SATURDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tightly grasp

7 Frilly

11 Buds

15 U.K. org. that announced “There is no news” on April 18, 1930

18 Cut out

19 Like a cold fish

21 2D geometry

calculation

22 Fish in unagi sauce

23 Uncovering a query’s

many flaws?

26 Corp. head honcho

27 Frisbee, for one

28 Passing comments?

29 Allow

30 “Light My Fire” band,

with “The”

32 French for “friend”

34 What Hamlet did at the start of his soliloquy?

39 Roller for a core

workout

42 Aloe ___

43 Ancient prophet

44 Johnson of U.K.

politics

45 Bite-size crossword, e.g.

46 Pyramid, for a pharaoh

47 ___ Day (Jan.

observance)

49 Doesn’t beat an

escape room?

53 When repeated,

a patriotic chant

54 Mansa Musa’s

African empire

55 Vietnamese spring

festival

56 Cowardly sort

57 Loafing around

59 Banded gemstone

60 Percussionist ___ E.

62 Buds, in Bolivia

65 It’s dropped on stage

67 What a teacher gets after too many students request more time?

71 High deg.

72 Has faith in

73 Peering at

75 Guess qualifier

78 ___ and Means

Committee

79 Happy

80 Xmas mo.

82 Shaving ___

(sets with razors)

83 Word after “tiny”

or “Tater” 84 Goal of a philosophy

treatise, perhaps?

89 Strands in your body

90 It’s where the heart is

91 Churn up

92 Horror film descriptor

93 Like old footage,

perhaps

95 Many a tabloid story

96 Theoretical orbiter

beyond Neptune

98 City official with high

standards?

101 Go up

102 Third of a third

103 Apple’s mobile platform

104 Prince, to a king

105 U.S. Pacific island

109 Latin gods

110 Meeting on a fast train?

117 Martians, e.g.

118 Not fictional

119 AOL alternative

120 Island once known

for its colossus

121 Coloring liquid

122 Ice cream brand

123 (Stop touching

my whiskers!)

124 Southern neighbor

of Arizona

DOWN

1 Reputation, informally

2 LPGA star Thompson

3 Strike callers, for short

4 Suffered a loss

5 Drugstore chain

6 Tush

7 Doesn’t keep up

8 Words before

“king” or “mode”

9 ___ au vin

10 Who’s solving

this puzzle

11 LuPone of

Broadway

12 Diamondbacks,

on scoreboards

13 Fifth zodiac sign

14 Pacific flatfish

15 “Chill out, dude!”

16 Spare tire

17 Like two best

friends

20 Bloke

24 Christmas,

in certain carols

25 Blue view

31 Not Rx

33 Play a prank on, say

34 Villainous

35 TV warrior princess

36 Lit ___ (coll. class)

37 Animal with antlers

38 Humorist Bombeck

39 Aid’s partner

40 They’re only

checked once

41 Squirm

45 Swab 46 Oklahoma city

48 Puffed cereal

50 Covered, as a

bathroom floor

51 Muscat’s land

52 16/2

54 Chewy Japanese

treat

58 Carries out

61 World’s fairs, e.g.

62 Like a Florida

room

63 Cheese lover

64 Connections

65 Like Chichen Itza

66 Cold, sweet brews

68 New York,

but not York

69 Place for pastrami

70 Stand the test of time

74 “Understand?”

75 Signed off on 76 Condition stemming from excess cellphone use

77 Chinese spice whose

shape has points

78 Feminist spelling that

avoids “men”

79 Actress Gadot

81 Party mix cereal

83 Morrison who wrote “Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.”

85 Picture of health?

86 Springy type of stick

87 “Pants on fire”

person

88 Weasel out of

90 “Howdy!”

94 Half a play, say

95 Full of attitude 96 Teacher with a

71-Across, often

97 Passenger ships

98 Finished

99 Some Scouts

100 A Stooge

104 Skiing surface

106 Erase, as changes

107 HP competitor

108 Arizona city or

landform

111 Crossed (out)

112 Venmo money to

113 Patriotic uncle

114 Michael of “SNL”

115 Tic-tac-toe win

116 Pi follower