Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
RIGHT ON THE MONEY
ACROSS
1 Landscaper’s purchase
4 Downright
9 [If you’ll allow me to butt in
.?.?. ]
13 ‘‘Gotcha!’’
16 Anton ____, food critic in
‘‘Ratatouille’’
17 Come-on
18 ____ years (old age)
20 Word with purpose or
personality
21 ‘‘____ you ready?’’
22 Enjoyed oneself
24 Major part of astronomy?
25 Tous ____ jours (French for
‘‘every day’’)
26 Something dot something,
say
27 Features of telephone
directories
29 Emerged as a victor
31 Grovel
34 Writer Ayn
35 Fight (for)
36 Rest atop
37 Euphemistic cry of frustration
41 Sweetly, in scores
42 Actress Close
43 Japanese buckwheat noodle
44 2022 culinary black comedy,
with ‘‘The’’
45 Peabody-winning journalist
Linda
47 Prefix with sphere
49 It can be a lifesaver, in brief
50 One might read, ‘‘Caution:
Messy eater!’’
51 Twilled fabric
53 Satyrs, say
55 Old nomad of Central Asia
56 Playroom collection
58 Where to see heads of
gladiators, informally
60 Little fights
62 Degrees for most profs
64 Poet Ezra
65 Dark green Indian dish
67 ‘‘That was hilarious!’’ in
textspeak
70 Totally committed to
72 Serves right?
76 Stuff refineries refine
77 Classifies
80 Part of a furniture
measurement
82 60 minuti
83 Senator Klobuchar 84 Whole shebang
85 Figure of speech in which words are reversed for effect, like ‘‘Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you’’
87 Vassal’s plot
89 Miss
90 Goldman ____
93 Stylish women’s shoes
94 Hasty signature, often
96 Figures in Islamic mythology
97 Twit, to a Brit
98 Not fake
99 Formulates, as a plan
101 Craving
102 Movie hero introduced in
1981
106 Novelist Patchett
108 Go down slightly
111 King Tut, during most of his
reign
112 Titular feature of fiction’s
Lisbeth Salander
115 No. 34
116 Oomph
117 ____ vincit amor
118 Displayed
119 Trawler’s need
120 Red army member?
121 Caught
122 Blobby parts of blobfish
123 Much of the planet Saturn
DOWN
1 Product-safety indicator
2 Princess Fiona, e.g.
3 Treats favorably/has a very
good effect
4 Fall fruit
5 It may deliver a punch
6 What may come before
Today
7 Gig part
8 Get bigger
9 Jacinda ____, New Zealand prime minister who, at 37, was at the time the world’s youngest female head of government
10 Blindly punch
11 Big, big, big
12 Like a momentous occasion/
Office communiqué
13 Someone’s je ne sais quoi
14 Padlock holder
15 ‘‘Sorry to say .?.?. ’’
17 Speaks loudly
19 Firefighter famous for
extinguishing burning wells
20 Lollipop with a ‘‘mystery
flavor’’
23 Film company behind
‘‘Amadeus’’ and ‘‘Platoon’’
28 The ‘‘E’’ of E.S.L., for short
30 ‘‘Back in the good old days
.?.?. ’’
32 Claim
33 50-50, e.g.
35 First ____ (Shakespeare
collection)
37 Movers and shakers
38 Robotic anime genre
39 Enter
40 Switches allegiances, as a
spy
41 You’re gonna pay for this!
42 Targets of some wipes
43 Got less hairy
46 Bracelet bit
48 Peak in the ‘‘Odyssey’’
52 Masters/elaborated
53 Gives kudos 54 Flying fish-eaters
57 Pool locale
59 Application of polish, e.g.
61 Grp. that goes on tour
63 Novelist Tami
65 They’re no longer ‘‘fresh’’
66 Prefix with thesis
67 Enjoys doing nothing
68 Taunt, in a way
69 Philadelphia athlete
70 Drench
71 Worker at the Genius Bar
73 Large, as a lead
74 Blow
75 Give lip service?
78 Captain of M.L.B.’S Swingin’
A’s of the 1970s
79 What a Tyrannosaurus rex
grapples with?
81 ‘‘Are you satisfied?’’/
Common fairy-tale conclusion
86 ‘‘Not a problem’’
88 Part of a potter’s process/ Parts of a building’s safety system
90 Early evening hour
91 Actress Jennifer
92 Lead-in to gender
95 Arthur of ‘‘The Golden Girls’’
96 Christopher Columbus, e.g.
99 Motherless calf
100 ‘‘Socrate’’ composer
102 Chichén ____ (ancient Mayan
city)
103 Hamburg refusal
104 Bad impression?
105 Primatologist Goodall
107 Refusals
109 Store whose name is an
acronym
110 Some motel prohibitions
113 Year abroad?
114 They might be wall-mounted