The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CROSSWORD NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Lets extra light in, in a way
8 Get on the stick? 12 Music-genre prefix 15 Arm of the Dept. of
Homeland Security 19 Deforestation, for
example
20 Not home
21 Pool tester
22 Line through two
poles
23 Salma Hayek: 1996,
2002
26 Bop on the head
27 Driven, say
28 “____ Flux” (onetime sci-fi series) 29 Yellow belly?
30 Pair in gossip
31 Dev Patel: 2008,
2016
36 Jerkwad
39 What remains, with
“the”
40 Quail : bevy :: ____ :
parliament
41 Liechtensteiner’s
currency
42 Amount of tips earned by a street performer, maybe 45 Equipment used to play the oldest organized sport in North America
47 Choose
50 Brad Pitt: 2001, 1995 54 Accompanier of
smoke
56 Texter’s “I think ...” 57 Catherine of
“Schitt’s Creek”
58 Outstanding finds 59 Broadband inits.
61 “You mean I’m
wrong?!”
64 Utilize a company policy for new parents, say
66 When tripled, playful onomatopoeia for shooting laser beams 67 “Here, have a taste” 68 Owen Wilson:
2005, 2006
71 Baseless rumors
74 The lowest número
primo
75 Pickup line?
79 It’s at the beginning
of this clue
80 Noted fashion
monogram
81 Equal
82 “Sunrise” singer
Jones
83 Focus of some smartphone updates
84 Before, in poetry
86 Joaquin Phoenix: 2014, 2013 89 Problems with phonograph records 92 Contents of college blue books 94 Early online forum that popularized terms like “FAQ” and “spam”
95 Put on again
97 Some dolls sold in a Universal Studios gift shop
98 When “Alexander Hamilton” is sung in “Hamilton”
101 Mathematician
Lovelace
102 Al Pacino and Robert De Niro: 1974, 1995 (twice!) 108 Brother of
99-Down
109 Ramirez of “Grey’s
Anatomy”
110 Historic trade ally
of the Monacan people
111 Dark yellow shade 115 -elect
116 Modern tech feature
for watching two programs on one screen ... or an alternative title for this puzzle 120 Bug-eyed
121 High-value deposit 122 Shore soarer
123 Absolutely devoured 124 Takes from
125 TV’s “____ Lasso” 126 Name on a toy truck 127 Places for rubs and
scrubs
DOWN
1 Expert
2 Song title shared by hit singles for Ja Rule and Flo Rida
3 In the ____
4 High points
5 Kind of force created by the moon
6 Ending with “brown.” or “auburn.”
7 What tahini is made from
8 Tush
9 Thanks (to)
10 Actress Gadot
11 Olive ____
12 In any way
13 Sleazeballs
14 Kind of muscle
15 Chess’s ____ Caruana, onetime youngest grandmaster in U.S. history (14 years 11 months) 16 Flowerhorn cichlids and vampire tetras,
for example
17 Worker who wants
to strike?
18 “Go on, shoot”
24 Sister brand of
Saucony and Stride Rite
25 Small valleys
32 Cybersquatters
make fake ones
33 What 2 is vis-à-vis 1 34 “Hmm ...”
35 Badger
36 Barrels of fun
37 Satirist ____ Baron
Cohen
38 Entree served with
a knife
43 Price jockeying of
competing airlines 44 Not paying attention 45 Walgreens
competitor
46 ____ Khan of Khan
Academy fame
48 Prefix with present 49 Goes to hell
51 “Golly gee!”
52 Stock ticker symbol
for a longtime clothing brand
53 Corrects in text
55 Brought on
60 River of old song 62 “Clever ____ are
never punished”: Voltaire 63 [swoon]
65 Meat Loaf’s “Rocky Horror” role 66 Surfaces, e.g. 67 Start of many a limerick 69 Massive adversary 70 Whom you might ask, “Where will I be in 10 years?”
71 Forensic pros, in brief
72 Words of eventual understanding
73 “’Fraid not”
76 Supermodel Shayk 77 Went up against 78 Sorority letter
80 Shortest answer from a Magic 8 Ball 81 Measures of acidity 85 Modern joust venue, informally 87 Org. with a noted bell
88 Van Gogh’s “La ____ Étoilée”
90 Walking sticks?
91 Packed-house inits. 93 Went after
96 Expensive Super Bowl purchase
98 Shower times
99 Brother of
108-Across
100 Timorous
102 Member of a Turkic
group
103 Onetime streaming platform of the 2010s
104 Took a bow?
105 Submissions to a
casting director 106 Like wool sweaters,
often
107 Teensy bits
112 Thick component
of orange juice
113 Broca’s ____, segment of the brain linked to speech 114 Snoring symbols in
Surrey
117 [That smells
terrible!]
118 Regret
119 ____ sense