Down in Front
Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By David Alfred Bywaters
ACROSS
1 Breezily unconcerned
5 Storage tower
9 Emotional exhalation
13 Mint metal, once
19 Wine opener?
20 Home of the Railroad
Museum of Oklahoma
21 “Next round’s —”
22 Whomever
23 Sent on
25 Group with ancestral
ties
26 Paranormal cases
27 Serpent’s tail?
28 Nintendo consoles
29 Designer Versace
31 Habituate
32 Swindles
34 Eject forcibly
35 Cost of hand
delivery?
37 CEO, CFO, etc.
38 Go furtively
39 82-Down subcompacts
42 Low places
44 — Haute
45 Finish
46 Lawyer’s gp.
47 Outdated, spelled in
an outdated way
48 Is able to
49 NBC founder
50 Purple flower
52 “— oui!”
55 Render aghast
57 Intend
58 Hindu deity
59 Cry of dismay
60 Owns
Last week’s solution: ““Before Tea”” 61 McShane of
“Deadwood”
62 Spanish ayes
65 Rebuke from Caesar
67 Kith and —
69 Raised trains
70 Minor quibbles
72 “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
photographer Goldin
73 Ebro y Douro
74 Anger
75 Hit the slopes
76 Shrugworthy
77 Hounds, e.g.
79 Smelter’s supply
80 Grant-giving gp.
81 Soy block
83 Pad krapow gai cuisine
85 Glass piece
87 Disney CEO Bob
88 — close to schedule
89 Choir attire
91 Roth —
92 Peace activist Yoko
93 Forfeited auto
95 Earth-friendly prefix
96 “Wonder Woman” star
Gadot
97 Aficionados
100 Spot with patio
furniture
103 Relatively reliable
sources of income
105 Defame in print
106 Chemical suffix
107 Tiny amt. of time
109 Coin receiver
110 Country estate
112 Release
114 Targeted, as a
basketball hoop
116 Not ajar
117 Bank drive-thru device
118 Warmed the bench
120 “There’s nobody else”
121 Relaxes
123 Cheese in some bagels
124 Pre-Easter period
125 Out of control
126 Raison d’—
127 Come to a boil
128 “Bus Stop” playwright
129 Salon array
130 Secondhand
DOWN
1 Lead
2 Like a maned cat
3 Orchestra conductor’s
memo heading?
4 Gift topper
5 Sans-—: type style
6 So-so golf swings?
7 Reclines
8 Peculiar
9 Transcending the
individual
10 How married couples may spend Thanksgiving?
11 FBI guy 12 Reddish
brown dye
13 Jazz horn
14 Baseball groundskeeper’s problem?
15 “— Eyes”: 1975 Eagles
hit
16 Encyclopedia unit
17 Cabinet department created under Carter
18 Creates anew, as a
password
24 Roused
29 Rte. provider
30 Religious
seminary?
33 Wrap brand
34 Some cars
36 “Culture Warlords”
author Lavin
40 Worshipper of the
goddess Pachamama
41 Merchant’s goal 43 “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” memoirist Remini
51 Affirm
53 Dragon tattoos, e.g.?
54 Evening party
55 “— So Unusual”: Cyndi
Lauper’s debut album
56 Converse with
57 Month between abril
and junho
61 Take out a policy for
replacement value?
63 Finding actors for a
small-studio film?
64 First word of some
Brazilian city names
66 Ripped apart
68 Close
71 Little Italy neighbor
78 Tap
82 Maker of Explorers and 39-Across
Still tucked in 86 Part of UAE
87 Indigenous people of
the far North
90 Nondairy coffeehouse
order
92 Not quite spherical
94 Mac alternatives
98 — film
99 Had a dry spell at the
plate
100 Taco bar array
101 Disquiet
102 Geneticist Stevens who discovered sex chromosomes
104 Write (down)
108 Cook-off dish
111 Shucker’s discards
113 Superlative acronym
115 Sign
116 More than none
119 — loop: simple skating
jump
121 Fall behind
122 Modern, in German