July 2016 Crossword Key

Across

1. To be won or lost

8. ___ Violent Year (2014 movie)

13. South Park kid

20. Like some corn
or spinach

21. Australia’s fourth-largest city

22. Former AG Gonzales

23. Graffiti inscribed on the National World War II Memorial (97.1)

25. Enjoys, as the Chesapeake

26. Part of the DOJ

27. Take control of

28. Liver or lungs

30. Palindromic former leader
of Burma

31. Hairdo

33. Crime-scene evidence

34. Quinn of
The Mission

36. Y-chromosome carriers

38. Bending pair

40. Coldest point
of the day (980)

44. Battle participants
of a sort

47. Tootsie Oscar nominee

48. Words on game instructions (103.5)

51. Front porch

54. 50+ org.

58. Whatever
number of

59. Bears, in Bolivia

60. Invades someone’s privacy

62. Tax-return
sender

63. Stimpy’s
cartoon pal

64. Former senator Daschle

65. McPherson
or Farragut

66. Finely decorated

67. Humble letters

68. Rare weather phenomenon that last hit the Washington area in 1804 (96.3)

71. Diddley and Jackson

72. Party dances

74. Pay hikes

75. Tool at FedExField

76. From ___ Z

77. “. . . but
anything’s fine”

78. Like some gemstones

79. Dave with the Redskins for two Super Bowl wins

80. Goat groan

81. Dark greenish-blue

82. Benedict
and Francis

83. Joan Rivers catch phrase (90.9)

85. Activist Brockovich

87. Call at home

89. Did the dolphin kick or the sea-lion stroke (88.5)

95. Ralph Lauren shirts

99. Chop up
a sentence

100. Wanders
far and wide

101. Cook Garten

104. ___ platter

105. “___ heard!”

106. He painted dancers

108. Shoelace features

110. Drink that’s
also a game

111. Now known as

114. The theme answers contain local ones

118. Umberto Eco wrote in it

119. Ancient counters

120. “Clearly that’s the case!”

121. Mexican-restaurant order

122. Post rival

123. Keep at it

Down

1. Antiaircraft
gun’s sound

2. Son of Poseidon

3. Many a
Facebook pic

4. ___ Baby (Toni Morrison novel)

5. “Famous” cookie maker

6. Defaced, as a car

7. Buzz Aldrin’s real first name

8. Church section

9. “Whatever”

10. Settlers of
Catan resource

11. Walked confidently

12. Aries symbol

13. House of Honduras

14. Rickman or Keyes

15. Nat stat

16. ___ Avivians

17. Starship Enterprise navigator

18. Apologizing person

19. Neglect

24. Garden-store
buys

29. Econ figure

32. Boba ___
(Star Wars–universe character)

34. Amazement

35. Word sometimes mis-apostrophed

36. Ruin

37. Transportation in a Duke Ellington song

39. Tries to hit

41. College Obama attended, casually

42. They may clash

43. Drake’s genre

45. Some printers

46. Replay camera

48. Bean, in Bordeaux

49. “This is the
last time!”

50. One of the Judds

51. Flew like an eagle

52. Spelling and Kelly

53. Crude org.

55. Tennessee neighbor

56. Check the math on

57. Get clothing ready for the washing machine, maybe

60. Calamari creatures

61. Drink very slowly

62. Need a restart,
as a laptop

65. Classic 1953 western

66. Boxer’s tactic

69. Sandwich alternative

70. Carry ___

73. Robots

78. Make an emotional connection

79. Spanish-
speaking sections of town

82. Win at wrestling

83. Pool stick

84. Sportscar style big in the 1970s

86. Wish you hadn’t

87. West African staple

88. Extra periods
in the NBA

89. Airline that
flies to BWI

90. Greet from afar

91. Gilbert once on the Wizards

92. Work unit

93. Warn, as a
lion might

94. Sushi paste

96. Dracula portrayer

97. Gives a viewpoint

98. Dusk

102. What a very
rude server may get

103. Swiftly

106. Day of the ___ (Mexican celebration)

107. Novelist Ferber

108. Lane of comics

109. Former Post rival

112. ___-country (music genre)

113. Ronan
Farrow’s mom

115. Hoover, for one

116. Capitals milieu

117. Plug-___