SUNDAY CROSSWORD II
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
ACROSS
1 Bleak assessment
7 “Hot Ones” sight, often
12 Enjoy deeply
19 Tablescape lighting
enhancers
21 Smidgen
22 Distinguished retirees 23 Townspeople, to the boy
who cried wolf?
26 Polynesian tuber
27 Grows threadbare
28 Hansel and Gretel, as they shoved the witch into the oven?
36 Kerfuffle
40 Receive willingly?
41 Crawled, perhaps
42 Make a hard copy
43 Hershey toffee bar
44 Governor’s constituency
45 Eats crow
48 Troll, to the youngest Billy Goat
Gruff?
53 Fivesome in a “supervocalic”
word
54 Tail ends
55 Freshly carved Pinocchio, to
Geppetto?
62 Use the waving-hand emoji 67 “Hard ___!” (sailor’s cry) 68 Cousin of lavender
69 Greek summit
70 Hands-free phone call? 74 Geppetto, to freshly carved
Pinnochio?
79 Wednesday’s dad, in
“Wednesday”
81 Intended
82 The swindlers, at the end of “The
Emperor’s New Clothes”?
92 Much ado about nothing 93 Phobos and Deimos
94 Cannon on screen
96 Not neat
97 Jacob’s twin
98 Eerily spindly
101 Dampens
102 Cinderella, to her fairy
godmother?
107 Singer Simon
108 Football player who inspired a
nickname for Reagan
109 The hare, after losing the race? 121 Act with no restraints
122 Stable outburst?
123 Second half of a record
124 [More details below]
125 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” dramatist
126 Halted
DOWN
1 Penn or Brown
2 In addition
3 Springfield resident Disco ___ 4 Notable pen name?
5 Online icon
6 Alaskan national park 7 De-tension center?
8 Hit the jackpot
9 Put the kibosh on
10 Common NBA injury spot 11 “Gilmore Girls” airer 12 Recovery, for short
13 Aid in filing
14 Toy fixers?
15 Go wrong
16 “Set It Up” actress Lucy 17 “Ooky” TV cousin
18 Fed. medical research
agency
20 Classic Fender guitar, for short
24 Carpool lane letters
25 Earl Grey, for one
28 Belonging to that dude 29 Sacred Egyptian symbol 30 Croc or moc
31 Urban balconies
32 Words in an analogy
33 Love letter acronym 34 Jacques of French cinema 35 Cry at a church
36 Berlin Mrs.
37 French ___, Indiana
38 Against
39 VA diagnosis, often
42 Not at all poetic
44 Word before “food” or “mate” 45 Issa in “The Hate U Give” 46 LAX guesses
47 Banks by runways 49 Anti-discrimination letters 50 ___ card (storage device) 51 Chop (off)
52 ___-Roman wrestling 55 “Boo-___!”
56 Fist-pumping cry 57 Turnaround on the street 58 Doolittle of “My Fair Lady” 59 “True Lies” actress Carrere 60 “Slippery” tree
61 Month for Star Wars Day 63 Cozy winter beverage 64 “Kinda sorta”
65 Taoism founder Lao-___ 66 Scullery need
71 “No mas!”
72 Used a hoverboard
73 Heist cry
75 Strike callers 76 Mountaineering brand 77 Passing craze
78 “Your point being?”
80 Setting for NYE in NYC 82 Winter blanket
83 Musical quality
84 Watt, hour or watt-hour 85 Muscles worked by bench
presses
86 Buccaneer in “Peter Pan” 87 Slugger Sammy
88 “The Wind in the Willows” animal 89 Word on the one-dollar bill 90 Took a gander
91 Haines of “The View”
95 Big Apple team, on scoreboards 98 Phone cases, in slang
99 Digestive
100 Put up some barriers
102 Gal of “Red Notice”
103 Be grandiloquent
104 Priestly vestment
105 Serengeti scavenger 106 Before now
107 Ad biz accolade
109 Org. associated with filings 110 “That’s my ___!”
111 Number occurring twice in the
Fibonacci sequence
112 Catering vessel
113 Slippery fish
114 Pen point
115 Number often misreported 116 Michael who swaps jokes with
Colin Jost
117 “Read Across America” org. 118 Detox woes (Abbr.)
119 Lea female
120 Fly fishing need