WEEKEND CROSSWORD
SMALL FRUIT STARTERS
ACROSS
1 Tempting type 8 1930s boxing champ Max 12 Fruit discard 16 Bit of fiction 19 Neighbor of Djibouti 20 Backward 22 Love of Lennon 23 Polar bear’s long sleep 25 Rival of JVC and LG 26 Desert region of Israel 27 Fruit discard 28 IRS worker: Abbr. 29 “Shakedown” singer Bob 31 Stair feature 34 Gem colored by trace amounts of boron 37 List-limiting abbr. 40 Dietary unit 43 Actor Bana of “Troy” 44 Sit for a photo 45 Cold person’s bumps 48 Chose (to) 50 Bestows 51 Thinnest coin 52 Beddy-bye garb 55 Palme — (Cannes prize) 56 Author Deighton 57 “You bet!” 58 Joyous hymn 60 Camera since 1924 64 Big — (large German gun) 66 Eminent senior member 70 LAX guess 71 Dog sound 73 Pig sounds 74 — Tac 75 Author Levin 76 It might be next to a napkin holder 80 Hurls 82 Tropical fish 83 “Around — parts ...” 84 Prefix with hazard 86 N.Y.-to-L.A. dir. 87 Part of USMA: Abbr. 89 Exhaust 90 Watchful person 92 Marshy inlet 94 Thrills, informally 98 Flight hub in East Boston 101 Often-twisted treat 102 TT carmaker 105 Bucharest’s land 106 A, in Spain 107 Thanksgiving follower 110 Individual 112 Sri — 113 — Poke (candy) 114 Mineo of film 116 Author Ephron 120 Individual 121 Pun on a phrase meaning “square one” that hints at this puzzle’s theme 127 NFL 6-pointers 128 Best Actress of 2016 129 Ordinary 130 Toping type 131 “FYI” part 132 Flew through, as a test 133 Reduced
DOWN
1 Like a quilt 2 Great Lakes tribe 3 Little dent 4 Verbalize 5 Fissures 6 Always, to a poet 7 Sideline cry 8 Actress Besch or Andersson 9 Working without — 10 Be fallible 11 Relating to kidneys 12 Big bird dog 13 Prefix with linear 14 “— Beso” 15 High-IQ club 16 Definitively 17 Holy smoke? 18 Got on, as a bus 21 Indefinite 24 “Cross my heart” 30 Kingdoms 32 Exhaust 33 Skip over, as a sound 34 Cell buzzer 35 Carried out 36 Like coated cupcakes 37 Yolk holder 38 Eau de — (cologne) 39 Design on an album, say 41 LP speed 42 Bit of land in le Rhône 46 Dispatched 47 Gleams 49 Old name in video game consoles 53 Actor Eisenberg 54 Formed a lap 57 Unit of length 58 Cylindrical pasta 59 Cable TV’s — Geo Wild 61 Words to an absent lover 62 Fatigued by worry 63 Santa — (some hot winds) 64 Finest 65 Oahu locale 67 Easy gaits 68 Rig fuel 69 Mambo great Puente 72 In shape 77 Wrestler’s restraining move 78 Mu — pork 79 Make operational again 81 Exchange 85 Origami bird 88 Bit of foliage 90 Roman “I” 91 Thanksgiving tuber 92 Just issued 93 Hagen of Broadway 94 Groups of odds and ends for sale 95 Florida city near Epcot 96 Least fatty 97 South, in Mexico 99 Suffix with direct 100 Roman “3” 103 Ban from law practice 104 Does nothing 108 Actress Sagal 109 Vital blood line 111 Pop or jazz 114 January 1 song word 115 Laid up, say 117 Truth bender 118 “Bus Stop” writer William 119 Up in years 122 Med. plan 123 Aussie bird 124 Fabled bird 125 “My — Sal” 126 Nobel-winning poet Andric