South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
JUICY TIDBITS
ACROSS
1 Often abbreviated reaction to information overload
12 Ukulele ridge
16 “Gotcha” sounds
19 Starter
20 Indian flatbread
21 Laser pointer chaser
22 Altruism
23 Most of the 2010s
25 Span of a scale with three sharps
26 That, in Madrid
27 Gucci of fashion
29 “Elements of Algebra” author
30 “Don’t back down, bro!”
32 Completely different situation
36 Certain carton components
39 Reunion attendees
40 Café freebie
41 “Don’t think so”
42 Nos. for alums
43 Comparative data diagram
48 “The Misery Index” network
51 Bulgarian’s neighbor
53 Type of diet that might replace potatoes with cauliflower
56 New Deal agcy.
57 “High Rollers” co-host __ Lee
59 Grams
61 Alert on the road
63 __ in Charlie
64 “Play it cool”
66 Prefix with treat or giving
67 Blow a fuse
69 Sellers of KAFFEREP cinnamon buns
70 Middle-earth ring bearer
74 Following
75 Tokyo airport
77 Apple runs on it
78 Raggedy
80 Hot state
81 How three nurseryrhyme merchants went to sea
84 Trailer follower
85 Laker legend, familiarly
86 Votes against
87 Soybeans served in the pod
89 Gawk at
91 With 6-Down, Rudolph’s guiding light
92 Dad’s referral?
95 Boarding precedes it: Abbr.
97 Penicillium, e.g.
99 Half a martial art
100 Kendrick with a Pulitzer
102 On the lam
106 Résumé alert about an unfinished goal
112 Like a romantic dinner, in Paris
113 Chef’s protection
114 Word with words or chance
115 Org. with many returns
117 Paris gal pal
118 Most sentimental
120 Total removals
125 Maiden name preceder
126 __-Ball
127 “The Crocodile” of early tennis
128 ID on many returns
129 Post
130 “Give me some gossip!” ... and a
hint to this puzzle’s sets of circles, which affect four Across answers
DOWN
1 What Rickey Henderson often beat
2 Chinese for “black dragon”
3 NIAID director
4 Luzon, for one: Abbr.
5 JFK predecessor
6 See 91-Across
7 Thompson of Marvel movies
8 Beat it
9 Night before
10 ___ Technica: tech news website
11 Make drinkable, as seawater
12 70-Across nephew
13 “Mr. __”: Rami Malek drama
14 ORD posting
15 Zoom annoyance
16 Amtrak speedster
17 Sultan’s group
18 Intimidate, with “down”
22 Identical
24 Foretell
28 Paris article
31 Trivia night settings
33 Flings
34 “That’s wrong __ many levels”
35 Like some remedies
37 Hammer parts
38 “Ghost Story” author Peter
43 Forbid
44 Flood shelter
45 23andMe discovery
46 “Thank the Lord!”
47 Got a move on
48 Instruction
49 “__ Holiday”: opening section of Copland’s “Rodeo”
50 First woman to be named Doctor of the Church, briefly
52 __ B’rith
54 Tory adversary
55 __ de’ Medici, first de facto Lord of Florence
58 Berry in a bowl
60 Garlic genus
62 Get plastered
65 Piedmont bubbly
66 Classic U.K. sports cars
68 Prepare, as beans
71 Fett in “The Mandalorian”
72 De __: again
73 Stain
76 Short on iron, maybe
79 Serf of Sparta
82 Ruckus
83 Cap with a pompon
84 Convened in
88 Idea that spreads in a culture
90 “First Lady of Song”
93 Entrance porch
94 Teen dystopian novel narrator
96 Hanukkah top
98 Duchamp, for one
100 CD precursors
101 Lets out, say
103 Channel changer
104 Kind of pig that’s not a pig
105 They can be tricky to run into
106 Daybreaks
107 Foil relatives
108 Putting __
109 Designer Ashley
110 Like some cornered kings
111 “You know the __”
116 90-Down’s improv
119 Just make, with “out”
121 Good name, briefly
122 “Star Wars” nickname
123 German “Alas!”
124 __ the line