Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- edited by Will Shortz

PUNCH LINES

ACROSS

1 Pink, purple and blue Pride display, familiarly

7 Hound

10 Kind of opening

13 Frontwoman for the Pussycats 18 Nipple rings

20 Target of an inventory scan 22 Acting like

23 Fault line?

25 Qualifier for a date

26 Olaf’s creator in ‘‘Frozen’’

27 Nickname that drops ‘‘An-’’ 28 A gig has a thousand of these 29 Permitted

30 Permitted

31 Fine line?

35 Atomic number of neon

36 Preserves things?

37 Shaped like a kiwifruit

38 Processes

41 ____ attachment

44 Anatomical stabilizer

45 The Green Hornet’s assistant 46 Not down, in a way

47 Fishing line?

53 Mediterran­ean morsel

55 Get just right

56 Long-running police

procedural, for short

57 Catalan artist Joan

58 Thought the world of

59 ‘‘To Kill a Mockingbir­d’’

setting

61 Match well with

62 First color-tv manufactur­er 63 Subway line?

68 Tittle

69 1970s-’80s Supreme Court

justice ____ F. Powell Jr.

70 Scams

73 With an eager spirit

76 Landed

77 Flying formations

79 March ____

80 South American grassland

81 Assembly line?

84 Variety

85 Boxing stats

88 Celestial shape

89 British bottoms

90 Ladybugs and fireflies

92 Some sports-car features

95 Currency replaced by the euro

97 North American fish with toxic roe

98 Power line?

101 Simple card game

104 Groundskee­ping equipment

106 It’s signed after a break

107 Otherworld­ly creatures, for short

108 Z, to Zeno

109 Illegal offering

110 Subject line?

114 Passage of rite?

115 Two outs left, in baseball

116 Performed really badly

117 Timetable: Abbr.

118 ‘‘There’s more to the story, right?’’

119 ‘‘The Shining’’ prop

120 Quakes

DOWN

1 There’s a hole in one

2 Gloater’s cry

3 One-named indie singer with

the 2007 hit ‘‘1234’’

4 Kinks hit that starts, ‘‘I met her in a club down in old Soho’’

5 Neighbor of Ctrl

6 Sense of orientatio­n

7 Peacock parent

8 Exclamatio­n of amazement

9 Alternativ­e to nana

10 Shake slightly

11 Ukraine’s third-mostpopulo­us city

12 Where a lot of lying happens

13 Item in a trunk

14 Post-surgery prescripti­on

15 Private line?

16 Motivator

17 ‘‘Crikey!’’

19 Brings in

21 Moved like a cat burglar

24 Word after dead or data

29 Volunteer’s declaratio­n

31 Soothe

32 Communal housing arrangemen­ts

33 /, in math

34 Director Lupino

36 Co-founder of the Joining Forces initiative, with Michelle Obama 39 One role in a classic interrogat­ion trope

40 Zoomed

41 World Heritage Site in Sicily

42 Ground grain

43 Dame Edna, for Barry Humphries

44 ‘‘Enough! I get the picture already!’’

45 Capital of Japan until 1868

48 Hostile state

49 Volunteer’s declaratio­n

50 Like many retired professors

51 Petty arguments

52 TLC or RUN-D.M.C.

54 Person of interest?

58 HBO comedy about a sports agent

60 Salamander named after an Aztec deity

61 ____ knife

64 Gives a hand?

65 Hot spot

66 Genealogis­t’s chart

67 Kids and nannies

71 Liberated

72 N.S.A. agents, e.g.

73 Superficia­l, in a way

74 Rich with metaphor

75 Party line?

77 What might lead to a bridge

78 Subside

82 Second-year: Abbr.

83 Bunny ____ (photo prank) 86 Janitor’s ringful

87 Spanish ‘‘bear’’

91 Kind of clef

92 Switched

93 Actress Thompson of ‘‘Westworld’’

94 Canadian Tulip Festival location

95 Light-headed sorts?

96 Selling points

99 School name that sounds like

a Canadian territory

100 Hip Hop Awards channel

101 Gestationa­l metric

102 First-stringers

103 Posts in a rage, perhaps

104 Degrees for C.F.O.S

105 Bog plant

108 New Mexican tribe

110 ____-courtin’

111 Shot in the arm, slangily

112 Word after stink or pink

113 What’s what in Oaxaca

 ?? PUZZLE BY DANIEL GRINBERG ?? 02/18/2024
PUZZLE BY DANIEL GRINBERG 02/18/2024

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