Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz
CRAFT SHOW
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ACROSS
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7 Spanish rice
12 Little sucker?
15 Smallish batteries
18 Like a seacoast after a
storm, maybe
19 Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend
20 B. Wells, civil rights
pioneer
21 -mo
22 S as in soup?
23 Kind of drawing
25 Icarus’s downfall
26 Skip work for health
reasons
28 Words after ‘‘Ooh, ooh!’’
29 Beau, to Brigitte
30 Verbal stumbles
31 Baseball catcher
32 Ire
34 Boy band with two
members who previously
starred on ‘‘The Mickey
Mouse Club’’
36 Little suckers
37 Headgear for a tailgater
39 One of the Arnazes
40 ‘‘... but it’s up to you’’
43 Famously green shampoo
45 Rap’s Shakur
47 Pope after Benedict IV
48 Winter vacation
destination
51 Parades
54 Barely beat
55 Goals
56 Silverback gorilla, e.g.
58 Moreno with an Emmy,
Grammy, Oscar and Tony
60 Drag-racing vehicles
62 ‘‘____ trap!’’
63 Meager
65 Tired
66 In perfect order ... or, as
two words, what’s formed
by applying the answers
for the fi ve italicized clues
to the circled letters
70 Dined at home
71 More skeptical
73 ‘‘Hamilton’’ actor Leslie
____ Jr.
74 Break down, to a Brit
76 Theory
77 Sea ____
79 Prefi x with -plasm
80 Piece paid by Pisans for a
piece of pizza, previously
82 Safe places
84 Multi-episode narrative
87 Crucifi x inscription
88 Relentlessly question
90 En ____ (as a whole)
91 Having tattoos
92 Event that’s a bit off?
94 The butler, stereotypically
97 It gives Ford an ‘‘F’’: Abbr.
99 Buff
100 First Alaskan on a major
U.S. party ticket
101 E-4, E-5 and E-6, in the
U.S. Navy, in brief
102 Successors to LPs
105 Part of Canada above Alta.
and Sask.
106 One of the Gandhis
109 Where to get a mullet
trimmed
112 ‘‘____ get it now!’’
113 Civic center
115 Colored ring
116 Washington’s Sea-____
Airport
117 Non’s opposite
118 Ban ... or bandit
119 By and large
120 College entrance exam
org.
121 Hosp. V.I.P.s
122 Author Zora ____ Hurston
123 Son of AphroditeDOWN
1 Compete in one leg of a
modern pentathlon
2 Loud, as the surf
3 Chills
4 Not incl.
5 Set the boundaries of
6 Perfect
7 Smart ____8 Painter of the ‘‘Four
Freedoms’’ series, 1943
9 Sound from a cheering
crowd
10 Even
11 Pinnacle
12 ____ Chemical Company,
onetime maker of
VapoRub
13 Writer Serwer of The
Atlantic
14 Event planner’s need
15 Attempts
16 They’re listed by degrees
17 ____ boom
19 Struck, old-style
24 Bygone Apple messaging
app
27 Members of a blended
family
33 Move, in Realtor jargon
35 Airport logjam
36 Rick, Ilsa and Victor had
one in ‘‘Casablanca’’
37 First lady between Eleanor
and Mamie
38 Fanny
40 Accented cheer
41 Raggedy Ann and Raggedy
Andy, for two
42 Restricted zone44 ‘‘Ba-dum-tss’’
46 Education support grps.
48 ____ Paulo, Brazil
49 Sea route, e.g.
50 ‘‘Frozen’’ queen
52 Endless YouTube viewing,
e.g.
53 French island off the coast
of Newfoundland
57 Tropical yellow fruits
59 Writer Rand
61 New York city with a
marina
62 Suffi x with tour or Tory
64 ____-El (Superman’s birth
name)
65 Confl ict during which the
Lusitania was sunk: Abbr.
67 Fateful date
68 What’s left at sea
69 Dig in
72 Flat, round bread cooked
on a griddle
75 Noted congresswoman
from the Bronx, familiarly
78 After-bath application
79 Anatomical sac81 Hoped-for response to an
SOS
83 Lien holder, e.g.
85 Ahab’s father in the Bible
86 Desert’s lack
89 Hogwarts professor who
was secretly a werewolf
91 ‘‘Awkward Black Girl’’
creator and star
92 ‘‘Who cares?’’
93 Slapstick silliness
95 Gary who created ‘‘The Far
Side’’
96 Award to be hung
98 Start of a playground joke
99 U.S. govt. bond
101 Compass letters
102 Unisex fragrance
103 ____ Street, Perry Mason’s
secretary
104 Strong ropes used to
support masts
107 Verb preceder
108 Bad things on motorists’
records, for short
110 ‘‘Dies ____’’ (hymn)
111 Curb, with ‘‘in’’
114 The Jazz, on scoreboardsBy Ruth Bloomfield Margolin
8/9/20Ruth Bloomfield Margolin, of Westfield, N.J., serves on the
boards of several community nonprofit groups. For the past
three years she has given talks at area libraries on crossword
construction — lately adding Zoom presentations to
her repertoire. Ruth created a crossword for her son’s July
wedding (now postponed), which included the couple’s
favorite board game, Pandemic. Whoops! She’s revising that
puzzle now to feature only “fun” things. — W.S.
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