SUNDAY CROSSWORD II
STUFF THE BIRD
ACROSS
1 “Doggone it!”
5 Sailor’s “Stop!”
10 ___ sci (study of govt.) 14 Godsends
19 Fencing sword
20 Apple product giant
21 Actor Leslie ___ Jr.
22 “... never mind, then” 23 Reliable source of income (Note this answer’s first two + last three letters)
25 One is easy to buy
(First three + last two) 27 Bridge capacity unit 28 Response at the door
29 Goes downhill
30 Patch things up?
31 “The X-Files” agent Scully
33 It has a screamo subgenre 35 Gobbled up
37 “La Vie en Rose” Oscar winner
(First two + last five)
43 Hardly wordy
47 Low-pH compounds
48 Crave
49 Say a bad word
50 Tahoe and Santa Fe, e.g. 51 Field trip vehicle
52 “Buzz off!”
56 Stat for David Ortiz
57 Uno + due
58 Societal practices in Hanoi
(First one + last six)
64 Boot camp VIPs
66 Wise person
67 Place for breaking stories 68 Canceled abruptly
70 French cap
73 Analogy phrase 74 Provincetown’s peninsula 77 ___ of March
79 Empty talk
83 “This is how things are ...”
(First three + last two)
87 Sci-fi vessel
88 Tribute in verse
89 Cyber Monday events 90 Kitchen insect
91 Garden for 96-Down
92 Drink like a puppy
95 Like resistance bands
99 The first “A” of AAPI
100 Wipe clean
101 Course taught in Quebec (First four + last two) 104 Book with a legend 106 “Hulk” director Lee 107 Future OB-GYN’s hurdle 108 Take the stage
111 Law grad’s hurdle 114 Jargon
117 Asleep
120 Drowned out
(First two + last four) 122 Icing on the cake
(First three + last two)
124 Walked anxiously
125 Fast time?
126 “America” singer in
“West Side Story”
127 Guthrie of folk
128 Makes a winter blanket? 129 Timeline segments
130 Parceled (out)
131 Winter Palace monarch, once
DOWN
1 Robin’s home
2 As many as
3 Adolescent behind the wheel
4 Clownfish’s home
5 “The Moon Lady” author
6 Promises 7 Molecule part
8 Potholes’ spots
9 Chastising sound
10 ___ stick (bouncing toy) 11 What nitrogen lacks
12 Less taut
13 “That’s hilarious!”
14 “Best of” collections, often 15 Tolkien brute
16 Burden
17 Place for a stud 18 Kimchi-jjigae or goulash, e.g. 24 Velociraptors and others,
briefly
26 Rhinitis doc
29 Howling animal
32 Lends a hand
34 Sch. near Harvard
36 Just released
37 Poles on boats
38 Luxury Honda
39 Board game with Dr. Orchid 40 Deposes
41 Get defeated
42 Tetherball paths
44 “Boston Legal” episode, now 45 Buffalo hockey pro
46 Great Lake with
2,000+ shipwrecks
51 Splits in two
53 One pushup, e.g. 54 Amazonian berry
55 Picture with two views, often 58 Irritates
59 Capture
60 At least 100, for a centenarian 61 Promotion basis
62 Divulge
63 Tugboat’s signal
65 Stare in disbelief
69 Qatar’s capital
71 End of LSU’s URL
72 Oolong, for one
74 Tree for a totem pole
75 Food similar to a gordita 76 Marina ___ Rey
78 Curry may leave one on a shirt 80 Museum visitors’ downloads 81 “Sorry to say ...”
82 Chieng of “Crazy Rich Asians” 83 Place to sink a putt
84 Viewed
85 Mallorca, por ejemplo
86 Part of a foot
91 “Como ___ usted?”
93 Chloe Kim’s Olympic team 94 Places for kitties to dream 96 First person?
97 Envy, for one
98 Movie slogan
99 Austin Powers’ neckwear
101 Pop singer King
102 Signoff words in a letter 103 “So happy for you!”
105 Young bloke
108 Venmo and others
109 Group in Dundee
110 Chalupa alternative
112 Warrior princess of TV
113 Origami and ikebana, e.g. 115 Not out of contention
116 Kid-lit’s ___ the Great
118 Sch. west of Beverly Hills 119 Avenger with lightning power 121 Mostly poisonous tree
122 Closest peeps
123 Feed bag tidbit