San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: U-haul
ACROSS
1 Conceal
5 ____ Kola (Peruvian beverage partly owned by Coca-cola) 9 Brittney who blocked more shots individually in 2012 than any entire N.C.A.A. women’s team
15 Tap alternative 19 From the top 21 Yoga mat, at times 22 I–
23 Home to the Cedar Point amusement park, a mecca for roller-coaster enthusiasts 24 Enjoy a La-z-boy recliner?
26 Head exec? 28 Supplements 29 “That was ... really bad”
31 What a pump might squeeze
32 Burns a little 33 Affectedly shy 34 Captain Hook’s No. 2 36 “How I Met Your Mother” narrator Bob 38 Yard-sale condition 39 Navy and others 41 Scratching-post scratcher 43 Tantalizingly detailed 45 Six-foot runner? 46 “My luggage has gone missing!”? 49 Germs from day care, e.g.?
54 Metallic fabric 55 Develop further, with “out”
57 Prince William, to Charles and Diana 58 They’re found beneath sink holes 61 Jousts with 63 Refrain from sports? 64 Simple sandwich 65 “Likewise” 66 Vegetable with striped and golden varieties
67 Like a jiggly tooth 69 Grp. regulating pesticides 70 Request for oneon-one time in the “Bachelor” TV franchise ... or a phonetic hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle 76 Website-feed inits. 77 Committee head? 78 Only
79 Dog breed associated with the British royal family 80 Nowhere to be found, for short
81 The Lions, on scoreboards 82 Mexican garments, as they’re spelled in Mexico
84 Like some hats and sheets
85 Comprises 88 Carried
89 Bodily function? 90 Things to avoid when baking desserts? 92 Sadness at the last Boston cream being taken, e.g.? 97 Annual gala host, with “the”
98 Went down an Olympic track 100 Bother
101 Sea eagle
102 It’s one foot long 104 Swell
106 Had down 108 Amer. currency 109 Remains in a hearth 111 Big time?
112 Farm connector 114 Area for note-taking 116 My garden waterer that’s seen better days? 119 Shopping destination for your underwear needs? 121 Tilt-a-whirl, e.g. 122 The burdens we carry
123 Barre bend 124 Stashes (away) 125 Foil alternative 126 Kitsch
127 Hit the paper-plane icon, say 128 Assemble in one large body
DOWN
1 Book that follows Zechariah
2 Got too old
3 Gave permission 4 One meaning of “X” 5 Wrath
6 “Easy!”
7 Award won by Don Draper on “Mad Men” 8 Gladys Knight and Norah Jones, for two 9 Platoon members, for short 10 Networking aid 11 Half-baked 12 Evening, in advertising 13 Northwestern follower 14 Crossfit bits
15 One who’s barely acting?
16 Board game popular in Japan 17 Certain trig ratios 18 Preschoolers 20 “Darn!” 25 Woo-woo films? 27 Intended
30 High register 35 “Who ____?” 37 “____ who?”
40 Deli assortment 42 Comedian who said: “I once spent a year in Philadelphia. I think it was on a Sunday.”
44 Mother rabbit 45 Throws, in a way 47 Prized metamorphic rock
48 Urban scavenger 50 Author Mario Vargas ____ 51 Drive home? 52 Singer Knowles 53 Head doc? 56 More than cracked
58 Donor group, for short
59 Title for multiple Marias and Annas in history 60 Pillage 61 Letter-shaped beam 62 Equipped, as a factory for production 68 Miner discoveries 69 Subspecies adapted to a specific environment 71 Timely thing to arrive on 72 Packed away 73 Newspaper debut of 9/15/82
74 Vapes
75 Pulled off
80 It may be dropped for emphasis 81 Fratty type, colloquially 83 Event with barrel racing
84 Close rival, in a sense
86 “Show it here!” 87 The Cards, on scoreboards
89 Mr. Wednesday’s true identity in Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” 91 Secretly, from the Latin
93 Given shelter 94 Salad green also known as “rocket” 95 Brooks no debate 96 Ripe-strawberry feature 99 Comedian/tv host Nikki
102 Reply to “You dig?”
103 Stick (by)
105 Big name in baseball cards 107 Cartoonish baby cries 109 Infinitive of the French “suis” and “sommes” 110 Slovenly sort 111 Former Israeli P.M. Barak 113 Relative of wild cabbage 115 Wander
117 Focus of the Human Genome Project
118 Suffix with darned 120 Titular character portrayed by Jason Sudeikis