32 FEBRUARY 28, 2021
The answer to this week’s
metapuzzle is a famous
novel.ACROSS
1 Book with the line “Let
us make a joyful noise
to the rock of our
salvation”
7 Nonverbal agreement
10 “Much About
Nothing”
13 “Please, I want to know!”
19 Make public, as an
affidavit
20 Piece performed to
honor an athletic victory
in ancient Greece
21 “My boy ...”
22 Yemen’s region
23 Perform excellently
(Malinda Lo)
25 Univ. students focusing
on chemistry and
computer programming,
say (Jane Austen)
27 In the before times
28 Heavens
29 Divert, as a train
30 “Don’t sweat it”
31 Hard plant product
32 Cul-de-
35 “Ready to go?” reply
37 Erase
40 Toasted Kellogg’s treat
43 Mars’s counterpart
47 2015 World Golf Hall of
Fame inductee Mark
50 What “ciao” can mean
51 One paying for services
53 Postal motto word
54 Concept identified
by Durkheim as the
breakdown of values
57 “Wisdom” director
Estevez
60 OTC medication monitor
61 What Michael Caine
was awarded in 2000
(Elie Wiesel)
63 Bike part with a fruit in
its name (Émile Zola)
65 Jenny’s love of film
66 Ones giving people body
checks?
67 Product of pondering
68 Like fried chicken wings
71 Trident-shaped letters
73 “Inside voices!”
74 Constitutional conferral
76 “C’est la ___!”
77 Savings vehicle, briefly
78 Five-in-a-row board game
79 ___-socialism (ideology
involving green politics)
80 Playwright Clifford
82 Nickname of William
Howard Taft’s birth city
84 Veinte divided by diez
85 Like dragon eggs in
the “Game of Thrones”
universe
87 Hoppy drink, briefly
89 Painting, pottery, etc.
91 Protests
94 Explosive event, briefly
96 Home of the Ouzoud Falls
100 Quinn of “Songcatcher”
101 Baja California, e.g.
(Toni Morrison)
104 “Neighbors” actor Zac
105 “A League of Their Own”
co-star
107 Activist Jim whose
Supreme Court case
legalized same-sex
marriage in America
109 Attorney’s letters
110 Parque das Ruínas city
111 Glutinous substance
112 Same-___ delivery
113 Subtext
123 Them’s the breaks
125 Pro who’s no longer on a
rookie contract
126 Points at a dinner table?
129 Music City Miracle team
130 London setting of “Lock,
Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels”
131 Evoke
132 Having qualms
133 No longer spinning, say
134 “Mo Bamba” rapper
Sheck ___
135 Needing a friendDOWN
1 Transformative stage
2 Like a bug in a rug
3 On the matter of
4 Halle Berry’s zodiac sign
5 “The Fifer” painter
6 Online magazine that
hosts the LGBTQ
podcast “Outward”7 Useless
8 Trash trait
9 Moisture in a meadow
10 Kick-___ (amazing)
11 Hawaiian duo?
12 Like some near-perfect
games
13 Denounces strongly
14 Deliver a stump speech
15 ___ Mahal (Grammy-
winning blues musician)
16 Black, to a sonneteer
17 Money spent in Istanbul
18 Mascara application site
24 Pronoun for Laverne Cox
26 Quiet
31 ___ shanty
32 Usain Bolt’s apt asset
33 Busy Ga. airport
34 “Stranger Things” actor
McLaughlin
36 Mai ___ (rum cocktail)
37 Policy explainer, often38 Top 10 song for Bruce
Springsteen in 1985
39 Like a table made with
silver and gold?
41 82 Across’s state
42 Capitale d’Italia
44 Cites
45 Minus sign look-alikes
46 “Quickly,” to 66 Across
48 Quite enthusiastic
49 Payment in a casino
51 POTUS’s military title
52 Hate, hate, hate
55 Really, really, really
56 Why someone may
commit a crime
58 Citizen of Kolkata
59 National University of
___ (Vientiane school)
62 Like some Latin chants
64 Expresses an opinion
intensely
69 Like torches70 Affirmative rebuttal
71 Practitioner of Crystal
Cubism
72 ___ Lankan
75 Legal wrong
78 Villain of the X-Men
who plays with fire
81 “Woe is me!” feeling
83 Chevy cars that spell
CARS when three
letters are removed
86 “Pushing Daisies”
actress Friel
88 Where oinks are heard
90 Weeping willow, e.g.
91 It’ s flipped in a library
92 Engages in mythomania
93 So-so
94 “Your Next Bold Move”
singer DiFranco
95 Bathing setting
97 Belief about the truth
98 Sweetened soft drink99 Nothing but
102 Changed slowly
103 Epic tales
106 Requiring a tux, say
108 Shirley Caesar’s genre
114 Student fencers’ org.
115 Play stations with
PlayStations, perhaps
116 Number given on a
date
117 Teeny-tiny
118 Nothing but ___
119 Sprouted
120 Hair in a lair
121 Janis’s comics spouse
122 Cross the threshold
123 “Battlestar Galactica”
theme song composer
Phillips
124 ATM card no.
127 Hapless salesman on
“The Simpsons”
128 Where oinks are heardCrossword“SUBTEXT” BY EVAN BIRNHOLZ
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