Muscat Daily

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Political alliance 5 “Oro y___”: Montana’s motto 10 Candid 14 Beggar’s request 18 Redames’s love 19 Nocturnal lemur 20 ___ bene: L. 21 Devout 23 Miller’s worry? 26 Given to sulking 27 Chile’s capital 28 Jai alai basket 29 High-flown symbol 30 Sicilian spouter 31 Kunta ___: “Roots”

ancestor 32 Boarding house

sign 33 Abridgemen­t 36 Cause joy 37 Low-cut sports

shoes

40 Subtle sarcasm 41 Bartender’s worry? 43 FDR measure 44 Speaker’s platform 45 Bobby Burns’

hillside

46 Beak

protuberan­ce 47 Equal, in Arles 48 Chaucer’s Tabard,

for one 49 Longshorem­an’s worry?

53 “. . . ___ by faith.”: Wordsworth 54 Disregards 56 Paint pigment 57 Tenses by

contractio­n

58 ___ Kearns

Goodwin

59 Dove shelters 60 Dowdy damsel 61 Activist Steinem 63 Crete’s capital 64 Personal logs 66 “Main Street”

author 67 Fisherman’s

worry?

69 Egg drink

71 Asian water

buffalo

72 Kind of haste:

prefix

73 Turgenev’s

birthplace 74 Romanov ruler 75 Balderdash! 76 umberjack’s

worry? 80 Plowman’s friend 81 Distressed African

country

83 Church musicmaker 84 Brash and shrill 85 The second Mrs.

Irving Berlin 86 Football shapes 87 River near Mt.

Ararat

88 1986 best actress

Marlee

90 Tuscany town 91 Raconteur’s tale 95 Oranjestad’s

island 96 Ditchdigge­r’s

worry?

98 Dalai Lama’s land 99 Daredevil Knievel 100 Object d’art

101 Endure

102 Jacob’s first wife 103 Zilch

104 Krupp munitions

locale

105 Actress Sommer from Berlin

DOWN

1 Checkout counter supply 2 revi coin

3 Chief honcho of the Aesir

4 USO hot spots 5 Flexible

6 Ars ___, vita brevis 7 Jason’s ship 8 Gratuity

9 Not gregarious 10 Ragtime dance 11 ___ cochere:

covered entrance 12 Kett of the comics 13 Dissenting vote 14 Fills with horror 15 Singer Richie 16 Picture-framer’s

worry?

17 Flock of mallards 22 Neighbor of Isr. 24 Eccentric, new style 25 Expresses

29 Box in Bordeaux 31 Kind of arc light 32 Unpleasant

degree

33 “___ Remember?” 34 Man from Tehran 35 TV repairman’s

worry?

36 Maurice or Dale 37 Garson, of “Mrs.

Miniver”

38 Wipe out

39 Epsom ___

41 The “Cat Nation” 42 Roosevelt’s Interior

Secretary

45 Stalin’s secret

police chief 47 Fragrant oleoresin 49 Karloff or Yeltsin 50 Blackmore’s “Lorna ___” 51 Eight maids asinging, say

52 Going for a song 53 ___ out: utter

suddenly 55 Water-wheel 57 Delicate

59 “I Can Dream,

___?”

60 Played a highpitche­d

flute

61 Stare fiercely 62 French garden

dormouse

63 Leaf rib

64 Poet Mark Van ___ 65 Flies high

67 Out

68 Philippine city in

Capiz

70 Zane of the

“Purple Sage” 72 Charlemagn­e’s dad 74 Poet Sara

76 David’s target 77 Songwriter-actor

Ivor

78 Sigurd’s horse

79 At ___: seen

quickly

80 Severe Athenian

lawgiver

82 ___ monkey’s

uncle!

84 Rennes resident 86 Naval supply ship 87 Little Orphan___ 88 Wrestling area 89 Seed coat

90 Put by

91 Put on ___: show

off

92 Spoken

93 Elephant feature 94 Addition for kitchen 96 Hat for the Casbah 97 Astronaut Grissom

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