SUNDAY CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Brooklyn NBA team
5 “Stay tuned” letters
8 Corn unit
11 Warehouse party
15 Work ___
17 Robotic space station
tools
18 Many a Middle Easterner
20 Fan frenzy
21 *Engages in a futile
pursuit
23 *Basic style of horsing
around?
25 X, sometimes
26 In need of charging
27 Knee part (Abbr.)
29 1982 sci-fi film
30 “The 5 Second Rule” author
Robbins
31 Biblical vessel
32 Western U.S. gas brand 33 ___/her/hers
34 Fine thing to study?
35 Aberdeen affirmative
36 Singer Lana Del ___
37 [Not my mistake]
38 Skin color?
39 Start to five of Brazil’s 25 biggest
cities
40 Hoppy brew, briefly 41 Workplaces for RNs
42 “Legally Blonde” actor
Wilson
45 Head turner, of sorts 48 Spreadsheet parts 52 Sober-motoring org.
54 Stories in installments
56 Some church officials
58 *Boston hub
60 *All-night trip
62 Canadian coffee chain,
familiarly
63 “Skinny” or “double”
follower
64 Rocks, in a drink
66 Nat ___
67 Horse color
69 Share a border
70 Having four sharps
71 Two, in Tijuana 72 Often-mispunctuated word 73 Showy purple flower
74 Pacific Northwest predator 75 Brady or Gronk, in Super
Bowl LV
76 Sicilian peak
77 Philip ___ (first Korean American actor with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame) 78 Workplace for RNs
79 Retired JFK jet
80 Teensy amount ... or a hint to the five circled words, relative to 21-, 23-, 58-, 60- and 100-Across 91 Aerie offering
94 Actress Cynthia of “Harriet” 95 Ring-shaped island
96 Soft slip-on, for short
99 Race, as an engine
100 *They get the big picture
104 Lab eggs
105 Bonobos and others
107 Vietnamese New Year
108 Small name in rap?
109 Veto
110 Word of agreement
111 “You and me are over!”
113 Four Corners tribe
114 Pomposity
116 Modern pentathlon event with
shooting and cardio
117 Suggestive suggestion
118 Sault ___ Marie, Michigan
119 Spanish “this” 120 Subtracting 121 Bajillion
DOWN
1 Sweet plant liquids 2 Otherworldly
3 “That’s very kind!”
4 Member of the fam
5 Trampled
6 Parent company of Rolls-Royce 7 Many a “Kill Bill” character 8 San Francisco mass transit
option
9 Hour, in Italy 10 Hole-in-the-wall damage? 11 Totally tubular
12 Some Pixar offerings
13 Wine tour stop
14 Some baby birds
16 Totem pole’s wood,
sometimes
17 Old-school counters 19 “Baseball is 90% mental. The
other half is physical” speaker 20 Capital of Belarus
22 Blood bank fluids
24 Campus military org. 28 Processor in many autos 43 Party stunt involving beer 44 Notable period
45 Broccoli rabe, by another
name
46 Runaway bride?
47 Syr. neighbor
49 “___ on Periods” (Bernadette
Mayer work)
50 Boxers maneuver?
51 Football two-pointer
52 “Who, me?”
53 Most bent out of shape 55 Country bordering Pakistan 57 Seal the deal
58 Sign of balance?
59 Gossip morsel
60 Pull out of danger 61 Besmirch
62 Confucian principle
65 Sofa
68 Org. with a Cryptanalysis
Development Program
81 D.C. VIP
82 Gifted speakers
83 Pesto ingredient
84 “Thumbs down”
85 Swe. neighbor
86 “Pow!”
87 Spork, for one
88 “Put Your Records On” singer
Bailey Rae
89 Horns whose name was taken from
Ancient Greek for “shriek” 90 Chicago trains
91 Pub scuffles
92 Win two championships in
a row
93 Opposed
96 Snapshot in time
97 Belabor
98 Grand attraction?
101 Homecoming attendee
102 Banking giant
103 Actor Guinness
106 “Get it?”
110 “Honest” prez
112 Dr. ___ (mentor of Snoop Dogg
and Eminem)
115 Yellow school vehicle