SATURDAY CROSSWORD

IN THE MIDDLE OF BY GARY LARSON, EDITED BY AMANDA RAFKIN

ACROSS

1 Placed in the wrong

spot

8 Bone-dry

12 Pasta that’s

often baked

16 Chum

19 Word before “fair”

or “museum”

20 Thor’s brother

21 Dutch cheese

22 Arroz ___ cubana

23 Look for guidance in the works of Aesop?

25 What an IOU signifies

26 Blouse or cami, e.g.

27 Lion’s home

28 Purple flowers

30 Special things

32 Big Mouth Billy ___

34 TV host Jay

35 Bird often depicted

with Athena

37 Creme-filled cookie

38 Comfy spot to eat

breakfast

39 Tycoon

40 Observe Ramadan

42 1990s commerce pact

45 Overhaul an

almanac?

48 Beneath

50 Pencil filler

51 Test results that might earn college credits

52 “The ___ of

Amontillado”

54 Blue Jays’ home

56 Small sofas

57 Seals’ rhyming prey

58 Dessert that often

has melon

59 Buck’s mate

60 Sudden loud sound

61 Top-tier celebs

62 First-aid pro

63 Rough-and-ready nun?

69 Sucky appliance,

for short?

72 Large collection

73 Person in a queue,

maybe

74 Mature

77 Smokers’ receptacles

79 Pigmented eye part

80 High-ranking officer

84 Sit unused

85 ___, Crackle and Pop

86 “Let’s get a move on!”

87 Biblical garden

88 Benjamin of

“Law & Order”

90 Seismology concern around a Nevada gambling city?

91 Glossary items

93 “Get outta here!”

94 Bombards

95 Guitar maker Paul

96 Pet food brand

98 “I want my bone now!”

99 Punching tools

100 Poet and filmmaker Thylias

102 Bakery hybrids

105 Red wine grape

107 Toothpaste tube top

108 Dunderhead

109 Becomes putrid

111 Fashion group into vintage clothing?

116 OPEC’s concern

117 Bug biting a dog

118 Velma from “Scooby-Doo,” e.g.

119 Based on theoretical deduction

120 Paper towel layer

121 Stitched together

122 The ___ the limit

123 When a night light goes out?

DOWN

1 Denver winter hours (Abbr.)

2 Post-E.R. place, maybe

3 Respectful title

4 Gives temporarily

5 Pot growers?

6 Legendary person

7 “Certainly,” for short

8 Rats with red eyes

9 Deodorant type

10 Furniture giant

11 Big commotion about a ’70s dance fad?

12 Last letter in Canada?

13 Picked from a lineup, briefly

14 Culturally forbidden

15 “This is a tough call”

16 Barrier around a barbecue area?

17 Moisturizer ingredient

18 Seats for kitties, sometimes

24 Phone notifications

29 Hilary of “Fatale”

31 Fanatical enthusiast

32 Paged

33 Builds on

34 Shoestrings

36 Psychedelic drug

38 Some TomboyX

garments

39 Like Old Mother

Hubbard’s cupboard

41 Video game inspired

by pentomino puzzles

43 Jazz pianist Art

44 Take in

46 Santa’s reindeer, e.g.

47 Rival

49 Cause to stir

52 Small change?

53 “Solve for x”

subject

55 Seijin no Hi or

quinceañera, e.g.

57 “Piece of cake!”

58 Dart

60 Partiality

61 Thrift store caveat

64 Novelist Jesmyn

65 Toothbrush brand

66 McDonald’s fixtures

67 Sound from a leaky

faucet

68 Follower of an

Afrocentric religion

69 Employee with a

Civic duty, perhaps?

70 Line spoken to the audience

71 “Farewell, you pesky little insect!”?

75 Evil spirits

76 Philly’s NFL team

78 “If I Only Had a Heart” singer

79 Digging plants with fronds?

80 Altoids and others

81 Famous ___ cookies

82 Yellow flag tosser

83 Places to park

85 Event with lightning, often

86 Share with, like a story

89 “I’ve finally got it!”

90 Puts another way

92 Blue cartoon characters

94 Trivial

97 Took without asking

100 Large-scale

101 Choose to join

102 Home with multiple layers?

103 Part of a train track

104 Ragout or maafe, e.g.

106 Stink to high heaven

107 Guitar accessory

110 Japanese honorific

112 Kin, for short

113 Siri runs on it

114 Catan resource

115 Petty criticism