32 May 15 , 2022CrosswordCrossword “JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS” by “JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS” BY EVAN BIRNHOLZEvan Birnholz MAY 15, 2022
ACROSS
1 Every last bit
4 Small bunch of flowers
8 Gemstones that come
from living creatures
14 “The Great British
Baking Show” creations
19 “Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Interrupting cow.”
“Interru—”
“.”
20 After the deadline
21 Get out of bed?
22 Production for Marilyn
Horne or Renée Fleming
23 Share photo evidence
of oolong online, say?
25 Neighbor of
Mozambique
26 Meadow noise
27 “Rhetoricians at a
Window” painter Jan
28 “Gee !”
30 “If you’re thinkin’
that belongs to Mr.
McCartney, you’re
wrong”?
32 Body parts pressed into
the slabs at Grauman’s
Chinese Theatre
34 Move with air currents
36 Sharp-toothed fish
37 Subwoofer device
39 Jersey (estado
atlántico)
40 Hit hard
41 Mythical beast that’s an
anagram of 55 Across
44 Investment option in
IRS Publication 590-A
45 Like latex balloons
47 “Number the Stars”
novelist Lowry
48 Whiskey (cocktail)
49 Military leaders in
charge of dessert
wines?
51 Informal name of a
college where black-
and-white animals fight
in boxing matches?
53 Pinterest or Reddit, e.g.
54 Pulls with force
55 Mythical beast that’s an
anagram of 41 Across
56 Put into effect
57 Bob Marley, e.g.
59 Steal worker?
61 Strand on a spool
62 Like a pixie cut
65 Newspaper headline
about how comedian
Philips managed a
hydroelectric facility?
68 Eliciting compliments
to the chef
69 Dilating parts of eyes
71 “Sneak Previews”
co-host, 1975-1982
72 Area along the ocean
74 “That’s unreal!”
76 Eggs in a clinic
77 Catches some rays
78 Author ___ Stanley
Gardner
82 What a karate master
hopes is the reply to
“Which dojos are
better than mine?”?
84 Some spotted baby
birds spotted?
86 Eris’s warring brother
87 War heroes, or war
cards
88 Carve into a shape, as
from a piece of wood
89 Pathetic
90 Dropped hallucinogen
91 General Mills cereal
92 Silly and foolish
93 Glue stick brand
95 “We? What do you
___ ‘we’?”
96 Bibliography listing
97 To a huge extent
98 Leeway for pleading?
101 Sculptor Manley
103 Bears, to the Packers
106 National flower of the
Netherlands
107 Harmful atmosphere
109 Jumping to conclusions,
and what’s spelled out
by the eight letters that
have literally jumped to
conclusions
111 Feeling of apprehension
112 Supporters of a cause
113 Dinnerly delivery
114 Cry one’s eyes out
115 Rhythmic units of a
musical measure
116 Get cozy
117 Brink
118 “Snowpiercer” networkDOWN
1 Signal-boosting devices
2 Pirate’s plunder
3 Become despondent
4 Parties setting up
parties?
5 ___ bran
6 Cacciucco and
ciambotta in Italian
cuisine
7 “Agreed”
8 Those who really enjoy
solving crosswords
9 Org. with biomonitoring
publications
10 Big group of warships
11 ___ House (Chicago
landmark designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright)
12 Cut of pork
13 Throughout all of New
York or California, say
14 Electroplating element
15 Excellent test result
16 Fall (over)
17 Subdivisions of eons18 Made use of a couch
24 Shred
29 “Well ... maybe”
31 Rural, feudal laborer
33 Considers unlikely
35 Clinging greenery
37 Samples syrah, say
38 Sirtis’s sci-fi role
39 Bull session?
40 “___ of a gun!”
41 Traveled paths
42 Best at downing a pie,
say
43 Lousy
46 ___ force (raw power)
47 Tied, as Air Jordans
48 Figure in many of
Plato’s dialogues
50 Pâté dishes
51 Not digital, in publishing
52 Bangkok currency
55 Kelli on Broadway
58 Cartographic reference
59 Roman fountain
designed by Nicola Salvi
60 Group training majors62 Of an anatomical cord
63 Indulges
64 Expressed a belief
66 Slender woodwinds
67 “I’m never finished
with my paintings; the
further I get, the more I
seek the impossible and
the more powerless I
feel” writer
70 Drop curse words on
73 Rick shown when
someone is Rickrolled
75 1992 film in which an
ice age cave dweller
adjusts to life in
modern Los Angeles
77 Navigated a touch
screen, in a way
79 Weekend warrior,
perhaps
80 King with the line “O,
that way madness lies”
in a Shakespeare play
81 Terminates
83 Word with cells or sells84 “Don’t make me
laugh!”
85 Governance free of
external authority
88 Playfulness of a pun
91 Stimulates one’s desire
92 Enjoys something a lot
94 Seriously injure
95 Like towelettes
96 Ducks with blue or
green wings
97 Predicated (on)
98 Ancient wall inscription
99 Chess champ Rubtsova
100 Liver fluid
102 Your last one may be
shared by others in
your family
104 Unknown author: Abbr.
105 ___ rights (subject
of Human Rights
Campaign advocacy)
106 Happy hour bill
108 Brooks who directed
“Spaceballs”
110 Bend under pressure
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