“Falling Leaves”
Across
1. Game of Thrones channel
4. Many Law & Order characters, for short
8. They may be honey-baked
12. Faces
19. “I’m getting verklempt,” for example
21. Country where Farsi is spoken
22. What the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was carrying when it sank
23. High-calorie treat in the Mid-Atlantic
25. Biting, as a comment
26. “Enigma Variations” composer Edward
27. Zeppelins
29. Put back to zero, as a stopwatch
30. Caspian or Caribbean
32. Jeans name
33. Piece of eveningwear for men
36. Dog owner’s command
39. Soda insertions
41. Petrol amount
42. Sprint rival
45. British term for molasses
47. No whippersnapper
49. Toffee candy bar
50. Infomercial company
51. Jerry’s “European carryall” on a Seinfeld episode, e.g.
55. Oteri once of Saturday Night Live
56. Drive the getaway car for, e.g.
57. Suspicious glance
58. Normal
61. Judge’s order
63. At all, in dialect
64. Some linemen in football (abbr.)
65. Success at the plate
66. Show past the foyer
69. Russian space station from 1986 to 2001
70. Out-of-control crowd
73. Brightest star in Cygnus
75. One of his mobiles graces the National Gallery of Art’s East Building
78. Come before
81. Liberating
82. Cain’s victim
83. Rival of Roger, Rafael, and Andy
84. Ghostlike
86. “Don’t ___ on Me”
87. Nat. that disintegrated in 1991
88. Occur
90. Plane’s path
92. Lunar new year
93. He killed Alexander in a duel
94. Country shaped like a tadpole
97. Neither’s partner
98. Fail to meet expectations
101. A, in Acapulco
102. Zero
104. Encrypted
106. Personality quiz in a magazine, say
109. Soft balls
113. Pseudonyms
116. Midwestern dish named for a Hungarian dish
118. Stone Age tool
119. DGS or Stachowski’s, e.g.
120. Puzzle answers like this one
121. Magazine since 1970
122. Ms., in Mexico
123. Money from the bank
124. Scoffing syllable
Down
1. Jekyll’s scary counterpart
2. Jessica of The Illusionist
3. Certain blood type, for short
4. Fun way to dine
5. NW, SW, SE, or NE
6. Landmass east of the Ural Mountains
7. Texas congresswoman ___ Jackson Lee
8. Feline warnings
9. Paris or St. Louis landmark
10. Father of Andrew Cuomo
11. Some bottled drinks
12. Actor Tayback of Alice
13. Tax-deferred setup
14. Journalist’s secret, maybe
15. Photographer Adams
16. Was caught in a rainstorm
17. County of northern Ohio
18. Religious offshoot
20. Gallaudet or Howard nos.
24. Sketched
28. Run with, as an idea
31. Georgia’s biggest city, for short
34. 95 or 270, e.g.
35. Part of ETA
36. Maroon
37. 2004 Will Smith movie
38. Doctrines
40. Sent, as payment
43. Lawn-mower brand
44. Breakfast cereal pitched by a manic rabbit
46. Start of a play
47. Memento and L.A. Confidential actor
48. Before
49. Prove
52. Hassle
53. Ralph who ran against Connie Morella in 1998
54. Cartoon skunk ___ Le Pew
55. Group of notes
57. River seen in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
59. Basis for much Western jurisprudence
60. Object
62. Threatening to capture the king, in chess
67. Belinda Carlisle’s “Should ___ You In?”
68. Poet’s opposite of “alway”
70. Rowan Atkinson’s most famous character
71. Prefix with -graphy
72. More worn, as car tires
73. Cherished
74. Grants
76. First Chinese dynasty
77. Jimmy Carter’s middle name
78. “Sometimes you feel like ___ . . .”
79. Rudolph’s is red
80. Sets
81. Nourished
85. Numbskulls
86. Taking to the dressing room, as clothing
88. Sweetheart, to millennials
89. Do it wrong
91. Scottish form of John
93. Contributes
94. Semiaquatic rodent
95. “The ___ Love” (R.E.M. song)
96. Imp
99. Novelist Zora ___ Hurston
100. Funny Fudd
103. Some late-summer births
104. Walking stick
105. Shouts of encouragement
107. Poker-table material
108. Folded food
110. Hurry
111. Dog’s annoyance
112. Robe closer
114. “I could keep going but won’t”
115. That lady
117. Org. whose HQ is in Fairfax
