South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
MAKING A DENT
By Matt Skoczen
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. antidiscrimination 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 bodyimage 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-incommand
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