Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“Shh!” By Gary Larson & Amy Ensz
ACROSS
1 Fairy tale brute
5 Bamako’s country
9 Lethargy
15 Bygone Swedish car company
19 Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones,” e.g.
20 Agenda
21 Oat Milk Blend shampoo maker
22 Combustible pile
23 Startling revelation for a couch potato?
25 Menu of familysized KFC options?
27 Just-in-case item
28 “Let Me Love You” R&B singer
30 Like many a safari cat
31 Water cooler sound
33 Had to have
35 Apex predators of the ocean
39 Rowan Atkinson character
42 Butters up, perhaps
44 Religious residence
45 Not theirs
46 More oozy
48 Makes jigsaw puzzles, perhaps
49 Brief “If you ask me”
50 Full-time employee at a corn processing plant?
54 Tiny criticism
55 Kanga’s kid
56 Credit __: Zurich bank
57 Director Reitman and tennis great Lendl
58 Golf bag item
59 Fred of “Schmigadoon!”
61 __ now and then
62 Heat unit
64 Sp. titles
65 12-Down and 50-Down, maybe
68 Pride sound
69 Command to a guard dog
71 Bits
72 Feels like
75 “I hate it”
76 Chat with online
77 Fine
80 Hornswoggled
81 “On the other hand ... ”
82 Did too much
heavy lifting?
84 Med. condition with repetitive behavior
85 Bistro VIP
87 Paged
88 Garden center bagful
89 Ruler divisions
90 Mexican market
93 Like an overtired child, maybe
95 Co-star of Nimoy and Shatner
96 Type of canoe
97 Russian refusal
98 Derek’s ex-wife on “Grey’s Anatomy”
100 Sushi bar drink 103 Wall recess
107 Really, really cheap liquor?
111 Ruse for crashing family reunions?
113 Genre for some Tokyobased bands
114 Does the job perfectly
115 Costa __
116 Blob’s lack
117 Small tastes
118 __ out of: slyly avoided
119 Particle accelerator particle
120 Jedi Council leader
DOWN
1 Backs (out)
2 Ascend
3 “For My Broken Heart” singer McEntire
4 Surfaces
5 Radar gun reading: Abbr.
6 Parallel to
7 Shoestring
8 Blue Pac-Man ghost
9 Can opener
10 Small eggs
11 Flow back
12 Aromatic Sri
Lankan exports
13 Upturned, as a box 14 Naan alternative
15 Ball-shaped
16 Sailor’s affirmative
17 Equal
18 Exacta or
trifecta
24 Actress Ward
26 Dormitory annoyance
2 9Cyclops feature
32 Separates, in a way
34 Mouse hat feature
36 Food Network production featuring a chef’s work surface?
37 More chichi
38 Modus operandi
39 Catherine’s “Schitt’s Creek” role
40 Buzz
41 Sweeping segment of a prop comic’s act?
42 Mercury and Mars
43 River inlets
44 Pizzeria output
47 Actor/director Ken
48 Fashion letters
50 Aromatic Indian export
51 Busy place
52 Iris layer
53 Roller coaster parts
60 Wrath
61 Some Spielberg movie collectibles
62 In shape
63 Sombrero, e.g.
65 Icy coating
66 Elevator name
67 Soft mineral
68 Zoomed past
69 Turn in 70 Large lizard with dewlaps
71 Chatted with
online, for short
72 Moist towelette
73 Implied
74 “Strange to say ... ”
76 Nights before
77 Some athletic shoes
78 Listen to
79 Research on a political rival, briefly
82 Frozen fries maker
83 Howard or Alcorn, for short
86 Tour de France mountains
88 Hit the spot
90 Iditarod driver
91 Narcissist’s problem
92 “Be My Baby” memoirist Spector
94 Actress Russo
96 Hustle genre
97 Maker of sweet wafers
99 Sketch
101 Preternatural glow
102 Make a scarf, say
104 Jimmy __: fashion brand known for expensive shoes
105 Difficult
106 Actress Thompson
107 Pros using mixers, for short
108 Nail polish brand
109 Cut (off)
110 Takeoff approx.
112 Hasty escape