MAKING A DENT

ACROSS

1 Hankered (for) 7 Honi’s comics dad 12 Jungian concerns 19 Ricky Martin’s

surname, by birth 21 Mindless

22 Stuffed meat dish 23 Fraudulent budget increase for cleaning supplies? 25 Together

26 Walk in the park,

say

27 Ending with neur28 Role for Ingrid 30 False __

31 Lucie’s dad

32 Start of a classic

dramatic question 33 Those waiting for Facebook friend acceptance? 36 Iain’s negative 38 Concerning 40 Pre-flight

pandemonium? 44 Big spreads 49 Challenge, as

testimony

50 Air issues org.

51 “I knew it __ you” 53 “Oy vey!”

54 Seal the deal 55 Hungry request 57 Fire

58 Folding ladder

feature

60 H, to Kronos 61 Word of accusation 63 Mil. rhyme for

“Yahtzee”

64 Lost steam 65 Banking at a beach

ATM? 69 Shape-fitting game 72 “The __ Show” 73 Feed bag bits 74 Deg. of distinction 77 Just about 78 Letters to a lender 79 Part of CPA: Abbr. 81 Modeling supply 82 Stray

83 Atl.-based network 84 Shut out 85 Embrace, as a

custom

88 Ancient Assyrian

capital

91 Growing bulb? 93 First Black person to host a successful TV variety show 96 Whole lot

97 Major curves on a

mountain road?

101 Record speeds, for

short

103 “__ Smile”: Hall &

Oates hit

107 Park way

108 Scott of “Hawaii

Five-0”

109 “Oh”

110 Statehouse official:

Abbr.

111 At Notre Dame, say 113 Ocean trip for relationship strengthening?

117 Saw-toothed

118 Strand at a chalet,

say

119 More frivolous

120 Like a best friend 121 One of the Allman

Brothers

122 Lots

DOWN

1 Boast in a 1987

Michael Jackson hit 2 “Chestnuts roasting

...” co-writer

3 Exam no-nos

4 Tony winner who portrayed TV’s Barney Miller 5 Vogue alternative 6 __ gratias

7 Use to conceal, as

a bed

8 Added conditions 9 Chicken, in a

Cantonese dish 10 Wilson of Heart 11 Saskatchewan

capital

12 What a chair does 13 Spoken sounds 14 “Delish!”

15 Simple fastener 16 “__ mañana”

17 Car that didn’t go far 18 Percolates 20 Precise location 24 Moving

29 Pres. or CEO 32 Fed. anti

discrimination org. 33 __ Palace: castle on the Portuguese Riviera

34 Word with white or

cream

35 “America’s __

Talent”

37 Legal gp.

39 Ready

40 One way to crack 41 “You found the right

person”

42 Patti Tavatanakit was its Rookie of the Year for 2021: Abbr.

43 Jazz pianist __

Jamal 45 Quarterback

Rodgers

46 Soften 47 One-named body

image advocate 48 Sesame __

51 Bulb measure 52 Nightly news figure 56 Where it all started 57 One side of an

issue

58 Mgr.’s second-in

command

59 Wintry strains 61 California’s San __

Obispo

62 Part of MIT: Abbr. 63 Fix

65 “The most striking figure in Starkfield,” in a Wharton classic 66 Twelve, half the

time

67 African antelope 68 Polished off 69 Alpine lake 70 Weena’s race, in a

Wells classic

71 IRS agent

74 Bit of talk show

self-promotion 75 One may fall over

a crowd 76 Something specific,

informally

79 Heels

80 Showing support for 81 Take a limo, say 83 Special occasion

service

84 Sofia’s home: Abbr. 86 Some NCOs 87 Arafat’s gp., once 89 Group for ex-GIs 90 Brings forth 91 Recycling

receptacle

92 How deals are

usually sealed 94 Kissing at the bar,

briefly

95 Hit the jackpot 97 Protestant denom. 98 Group of experts 99 Geek Squad

member, for short 100 Burns a little

102 Parts of gigs

104 Word from a coach 105 Where to find

words for words 106 Label giant

109 “Gotcha, man”

110 Loaf

112 Pop’s Carly __

Jepsen

114 Text-scanning tech. 115 Called before

116 Limo passenger