Place Setting
By Doug Burnikel & C.C. Burnikel
ACROSS
1 “Is anybody here?”
6 “Get outta here!”
10 Box office receipts
14 People with all-access
passes
18 Short and sweet
19 Head lights?
21 “Really?”
22 Taquería freebie
23 Park place?
25 Busy place?
27 Patriotic chant
28 Hangout for hog lovers
30 Shots on the green
31 Cost of living?
33 To be, in Marseilles
34 They could use a
welcome sight
36 Hailed wheels
39 First place?
42 Bother
43 “Barefoot Contessa”
host Garten
44 List that may drop
down or pop up
45 — West-Allen: “The
Flash” character
46 Sunflower part
48 Semi unit
49 Beginning stage
51 The Vitamin Shoppe
rival
53 Many Mecca residents
56 Calligrapher’s
container
58 Aria, e.g. 61 Dress seen on Indian
runways
63 Marathon, e.g.
65 Vice —
67 Precious rocks
69 Duffer’s do-over
71 Words of empathy
73 Hard place?
76 Chemically inactive
77 Quivers in fear
79 Composer Stravinsky
80 Eye shade
82 Hindu spring festival
83 Five-star review
85 Mil. truant
87 Volkswagen sedan
90 In —: before birth
92 Faux —
94 Reason for celeb
damage control
96 Choice on a color chart
97 Like a play about a
play
99 Often-ignored email
102 Not so hot
103 “For You” singer Rita
104 “— about that!”
107 Private place?
110 Some PwC employees
111 League for Guardians
and Angels
113 —-Alt-Del
114 Go a few rounds
116 Closer’s goal
117 Wasn’t honest
120 Translator’s
challenges
124 Last place?
126 Remote place?
128 Girl
129 One with star power
130 Thompson of
“Westworld”
131 Director Coen
132 Where el sol rises
133 Colorful salamander
134 Put into storage
135 Entertainer’s crew
DOWN
1 Spelman, e.g.: Abbr.
2 God with wings
3 Peru’s largest city
4 Madagascar primates
5 Functional
6 — shed
7 Pasta or bread, e.g., for
short
8 In a partnership
9 Rested a while
10 Disco family name
11 Totally relaxed
12 Steering system parts
13 Key hit in panic
14 Hold in high regard 15 Successful prankster’s
cry
16 Gave up, in a way
17 States as fact
20 Camper’s fuel
24 Digressions
26 Doubleheader half
29 Corp. shuffling
32 Catches some rays
35 Target field
36 — Field: Mets ballpark
37 Unknown author, for
short
38 Safe place?
40 Bitterly regrets
41 Support group?
44 Secured in a slip
47 “Semper Fidelis”
group
50 Lady Justice’s garb
52 Sleeveless top, briefly
54 Sesame place?
55 Permanent mark 57 Business trip
allowance
59 Stubbs of the Four
Tops
60 Roar — Roar: “Monsters University” frat
62 Negga of “Passing”
64 Med. specialty
66 Taj Mahal city
68 — food movement
70 Komodo dragon, e.g.
71 “Thereabouts”
72 Jay of “The Green
Hornet”
74 Answer an invite
75 “No —!”: “Sure thing!”
78 Steamy
81 Baked dessert
84 All-Star side
86 Tibetan priest
88 Surrounding vibe
89 Tazo products
91 Careless
93 Setting of the Sandra
Bullock film “Gravity”
95 Talk trash about
98 81-Down order
100 Oil producer?
101 Fragrant shrubs
104 Pain in the neck
105 Nebraska natives
106 “They outplayed us”
108 Consecutively
109 Like the most clear sky
110 Monte — sandwich
112 Actress Witherspoon
115 Promo pro
118 Triangular shoulder
muscle, for short
119 Monterrey jack?
121 Sounds amazed
122 Degs. for curators
123 Levelheaded
125 Foil metal, once
127 Pussy foot
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