Author: Joe O’Neill
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
| Culture setters? |
LABS |
| -Across subfield |
MACRO |
| Spill the beans |
BLAB |
| B-school subject |
ECON |
| “___ of wisdom” (“Dalai Lama,” in translation) |
OCEAN |
| Protagonist who would “just as soon kiss a Wookiee” |
LEIA |
| Modern reimagining of a Robert Frost classic, part 1 |
IKNOWWHOSEWOODS |
| Loses a lap? |
RISES |
| Denigrates |
DISSES |
| Security camera letters |
CCTV |
| Things that Harvard no longer requires |
SATS |
| Reimagining, part 2 |
THESEAREMYHORSE |
| Lo-o-o-ong time |
EON |
| Layered rock |
SHALE |
| ___ Africa (nickname of singer/activist Miriam Makeba) |
MAMA |
| Bit |
MITE |
| Like the fruits durian and mangosteen |
ASIAN |
| Impudent person |
SNOT |
| Rarely the winner in a nature documentary |
PREY |
| What a clutch lacks |
STRAP |
| Certain turkey |
TOM |
| Reimagining, part 3 |
ISRESTLESSIHAVE |
| Study, with “over” |
PORE |
| Untimely? |
LATE |
| Bird in an early warning system |
CANARY |
| Waste’s way away |
SEWER |
| End of the reimagining |
ALOTTODOGIDDYUP |
| Design deet |
SPEC |
| Like a twangy voice |
NASAL |
| Traditional knowledge |
LORE |
| “Codswallop!” |
TOSH |
| Key material |
EBONY |
| Rapper ___ Gravy |
YUNG |
Down
| String of islands? |
LEI |
| Exclamation from Bill the Cat |
ACK |
| ___ mot |
BON |
| Some barnyard sounds |
SNORTS |
| Makes shorter, in a way |
MOWS |
| Long |
ACHE |
| Org. chart figures |
CEOS |
| ___ Tafari |
RAS |
| Sooner or later |
ONEDAY |
| Opens up, in a way |
BLOSSOMS |
| Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, astrologically |
LEOS |
| Help around the House |
AIDE |
| Lowest of the low? |
BASS |
| Subject of the mnemonic “Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived” in Broadway’s “Six” |
WIVES |
| Featuring |
WITH |
| Some church assemblies |
CHOIRS |
| Athlete who snaps |
CENTER |
| Features of a dirty campaign |
SMEARS |
| Andante and largo |
TEMPI |
| Seeing sound? |
AHA |
| Get into it, rustically |
RASSLE |
| High-class |
ELITE |
| Go off on |
RANTAT |
| Actor J. B. of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” |
SMOOVE |
| Message on a cake in “Alice in Wonderland” |
EATME |
| Pirate costume staple |
EYEPATCH |
| Lil ___ X |
NAS |
| Like clothes in a hamper |
PILED |
| Variety |
SORT |
| Sampler suggestion |
TRYONE |
| “Fat chance!” |
HARDLY |
| Throw |
CAST |
| Prime Cuts brand |
ALPO |
| Brushoffs |
NOES |
| Meh |
SOSO |
| Novelist Jennifer |
EGAN |
| Cunning |
WILY |
| Smidge |
DAB |
| Word often shortened to its last letter by texters |
YOU |
| Vessel with a tap |
URN |
| Throw |
PEG |
