San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
GAME OVER
ACROSS
1 Gilda of the original
“S.N.L.” cast
7 They may need to be
cut off
11 Ways of making ends
meet?
16 Degree in design, for
short
19 Cow’s-milk cheese
that’s often grated
20 Sweet-16 org.
21 Honor named for a
Greek goddess
23 Site of a lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
24 “____ pass”
25 Where snow leopards
and blue sheep roam 26 King of a nursery
rhyme
27 Went to bat (for)
30 Test versions
31 Good fashion sense, in
modern slang
32 Appear
33 Features of some
indoor arenas
35 Theater-curtain
material
37 Fired off, say
38 Grind
40 Money of the
Philippines
42 Follow
43 One giving a khutbah
sermon
46 Smaller alternative to
a Quarter Pounder
48 Chicago team, in old
“S.N.L.” sketches
50 Ski-lodge mugful
54 Fraternity letter
55 King of ancient Israel 56 Comic actress
Gasteyer
57 Left, cutely
60 Great Lakes nation
64 Pickup line?
65 Like the columns of
the Lincoln Memorial 66 Cures
68 “____ we good?”
69 King of ancient Egypt 71 Tattoo artist, so to
speak
73 Org. with a complex
code
74 “Happy Days” network 75 Beach Boys song set to the tune of Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen”
78 King of myth
80 4G letters
81 ____ pace
82 Not doing so hot
86 F-, e.g.
87 Discourage
89 Waze way: Abbr.
90 Piece of plastic with a
gladiator pictured on it 92 Physics demonstration often done from the roof of a school
95 ____-Briggs Type Indicator (popular personality test)
97 “I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure,” e.g. 98 King of Shakespeare 99 “Keep Austin ____” (city
slogan)
101 Annual presidential
address, for short
103 Partner
107 “No worries” 109“Bon appétit!”
111 Christ, to Bach
113 Place
114 Chimney channels
116 Warning on presents
stashed in the closet 118 King of Skull Island
119 “Huddle up!”
121 Actress Elisabeth
122 When: Sp.
124 Early adolescent years,
so to speak
125 Engage
126 Opposite of wind up 127 Infinitesimal
128 Toys with much
assembly required
129 Travel-brochure
listings
130 Named
DOWN
1 Some hip-hop
collectibles
2 On dry land
3 Join a conference call,
say
4 Quick to fall asleep, in
a way
5 Sense of self
6 Día de San Valentín
gifts
7 Tearfully complain
8 Tabloid nickname for
mother Nadya
Suleman
9 Powder in the powder
room
10 Course with greens
11 Machiavellian sort
12 Omits
13 Objective
14 Gateway city to Utah’s
Arches National Park 15 Some after-Christmas
announcements
16 Home to about one in
five Californians
17 Long-running sitcom
set in Seattle
18 Them’s the breaks!
22 Spent some time on
YouTube, say
28 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who wrote “No Future Without Forgiveness”
29 Sought-after position 34 Pop
36 G.P.s, e.g.
39 City about 25 miles
S.E. of Chicago, IL.
41 ____-faire (social
adeptness)
44 Level the playing
field?
45 Put one past
47 One ending for a classic board game another of which (when a player resigns) is represented visually six times in this puzzle
49 Tough spots
50 Bother incessantly
51 Scoring win after win 52 Mowry who starred alongside her twin Tia in the ‘90s sitcom “Sister, Sister”
53 ____ Z
55 Cubs’ place to play
home games
58 Wilson who wrote the
lyrics to 75-Across
59 Play areas
61 The “Bel Paese,” to
locals
62 Borrower
63 Scale
67 Quintessentially
cowardly
69 Mosaic maker
70 Remove from under the seat in front of you, say
72 Ducks known for their
soft down feathers
76 Tinker (with)
77 Yes or no follower
79 “I’ve got it!”
83 Rob ____, British comedian and TV personality 84 Samosa
tidbit
85 Part of an office phone
no.
88 Tool for a duel
91 Sidewalk drawings
92 One of the Manning
brothers
93 Disentangle oneself 94 Main source of
energy?
95 Breakout 1993 single
for Counting Crows
96 Stay awhile
100Only color of the rainbow not seen on the L.G.B.T. pride flag 102 Portable dwellings
104 Richie with the No. 1
hit “All Night Long”
105 Borrower
106Potato cultivar that was developed in Ontario, despite its name
108Pelvic exercise
110 Nintendo dino
112 Like diamonds from a
mine
115 Father
117 Weak, as a case
119 “Oh, and another thing
... ,” for short
120 Graffiti signature
123 College, to a Brit