Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“POETRY SLAM”
ACROSS
1 Wacky
7 Subterranean queen 10 Reaction to a trip 14 Throw out
19 Eight-time Best Actor
Oscar nominee 20 Cloud content 22 Queen topper 23 Shakespeare’s
ghostwriters?
25 Let in
26 Neither surfeit nor
dearth, informally
27 Lie about one’s age? 28 Heavenly harp 30 Decreases
31 Go after
33 Aspiring singer’s aid 35 Flexible joint
37 What a ritardando
gradually gets
40 Very likely will, after
“is”
42 Be beholden (to) 45 “Another day, another
$%&! Grecian urn”? 49 Short notes
51 Pete’s wife on “Mad
Men”
52 Fits
53 Places for drinks on
tracks
56 Pacino and Roker 57 Florida horse country
city
59 Streaker’s covering 60 __ account
61 Faced
62 Cloudy
63 Assist in the gym 66 Landscaper’s
truckload
68 “Religious Poetry Writing for Dummies” reminder?
75 All of Sartre’s “No Exit”? 76 Cut with light
77 “... bug in __”
78 Giant Manning
79 Omit
82 Env. fattener
84 Smarts measured by
the ounce?
86 Muscle that sounds
like a kiss
87 “Me too”
89 One way to run 91 Play division 93 Excited, with “up” 94 Love song written
while playing hooky? 98 Cooked sushi fish 99 “My goose is cooked!” 102 Baroque
103 Like some rovers
105 Buzz
107 Really feared
111 Panthers’ school
113 Dessert options
115 Enter, as data
118 How many Oscars
19-Across won
119 Be of help
121 Chaucer’s workflow? 124 Many a quartet’s
bottom line
125 Relaxed
126 Produce visibly, as a
sweat
127 Young ones
128 Great times
129 Bond, for one
130 Burns subjects
DOWN
1 Legendary mountain
climber
2 Even things
3 Toroid treat 4 Addlepated
5 Pub patron’s pint 6 Bowser’s bagful
7 One way to run 8 Destination of the 1925 diphtheria serum run
9 Bashful
10 Baseball’s “Little
Giant”
11 Audibly
12 7-Across, to an
aardvark
13 Get sore
14 Sorority vowel 15 YouTube upload 16 Poet known for her
footwork?
17 Wah-wah source? 18 Pix from needles 21 Subsidiary wager 24 Enthusiastic kids’ plea 29 Music genre prefix 32 Bit of subterfuge 34 Bucolic outbursts
36 Tank
38 Lamb literature 39 Castro of Cuba 41 Smooch and stuff 43 Frayed
44 Canadian gas
45 Item sold in sheets 46 Van Gogh milieu 47 “How many roads __ man walk down ... ”: Dylan
48 Swamp gas 50 Intestinal bacterium 54 Career military
members 55 Matchless
57 Elocuted
58 Vegas attraction 59 Oinker’s digs
62 Yukon or Denali 64 “NewsHour” airer 65 “Little House” family
name
67 Schlep
69 Interruption 70 Plumber’s piece 71 Forest __
72 Drive away 73 Colleague of Ruth and
Sonia
74 Chopped into cubes 79 Asian libation
80 __ pants
81 Tennyson lecture? 83 “Bye!”
85 Prefix with dermal 88 One-eyed Norse deity 89 No. 2
90 The Beatles’ “words of
wisdom”
91 Asian appetizer 92 Soaps and vacuums 95 Oboe kin
96 Stop seeing someone 97 Unintentional rat
poison victim
100 Trailhead handout
101 Minor matter
104 Handy
106 “__ Hope”: ’70s-’80s
soap
108 Nerds
109 Follow
110 Oceanic abysses
111 Concord
112 2017 Poker Hall of
Fame inductee Phil __ 114 Suffix with buck
116 Job in a kitchen
117 Whitewater challenge 120 Alhambra article
122 Ed.’s stack
123 U.S. govt.
broadcaster