Crossword g Puzzle 2
ACROSS
1 Daffy Duck
feature
5 Throws, as the
shot
9 Real grind 13 Second most populous city in the Dakotas 18 Chip in a chip 19 Brand with a wasabi-flavored variety in China 20 Necklace fastening site 21 Most of the
Earth’s surface 22 *Extra 25 Brought up 27 Paint fight
sounds 28 Corned beef
concoction 29 Latte maker 30 31-Across prefix 31 Cruise stopover 32 *Bad
34 Since
36 Small island 38 Afore
39 Make out, in
Manchester 40 *Liar
45 Attends to
47 In an absurd
fashion 48 Popular roller
coaster name 50 Squatters build
them
55 Saucy
56 Big Apple
designer initials 58 Choice words? 59 Some campus
coaches 60 Messy room
metaphor 61 Bakery output 62 Plot size 64 Intellectual 65 *Hail
68 Apollo and
Artemis 71 System developed at Bell Labs
72 Get rid of 73 Banned
pesticide 76 Whizzes 77 Waze option:
Abbr. 78 Ostentation 79 Toon explorer with a talking purple backpack 80 Like 20 Questions questions 81 More irritable 84 Like a probability distribution with two peaks 86 Say “I do,”
maybe 88 *Ladybird
90 Suit in a Spanish deck of cards
94 Madre’s sister 95 Mois après avril 96 “The Big __
Theory”
97 *Wait
100 Burn slightly
102 Air 2 or Pro
106 In general
107 They’re sometimes goodies
109 Expert advice
111 Sympathize
112 *Hush
114 Fed settings
115 Second half of a children’s game
116 Olympian
queen
117 __ mad: to the
max
118 Practices in a
ring
119 Language that
gave us “plaid” 120 Boundarypushing
121 Villain in “The
Lion King”
DOWN
1 “Dancer in the Dark” Palme d’Or winner von Trier
2 Clumsy
3 Hardly new 4 Item common to bikes and pianos
5 D.C. bigwigs 6 Address without
lat. or long. 7 Detachable strip 8 Serious
9 Ignore pointedly 10 In recent history
11 Offer a view 12 “__ Out”: 2017 Jordan Peele film
13 Made inroads 14 Biting, as wit 15 Shows over 16 Actress Greer with the longestever Oscar acceptance speech
17 Kind of punch 23 Order to relax 24 Verbal protest 26 Freaking 29 Carried 31 Quarter barrels
for a beer bash 33 Controlling
power 35 Perseveres,
with “on”
37 Old nuclear
agcy.
40 Dicey spots? 41 Working
without __ 42 Not, quaintly 43 Explosive stuff 44 Like some roads
and receptions 45 Gourmet
mushroom 46 Pipsqueak 49 Seuss character who “speaks for the trees” 51 Alternative media namesake 52 Perfectly fine 53 __ Johnson, Anthony Anderson’s “Black-ish” role 54 Pre-1991 Georgia, e.g.: Abbr.
57 DOD intel arm 59 Dramatic artist 61 Whiz kid 62 Choreographer
de Mille
63 TV franchise with a Vegas spin-off
64 Digital conflict?
65 Before ... or after 66 Wacko
67 Head of MI6? 68 Senator
Klobuchar 69 Issa of
“Insecure” 70 Papers in a job recruiter’s office, briefly
73 Bird last seen in
1662 74 Apothecary’s
weight
75 Story
77 Urban opposite 78 Nose (into) 79 “I’m so dense!” 81 Purely
decorative detail 82 “__ body meet
... ”
83 Bring forth 85 The Temptations’ first #1 single 87 Dieted 89 Embarrassed 90 Reason for
shoe inserts 91 Perseverance
and Curiosity 92 Track’s 400
meters
93 Layers 95 Free-for-alls 98 Where a tot might come from?
99 Grass
accessory
101 Anne of
“Psycho” (1998) 103 Aquatic arenas 104 Bertha was locked in one in “Jane Eyre”
105 Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX winning coach 108 Denzel’s role in “The Little Things” (2021) 109 Beseech
110 __ pressure
112 Dir. the Kings travel to play the Lakers
113 Tango’s co-birthplace: Abbr.