“Stretches Across”
ACROSS
1 Lake skimmer
7 Bitterly harsh
14 In flames
20 Free bakery treats?
21 “Orphan Black” star
Maslany
22 Prim partner
23 Uses a salamander,
perhaps
24 Hand sanitizer
ingredient
25 Glossy fabric
26 *Terms for tenants
29 “Great” detective of kid-
lit
32 QBs and DHs
33 Winter coaster
34 Kerfuffles
38 Prefix with tourism
39 Back up
41 Refer to
44 Stop dithering
45 *Question in a famous
balcony scene
53 Emission from
radioactive decay
54 Wrestling legend Ric
55 NYC film festival locale
56 Actor Epps
57 Ocelot, e.g.
59 Harmon series
60 —-O-Honey candy
62 Bud
63 “Mudbound” director
Rees
65 Bag-screening org.
68 *Southeastern evergreen that sounds like a college
73 *“Tennessee Waltz”
composer
77 Run-down theaters
78 Be a little shy?
80 Admit defeat
81 Fury
82 Test run
84 Fictional sleuth Wolfe
85 Well-known
88 Device that may display awkward moments on the jumbotron
90 Abalone eater
94 “Queen Sugar” creator
DuVernay
95 *“Leave this to me”
99 Quick qualifier
100 Court dividers
102 Wear a long face
103 Not good at all
104 Radiate
105 Lugs around
107 Sandwich letters
110 Motorless aircraft
112 *Financial report
section
117 “The Night Watchman”
Pulitzer winner Erdrich
119 Marshmallow-filled
treat
120 Bible book with 150
poems
123 “— Restaurant”: classic
Guthrie song
124 Quarterback who was MVP of Super Bowls XLII and XLVI
125 Pabst brand
126 Smartphone screen
borders
127 Supplemented
128 “For Your Eyes Only”
singer Sheena
DOWN
1 Snarky remark
2 Drop the ball
3 Excessively
4 Graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier about a girl with braces
5 Iron-rich leafy vegetable
6 Rae of “The Lovebirds”
7 Unsteady, quaintly
8 “Coming at you!”
9 Cultural values
10 “Knives Out” writer/
director Johnson
11 Rock groups
12 How sun-dried tomatoes
may be packed
13 Pasadena engineering
sch.
14 Lhasa —
15 Breakfast cereal fiber
16 Much, informally
17 Big monkey
18 Snooze symbol
19 East end?
27 London luxury hotel
that opened in 1889
28 —-proof
29 Rookie, casually
30 Tooth trouble
31 Duking it out
35 Not imported
36 Gp. with reserves
37 Ancient portico
39 “Buona —”: Italian
greeting
40 Over yonder
42 Go bad
43 “Heart & Soul” country
singer Church
46 Male sheep
47 IRS convenience
48 The works
49 “Gnarly, dude!”
50 —-tac-toe
51 Swap
52 Kimono sash
57 Styles
58 Concert mementos
60 Fave bud
61 “— be darned!”
62 Hors d’oeuvres spread
64 “Fargo” actor McGregor
66 Weekly NBC show with a
musical guest
67 Go gray, maybe
69 Burger order
70 Apple TV+ device
71 “Comprende?”
72 Razzie Award adjective
73 Nobel category
74 Needle hole
75 Tip of the Alps?
76 Macramé unit
79 Coin-in-a-fountain
thought
82 Sticking point
83 Frilly trim
85 Autograph hounds
86 “Sans” opposite
87 Test for solvers
88 Keystone figure
89 Big D hoopster
91 Schedule component, and what the answers to the starred clues literally contain
92 Abu Dhabi ruler
93 Goes bad
95 Wow
96 Part of MVP
97 Talk with one’s hands
98 Orbital circuit shape
101 Water channel
104 Literary awards named
for a Baltimore writer
106 “The Joy of Painting”
prop
107 Fair, in a way
108 Jeff of the Traveling
Wilburys
109 Lukewarm
111 Prefix with gram or cart
113 “Room” novelist
Donoghue
114 Map line
115 “It — over till it’s over”
116 — Park: Queens
area
117 Forensic facility
118 World Cup chant
121 Old conductance unit
122 ID with two hyphens
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