February 2016 Crossword Answer Key

Across

1. Friend, in Latin

7. ___ action (push)

13. Taking cues, often

20. Say no

21. Sequential

22. Big beer, casually

23. It spans most of Southeast DC

25. 1996 Olympics city

26. Tiny amount

27. EMT’s lines

28. Old photo shade

30. Unease

31. Japan’s second-largest carrier

32. Jrs. may take them

34. Former Fox News show hosted by Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke, with The

37. Lazybones

39. Window board

41. Lane at the Daily Planet

42. Neighbor of Prince George’s and Anne Arundel

46. Mini-camera user

48. Course number

51. Astonish

52. Small group

53. ___ Silvia (mother of Romulus and Remus)

54. Ending for Power

55. Huge amount

58. Home to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan

61. Extremely high-level

63. Monsieur Monet

65. Glowing wood

67. Dupont Circle sandwich shop

70. Fabrications

71. Sneak a look

72. “___ the word!”

73. ___ State University

74. Cleveland Park complex

79. Not the hit, usually

80. One of 64 in a famous box

81. Mark of excellent writing skills

82. East: Sp.

84. Smear

85. Perfect score, perhaps

86. Casino chances

88. The Force Awakens role

90. Type of tuna

92. Fast plane: abbr.

93. Pond fish

94. Historic attraction that shares a name with Maryland’s second-largest city

100. Living ___

102. Section

103. Woodworking tool

104. He pitched to an 11–8 record in 2015

111. Picked

113. Desperate plea

114. Eye or ear

115. Pope for whom a Florida University is named

117. Piece of food often steel-cut

118. Shed, as a crab does

119. Boxer who doesn’t pull punches

122. President who was a mining engineer by profession

125. Artist’s studio

126. Rub with oil in a ceremony

127. “Where are you?” response

128. Have coming

129. They change frequently

130. Enclose

Down

1. Language spoken by Christ

2. Philanthropist Gates

3. Even the tiniest bit

4. Office space

5. Can. neighbor

6. Round after the quarters

7. Credit cards

8. Potomac or Susquehanna: abbr.

9. Small bills

10. One of the stars in the Northern Cross

11. Brown shade

12. Bill who wrote Pinheads and Patriots

13. “Give ___ rest!”

14. 104 across, notably

15. Soothe, as fears

16. Backup operation

17. Beginning and end of Ohio

18. Agitated

19. First Irishman to win a Nobel Prize

24. Talk Like a Pirate Day exclamation

29. From ___ Z

32. Antebellum

33. Place

35. Have as a hope

36. Features

38. Longoria or Cassidy

40. Was a siren

43. Hi-___ graphics

44. Khartoum’s river

45. Put your nose to the grindstone

47. Connecticut institution

48. TV watcher’s request

49. End-of-book comments

50. Go back into, as a concert

53. Take oneself off the case

55. Picks

56. They were born in another country

57. Temporarily inactive

59. Concept

60. FBI people

62. Russert and Meadows

64. Makes a request

66. Award given by a cable network

68. Throw off

69. 2 ___ (Cleveland Park pizzeria)

71. Identify, after some difficulty

75. Snatched

76. Bad, in Bolivia

77. Coffin holder

78. “Sweet Love” singer Baker

79. Observed with wonder

83. Small amount

87. She voiced Princess Fiona

89. ___-Caribbean

91. Shelter of a sort

94. Fez, e.g.

95. Tells the authorities about

96. Patronize, as a restaurant

97. Shout after the last pitch

98. Gabriel García Márquez title word

99. Small falcon

101. Fuel

104. Rot

105. Steaming mad

106. Terrifying group

107. Roof feature

108. Broadcasting

109. First name on the Supreme Court

110. One billion has nine

112. Moral code

116. Passing words

118. Original Last Comic Standing host Jay

120. Show off, as your motor

121. Exist

123. Compass dir.

124. Yoko with almost 5 million Twitter followers