April 2016 Crossword Answer Key

Across

1. Food that’s so good they wrap other food in it, per comedian Jim Gaffigan

6. Fascinated

12. Jason Bourne or Jack Ryan

20. Develop, as potential

21. Harris ___

22. Big fan

23. Where Our American Cousin was famously playing on April 14, 1865

25. Tubular pasta

26. Outer-space sphere

27. Have a bias

28. Ratio words

30. The Dukes of Hazzard deputy

31. Tiny flyer

33. Humorously risqué

36. Yukon neighbor

40. Rushern L. Baker III runs it

46. Get the ___ (faint)

48. Tiny bit

49. June honoree

50. One of the Gershwins

51. Singer Cara

52. Prohibits

54. Curtains, light fixtures, etc.

57. See 13 down

58. Little green ball

59. Piece of parsley

61. 1990 bestseller written by the First Dog (with assistance from the First Lady)

63. Preserving crystals

65. Lobed organ

66. Dolphins’ home

67. Deep pit

68. Figure-skating figure

70. Unwelcome kitchen visitor

71. Welsh ___

74. Change with circumstances

77. Like a 45-degree angle

79. “That’ll be the day!”

80. Thomas Piketty’s field, for short

84. Barracks Row dining destination

87. “Same here!”

89. English 101 verb

90. Scheme

91. Digression

92. A snap

93. Not just bad

95. “Brilliant work!”

96. Howard Hughes bought it in 1939

97. Sleek and slippery

99. Extreme fear

100. February 15, 2016, or February 20, 2017, as it’s officially known for federal employees

106. Line on a pair of jeans

107. Skier McKinney

108. Defeat

111. Farm structure

114. Composer Stravinsky

116. Web presence

118. “I don’t think so”

119. Not copied

123. DC charity since 1979

127. Clark Kent, for Superman

128. Loved to pieces

129. Plant from which tequila is made

130. Open two-seat car

131. Yelp users

132. Enter your password

Down

Cloud up

2. Make more beautiful

3. Real-estate agent’s concern

4. A little too concerned with cleanliness, e.g.

5. Make a nice home

6. Word before cuisine or humor

7. If ___

8. Irish actor Stephen

9. Telecom letters

10. Green gem

11. So very

12. King who can sing

13. With 57 across, Oscar-winning role for Forest Whitaker

14. Calendar abbr.

15. Pie ___ mode

16. Rich cake

17. James Bond’s prep school

18. Forbidden act

19. Baseball Hall of Famer ___ Speaker

24. Birds seen from Ocean City’s boardwalk

29. Game requiring no equipment

32. 1982 Jeff Bridges movie

34. Lifelong process

35. Some August babies

37. “Likewise!”

38. Close call

39. Put down for the count

41. States of wrath

42. Emit

43. Takei and Shatner costar

44. Some bands

45. O’s rivals

46. No average Joes

47. Geometry-class calculation

52. “Dude”

53. Frequent flyer?

55. Common street name

56. “It’s a real game-changer” and others

57. Chicago Seven member Hoffman

60. Identify

61. Like some mouthwash

62. Lose tautness

64. Conical home

66. Columnist Dowd

69. “___ My Party”

72. Like a horse’s dinner, maybe

73. Pi follower

74. Pointing thing

75. Birthing expert

76. Fools

78. Cow’s mouthful

81. They don’t check it at Dulles

82. Roughly

83. Opposite of “alway”

85. Bocce locales

86. Employment

87. Bialik of The Big Bang Theory

88. Was in arrears

92. Island of Napoleon’s exile

94. Spoken

96. Roof material

98. CHiPs star

99. “___ me!”

101. Depended (on)

102. Measurement taker

103. “Wowzers!!”

104. Thin slice of bacon

105. Asian gangs

109. Discharge of artillery

110. Martin or Charlie

111. Pig without a pen

112. Woody Guthrie’s son

113. Ms. Moreno

115. Actor Epps

117. List-shortening abbr.

120. It awaits your return

121. After expenses

122. Historical period

124. Go bad

125. Three, in Italy

126. In the past