Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Draw in
8 Tight garment
14 Come before
21 Stingy sorts 22 Blogger’s pick
for a pic
23 Utility worker 24 Falling down
26 Mean
27 Very: Ger.
28 Earth goddess
29 G.P.A. killers 30 “Sprechen ____
Deutsch?”
31 Robert of
“The Sopranos” 32 Speeding ticket
37 Prep for the runway,
maybe
40 Ball ____
41 Besmirch 42 Emotionally demanding
43 Climbing Mount Everest, e.g.
45 Be Kind to Editors and Writers Mo. [for real!]
48 Notable features of Stockholm and Amsterdam
51 It “exists when one goes against one’s conscience,” per Pope Francis
52 Fire places
55 D.C. lobby for seniors 57 Locale for two of the
Quad Cities 58 Egyptian cobra
61 Lying
66 Heat, as to
soften metal
67 “u r hilarious!”
68 How scallops are often prepared 69 French horticulturist after whom a variety of fruit is named 72 Cause of insomnia,
maybe
74 Design detail
77 Google ____
78 Run too far or
lift too much
81 Go over in blackjack 84 In working order 87 Layoff
94 Old sitcom character who was 229 years old
95 Utah’s ____ Canyon 96 Get 29-Across 97 Railway offshoot 98 “So that’s it!”
99 Florae and faunae 101 Down
103 Mariners
105 TWA competitor 108 Classic Jag
110 Who “can’t buy you love” in an Elton John hit
113 “There, there” 114 Tax increase
120 Cheers in un estadio 121 Canon camera
122 Take off quickly 123 “If I ____ penny
for every …”
124 Some W.S.J. topics 128 Summer Olympics
host after Barcelona 130 Dead
133 Custom-fits
134 Took off quickly 135 Pasta recipe phrase 136 Show contempt for 137 At the scene
138 “We should avoid
doing that”
DOWN
1 New Testament book 2 Pilgrims’ pronoun 3 Radio host John
4 Life in the big city, to
some
5 Bee: Prefix
6 Dance with a kick 7 John Irving protagonist portrayed by Robin Williams
8 Wine holders 9 Spermatozoa targets 10 Dance-party enthusiast
11 Wooden
12 Worries no end 13 Five-point
rugby play
14 Stripes mismatch, traditionally
15 Amazon, e.g. 16 Oklahoma Cityto-Tulsa dir. 17 Develops (from) 18 Charlotte ____, Virgin
Islands
19 Very last part 20 Pep
25 André ____, 1947 Literature Nobelist 30 Narrow waterway 33 Part of an accusation
in Clue
34 Laker named to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016
35 Small anatomical container
36 Landing post-E.T.A. 37 12 cc, maybe 38 Country star Church 39 Alternative to a name:
Abbr.
44 Draw, as a scene 46 Ratcheting wheel
mechanism
47 Adjust with Photoshop, maybe 49 Japanese drama 50 Knocks over
53 Even
54 Trauma reminder 56 School support grps. 58 Corona, for one 59 Repeated cry at a
dance class
60 Most profs 62 Mother-of-pearl
63 Out in court
64 Boost the horsepower of
65 Dish served with chopsticks in a bowl
69 Florida beach city,
informally
70 Like the head of a tennis racket
71 Lowly worker
73 Bit of wind
75 Those, in Tijuana 76 Complaining fish? 79 “Hots” 80 “Creme sandwich” introduced over a century ago 82 Animal depicted in Edwin Landseer’s “The Monarch of the Glen”
83 Work, work, work 85 Air-conditioner fig. 86 Entrap
88 Army NCO
89 Alien autopsies, crop
circles and the like 90 Liquid-____
91 Pet food with a pawprint logo
92 Where to accent “Laotian”
93 Pinstriper
99 Store blowout
100 Suffix with brew 102 Underbrush clearer 104 Occasionally
105 W.W. II shipping
worries
106 Oman’s leader, e.g. 107 Antarctic penguin 109 Officially prohibit 111 Lamb, e.g.
112 It goes up to
about 1700
115 Aquarium fish
116 Swelter
117 Holiday celebrations 118 Holy Roman emperor
called “the Great” 119 Country rocker Steve 125 One of the Ivies 126 Not conned by
127 Let stand, editorially 129 Neither’s partner 130 U.N. observer since
’74
131 Day-in-and-day-out
pattern
132 D.C. summer setting