Cape Breton Post

THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- WIDE-OPEN SPACES By Byron Walden Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 How some stock shares are sold

6 Caesar-salad ingredient

13 Big name in swimwear 19 African grazer 20 Yalitza ____, best-actress nominee for 2018’s ‘‘Roma’’ 21 Woodworkin­g machine

22 R.?J. Reynolds product that once sponsored ‘‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’’

24 Had legs, so to speak

25 Flying class? 26 Like some leaves and knives 27 Blast

28 ‘‘The Confession­s of ____ Turner’’ (1967 Pulitzer-winning novel)

29 Scrapped 30 One who might say, ‘‘Your money’s no good here’’? 31 Overwhelmi­ng favorite 33 Roofing material

34 Dyes that can be used as ph indicators

35 Echo voice 36 Eponym of Aqaba’s airport 38 Editorial reversal 39 Simmering sites

41 On the schedule

45 Chef’s creation 47 Crosses one’s fingers 49 Sophistica­ted 50 Subjects of four famous violin concertos by Vivaldi

52 Can’t take 54 Body part that’s also a Hebrew letter 55 Christ, to Christians 56 Flavorful 57 Colts, maybe 59 Sch. on Chesapeake Bay 60 Interstell­ar clouds 62 Fundamenta­l dispositio­ns 63 With 55Down, inning enders

65 Pourable art material 66 Creature seen basking on the shores of the Galápagos 67 Superman cocreator Jerry 69 Sports icon with the autobiogra­phy ‘‘Faster Than Lightning’’ 71 Entertaine­r Minnelli 75 Bitcoin and the like

77 47th U.S. vice president 78 Comic actor whose wife left him to marry their neighbor Frank Sinatra 81 Airer of the gospel music reality competitio­n ‘‘Sunday Best’’ 82 Classic Chevrolets

84 Eaglelike 85 One with a small but devoted fan base

87 AAA service 88 Restrained from biting 89 Places of intense scrutiny 90 Entertainm­ent on a diner place mat, maybe 91 Alka-seltzer tablet, for one 92 Early omnivore

94 Returning after curfew, say 95 Substance used to preserve the Declaratio­n of Independen­ce 96 Apt rhyme for ‘‘bore’’

97 ____ Pieces 98 Has in mind 99 Mary I or Elizabeth I

DOWN

1 Major tributary of the Mississipp­i 2 Gymnastics event for both men and women 3 The ____ State, nickname for Maine

4 Targets of formicide

5 Mythical flier 6 Isolated 7 Account 8 Popular performanc­e-enhancing supplement for athletes 9 Freaking out 10 Good-size wedding band 11 Competed 12 Rockyesque interjecti­ons 13 Spends extravagan­tly 14 Some biodiesel sources 15 Victorian home?

16 Whole 17 Judged 18 Things taken while waiting 20 Representa­tive 23 ‘‘Capeesh’’ 27 Whiffs 29 Org. for lightweigh­ts 30 End-of-level challenges in video games 32 Items in 18” x 18” x 1?” boxes 34 Like the hands in the Allstate logo

36 Keystone ____ 37 ____ & the Blowfish

39 What sneers express

40 Popular dating app

42 Lake drained by the Truckee River

43 Iniquities 44 Places of iniquity

46 Spanish ‘‘that’’ 48 State capital on the Mississipp­i 50 Word with roll or bar 51 Muppet wearing a horizontal­ly striped shirt 52 Chinese port city on Korea Bay 53 Occupy, as a booth

55 See 63-Across 56 English county that’s home to Brighton 58 Weather-map symbol

61 Butter, in Burgundy

62 Doctors With- out Borders and others, in brief 64 Having a low neckline, as a dress

66 ‘‘Gotta split’’ 68 Group of 18th-century thinkers that included Voltaire and Rousseau 70 Numbers of concern to showrunner­s

72 The ‘‘Last Great Race on Earth’’

73 Love match? 74 Respondent 76 South African money 77 Slo-____ fuse 78 Pan flute musician in iconic commercial­s of the 1980s 79 Like a jackass 80 Your current occupation? 82 Some skilled workers in ‘‘Brave New World’’ 83 Lead-in to while

85 Party line? 86 Former North Carolina senator Kay ____

89 Let fly 90 Clickable list 92 W.W. II general ____ Arnold 93 Clock setting on the Big Island: Abbr.

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