THE WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE 31“THEMELESS NO. 19” BY EVAN BIRNHOLZCrossword
ACROSS
1 Shot in the dark
5 Like lye
10 Run time?
14 Augustus (“Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate
Factory” child who falls
into a chocolate river)
19 Pixar film with a
repeated syllable
20 Joe Schmo
22 Theme of some
crosswords (but not
this one) that involves
entering multiple letters
in a single square
23 Stacked or dunked treat
24 They may spend hours
looking at the Sun
26 Predecessor of the iPod
28 Fans of a post-hardcore
music genre, informally
29 Like Psalms 119, among
all chapters in the Bible
30 apso (bearded
dog from Tibet)
31 French word after “en”
or “avant”
34 Acted accordingly
35 Michael who played
Danny Noonan in
“Caddyshack”
37 Like films that don’t
require a content
advisory
40 Set of compositions
44 Crustaceans that
sound like they could
be relatives of rock
lobsters
48 Go after a tail, as a
dog might
49 Exhaust pipe vapor
50 Region of great
concern for climate
scientists
51 Film with an unoriginal
plot
53 Belittle
55 Rest on
57 Emergency
58 Emergency notifications
59 Ginger ___ (spicy
cookie)
60 Wide neckwear
62 Hairdo lasting for
several months
64 Not just any
65 “Credit where due ...”
71 Director Roth who’s
part of Hollywood’s
“Splat Pack”
72 “Yuh-HUH!”
73 Doone in an 1869 novel
74 Makes a wrong move
76 Penn pal, perhaps
78 “Spider-Man: No Way
Home” actress Tomei
81 Awesome
84 Repulse
85 Unit of sound in
linguistics
87 Companion who may
snuggle with you while
you work from home
88 Saline sign of sadness
89 German city that’s an
anagram of 43 Down
91 Some golf clubs
93 First name of rock’s
Prince of Darkness
94 “Leviathan” author
Hobbes
96 Expand, as a pupil
97 Ski resort or a tree of
the same name
99 Refuges, in Latin
101 Musical with a scene
at the balcony of the
Casa Rosada
105 Situated near waves
108 “Company, ___!”
110 Salts with I- ions
112 Screenwriting?
116 Has beans, say
117 Table-read participant
118 “... and stuff”
119 “That blows my mind”
120 Trash collection?
121 Number of square feet
in a square yard
122 Meredith Baxter’s role
on “Family Ties”
123 26 Across manufacturerDOWN
1 Disgruntled look
2 Rabbinical school text
3 Amtrak express train
4 Novel format that came
before apps like Audible
5 Eric of “Hanna”
6 Wasp, e.g., in Marvel
Comics
7 Repair, as attire
8 April collection org.9 Clad like many a hero
10 Auto not saved, briefly
11 Moves forward in life
12 Disreputable person
13 Folds closed at night
14 Exhibits satisfaction
15 Demand for freedom?
16 Source of reedy sounds
17 Shared between us
18 Quiet form of “Hey!”
21 “Animal Crossing” fan,
e.g.
25 1960s Chrysler compact
similar in design to the
Plymouth Valiant
27 Become successful
32 At a distance
33 “Good and Mad: The
Revolutionary Power of
Women’s Anger” author
Traister
34 Website whose writers
resigned en masse in
2019 after refusing an
order from management
to “stick to sports”36 Danish sneaker brand
38 Pitching standouts
39 Language spoken
at Chulalongkorn
University
41 Home of the only
rainforest in the U.S.
national forest system
42 Maid Marian’s
portrayer in “Robin
Hood” (1991)
43 Detect
44 Rude child’s attitude
45 Singer whose cover of
“If I Had a Hammer”
was a hit in 1963
46 “El Laberinto de la
Soledad” author who
won the 1990 Nobel
Prize in literature
47 Bernhard who founded
a brewery in Detroit
52 Brand name of the
drug methylphenidate
54 Beloved monster
56 Butter squares61 Squashes
63 LAX approximations
66 Gold medal-winning
sprinter Devers
67 Diner cookware item
68 Anatomical bridge sites
69 Series of different
moods
70 Restaurant boosters, at
times?
71 Greek poetry muse
75 ___ aside (saves)
77 “A Life on Film” author
who had a major role in
“The Maltese Falcon”
79 [Cough, cough]
80 “Class Reunion” writer
Jaffe
82 Bone affected by a
Monteggia fracture
83 Provoked into reacting
86 Lesser or greater thing,
in a moral quandary
90 Blake who sang a duet
with Gwen Stefani on
“Nobody but You”92 Former Manhattan
restaurant owned by
restaurateur Kaufman
95 Qdoba condiment
98 Parts of asterisms
100 Swing ___
102 Magic Valley locale
103 Grand ___ National
Park
104 Analyze, as substances
105 Vowel-rich farewell
106 How music can be
burned
107 Re:
108 Chopped, as in a forest
109 One-named singer of
the 2019 single “Moral
of the Story”
111 “I’m an ___! You
know, ‘Grab your
torch and pitchforks!’
Doesn’t that bother
you?” (“Shrek” quote)
113 Loud med. diagnostic
114 Form of antiperspirant
115 Green wall covering
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