San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
Premier Crossword: Celebrating 50 Years Of Hip-hop
ACROSS
1 “Toosie Slide” rapper
6 “Top Chef” host Lakshmi
11 Mardi Gras city, for short
15 Wine vessel
19 French city
20 Web vending
21 With, in Paris
22 Margarine
23 1996 2Pac album with the hit “California Love”
25 Flo — (“Low” rapper)
26 Saintly ring
27 Mayhem
28 1986 Beastie Boys album with the hit “Fight for Your Right”
31 Equine beast
34 “Paper Planes” rapper
35 Unit of corn
36 1988 N.W.A album with the hit “Express Yourself”
47 “— my case”
48 Ed of “Radio”
49 Golfer’s drive
51 Gotten along adequately
53 50 — (“In da Club” rapper)
54 Reagan-era mil. project
56 Boxing great
57 “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” rapper
58 Solar beams
60 1992 Dr. Dre album with the hit “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang”
64 Strengthens
67 How some food is fried
69 Des Moines natives
70 2020 Juice Wrld album with the hit “Come & Go”
74 Novelist Elizabeth George —
77 Battle-ready
78 — Typhoon Lagoon (water park) 82 2010 Nicki Minaj album with the hit “Super Bass”
84 Strong — ox
86 Six plus four
87 Half of dos
88 Statute
89 R&B singer Erykah
91 1980s jeans brand
94 Fee for the use of a pier
98 Wastewater
100 Kin of keno
101 2000 Eminem album with the hit “Stan”
105 Court divider
106 Charged bit
107 Actor Liotta
108 1993 Salt-n-pepa album with the hit “Shoop”
115 Child poet Stepanek
121 Napoleon exile locale
122 “Gold Digger” rapper Kanye
123 1986 RUN-D.M.C. album with the hit “Walk This Way”
126 Bridle strap
127 — part (portray someone)
128 Meat jelly
129 Artist’s stand
130 Russian news agency
131 Pro votes
132 Moisten, as a turkey
133 “Work It” rapper Elliott
DOWN
1 Colorless
2 Part in a play
3 — lang syne
4 Ship’s spine
5 Irish New Age singer
6 Candy from a dispenser
7 From — Z
8 Pioneer Boone, briefly
9 Actress Rogers of “Bosch”
10 Actor Baldwin
11 Magical land of C.S. Lewis
12 Egg capsule
13 Bury the — (omit the key part of a story)
14 College life
15 Companions
16 Jai —
17 Peddle
18 DJ — Herc (founder of hip-hop in 1973)
24 Online ’zine
29 CPR pros
30 Masking —
32 “Quiet!”
33 Actor Keach
36 Back of a 45
37 Treasure pile
38 Hollywood’s Zellweger
39 Enzyme suffix
40 Skater Midori 41 Mine metals
42 Tea vessel
43 — for tat
44 Suffix with narc- or neur45 Extended family, to Hawaiians
46 Actress Gena Lee —
50 Twitches
52 “Troy” actress Diane
54 Hood’s knife
55 Nixing mark
59 Big primate
60 Two- — sloth
61 Taking cover
62 French for “kings”
63 Actor Wilson
65 Strong criticism
66 Feudal toiler
67 “Your wish — command!”
68 LA-TO-MI dir.
71 Zilch, in Peru
72 Do a sketch
73 Nutrition std.
74 Tater
75 — noir (wine)
76 Cain’s eldest
79 Les — -Unis
80 Streisand film of 1983
81 — Dogg (“Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper)
83 Robert of “The Sopranos”
84 Singer Levine
85 — Hill Records (“Rapper’s Delight” label of 1979)
89 “The Fresh Prince of — -Air”
90 Poking tool
92 Suffix with project
93 Ontario’s capital, on scoreboards
95 Nairobi natives
96 “Preach it!”
97 Portal
98 Without, in Paris
99 Greek vowel
102 Noon nap
103 Lilylike garden plants
104 Church song
108 Lil Uzi — (“Futsal Shuffle” rapper)
109 Zeno of — (philosopher)
110 Hitting stats
111 R&B singer Winans
112 Omani, e.g.
113 Tabula —
114 Sharp barks
116 “What —!” (“How precious!”)
117 Spicy cuisine
118 Actress Harper
119 Bits of land in la mer
120 TV’S — May Clampett
124 Create a lap
125 — -T (“O.G. Original Gangster” rapper)