CROSSWORD PUZZLE: READY, SET ... GETS LOW! By Nancy Stark and Will Nediger
ACROSS
1 Palindromic band with the palindromic song title “SOS” 5 Place for an oxygen tent, for short
8 A whole bunch
13 High-level HS math class 19 Exploit
20 Dandy
21 Like many barrels
22 “Yay!”
23 Cheer for beer on campus? 26 Milan-based fashion brand 27 Skate effortlessly
28 Put down in print
29 Part of a strip
31 West of Chicago
32 Discerning judgment 33 Author Calvino
35 Played the fall guy?
37 Half-____ (rhyming order) 38 Hoot at an out-of-focus
nature photograph? 43 Chicago university
46 Small three-legged table 47 Two-time best actor, 1954 and 1972
48 “____ Old Cowhand” (Bing Crosby hit)
49 Put away
52 “If you ask me,” briefly 53 Something populists revile 54 Antsy feeling when one is out of cellphone range?
59 Sport ____
60 One of the dames in 2018’s “Tea With the Dames”
61 Like the lion slain by Hercules 62 Cans
66 “Tilted Arc” sculptor Richard 68 Jackie on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
70 Places to sleep 71 Spanish-omelet ingredient 72 Isaac’s firstborn
73 Fought
75 Bête ____
77 Counterpart of frost
78 Where a demanding
dockworker gets supplies? 82 Snack item with a salient anagram? 85 Word that’s its own synonym
in reverse
86 Symbol of danger or anger 87 Boot
88 Discriminating against elders 89 They’ve got talent
92 “Ditto!”
94 Landing in Rotterdam? 98 Curry or Rice
99 Snack items with their name
on the top and bottom
100 Result of union negotiations,
often
101 Lotion-bottle abbr.
104 Native seal hunter
107 Part of a college application,
informally
108 Unfeeling
110 Roaster or toaster
112 It’s not legal
114 Piano that plays only a certain three notes?
117 Slips
118 “Fingers crossed!” 119 Wrath
120 A long time ago
121 Willie Mays phrase 122 A little tight
123 Pseudoscientific subj. 124 Charon’s river
DOWN
1 “Waste not, want not,” e.g. 2 It has a button in the middle 3 Show to be untrue
4 Reason that some students struggle in school, for short 5 “____ were you ...”
6 Joint effort, slangily
7 Requiring difficult pedaling, say 8 Exclusive
9 Phone
10 Pseudonymously
11 Manny’s last name on “Modern Family”
12 Slip through
13 “Of course!”
14 Bill padding
15 Time out?
16 Stuffed and deep-fried rice balls, in Italian cuisine 17 Name-tag holders
18 Political system with a paramount leader
24 Vocal quintet?
25 More or less 30 Work well together 34 Translation of the French “vivre” or German “leben” 35 Rested
36 World capital settled by Vikings circa the ninth century 38 Scourge
39 Apt rhyme for “constrain” 40 Martin Sheen’s real first name 41 Name of seven Danish kings 42 “Le ____,” Matisse work that hung upside down at the Museum of Modern Art for 47 days
43 Neglect
44 Acts dramatically
45 Bakery/cafe chain
50 Like a bowl
51 Cheat, informally
53 Refusing to answer directly 55 Suggested intake level, for short
56 Glass fragment
57 Correct
58 “Two Sisters” or “Two Young Girls at the Piano”
63 Struck
64 Exceedingly
65 Site of a 1976 South African uprising
67 Quaintly countrified
69 Virtual animals in an early 2000s fad 71 “____ Got the Whole World in His Hands”
73 Attended
74 Alternative to a snake 76 They catch waves 79 Nickname on “The Addams
Family”
80 Shakespeare’s “You, too?” 81 Bugs Bunny, e.g.
82 Sob stories
83 Christina of pop
84 “Here, move over”
89 Not much at all
90 Trattoria dumplings
91 New England fish
93 Dork
95 “Catch-22” pilot
96 Cloth that may get a lot of
tears
97 Handy types
101 Meager
102 Walker ____, 1962 National
Book Award winner
103 Shipping option
105 Sundance state
106 Place for un béret
108 Concessions
109 It beats a deuce
111 Stock sounds
113 Bit of sun
115 Short flight
116 Informal affirmative