ACROSS 1 Bottle topCAP 4 C, D, E, F, G, A, B, e.g.SCALE 6 See 1-DownHUMPS 7 “Give it ___” (“Hush!”)AREST 8 Director BrooksMEL DOWN 1 With 6-Across, “peaks” on a desert mountCAMEL 2 Major mountain range of EuropeALPS 3 Annoying bugPEST 4 Phony, fake, bogusSHAM 5 Glass of water, for a hangoverCURE ...
ACROSS 1 Bottle topCAP 4 C, D, E, F, G, A, B, e.g.SCALE 6 See 1-DownHUMPS 7 “Give it ___” (“Hush!”)AREST 8 Director BrooksMEL DOWN 1 With 6-Across, “peaks” on a desert mountCAMEL 2 Major mountain range of EuropeALPS 3 Annoying bugPEST 4 Phony, fake, bogusSHAM 5 Glass of water, for a hangoverCURE ...
ACROSS 1 Up to the jobABLE 5 Quiet periodsLULLS 7 Animal in the AndesLLAMA 8 Nickname for the N.F.L.’s GiantsGMEN 9 The “Y” of N.Y.C.YORK DOWN 1 100%ALL 2 Like an overstuffed backpackBULGY 3 “Me ___” (Spanish for “My name is”)LLAMO 4 Cartoon character who says “Be vewy vewy vewy quiet, I’m hunting ...
ACROSS 1 “My bad!”OOPS 5 Driver around HollywoodADAM 6 Complete and utterTOTAL 8 Make mad, with “up”RILE 9 Brand of cups often used for beer pongSOLO DOWN 1 ___ milkOAT 2 Foul smellsODORS 3 Place for an outdoor grillPATIO 4 Like the stuff you shouldn’t sweatSMALL 7 “Killers of the Flower Moon” star, familiarlyLEO ...
ACROSS 1 Much physical mail, depressinglyBILLS 6 DummyIDIOT 7 Final animal on the ark, if Noah went by alphabetical orderZEBRA 8 “Darn it!”DRAT 9 Deodorant brandAXE DOWN 1 Show ___ (Hollywood industry)BIZ 2 Carded outside a club, for shortIDED 3 October zodiac signLIBRA 4 Environmental Seuss character, with “the”LORAX 5 U.S. department headed by ...
ACROSS 1 Stunt bike sport, for shortBMXM 4 Title with an apostrophe directly in the middleAAMAN 5 “___ Karenina” (Tolstoy novel)NANAA 6 Fluffy Indian breadNINN 7 Stay right there!AAA DOWN 1 Fruit depicted by the circled lettersBAAIA 2 Spanish for “tomorrow”MMNNA 3 Marvel Comics mutantXAAN 4 CrazeMNA ANNA ...
ACROSS 1 FashionableHIP 4 “The Banquet Beer”COORS 6 With 8-Across, YouTuber or TikTok starCONTENT 8 See 6-AcrossCREATOR 9 Sit-___ (some protests)INS 10 Actress KravitzZOE 11 Lacrosse targetNET 12 GPS approximationETA 13 Claudine ___, former president of Harvard UniversityGAY 14 Tripping drugLSD DOWN 1 The best policy, they sayHONESTY 2 Small bitIOTA 3 “Soft” or “hard” snackPRETZEL 4 Layer ...
ACROSS 1 Sudden desireWHIM 5 Painter’s standEASEL 7 It can precede Joel and goatBILLY 8 Ecosystem that rivals only the rainforest in biodiversityREEF 9 Unit for a comedian or weightlifterSET DOWN 1 Internet, with “the”WEB 2 ___ and makeupHAIR 3 Parts of an archipelagoISLES 4 All-out brawlMELEE 6 Uber alternativeLYFT ...
ACROSS 1 Palm ___, award for Best Canine Performance during the Cannes Film Festival (seriously!)DOG 4 Get up in the morningARISE 6 Get down at a weddingDANCE 7 Break one’s silenceSPEAK 8 No longer dampDRY DOWN 1 Enjoyed a fancy mealDINED 2 High-profile film awardOSCAR 3 Like a nerdGEEKY 4 What streaming shows ...
ACROSS 1 Coffee and Coca-Cola, on the pH scaleACIDS 6 DaybreakSUNUP 7 Dwarf planet that’s only about half the width of the United StatesPLUTO 8 Bit of web trafficCLICK 9 ___ crow flies (directly)ASTHE DOWN 1 Pet adoption org.ASPCA 2 Selects from a large groupCULLS 3 Indigenous people of the ArcticINUIT 4 Language ...
ACROSS 1 Took to the airFLEW 5 Actor Ledger of “The Dark Knight”HEATH 6 Words that can precede 1-Down and 5-Down, to mean “Undecided” and “Liable”ONTHE 7 Group of eightOCTET 8 Boat’s bottomKEEL DOWN 1 Backyard borderFENCE 2 Coffee-and-milk orderLATTE 3 Broadway actress MermanETHEL 4 Stimulate, as an appetiteWHET 5 End of a fishing ...
ACROSS 1 ___ chowderCLAM 5 What “#” can meanSHARP 6 The pole where polar bears are foundNORTH 7 Associations: Abbr.ORGS 8 TinyWEE DOWN 1 Tedious taskCHORE 2 “L,” on a teeLARGE 3 Many of them are liberal in collegeARTS 4 Speedometer abbr.MPH 5 Ski resort’s needSNOW ...
ACROSS 1 Opponent of “shirts,” in a pickup basketball gameSKINS 6 Dangerous thing to skate onTHINICE 8 PurseHANDBAG 9 “x + y = z” subjectALGEBRA 10 Knocked overTOPPLED 11 Little biting bugsMITES 12 Publicly funded medical org. of BritainNHS DOWN 1 Hebrew for “hello,” “goodbye” and “peace”SHALOM 2 Leader of a drug operationKINGPIN ...