The Day

TEN MINUTES TO WIN IT

- By Amie Walker

ACROSS

1 Printer supply

4 Stretch often named for a leader

7 __ Fresh: fastcasual Tex-Mex chain

11 Overthinks things, say

19 Like many bathmats

21 Legend

22 Cheap digs

23 Rip-roarin’

25 Selected during Duck, Duck, Goose, say

26 Create an outstandin­g design?

27 Foreboding

29 Lacking

30 Knitting __

32 Actor Carell

36 Designer initials

39 PBS painter Bob

41 Kiosk at some wedding receptions

46 “I’ll take that as __”

47 Vellani who plays Kamala Khan on “Ms. Marvel”

49 Great Plains people

51 Drops in

52 “Changing the subject ... ”

56 Spot for primer and shadow, maybe

57 March family creator

58 Theater backdrop

59 Forum admin

61 River near the Great Pyramid

62 “Ouch!”

64 “Ben-__”

65 Bro kin

66 Kenan Thompson’s show, for short

67 More than a little mentally fatigued

72 Tuba sound

74 Function

75 Appear in print

76 Took away from, as profits

80 Painter Magritte

81 “Barry” network

82 “The Naked Chef” chef Oliver

84 Pop singer Britney

85 Golden years

87 Staley Da Bear, for one

90 Mosaic piece

92 Writer Silverstei­n

93 Banana skin

94 Palette choice

95 Blank expression?

97 Hard to find

99 Tolkien series, to fans

100 Lauder of cosmetics

101 Standing Rock people

104 Goes back out

108 Slept soundly after a big day

112 Gilda who won an Emmy for 66-Across

116 Documentar­y photograph­er Lange

120 Slow-moving treedwelle­r

122 High-stakes gridiron situation, and a feature of eight long puzzle answers

123 Playpen cry

124 Effectiven­ess

125 Cultural sphere

126 Fitbit unit

127 Whiz

128 Sounds of understand­ing

DOWN

1 Memo phrase

2 Meal- and exercisetr­acking app

3 Gearshift topper

4 Renée __ Goldsberry of “Girls5eva”

5 Wash out

6 On point

7 Ecological communitie­s

8 Play opener

9 Become a member

10 __ Domini

11 Decides one will

12 Feathery neckwear

13 Longtime NASCAR sponsor

14 Super vision?

15 Women

16 Pop

17 School near Windsor

18 Fed. IDs

20 Emotionles­s

24 Semi-oxidized teas

28 Arena attendant

31 “Aw, nuts”

33 “Arrival” arrivals

34 Cast a ballot

35 Member of a TikTok subculture

36 __ Lama

37 Genuflecte­d

38 Top-__

40 “Couldn’t agree more”

41 Audre Lorde creation

42 Like a liberal commercial aviation agreement

43 K.T. of country music

44 Govt. security

45 Jekyll’s counterpar­t

47 Preface, briefly

48 Words to live by

50 Not great, qualitywis­e

53 Gulf Coast region

54 Earthy colour

55 Radiate

60 Dept. of Labor div.

63 Ticket leftover

65 Justice Sotomayor

68 “That __ no concern to you”

69 Short-form blog platform

70 Homecoming cry

71 Mountainou­s Asian republic

72 Co-owner of the Pequod

73 “Consequent­ly ... ”

77 Chip to dip

78 Brook swimmer

79 Blender brand

80 Flatbread made with atta flour

81 Deli subs

82 Civil rights leader Lewis

83 Madrid museum

86 __ pool

88 Willow variety

89 Onion kin

91 NFL passing stat

96 Three-faced Greek goddess

98 Pub device

99 Soup scoop

102 Surgeon, informally

103 Sample

104 Classic Icelandic saga

105 Unrefined one

106 Champagne choice

107 Breaks down

109 Spots for checks and balances?

110 Whack

111 Browser button

113 “Strega __”: Tomie dePaola Caldecott Honor book

114 Set in stone, say

115 Matthew of “The Americans”

117 Coddling, for short

118 Giggle syllable

119 Seemingly forever

121 Clean Air Act org.

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