SUNDAY CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Place to insert a flash
drive
8 In the thick of
12 Students’ opponents in some
basketball games
17 What CO2 emissions spoil 19 Close associate
20 Poet and painter Gibran
21 “OK, no more after this”
22 South American city named after
the first month
24 To boot
25 To come
27 Jelly container
28 Even once
29 Most ideal states
31 Jedi who mentored Luke 32 Flat-topped hill
33 Out of harm’s way
35 Terribly urgent
36 Stretchy, strapless garment 38 Two-way
39 Unleash a tirade
40 Undergrad linguistics
degrees
41 Vehicles on snow
44 “You can talk to me”
46 Control access, informally 50 Attractions
52 Artworks made of tiles
54 Rapid descent
56 Mouth-related
57 Stretched-out hands?
59 “Didn’t I tell you?”
60 City near Sparks, Nev.
61 Anthem performed at Wattstax in 1972 and Coachella in 2018
66 No longer into
67 1-Down URL ending
68 Seph Mozes, to Cynthia Nixon 69 Foal pa
70 One may buy sneakers and then
price them higher
72 School fair subject
76 Poke fun at
78 Brings drastic changes to 80 Whenever you like
81 Kids’ Choice Awards gunk
83 Do wrong morally
84 Piece of coal
86 Mollusk in some chowder 87 Shoo-in
90 Give for some time
91 Huge amount
92 Marginally
95 Nowhere to be found,
for short
96 ABC spy thriller, the first network drama led by a South Asian star
98 Music of Trinidad and Tobago 99 ___ ed
100 Branch of Islam
101 Whole ___ (completely different,
informally)
105 Carrie Fisher’s “Star Wars”
role
108 Roses are red / violets are blue /
poetic device / found in this clue 110 Agree
111 Anagram of “agree”
112 Brought under control
113 Really, really kind person
114 Perfectly
115 Angela of
“Waiting to Exhale” 6/12
Singer Bonnie Basketball great Duncan Opera solos
Word before “board” or
“ring”
State south of Mich. Colorful treatment at a
salon
___ Bernardino
Story whose title character is
barely seen?
Vibrant
Heats in a kiln
Fauna counterpart Widening in a machine shop ___ brulee
Pure gold’s 24
___ trade (rhyming industry in Myanmar)
26 What a very gentle person
wouldn’t do
30 Name hidden in
“Trinidad”
31 ___ Salaam, one of the
Exonerated Five
33 Form of wrestling
34 Oohs and ___
36 Not remain impartial 37 Previous
38 Become less radiant
39 Sleep it off, say
40 Substance found in hives and
herbal stores
42 Question of bravery 43 Surname that sounds like a
graceful bird
45 Tick off
47 To-go container?
48 Simplifies
49 Fabric folds
51 Unpleasantly long
undertaking
53 Ones at home in Stockholm 55 Lid for a camera
58 Person you’d love to date
6 7 8 9
10 11
12 13
14 15 16 18 19 20 23 61 Having trouble following 62 Climbing plants
63 Wild
64 Sky blue
65 “What are you waiting
for?!”
71 Painter’s stand
73 Aswan Dam’s river 74 Toy-grabbing device 75 National Mall tree
77 Australian bird
79 Like a parody title vis-a-vis the
original, often
82 It removes marks
85 Navajo Nation summer hrs. 88 Some sheep 89 Packaged group of DVDs 90 ___ New Year
91 Has contempt for 92 Humane care org. 93 Element No. 5
94 Piping bag contents 96 “Pipe down!” 97 Bengaluru’s country 100 Genesis creator
102 Jekyll’s jerkier counterpart 103 Give off
104 Payment to a landlord 106 ___-de-sac
107 Southeast Asian
language
109 State south of S.D.
Answer to last week’s puzzle