Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- By KELLY RICHARDSON & KATIE HALE Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis

“RELATIVELY SPEAKING” ACROSS

1 “The Name of the Game” pop quartet

5 Driver’s lic. info

8 Nixed, at NASA

12 Back teeth

18 Adolescent

19 Concession­s purchase

20 Very, informally

21 Bright red liqueur

22 Date night, or a midgame show starring Beyoncé instead of the coach’s nephew’s garage band?

25 Stovetop piper

26 Still going

27 Cappuccino topping

28 Prophetic sign

30 Pliable wood

31 English article

32 “And so forth” abbr.

34 Bohr played by Kenneth Branagh in “Oppenheime­r”

37 Word with bright or big

39 Giving up a lazy Saturday to clean up a beach at sunrise, or waking up to pancakes instead of gruel?

45 Busy mo. for a 102-Across

47 Weep

48 Brazilian berry

49 Cancel

50 Ease of movement

53 Target

55 Food stamp org.

56 A chic gray bob and cat eye bifocals, or sleeping until noon and dancing until dawn?

59 Classified

60 Ethically indifferen­t

61 Skip over

62 Fast Amtrak train

64 Took first place

65 Undergroun­d systems

67 Fluffy craft supply

70 Writing tip?

73 Adventure game console

75 Soy block

76 “I am enough,” e.g.

78 Snouts

80 Cardstock instead of newsprint, or the work of a wordy student?

85 Feel (for)

86 Spanish diacritic

87 Meetings 88 Bite noisily

90 Operatic icon

91 Pub choice

92 Wolfed down

93 “The copy editor says this needs a capital letter,” or a judge saying “Not enough evidence” in a bass-baritone?

99 Flit

100 Greek fabulist

101 Wallach of “The Holiday”

102Tax prep pro

105 Scolding sound

108 Spring

110 2-Down, for one

112 Ready at a moment’s notice

114 “Girl on Fire” singer Keys

116 God’s rest on the seventh day, or forty winks on a bunk bed?

120Sharp grabbers

121Large barrel

122 Fish caught in pots

123Hippocr­atic __

124Orbital extreme

125 18-wheeler

126“Happy now?”

127__ bargain

DOWN

1 Up, in baseball

2 Canvas for many an arborglyph

3 Midler of “Hocus Pocus”

4 Against

5 Play-__: Fun Factory clay

6 Norwegian saint

7 Balderdash

8 Cappuccino topping, perhaps

9 __-Wan Kenobi

10 Jewel

11 Cookie used to make Halloween batshaped treats

12 Manage with whatever’s available

13 1968 to now, in profession­al tennis

14 “__ the games begin!”

15 Highbrow

16 Part

17 Whole lot

19 Heraklion’s island

23 Eternally

24 Event where pies win ribbons

29 “La Bohème” heroine

33 Prickly plants

35 Like fertile soil

36 Bolsa Chica State Beach’s locale, informally

38 Single-season bloom

39 Actress Pam

40 Take a shot at

41 Promposal goal

42 Appliance that performs under pressure?

43 In the buff

44 Happy

45 Dollar alternativ­e

46 Give ’em the old razzledazz­le, say

50 Weak spot

51 Many Oscar contenders

52 Not as well

53 Sale caveat

54 Hirsute cousin

57 Punk offshoot

58 Drain

59 Plots again

63 PR focus

66 Ending at, casually

67 Bioré target

68 Frequently, poetically

69 Oaty breakfast mix

71 Oscar nominee Dunne

72 Xylophone parts

74 Abounded (with)

75 Journalist Koppel

77 Water nymph

78 Salt formula

79 Nueve preceder

81 Singer Redding

82 “Love your skin” body brand

83 Woody area

84 Actress Witherspoo­n

89 Nutty confection

90 __ mining

91 Current units

94 Fold

95 Thin strips of land

96 Irked

97 Loses speed

98 German article

102 Gondola waterway

103Tectoni­c __

104 First Greek letter

105 “Toodles”

106 Thwack

107 2.2 lbs., roughly

109 Univ. conferrals

111 Sport sword

113 Trim, as a photo

115 Horologist’s piece

117 Wrath

118 Orbit, e.g.

119 Fútbol cheer

 ?? ?? 10/29/23
10/29/23

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