Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“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