conclusion

83 Energy

84 Least interestin­g

86 It gets the ball rolling

87 2002 Winter Olympics locale 90 Looks through

94 Abdominal-pain producer

95 Way of securing payment

96 Fizzy drinks

98 Knitting stitch

99 “Holy ____!”

100 Word after bargain or

overhead

101 Emulated a kitten

102 ____ expense (free)

103 Org. with the slogan “Every

child. One voice.”

104 Brand with the slogan “The

Art of Childhood”

107 What flies usually become 109 Wimp

110 It’s held by a winner

112 You, according to Jesus in

Matthew 5:13

115 Follow

116 Reflexive pronoun

117 Fishes

118 Moved like Jagr?

119 Shaded growths

120 Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, to

teenagers

DOWN

1 Orlando ____, two-time Gold

Glove Award winner

2 Almost won

3 Martial artist’s belt

4 Appurtenan­ce for a T.S.A.

agent

5 Many Dorothy Parker pieces 6 Big 12 college town

7 Column crosser

8 Brings (out)

9 Time of day

10 Sch. with 50+ alums who

went on to become astronauts 11 Warning sign

12 Blast from the past

13 Setting for a classic Georges

Seurat painting, en français

14 Fruity quaff

15 South American cowboys

16 Like Havarti or Muenster

17 Reveille player

20 Jack up

21 Repeated part of a pop song 26 Kind of wheel

28 Peak

31 Heroine of Bizet’s “The Pearl

Fishers”

33 Cozy spot

35 Shows how it’s done

36 Climate change, notably

37 State

38 Refried bean

40 Astronaut Jemison of the

space shuttle Endeavour

42 Reduction in what one owes 43 Headaches

45 Nursery-rhyme couple

48 Gulp

49 Prefix with medic or military 50 Princess Diana, for one

51 Negotiator with G.M.

53 Suckling

56 Disco ____ (“The Simpsons”

character)

58 Memorized

60 Exasperate

61 Fabric with sheen

62 Actress ____ Rachel Wood 63 Potential source of a political

scandal

66 Evasive maneuver

67 Opposite of “to”

70 Behave like a helicopter

parent

75 Attendant of Desdemona in

“Othello”

77 Lightly roast

79 Continenta­l abbr.

80 Clustered

81 Meted out

82 Best-actress Oscar winner

between Streep and Field

84 Agent of change

85 Attention seekers

88 Critical

89 Fictional exemplar of

Christmas spirit

90 Stir-fried noodle dish

91 Sews up

92 Senator Joni and Dadaist

Max

93 What water in a bucket

might do

97 Source of the line “Man does

not live by bread alone”: Abbr. 100 Boxer, for example

101 Handcuffs

104 This, for one

105 “____ be in England”

106 Not so much

108 Post

111 “Tut-tut”

113 Argentina’s leading daily

sports newspaper

114 Super ending

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