Across
1. What March comes in like,
as found in the
first four starred entries
5. Represent
11. Put in
14. Follow up on ____
19. Woody Guthrie’s son
20. Texas city
21. Language of Southeast Asia
22. “Hand it over!”
23. FIFA Ballon
d’Or winner of
2010, 2011,
and 2012*
25. George Bernard Shaw opus*
27. Haloed harpist
28. Gobble down
29. Bob of
NBC Sports
30. Cloud’s home
31. For example
32. Pretzel shape
34. Metro stop: abbr.
36. Charades
38. Friendship Heights shopping center*
44. Taster’s choice?
46. Smooth over differences
47. Track star Jones
48. Supreme Court name
49. ____ Islanders
51. Category
52. They bear
needles
53. Sets aside
55. Acting
57. Like some magazine covers
58. Record company founded in 1931
59. Go back
61. “That guy?”
62. Boxing match
63. Dessert made with Marsala wine*
68. Criticizing harshly*
73. Bausch & ____
74. “These kittens
are so cute!”
76. Fall mo.
77. It makes busts
78. Eritrea’s capital
81. Educate about,
as a subtle point
84. Ligaments
87. Eydie who was entertaining
88. More, in
Managua
89. Plunders
91. Not o’er
92. Very, dramatically
93. “I’m serious!”
95. Groups of
experts
97. Ceremonial
post*
100. Time off
101. Ending for
velvet
102. Squad
103. Fuss
106. Homer’s dad
108. Virginia planned community
111. West who
was naughty
112. Rockies resort
114. New England culinary events*
116. Showy quality*
119. Schwartz who ran for mayor
five times
120. “____ be
there!”
121. Spoke like
Cindy Brady
122. Command to
a canine
123. Herb often punned upon
124. The Matrix
role
125. Silver lining
126. What March goes out like,
as found in the
last four starred entries
Down
1. Soccer star
Alexi ____
2. Skating star Slutskaya
3. Scientific
suffix
4. Zero
5. 100 percent
6. Visited
7. Agreement between nations
8. Party
9. Has too much, briefly
10. Louis XIV, e.g.
11. Pet-food brand
12. There are 14
in a fortnight
13. Greyhounds
run there
14. Tennis star married to Graf
15. Itsy-bitsy
16. Car concern
17. One way to run
18. Say it didn’t happen
24. Indiana city
26. Pale purple
29. Detective’s
gig
33. Pickleball
barrier
34. Food fish
35. “. . . and the
Lord ____ away”
37. Actor Denholm
or Chris
38. Miss ____
(TV psychic)
39. “It’ll be fun!”
40. The Imitation Game subject
41. Big heap
42. Encouraging shouts
43. Like busybodies
44. Director
Brian De ____
45. Improvise
48. Joan of folk
50. Rail-yard wanderer of old
52. Additionally
54. Ava DuVernay
film
56. Be under
the weather
57. They go “maa”
60. Lobster-dinner item
62. English channel?
64. One way to
serve pie
65. Quayle’s successor
66. Sickly feeling
67. She says
“baa”
69. Pointless to discuss
70. Perfect
71. Slimy crawlers
72. Big cut
75. Is not yet
78. Highly eager
79. Section of
Lower Manhattan
80. Her cow purportedly
started the Great Chicago Fire
81. Sagan who
wrote Cosmos
82. Inception
director
83. Kid’s collection
85. Not at all
86. Opposite of “alway”
88. Cotton fabric
90. Guest-room feature
93. Lotion brand
94. Sherman Hemsley sitcom, 1986-91
96. Ending for
Power or Gator
98. Sing awkwardly
99. Shrimp dish
103. Sleeping problem
104. Ten: Lat.
105. Sixteen oz.
106. Bank abbr.
107. Uninteresting
109. Prefix with conference
110. Capital on
a fjord
111. Church service
113. Comic Mort
115. Playground
shout
116. Strain in
the winter
117. Back talk
118. Poem that praises
