Toronto Star

SUNDAY CROSSWORD

BE SILENT: Completely different from last week’s puzzle

- by Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 Buzzing bunch 5 Bit of parsley 10 Milne marsupial 15 Things to wear 19 Play starter 20 Crockett outpost 21 Freeze over 22 Garfield canine 23 Words of rebuke? 25 Barbering result? 27 Seeks formally 28 Modern pointer 30 Bugs’ pursuer 31 RN workplaces 32 Some undercover cops 33 Cerebral spark 35 Trig ratio 39 48-country continent 40 Sophistica­ted crowd 44 Sound of a sneeze 45 Marked card? 47 Cut with an axe 48 Very vivid, as a crayon 49 Build-it-yourself chain 52 Trails the pack 53 At this point 54 Middle X or O 55 Fracking-cost component? 59 Lara Croft portrayer 60 Contents of printer cartridges 62 GPS number 63 Primed for action 64 Bummed out 65 Gross fraction 67 Want badly 68 Faux pas 69 Inhospitab­le attic 71 Singled out 72 Excessivel­y 73 Sale stipulatio­n 76 Shooting marble 77 Beach volleyball also-ran? 79 Endeavor (to) 80 Enactments 81 Trade punches 82 Prefix for scope 83 Noggin 84 Tell whoppers 85 Boycott the prom? 89 Because of 90 Unfavorabl­y written up 92 English horn insert 93 Lit less 94 Dilemma metaphor 95 Briquettes 96 Crosstown conveyance 97 Earth tone 100Earth tone 101 Accepts gladly 106 Tobacco Road costume? 109 Artillery missing the mark? 111 Spirited tune 112 Taper off 113 Conference room fixture 114 Prefix for cross 115 Participat­es, with “in” 116 Karaoke equipment 117 The color of honey 118 Predicamen­t, so to speak

DOWN

1 “Largemouth” fish 2 Sound rebound 3 List shortener 4 __ Valley, CA 5 Literary spoof 6 Home sites 7 Starfish arms 8 “I think,” to texters 9 Hodgepodge 10 It captures Jumbotron smoochers 11 Longs (for) 12 Within reach 13 Informal British address 14 Big lug 15 Lose fizz 16 Noah ancestor 17 Paella ingredient 18 Ballgame beverage 24 Money-saving, in brand names 26 Steel-plow pioneer 29 Operatic piece 32 Twangy, as a voice 33 Publicist’s concern 34 Some PTA members 35 “Over the Rainbow” ender 36 Vast amount 37 Chas. Addams? 38 Atomic emission 40 Eccentric 41 Pride in one’s book collection? 42 Ghostly 43 Sherlock’s cape fabric 46 Fall gradually 49 Atlas speck 50 Ruler in Polo’s time 51 Grab a bite 53 Teamsters head since ‘99 56 Faux pas 57 “__ porridge hot . . .” 58 Get tangled up 59 Sister brand of Smucker’s jam 61 Mailroom operations 64 New Zealand language 66 Scrabble 10-pointer 67 Guitar music notation 68 Attendee 69 Mondavi rival 70 From the top 71 Protestor’s chorus 72 Cats inspirer’s monogram 74 Furious 75 Church council 77 Encourages 78 Newspaper essays 81 Become visible 83 Ne’er-do-well 85 Fire starter 86 Stirs up 87 Type of tide 88 Keyboard instrument 89 Pucks, for instance 91 Casts off 93 Not as polished 95 Social standing 96 Beauty and the Beast girl 97 Site of many Nobel Symposia 98 Salsa support 99 Shut down 100Tropica­l hardwood 101 Golf pro Karrie 102 Resistance measures 103 Of no consequenc­e 104 Designer of 1980s cognac bottles 105 Pack away 107 Flowage stopper 108 Batter’s stat 110 Noah descendant

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