San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
The New York Times Crossword Puzzle:
ACROSS
1 Delights 5 Seesaw-powered vehicle on railroad tracks
12 They may be
wireless
16 Mass approvals 18 Bay Area start-up
mecca
19 Powered (by) 21 Where Lords Byron and Tennyson studied
23 Site of a claw
machine
24 Private meeting 25 Add, as cilantro to
guacamole
27 “____ of course!” 28 Alternative to
29 Failed web venture,
in slang 33 Previously, in poetry 34 Biggest club in
Vegas? 35 Flabbergast
36 Real dump 38 Features of Russian
Orthodox churches 40 Trekker to Mecca 43 Org. that employed W.W. Ii-era Donald Duck as a spokesperson 44 Murals or graffiti,
e.g.
46 How one might sing
an R.&B. ballad 50 It might make your
hair stand on end 51 Whales swim in them 52 Declaration upon
arrival
55 Mormon Church
inits.
56 Sensational reading
material 60 ____-repeated 61 Longstanding
rivalries
62 Stir up
64 Expansive 65 Recreational ____ 66 1937 Steinbeck
novella
70 Pedicure target 71 Count on one hand? 73 Airer of the morning
show “Get Up”
74 Do the bare
minimum
75 Olive in old comics 76 “You!?” whimsically 77 Former M.L.B. lefthanded pitchers Jackson and Leiter 79 Like the moon in a
solar eclipse 81 Malicious Mr. of
fiction
82 A regular in Italian
clubs?
85 2002 hit song for No
Doubt
87 Cry for a spell? 90 Angsty and brooding 91 Significant piece 92 In the heart of,
poetically
93 Due ÷ due 94 Fast-food chain with
a sunrise in its logo 98 Call in a ring, for
short
99 Dweller in a tree
hollow
101 Obnoxiously fratty
sort
102 “Allow me to
demonstrate?” 106 Be an ambassador
for, in brief
107 “It all makes sense
now”
110 Like some economies and moisturizers
112 Left-wing protest
group
114 Past disagreements that are no longer of concern ... or each block of shaded squares in this puzzle?
118 Don’t give up on 119 How ancient mariners relied on the stars
120 Actress Witherspoon 121 Sport
122 Apt word spelled from this puzzle’s “covered” letters, top to bottom
123 Office monitor, in
brief
DOWN
1 Son of Isaac
2 Citizen neighboring
3-Down
3 Nation across the Bab el-mandeb Strait from Djibouti
4 Make out, in
London
5 Must
6 Drink from the tap? 7 Negative connector 8 They often need new suits for work, for short
9 Move up
10 “____ girl!” 11 “Succession” TV
family
12 Left jobs on bad
terms, say
13 Remote button 14 Home of the Rosa
Parks Museum 15 Siren, for one 17 Space heater? 18 Alternative to a cab 19 “Sounds
reasonable” 20 Abominate 22 Go-aheads
26 “Hi there, friend” 30 Practices
diplomacy
31 How Reubens are
made
32 O.R. V.I.P.S
35 Suffer
36 Put together 37 Fad figurine with colorful unkempt hair
39 What takes a toll? 40 Chooses sidewalk
over subway, say 41 Long story short? 42 Au ____ (menu
phrase)
45 Dum-dum
46 Life partner
47 It’s a lot for a lord to
manage
48 “I mean ... uh ... it’s
just ... ”
49 Don Juan
53 Adler who outwitted
Sherlock Holmes 54 Worn ____ frazzle 57 “Go ahead and
decide”
58 Co-star of “Airplane!” and “Hot Shots!”
59 Left quickly, with
“out”
61 “The Crown” actress
Claire
63 How some Cajuns
converse
64 Crumb lugger 67 Required E.M.T. skill 68 Much of it is junk 69 “Cómo ____ usted?” 72 Mastodons’ defenses 77 Taking after
78 Lapis ____, blue gem pulverized for paint during the Renaissance 80 “Arabian Nights”
prince
81 1950s school dance 83 Over the line, so to
speak
84 Texter’s “To me ... ” 86 Sludge
87 Operator of the Texas Eagle and Southwest Chief 88 Perfectly
refurbished 89 Rescue dog, e.g. 90 School-email ender 95 Some low-risk government issues, informally
96 Take for ____
(bamboozle) 97 Natalie with 12 Top
40 hits
100 “Are you
serious?!”
101 Unlink from a social
media post, say 102 California’s San ____
County
103 Barbecue leftovers 104 “Hoo-boy!”
105 Brainstorm
108 Lowly deckhand 109 What one star may
mean
111 [shiver]
113 Bitter brew, in brief 115 Cause of a swollen
head
116 Air ... or chair
117 Illegal car maneuver,
often