SAVINGS PLAN
John Rippe, of Silver Spring, Md., works in the Office of Protected Resources at the National Marine Fisheries Service. Jeff Chen, of Seattle, is a writer and prolific crossword collaborator. John specifically focuses on the 112-/114-Across in his work, and this puzzle is a tribute to its impact.
ACROSS
1 First name in 1990s alternative rock
7 Hall of Fame QB
John
12 Showing
embarrassment 18 Enormous
20 Target competitor 21 Results of an
iron deficiency? 22 Buck, in slang
23 A.P. Stylebook entry that lost its hyphen in 2011
24 Like Constantinople
from 1453 to 1922 25 Under the counter,
say
27 One on the links? 28 Carpenter’s curve
cutter
29 Hagen who wrote
‘‘Respect for Acting’’ 30 Lydic of ‘‘The Daily
Show’’
31 Group of connected
PCs
32 Nashville attraction, with ‘‘the’’
33 Dust-up 35 Something you
might break into 37 FedEx alternative 38 John Denver’s ‘‘Thank God ____ Country Boy’’ 39 ‘‘Succession’’
family name
40 App used to track
fertility
41 Joins a pot 43 Response to
‘‘Are we there yet?’’ 46 With sickly pallor 47 Enjoys a homecooked meal 49 Psychoanalyst
Alfred
50 Submitted with
TurboTax
52 When ‘‘golden goals’’ are scored, for short
53 Bel ____ cheese 54 Covering for a
pomegranate seed 55 Capone adversary,
informally 58 Substance originally made with animal fat and wood ash 60 Without much
thought
62 Wraps (up)
66 Dirty water inside
a ship
68 Home to
Millennium Park 72 Swamp creature,
informally
73 Brew
74 A bull market it is
not!
76 ‘‘Bond. James
Bond,’’ e.g. 77 First-and-second
bet
79 Existential threat in 2021’s ‘‘Don’t Look Up’’
80 Spoke at length 82 Martini & ____
(beverage brand) 84 Mythical bird 85 Stop on a major
tour
86 Gas-station
convenience 89 Mozart’s ‘‘Così Fan
____’’
91 Conked out 92 Biden’s signature 2022 legislation addressing rising prices, for short 95 Once-popular rug
style
97 Outstanding
101 With ____ to
(acknowledging) 102 Bowed
104 Disappear ... like the circled creatures might do, if not for the 112-/114-Across 106 Dishes
107 Tiny ‘‘canvas’’
on which to paint 109 Shows signs of
disuse
110 Mission honored by the ‘‘Fallen Astronaut’’ lunar memorial
112 With 114-Across, conservation law that celebrated its 50th anniversary in December 2023 114 See 112-Across 116 Before now
117 Not fine
118 New ____
119 Sushi garnish 120 Web portal
with a butterfly logo 121 Senator Joni of
Iowa
122 Screens, say 123 Some U.K. Lords
DOWN
1 Social media
symbols
2 BEFORE: Coupon
stipulation
3 Greek heroine tempted by golden apples 4 Salt, symbolically 5 Signed
6 Like Troy in the
‘‘Iliad’’
7 Pull (out), as a win 8 City in San
Bernardino County 9 BEFORE: Game with annoying popups?
10 Turns off 11 High-fashion inits. 12 Cardiac conduit 13 Smith who wrote ‘‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’’
14 Country whose national animal is the elephant 15 Member of an
elite fighting force 16 BEFORE: Theme
park chain
17 QVC alternative 19 BEFORE: Rear-end,
e.g.
21 BEFORE: Having
physical form 26 Bouncy melody 28 Meeting places 29 Basic cable
channel
34 Route
36 BEFORE: Begin
operating effectively 40 BEFORE: December
temp worker
42 I.R.S. ID
44 Like some ancient
Greek poetry 45 Cargo 46 Game console that debuted in 2006
48 Mobile platform 51 Loose item at the bottom of a fastfood bag
55 Basic cable
channel
56 AFTER: Tiny
amount
57 Soccer star ____
Morgan
59 Scoff in
Offenbach
61 Scat syllable 63 Suffix with Paul
or marion
64 AFTER: Slangy
‘‘Amen’’ 65 Broadway
letters of success 67 Theme park known for its international food 69 ‘‘Are you ____
out?’’
70 AFTER: Military
pattern
71 Two shakes 72 Brobdingnagian 74 AFTER: Like some
statues
75 AFTER: Target
of a facial cleanser 78 Houston sch. 81 Back, in a way 83 Langston Hughes poem about racial inequality 85 Baldwin who was the first to play Jack Ryan
86 All together 87 Hordes
88 Philip II of ____, father of Alexander the Great
90 Pinnacle achievement, metaphorically 91 Solar
phenomenon 92 How one
might bolt upright 93 ‘‘The Future of Law Enforcement,’’ according to a 1987 movie 94 Pop-ups can lead
to them
96 AFTER: Actress
Rowlands
98 Ooze
99 Some linemen:
Abbr.
100 Scatterbrained 101 AFTER: Shakespearean title starter
103 Get down, so to
speak
104 Extract
105 Sails in a zigzag
way
106 Cape Colony
settlers
108 Assistant of
classic film
111 Painter
Mondrian
113 Monopoly set,
for short
115 Before, to
Shakespeare
Answers will be printed in next week’s crossword puzzle page.