May 2017 Crossword Answer Key

Across

1. Military helicopters

8. Joan of ___ (2000s CBS show)

15. Alternative to Match.com

20. “Quit dreaming!”

21. Casino employees

22. The Tempest spirit

23. Football team whose main rival is the Calgary Stampeders

25. Wall art

26. Bro’s sib

27. Slim and graceful

28. Opposite of paleo-

30. Dramatic Chipmunk, e.g.

31. Drug class

33. “April in Algonquin Park, 1917” painter

36. Got smaller

38. Ocean-view blocker

39. Wrath

40. Impertinent

41. Column feature?

44. Gail of NYPD Blue

48. Capital 165 miles north of Syracuse, New York

51. Goat’s comment

52. Charlotte of The Facts of Life

53. “Can I help you?”

54. “Can we start over from the beginning?”

55. River that the United States Naval Academy is on

57. Katie Couric’s alma mater

58. Retain one’s political values, casually

60. -er

61. Serve as a lookout for, say

62. Doctor’s order

65. Austin Powers portrayer

68. Complains

69. Grad

70. Silverback gorilla, for one

71. Word before retreat or advantage

73. On the ___ (fleeing)

74. Egyptian god

77. Kick off

78. Errol in the Harry Potter books, e.g.

81. “Let me think . . .”

82. WI, WV, WY, etc.

83. Its stations include Place-des-Arts and McGill

86. Highlander, e.g.

88. Puts on the web

89. Hall partner

90. Finished first

91. Creepy look

92. Tolkien necromancer

94. Pianist about whom 32 Short Films were made

98. Paper listings

101. Stepladder step

102. Immigrant’s class, for short

103. Under ___ (company founded by a University of Maryland graduate)

104. Man missing his art?

107. Playwright Chekhov

109. Three-player tennis—or what the six theme entries are, considering their alliteration

114. Sassy Silverman

115. Stunned

116. Not a big thanker

117. Green shampoo

118. Double-checks the results

119. Circular

Down

1. A long time

2. Mani-___

3. Mall conveniences

4. Part of the former Yugoslavia: abbr.

5. Female lobster

6. Stays home for dinner

7. Bratislava native

8. Singer on the albums 19, 21, and 25

9. Takes a breather

10. Candle holder, sometimes

11. Quotable boxer

12. HRC or JFK

13. Some triathletes

14. Plus

15. Improvise musically

16. One who plays with sticks

17. Buenos ___ Herald (English-language newspaper in South America)

18. I love you, in Ávila

19. Sauerbrey who ran for Maryland governor in 1994 and 1998

24. After expenses

29. Etch A Sketch maker until last year

31. Killer whale

32. Use, as a credit card

33. Capital on the Mediterranean Sea

34. How a ballerina may stand

35. Ear or eye

36. Make happy

37. Simple homes

38. German for “the”

40. ___ milk

41. More suitable for skiing

42. “Don’t worry”

43. Potato product

45. Island near Bonaire and Curaçao

46. Rock in prayer

47. Irish poet with a Nobel Prize

49. Reddit session

50. Washington’s capital

51. Strait of ___ (waterway separating Sicily from the Italian mainland)

56. Behavioral guides

58. Brewer Adams

59. Ambulance personnel member

61. “You’ve got mail” co.

62. French toast?

63. Texas mission

64. Delish

66. Conference site of 1945

67. Online birthday arrival

68. Abbas or Ahmadinejad

70. Wikileaks founder

72. 250, back in the day

74. Supported by, as a tree limb

75. Force

76. Did a cobbler’s job

78. Two-time Best Director nominee Preminger

79. Little bird

80. Part of UCLA

84. Neither’s partner

85. Dumbo’s pair

87. Soccer screwup

88. Wail

92. Artist’s workspace

93. Rodgers and Burr

94. Fully understand

95. Of the moon

96. Between, in Bordeaux

97. Moonlight honor

98. Watch joint

99. Build up slowly

100. Part of NGO

103. Fusses

104. Smack

105. Head of Haiti?

106. Owned by someone else before

108. The Caps are part of it

110. Max Scherzer, e.g.

111. Gordon Biersch order

112. “This is awful!”

113. Sports ___ (beach-volleyball clothing)