PLAYS WELL WITH MORE AUTHORS ACROSS 1. "You're the ___" 5. Certain village resident? 10. Singing show that inspired the initialism WGWG (White Guy With Guitar), for short 14. One single solitary bit 19. "For here ___ go?" 20. Deeeeeep sleeeeeep 21. Short skirt 22. Silent film role? 23. "Mrs Dalloway" author dressed up for a barnyard-themed Halloween party? 27. "We Were the Mulvaneys" author in her natural habitat? 28. Neck piercing site 29. Suffix for an affectionate nickname, weirdly 30. Tuber aka New Zealand yam 31. "Adder(f)all" singersongwriter Tei ___ 32. Like some twins and eyes 33. Backyard hot spot? 37. Floats through the air 39. Cookbook abbr. 42. Character from Shakespeare's "King Lear" who anagrams to a character from Pixar's "Inside Out" 44. "Here's $.02 for you," in a text 45. "___ make a lovely corpse": Dickens 47. Taking care of business 49. "Cocoa Butter" singer India.___ 50. Unforeseen complication 51. "Tiny Beautiful Things" author too slow for the Quidditch team? 56. One of two dedicatees of the Joan Baez song "Here's to You" (Vanzetti being the other) 57. Rita Dove or Nikki Giovanni, e.g. 58. Spot's pal 59. ___-de-combat (French weapon) 60. Jay ___, Taiwanese singer who starred in 2011's "The Green Hornet" 61. Body of water that used to kinda look like a foot, but now just kinda looks like some toes 63. "The Caveman's Valentine" director Lemmons 65. ___ Champion, ESPN host recently promoted to "SportsCenter" anchor 67. Mme., across the Pyrénées 70. "The author of 'The Casual Vacancy' is sure looking alive in the ring tonight!" 74. Government agcy. concerned with retirement 75. Canadian gas brand
Angela Olson Halsted and Erik Agard
76. Diggs of "Murder in the First" 77. Runs up on 78. Flyer in a Khaled Hosseini title 80. "Una ___ en Manhattan" (telenovela based on a 2002 movie) 82. Princess returning in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" 84. Dom Pérignon maker 85. Carolyn who wrote the Nancy Drew books (also she was actually thirteen people) 87. "The first rule of the Joy Luck Club is you don't talk about the Joy Luck Club," etc.? 90. Whitfield who won an Emmy for her portrayal of Josephine Baker in 1991 91. Watermelon salad ingredient 92. "Pee-___ Playhouse" 93. You might put a Q-tip in it... or some Q-Tip 94. Text attachment? 95. Subject of the book "Disaster in Dearborn" 97. BA A 99. It may be hard to break 103. Act as the go-between in a conflict 106. 1/1 word 108. Party drink? 110. Sch. in Durham (not that Durham, the one near Nashua) 111. OAK alternative 112. Suffix with towel113. Like, totally donezo with the author of "Sister Outsider"? 116. Editor's message to the author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" when the printing press broke down? 121. ___ influence (type of coercion) 122. Neofuturist architect Saarinen 123. 2014 Quvenzhané Wallis movie 124. ___ Bryant (clothing chain) 125. Penny-pincher 126. Chess powerhouse until 1991 127. Eternally 128. Some NYC dwellings
DOWN 1. Rapper who starred in "Like Mike" when he was 13-Down 2. Beethoven symphony popular at funerals 3. College that beat Carleton in the Liter Bowl (a 1977 football game that used metric measurements) 4. "She sure ___ you!" 5. "The Wire" actor ___ Whitlock, Jr.
1
2
3
4
5
19
6
7
8
9
20
23
24
30
31
37
52
39 46
53
33 42
86 91
94
95 104
65
118
36
67
68
69
100
101
102
73
82
83
84 89
92 96
111 117
66
88
106
35
77
81
105
34
60
64
87
90
18
56
72
80
17
50
76
79
16
44
59
75
103
43 49
71
78
116
29
55
63
15
22
28
48
62
74
14
26
41
47
70
85
40
58
61
13
25
54
57
12
32
38 45
11
21
27
51
10
93 97
98
107
108
112
113
114
99 109
110 115
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
© 2015
6. 2015 Billy Currington song title that completes the lyric "Sounds pretty good, ___?" 7. ___ dixit 8. July 4th exclamations 9. "Boyz n the Hood" protagonist 10. Hinder 11. Piss off 12. "Just ___" (Grammynominated James Ingram song) 13. Former qualifier for 1Down 14. Hamm or Bacon 15. Chevrolet SUV named after a deep lake 16. Jacque's friend 17. Big name in Maryland basketball history (Bias, Elmore, Alex) 18. Captain's diary 24. Zoologist Dian 25. Ltr. carrier 26. Declare one's personal view 32. Healthcare company based in Madison, Wisconsin 33. ___ use 34. Sewer storage site? 35. Desktop computer with Retina 5K Display 36. Benin neighbor 38. Buddy Holly's "___ Be the Day" 40. Subject of an exhibit at the International Spy Museum
41. Reality star who outlasted Bill Nye (but not Leah Remini) on "Dancing with the Stars" 43. Plato's republic 46. Verizon Center chant 48. Superhero who "knows what 32-Across lurks in the hearts of men" 50. Democratic Republic of ___ Tomé and Príncipe 51. Preps like Creed 52. Matadors' victims 53. Back up? 54. Corner-to-corner measurements: Abbr. 55. "Well isn't that ___!" 56. The ___ ("Simple Song" band) 60. Holy war 62. Number of días in a semana 64. Top floor, maybe 66. "Stop being such ___ in the ass!" 68. Lease again 69. Secys. 71. 1976 slogan "A ___ place is in the House ... and the Senate too!" 72. Showrunner 73. It'll take your pic 79. Roadside attraction (for people who are attracted to a good night's sleep) 81. Sloth cousins 83. Far ___ Movement ("Rocketeer" rap group) 85. "Project Runway" judge Heidi
86. "Smoke Signals" director Chris 87. "Time and ___ wait for no man" 88. Fermented honey drink 89. "Thank you," in Honolulu 91. "Ditto!" 96. Alexander Joseph ___ (comic book villain) 98. Intervene 100. Type of sack that would probably look great on 85-Down 101. Tab key function 102. What proms and some crosswords have 104. Complex installment? 105. ___ school special 107. DeLaria of "Orange Is the New Black" 109. Dropped the ball, for example 112. Sources of feta cheese 113. "Sideways" prefix 114. Windmill blade 115. "___-di, ___da" (expression originated by Jimmy Scott-Emuakpor, a Nigerian congo player) 116. Annoy someone in the next cubicle, probably 117. Baseball outfit, for short 118. Map lines: Abbr. 119. Opposite of old, in Germany 120. Vehicle Matt Foley lived in down by the river, on SNL