24 APRIL3, 2022
Crossword“CUTTING COSTS” BY EVAN BIRNHOLZ
ACROSS
1 Closing music passage
5 Makes a choice
9 Beast battling Legolas
12 Encouraging quality
18 Heavy duty
19 Aquaman, e.g.
20 Cain’s biblical brother
21 At less distance away
22 “Attention, shoppers!
Save 10 percent on
nursery talc and get
some . Your infant
needs to be strong!”
24 Nostra
25 Cancel, as characters?
26 Money spent in Minsk
27 They’re not buying it
29 Gambling city by Sparks
30 Commanding officer’s
command
32 “We’ve taken 7 percent
off a pill to treat anemia
so you can get a .
Who wouldn’t want extra
time with Hollywood
director Howard?”
36 Green land surface
37 New Mexico resort town
40 Learning by repetition
41 “Wee” child
42 What a valet parks
43 “Want your own rowing
teams from southern
Ireland? Save 10 percent
on wine bottle openers
and get !”
45 Mama bear’s little bear
46 “Hot” time?
47 Moreover
50 Sci-fi counselor
51 Massive amounts
52 “East of Eden” twin
53 “Get 9 percent off a
General Mills cereal and
get . They’re the
most fortunate injuries
you’ll ever have!”
56 “Save 9 percent on a
surfing item and get
a . Shakespeare
has gotta shake, shake,
shake his booty on the
dance floor!”
58 San ___ (Calif. city)
59 Minor key of the
Radiohead song
“Videotape”
61 Some sorority vowels
62 Big ride, for short
63 45th Union admission
66 “Cheerleader” singer
67 Part of a guitar neck
68 Tai ___
71 It’s tied at a wedding
72 Request for support
74 Fighter pilot’s cry
76 “Ever wanted to hire
people to protect flying
insects? Now you
can when you save
9 percent on dental
devices and get ___!”
80 “We’ve cut 9 percent off
cuts of beef so you can
get ___. They’re still
cuts of beef, but this
time you take criticism
for having them!”
83 Intangible glow
84 Grazing savanna sights
85 Human rights lawyer
Clooney
86 Three-point field goal
87 Leave astounded
88 Fabric edge
89 “Save 10 percent on an
artist’s tool and get a
___. It’s the same tool,
just a bigger hassle!”
93 Be indebted
94 Some altos in choirs
95 35-0 NFL victory, e.g.
96 Otherwise
97 Like unfair blows
100 “That game console is
7 percent off. With that
kind of savings, you can
get a ___, a spellcaster
who will play video
games with you!”
104 “Fight Club” actress
___ Bonham Carter
106 Unable to choose
107 “Need a hand?”
110 Skin care item
111 Hallowed structure
113 Treelike fantasy beings
114 Results of cutting costs,
and what’s spelled out by
the letters cut from nine
products in this puzzle
116 Cherry ___ (tool for
removing cherry stones)
117 Father of 20 Across
118 Needing a recharge119 29th Union admission
120 Goddess with the
mechanical owl Bubo in
“Clash of the Titans”
121 D.C. major league pro
122 Workers with six legs
123 White Christmas blanketDOWN
1 Snakes with hoods
2 Operating by itself
3 Did voice-over work
4 Thomas Adès
composition whose title
is Latin for “sanctuaries”
5 “Get a load of this!”
6 Church supporters?
7 Challenging trip
8 Having done a more
punishing workout
9 Some performers in pits
10 Savings event?
11 Apt rhyme of “grasp”
12 German equivalent of
the Spanish word “y”
13 Examined curiously14 Pioneer Village city in
Massachusetts
15 “Fame” name
16 Big bang beginner
17 Prior to, in stanzas
20 “Don’t miss out on the
sale!”
23 Green sauce for rotini
28 Temple opening
31 Classical element along
with air, fire and water
33 Tool with a rubber cup
34 Biotech locale
35 Statistical pattern
38 Fried vegetable, often
39 Apply high heat to
43 Fast food drink
44 Suspensions for
basketball players?
45 Pigeon’s sound
46 Bits of glue
47 Donations to the poor
48 Molokai feast
49 Sketch show that
began one year after
SNL debuted51 Roof’s position
54 Like owlets
55 Sales spots
56 Short in duration
57 “Boo-yah!”
60 Rock band’s box
64 Strengthen, with “up”
65 Concluded
67 Prepared like bananas
Foster
68 Burn a bit, as beef
69 Walk in the forest, say
70 Really small, cutesily
71 Kirk’s foe whose name
Kirk famously shouted
in a 1982 film
72 Product pitches
73 “Cry, the Beloved
Country” writer Paton
75 Crystal product on
“Breaking Bad”
76 Rock enthusiast?
77 “Just tell me!”
78 Direction toward a pole
79 Dark ’n’ Stormy liquor
81 Capitalism critic Marx82 Melting 123 Across
89 Indicate rudely, maybe
90 World ___ Awareness
Day (April 2)
91 Insect bite reaction
92 Take care of
94 Antiperspirant brand
95 Country that’s home to
the traditional dance
Ikinimba
97 He was in front of the
line on the “Abbey
Road” album cover
98 Pair of punches
99 Wilanów Palace city
101 Like stale expressions
102 Hammerhead shark’s
home
103 “___ Gabler” (1891
Ibsen play)
105 NFL analyst Riddick
108 Homeowner’s debt
109 H.S. students’ exam
111 Health resort
112 All or Tide alternative
115 They may hold MP3s
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