Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“BUILDING VOCABULARY” By GARY LARSON

ACROSS

1 Embarrassment 6 Multi-purpose cotton wad 10 Knack 18 Metric weights 19 Baba ghanoush bread 20 Pals 21 Low-tech iCloud precursor 23 Supreme effort 24 Like some wells 25 Kind of case or law 26 Batman and Robin, e.g. 27 Loses it 31 Savvy 35 Dignify 39 Because of 42 Historic trail terminus: Abbr. 43 Boot camp bigwig 46 Game whose “Discover the Secrets” version includes a baseball bat and a dumbbell 47 Half of ASAP 50 Voyaging 51 Obstructed the progress of 53 Literally, Latin for “it follows” 55 Org. concerned with alleys 57 Late bloomers 58 Shell for a crew 59 Mount once called Tacoma 63 Stimulant 64 Org. with a lot of baggage? 65 Billowy attire named for an early rapper 67 Friend of TV’s Sheldon 70 Entangle ... or disentangle, oddly 73 Welcomed at the door 74 VP before Gerald 76 “Blue” or “Red” cattle dog 78 Uncertain sounds 79 Bygone data entry method 81 Seat sometimes spun 83 Crunchy salad bit 86 Try to influence 87 Novel of the South Seas 88 ’60s-’70s NBC News White House correspondent 92 Icky stuff 93 Dawdles 94 Dabs with a towel 98 Recorded 102 Like original Matchbox cars 104 Dorm VIPs 105 Cause __: icon 108 Material used to make cans 112 Flier’s concern 115 Manicurist’s item 118 Air 119 Green Gables girl 120 Tee off 121 Blue 122 Big name in little trains 123 Eye drops

DOWN

1 Winter resort feature 2 Big name in hotels 3 Toward the sheltered side 4 Hang-around-thehouse footwear 5 Morales of “NYPD Blue” 6 Willpower 7 Prevail 8 Scarfed down 9 Cave dweller 10 Did a takeoff on 11 Upgrade, as a dirt driveway 12 Levels 13 Muhammad’s religion 14 Drum with a sitar 15 Parisian article 16 They’re allowed 17 Rough no. 21 Wither away 22 Deli bread 23 Projecting shelf 25 Canine found in cats 28 Turn partner 29 Popeye’s __’Pea 30 Juan’s “Look!” 32 Place to spin your wheels 33 More accurate 34 Ranked tournament players 36 Two-time N.L. batting champ Lefty 37 Swelter 38 Buildup in a trap 40 Triumphant cry 41 Indivisible 44 QB Jared Goff, e.g. 45 Snares 46 Ticket 47 Second in command: Abbr. 48 “Just a few __” 49 One of two for a positive number 52 Venomous snake 54 River through Kazakhstan 55 Le Pew of toons 56 Bit of finishing hardware 60 Mosque leader 61 Urquhart Castle’s loch 62 Vex 63 Eric who founded a reader 65 Subs 66 F-series camera maker 68 West Coast gas brand 69 Doe in many films 71 Plus 72 Review for accuracy 74 Word heard twice in “I’m a Little Teapot” 75 Runs smoothly 76 WarnerMedia streaming service recently retired in the U.S. 77 Former Irish leader de Valera 78 Forearm bone 80 Org. with an annual Week Without Violence 82 Muesli morsel 83 Cheese on crackers 84 With, on la carte 85 Hombre’s home 89 Death Row Records co-founder 90 Southernmost Great Lake 91 Vision-related 95 Don or Betty on “Mad Men” 96 Top-10 list makers 97 WWI battle river 99 Afflicted with a breakout 100 Tick off 101 Tiny 103 Fifth cen. pope called “The Great” 106 Effortlessness 107 Raised 109 Cartographer’s abbr. 110 Chris who plays Kirk in three “Star Trek” films 111 Babe Zaharias is a charter member of its HOF 112 NFL stat 113 Grassy plain 114 City council rep. 115 __ Geo 116 “__ thoughts?” 117 Business mag