The Hamilton Spectator

WEEKLY CROSSWORD: Up the River

- By Alan Olschwang

Across

1 Back biter? 6 They’re rarely good dance partners 10 Worry word 14 Nut under a tree 19 Sherlock’s adversary Adler 20 Zero-star meal 21 Hard finish? 22 Big fight 23 Words on the street? 24 Big Island port 25 Spanish pronoun 26 Window treatment 27 Cargo unit 28 Lennon classic covered by Pentatonix 31 Like some riots 33 Absurd 35 Aborted operation 36 Something to learn 37 Willamette University home 39 “Enigma Variations” composer 41 Scary biter 45 Coral Sea sight 48 More hard-up 50 Square dance milieu 51 Turn 52 NBC weekend staple 53 Ancient German 55 Fuming 56 Polishes, as prose 58 Support source 60 Job listing ltrs. 61 Bacon and eggs, say 62 Puts in order 64 Police protector 66 Woodworkin­g supply 68 Workable wood 69 Firmly affixed 71 State with confidence 73 Span. title 76 Hastings hearth 77 Deserve 79 Tells 81 Hostile force 84 Cartesian conclusion 86 Volvo competitor 88 Freshen 89 Sitarist Shankar 90 Like hiss or boom 92 Snappy dresser 94 Scandinavi­an capital 95 Fictional wolf’s disguise 97 Employ to excess 99 Fisherman with pots 100 Algonquian chief 101 Govt. issue 102 Arabian peninsula capital 104 Infatuate 106 Intestine sections 108 Plumed birds 112 Dr. Brown’s

classic 115 Ivy in Ithaca 117 Seek office 118 Baby bug 119 Wedding reception

eye-catcher 121 Worked up 122 Spender of rials 124 French 101 infinitive 125 “Power Hits” series record label 126 Went off the deep end 127 Picked a ticket, perhaps 128 Board 129 Lowly worker 130 Christmas symbol 131 Lyrical poetic form

Down

1 Peruvian volcano El __ 2 Wrinkle-resistant fiber 3 Cants 4 “Barbara __”: Beach Boys hit 5 British actor who played Algy Longworth in 1930s Bulldog Drummond movies 6 DOL watchdog 7 Garage job 8 Book sheet 9 Freeloaded 10 Stupefied state 11 Western actor who taught Harrison Ford how to use a bullwhip 12 More pretentiou­s 13 Waterproof­s, perhaps 14 Cynical Bierce who defined “sweater” as “Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly” 15 “Titanic” theme vocalist 16 Broad assortment 17 Bausch + Lomb brand 18 Rorem and Beatty 29 Qantas hub letters 30 Tertiary Period stones 32 __ Martin: Bond’s car 34 Like italics 38 Middle of dinner? 40 Turn right 42 Capa attacker 43 Scand. land 44 Circle’s lack 45 Gemini rocket stage 46 Some library volumes 47 Caribbean sorcery 49 Sorbonne student 50 Nocturnal tree dweller 54 Trueheart of the comics 57 Problem with a line 59 Turn over 61 Was perfectly tailored 63 Glass component 65 Ancient home of Irish kings 67 Academic specialty 70 Sister of Rachel 72 A lot more than a little mistake 73 It may have a swivel top 74 Get together with old classmates, say 75 China __: showy bloom 76 Memorable line from Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek” 78 Religious recluse 80 Unpaid bill 81 Energy bits 82 Ancient Japanese capital 83 Brush fire op 85 Third James Bond novel 87 Samba relative 90 Filmdom’s Thompson and Watson 91 1961 Literature Nobelist Andric 93 Plant studied by Mendel 96 Hamlet’s homeland 98 Puts in another roll of film 101 Up till now 103 First word in Dante’s “Inferno” 105 Taunts 107 Grain bane 109 Sister of Calliope 110 Not sharp or flat 111 Rather nasty 112 Storm harbinger 113 Marsh bird 114 Name on the column “At Wit’s End” 116 Hungarian city known for red wine 120 Seasonal worker? 123 Swiffer WetJet, e.g.

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