SATURDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Amps (up)

5 “Hah, you wish!”

9 Crossword solver’s aid

13 Light spray

17 Worse for driving but better for skating

19 Like hens’ teeth, idiomatically

20 Texter’s “Then again ...”

21 Strong cotton thread

22 “Don’t wanna hear about it ...”

26 Dubiously dubbed

27 Conservation org. with a panda logo

28 “How frustrating!”

29 Near-impossibility on a par 5

30 Currency at many pachinko parlors

31 Public craze

33 High figs. for brainiacs

34 Wall St. debut

35 “That’s incredible!”

37 Possibly risky

39 Some casino giveaways

41 Manual reader, say

42 Hairstyle for Angela Davis

44 Wildlife watcher’s perch

46 Nicholas I, for one

47 “Crank up the heat!”

49 Hitting a pinnacle

50 Membership-based wholesaler

52 Wannabe banker’s deg.

53 “I double dog dare you!”

55 Completed the last leg of an Ironman

56 “if ur asking me ...”

58 Genre for Little Simz

59 Chinese entree served with hoisin sauce

62 Places for rotten Apple cores?

65 Singer McEntire

66 401(k) alternative

67 Some NFL linemen

68 “Silly me!”

69 Clear to see

72 Backs from the stands

74 “Wayne’s World” refrain

77 Things to crack

79 “The Bronx Bombers”

83 Former Bolivian President Morales

84 Tribe with an annual spring Bear Dance

86 It’s all relative?

87 “That’s yucky!”

88 Big name in supplements

89 Catches, as a thief

91 Roadside Mexican treats

94 “A little,” in music

95 Feed, as a fire

97 Maltreat

98 Cry after too much tickling

99 Keep private, for now

100 Enjoy home cooking

101 “Ah, makes sense”

102 “Watch your ___!”

103 Quite the crowd

104 ___ da Cunha (British Overseas Territory) 106 Crank (out)

108 Canadian dollar coins, informally

110 Big name in razors

111 Off ___ (tangential)

112 Pros at selling promos

113 Prepares for laundry day

114 Fire sign?

115 Informal eves

116 Filipino bread

117 Casablanca-to-Algiers dir.

118 Sweetie

DOWN

1 Two-person lumber tool

2 Sheep’s environment?

3 “It was nothing, really”

4 “CSI: NY” actress Ward

5 As, for chemists

6 Threw out there

7 Vex

8 Home to baseball’s “Green Monster”

9 “Wouldn’t have expected anything else”

10 Cousin of old TV 11 Trendy NYC neighborhood

12 AOC’s workplace, informally

13 Kitchen glove

14 “Am I being punked?!”

15 Places to go out on a train?

16 It’s more than fear

18 Depend (on)

21 Fiery types, it’s said

23 Iditarod transport

24 Absolutely dominate

25 Some summer b-day parties

31 Confused Nick Young, e.g.

32 “___ Flux” (2005 film)

36 Not prone to crushes, for short

38 Many a chess move

40 Access, as an email account

41 Maritime vessel letters

43 Gap Inc. subsidiary

45 Toots and the Maytals genre

46 “Don’t make that joke yet”

47 Little rascal

48 109-Down, for one

50 “Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon

51 Photo ___

54 “Never sounded right to me”

57 Trailblazing American Ballet Theatre dancer

60 “Like THAT’s happening”

61 Pantry stock

63 Aphrodite’s son

64 Apt rhyme for “conk”

70 Short promises?

71 “This date is over”

72 Tenants’ solidarity protest

73 Fifth Avenue retailer

74 Calligraphy purchase

75 Wii Miis, e.g.

76 Field full of unpaid workers

78 In great shape

80 Episodes of self-indulgence

81 Puts into a cipher

82 Some teatime offerings

85 Bygone times

87 Laverne Cox, to the trans community

90 Place to get a wax job?

92 Puts up, as a monument

93 “Make it snappy!”

94 Groundbreaker

96 From A to Z

99 Jazzy sound?

105 Doesn’t sit

107 Fully informed

109 Garfield once drop-kicked him into next week