August 2017 Crossword Answer Key

Across

1. Made too quickly, as a decision

5. Georgetown ___ (North Bethesda school)

9. Atlanta university

14. Chance for a double, say

19. “Very interesting . . .”

20. Folger backstabber

21. Andrew Cuomo’s father

22. Jean-___ at the Watergate

23. Jiffy Lube offering

25. Controversial piece of punctuation

27. Theater no-no

28. Pattern

30. Madeline of Clue and Blazing Saddles

31. Baby kangaroo

33. Drink that may be blanc

34. Avoid lagging behind

38. Toyotas manufactured from 1978 to 2002

42. His corpse was dug up and beheaded in 1661

47. Beat

48. Fabric to keep out of the rain

49. Smurf that’s also a trash-bag brand

50. Third letter after upsilon

51. Has regrets about

52. Tough instrument to carry around

53. Moscow-mule ingredient

54. Chomp down on

55. Activity for Japan’s Yakuza

59. Bay ___ (person from Massachusetts)

61. Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution initiator

62. “Sometimes you feel like ___, sometimes you don’t”

63. Newseum CEO Jeffrey ___

65. Catches word

66. What a corn tamale is served in

67. Natives of the Indian subcontinent

68. Computer owner

70. Part of a flight

73. Number-one hit for Jennifer Lopez in 2001

75. Cookie with Christina Aguilera in recent ads

76. Dietitian’s amt.

79. Eases, as a rainstorm

81. Hexagonal food

84. Dance and drawing, for two

85. Truck, to Brits

87. Tries to keep the swelling down on

88. Do as instructed

89. Pacific circle

90. University of Virginia student, casually

91. Totally broken

93. 18 or older

94. Movie or actor with a certain buzz

97. Groundbreaking

98. Goat’s cry

99. Free (of)

100. Season, often

102. ___ the Wild (2007 movie directed by Sean Penn)

104. Indian tunes

106. Disinfect

111. Citrusy summer cocktail

115. Beach resort known by its initials, which it shares with this puzzle’s theme entries

117. Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates

118. Seven Years in ___

119. Tyne of Gypsy

120. Fleshy plant

121. “Your ___ is cooked”

122. Newspaper section, casually

123. “What a pity!”

124. Mountain ___ (soft drinks)

Down

1. Run amok

2. Vastest of the continents

3. Move, as merchandise

4. “What the ___ was that?”

5. Steinway products

6. The Alps or the Andes

7. Croque madame ingredient

8. Ode, e.g.

9. Tending to arouse feelings

10. Waters in Washington since 1991

11. Carmina Burana composer

12. 2016 Summer Olympics host

13. Pennsylvania city

14. Lead-into-gold pseudoscience

15. Jarringly unfamiliar, perhaps

16. Beach ___

17. Intention

18. Org. at IAD and BWI

24. Head covering worn only by women

26. Upper Midwest region, with “the”

29. Metamorphoses poet

32. “Absolutely!”

35. Certain pumpkin seeds

36. One of Ireland’s four traditional provinces

37. Gripping tools

38. Thurmond who was a senator until age 100

39. Star Trek role

40. Alternative to Classico or Newman’s Own

41. Parks of protest

43. Sporting advantage

44. Certain parallelograms

45. Hands over

46. United stadium

48. Samurai automaker

52. Cookie containers

53. Manly

54. Max of boxing

56. Pacific island nation

57. Like dad jokes

58. Found a better chair for

60. TV show that’s fittingly in this puzzle grid

64. Tank part

66. Cat’s warning

67. Deck issue

69. South China and North, for two

70. Winter Olympics course

71. Sainted Mother

72. Prison mentioned in many Law & Order episodes

74. Nincompoop

75. Happens

76. Metal used to strengthen concrete

77. Lowest of the low

78. Thus far

80. Make happy

82. Ready to eat

83. Former UN secretary-general Annan

86. “So that’s your angle!”

90. Round up, as a herd of livestock

91. Chessboard jumpers

92. “Let me ___ comment here . . .”

93. Opposite of “seldom”

95. It’s better than a B+

96. Removed all evidence of

97. Addresses successfully, as concerns

101. Train that starts at Union Station

103. Quadri-, when doubled

104. Goldberg with intricate contraptions

105. Pibb Xtra, e.g.

107. Part of USNA

108. Khartoum’s river

109. Put in the overhead compartment

110. Peepers

111. Letters of disbelief

112. Milne hopper

113. Before now

114. Long tear

116. Political commentator Thomas