Reindeer Games
By Robin Stears
ACROSS
1 Monastery head
6 Unrefined
11 Devilish creatures
15 Like some reports
19 Swap
20 More vast
21 Awkwafina’s real first
name
22 Fried cornbread
23 Men’s clothing retailer
25 Action in Uno
26 Sicilian volcano
27 2-Down accompaniers
28 Elton John hit with the misheard lyric “Hold me closer, Tony Danza”
30 Not the worst
31 “— I say more?”
33 Give comfort to
34 Lunch hours, e.g.
37 Messy handwriting
41 Teakettle output
44 Hanover Ivy
48 — alai
49 Fitness method with “a springy, rhythmic way of moving forward”
53 UPC bar code developer
54 Public persona
56 Cereal grain
57 “Orinoco Flow” singer
58 Mythological fox destined never to be caught
61 Circle widths
64 Agnus —
65 Org. created by the 1957
Treaty of Rome
66 Suffix akin to -ule
67 Physicist Newton
69 Permanent marks
72 Longtime PBS
“Mystery!” host Diana
76 Digital asset: Abbr. Last week’s solution: “Creatures of Habit” 78 Dent or scratch
80 Office supplier
82 Celestial object next visible from Earth in 2061
88 Sign
89 Singer DiFranco
90 “Middlemarch” novelist
91 Polish tennis champ
Swiatek
92 Connie Francis hit with
a rhyming title
95 Wall St. takeover
96 Some errand runners
on a yacht
99 Starts a fresh pot
100 Tungusic people of
northeast China
102 Cat hair, pollen, dust
mites, etc.
106 One held for
questioning
110 Plastic shoe wearer
111 — Bora: Afghan region
115 Thor’s son in the roleplaying game Scion
118 Greeted with a
ceremonial bow
120 Dublin Murder Squad
series novelist French
121 “Shining Vale” actress
Sorvino
122 German roadster that once held the world speed record
125 Trains for a marathon,
say
126 U.S. passport holder
127 Flood defense
128 Tank nuisance
129 “What — can I say?”
130 Turner and Knight
131 Stadium levels
132 Marsh ducks
DOWN
1 Aramis companion
2 “Great show!”
3 Rum-soaked cakes
4 Tribute in “Antigone”
5 Hatcher of “Lois &
Clark”
6 Fashion house whose logo is two interlocking C’s
7 Oft-baked potato
8 “That’s gross!”
9 Low grade
10 Make the team’s
blooper reel, perhaps
11 Home to more than 1.4
billion people
12 Eves’ counterparts
13 Appeals to a higher
power
14 Carpentry debris
15 Game 1
16 Campus mil. group
17 Celebrity chef Burrell
18 King who says to Cordelia, “Nothing can come of nothing” 24 Portuguese title
28 End-of-unit classroom
event
29 Gmail option
32 “Rugrats” mom
33 Go back to Chapter 1
35 Ceremony host
36 Counterpart of fem., in
grammar
38 “Stronger than dirt”
brand
39 Payment for labor
40 Property claim
41 Name in fine china
42 Eye color, e.g.
43 Trouble
45 Does
impressions
46 Honor given
by HM King Charles III
47 Actress Thurman
50 Thing
51 Some deli loaves
52 Irene of “Fame”
55 Extremely small 59 — Moines, Iowa
60 Fit snugly inside
62 — Park: Edison lab site
63 Polynesian language
68 Word with sky or spy
70 Upon
71 Malek of
“Oppenheimer”
73 Hardly appropriate
74 “Your wish is my command” speaker
75 Formula 1 starting
positions
77 Went to collect
79 Fix a worn-out shoe
81 Quechua speaker
82 Command post
83 “Dark Angel” star
Jessica
84 King of the jungle
85 Member of the fam
86 Like the dinos in
“Jurassic Park”
87 Texter’s “I’m out!” 93 Thrift shop condition
94 Not firmly fixed
97 Bygone coin-op
eatery
98 Boxer Max
101 Jewel box
103 List
104 Sugarcoats
105 Vogue rival
107 “Demon Slayer”
genre
108 How Santa dresses,
mostly
109 Approaches
112 Luxury timepiece
113 Kidney-related
114 Carving tools
115 Raison d’—
116 “The Addams Family”
actor Julia
117 Road-trip stops
119 Future dr.’s class
122 Diner fave
123 Luau neckwear
124 “— seen worse”
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