P16 OTHEGLOBEANDMAIL | SATURDAY,FEBRUARY22,2020
ACROSS
1 Engagement-ending
exchange
5 longue
11 Circumstance’s
partner
15 It merged with QVC
18 Collect, as rewards
19 Lodger
20 Farfromfor
22 TASTE
24 Like some lawns
25 “Preach, man!”
26 You can flip flapjacks
in one
27 Wise people
28 Rap pioneer Mac
29 RESIST
35 Critters in mazes
39 Skiing category
40 Lead-in to gender
41 Org. fighting
discrimination
42 Decreases
44 “Parks and Recreation”
character Swanson
45 Texting format
letters
48 CAPE
51 Venture that’s
unlikely to succeed
53 Barbie’s boyfriend
54 Boots endorsed by
Tom Brady
55 Beyonce, for
Blue Ivy
56 Sport with horses
57 Sutra
59 Influences creatively
64 Actor McGregor
65 Play group?
67 AND
70 Hundred Wood
71 Dog food brand
72 Opposite of a
group setting
73 Spanish “other”
75 Dessert also known
as creme caramel
76 Waste away
77 Like snails
79 Spanish Mrs.
82 iPhone conversation
option
85 RITE
90 Body part whose
name sounds like
an assent
91 British naval inits.
92 Landlocked Andean
country
93 “Doing that now”
94 Grp. that gives out
maps
95 This evening,
on a marquee
96 Get by trickery
99 RAGES
103 Yellow bill in
Monopoly
104 Accumulate
105 “Yippee!”
106 It’s a gift, per a
rosy adage
110 Australian tennis
great
112 PHASE
117 Forest fringe
118 New Jersey beach
featuring “diamonds”
119 Apt crowd sound at a
Lions game?
120 Affirmative reply
121 Be in first
122 Like a good marching
band
123 Grand Ole ___DOWN
1 Roth or traditional
plan
2 Place to order
a hero
3 Vow
4 Complete as fast
as possible, as a
video game
5 Dodgers slugger
Bellinger
6 Assails
7 Sculptures and such
8 Muckraker Tarbell
9 Word before “the table”
or “the stage”
10 Palindromic poetic
preposition
11 Thanksgiving Day
tradition
12 Kilns, e.g.
13 Enero or febrero
14 Urgent
15 Natural lawn divider
16 Direct, as a car
17 Silent approvals
19 Flat hat
21 Does an usher’s job
23 ___ avis
26 Low-tech clickers?
30 Sting source
31 “Casablanca”
heroine
32 Designdetail,
informally
33 Spork prong
34 Image you
might tap
35 Deficiency
36 Feeling after
doing pullups
37 Taylor Swift hit
with the lyric
“And I’ll write
your name”
38 Endless chore
43 Right side of a cliff?
44 Lady Montague’s
son
45 Highlighting46 Wisdom tooth,
for one
47 ___ Age (prehistoric
period)
49 Chew on this
50 “My word!”
51 Entrepreneur
Greiner
52 Thrown weapon
55 Tick’s cousin
58 Whattodoon
Yom Kippur
59 Tag declaration
60 Trail mix tidbit
61 Nickname that’s an
alphabet run
62 Flower child’s digs
63 Hoity-toity type
65 ___ mocha
66 Assuage
68 Social standards
69 Balm ingredient74 Defunct carrier
77 ___ Lanka
78 Banana bread buy
80 Muddy up
81 Start the pot
83 “No more, sorry”
84 “Pretty. Freaking
powerful.” computer
85 Half a salad bowl
tool
86 “Would ___
to you?”
87 Actress Moreno
88 At any point
89 Way of swaying
92 Kind of image that
may be positive
94 Window alternative
95 Started to cry,
with “up”
97 “The ___ & Scratchy
Show”98 Soda whose name
sounds like a kind
of sock
99 Dessert you assemble
yourself
100 Walks in a kiddie
pool
101 “Laughing” scavenger
102 Note on a plagiarized
essay, maybe
104 Bohemian
107 Boss’s “Chop-chop!”
108 At the summit of
109 2020, but not 20/20
111 Compete
112 Chem. or biol.
113 Solo flight captain?
114 College-level HS
courses
115 Stroke gently
116 Like some religious
countiesSATURDAY
CROSSWORD
MIX-UPS
CRYPTIC CROSSWORDBY FRASER SIMPSON
ACROSS
1 Lampoons South Africa flags (7)
5 Paris and others arrange retrospective,
opening for January (7)
9 Libertine finally shown French cathedral
city (5)
10 Make calls of destiny, including here in
Normandy (9)
11 Bars expert splitting unstable atoms (8)
12 Suave academic breaks silence (6)
14 Find repulsive chapeau back in style (4)
15 On- and off-road Reliant repeatedly used
for parts (3-7)
18 Crudest novel with many copies in a
certain arrangement (10)
19 Ineffectual seven-day cycle mentioned (4)
22 Prophet sits in for a cleric (6)
24 One unruly group enters distance race,
going nowhere (8)
26 Quickly absorb butter or margarine
loaded with shelled seeds (5-4)
27 Down-filled coverlet missing last large
goose feather (5)
28 Without investing with each Welsh
port (7)
29 Some spaniels enjoy funnyman
Leslie (7)
DOWN
1 Small hidden drawback when collecting
Republican money (7)
2 Brassy performer finally sent bar drink
to Frampton (9)
3 Royal Ontario Museum guards also
chosen by chance (6)
4 Something threatening new dot-com’s
URL (5,5)
5 Lifted certain saucer with true protein
source (4)
6 Mean orca, tossed like an anchor (2,6)
7 In the way of second mission in Texas (5)
8 Crane put foot down on clucking bird (7)
13 Creamed diner meats arrived en
masse (8,2)
16 I’ll say this person fixes hotel
attractions (9)
17 Company retracted hints about end of
road blocks (8)
18 Boozehounds hugging power couple
after their wedding (7)
20 Mr. Kline converted complex in
Moscow (7)
21 Place to pray months before quite
dismissing it (6)
23 Where you’d see sports largely aren’t
centrally located (5)
25 Nearly panic eating last of Roquefort
cheese (4)LAST SATURDAY’S CRYPTIC ANSWERSACROSS
7 ILLINOIS (letter bank), 9 EUREKA (hidden rev.), 10A+D+VENT, 11 DI(VI)D + END,
12 RESISTANCE (anag.), 14 LEAD (2 defs.), 15 HEYDA + Y (headyanag.), 16 STABLE (2 defs.),
19 IN (O)N, 21 CROSSED OUT (anag.), 23 WHI(T.E.)NED, 24 PIC(k) + NIC(e), 25 KNIFED (de-finkrev.),
26 PUM(PS + G)ASDOWN
1 SL + EDGE (“on edge”), 2 FIDELITY (anag.), 3 PORT (2 defs.), 4 SERVIETTES (letter bank),
5 BRIDAL (bridlehom.), 6 S(KIN) CARE, 8 SE(x) + DANS, 13 T—E + AM + CAN + AD + A, 1
5 HUN(CHIN)G, 17 BO(D—Y + C)AST, 18 HOLDUP (published work – brewskianag.), 20 NOTIFY
(no tiff Ihom.), 22 UNITAS (hidden rev.), 24 PUMP (2 defs.)SOLUTIONSThis Saturday’s crossword answers will be in next week’s section | Last Saturday’s crossword, KenKen and Sudoku solutions in today’s Pursuits section
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Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine and each section
of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9 in any order. There
is only one solution to each puzzle.| PURSUITS