Muscat Daily

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Fabled fawn 6 Mosque leader 10 Quarrel

14 Uganda president: 1966–71 19 Middle Eastern leaders

20 Depot, in Dieppe 21 Whine 22 Obsession

23 Eft’s mama 25 Commedia dell’___ 26 City or state lead-in 27 Freshwater fish 28 Portuguese city 29 Editors’ longer titles, sometimes 31 Trite humor: sl. 33 “Where the Boys ___”

34 More peculiar 37 French vineyard 38 Leisure 40 Change

41 17th Greek letter 42 Silly soul

45 Get rid of

48 A type of queen? 49 Peachy ___

50 Scot. financier John ___ 51 Dwelling 52 Liszt’s eighty-eight 53 “___ and the City” 54 Strike hard 56 Cash drawer 57 End conclusive­ly 59 Word with rock or rain 60 Editorial star 62 Trout’s smaller relative 64 Spectacle 65 Actuality

66 More than seldom 68 Countersin­k 70 Rustic residence 73 Basket material 75 Swift traveller 79 “Rock of ___” 80 Burden bird

83 Not previously

recorded

84 Earl ___ Hines 86 Layer 87 Green-winged

ducks

88 Relating to the past 89 North Sea feeder 90 Gosh darn it! 92 Like some floors 93 Old-fashioned 94 Never ___ die! 95 New Jersey fort 96 Early stringed

instrument­s

97 ___ aside

98 Gallic garlic 99 Countless years 100 Mrs. in Madrid 101 Slattern

105 Esse, in English 109 Steal anagram 111 Copycat

112 El ___: Peruvian

volcano

113 Super endings 115 Eton rival

117 ___ della

Francesca

118 Antony’s amour 119 Legwear

120 On the ball

121 Hush up

122 Minor whirlpool 123 Washington bills 124 Boisterous bird

DOWN

1 Like ABC 2 Brazilian novelist Jorge 3 Long-distance runner 4 Lingerie item 5 Woe ___! 6 Pay no attention 7 Mother, in Cadiz 8 Code for callers 9 The sea, to Debussy 10 Health resort 11 Expressed joy (cat) 12 Take a tuck here and there 13 With off

14 15th Greek letter: pl.

15 African language group

16 Aware of

17 Cake layer 18 Listeners? 24 Helmsman’s halt 30 Feel sore 32 Eel-shaped

swimmer 34 Muscat man 35 Showing 36 Geneticist­s’

abbreviati­on 39 Widow in Peer

Gynt

40 Composer

Khachaturi­an 41 “Oedipus ___” 42 Wonderland lass 43 Smooth-surfaced

cloth

44 Nobel, for one 45 Input 46 Long-legged wader 47 Electrical force 48 Dagger: Scot. 49 Mighty Mary’s

stabilizer 52 Basil-based mixture 53 Commando

weapon

55 Family of Eden’s

successor

57 Minor spasm 58 Soul, in Soissons 61 Fled or bled 63 Tie up the turkey 64 Gal of song 66 Unctuous 67 Winter mo.

69 PGA winner Ernie 70 Bistros

71 Small insect-eating

lizard

72 Ross of

Philadelph­ia

74 Tar

75 Alchemist’s aspiration

76 Part of Caesar’s boast

77 Equal

78 Let in London 81 Legendary archer and others 82 Charlotte and Norma

85 Ell on a house 86 Peace, to Caesar 88 “___ Town”: Wilder 91 Enrage

92 Brother of 7 Down 93 Suppress 96 Swerved 97 Holmes’ quests 98 Houston athlete 99 “Poor Tom’s ___”:

King Lear

100 Horse or common 102 Delay

103 Battle’s art

104 Sloop’s spot 105 Nero et al.

106 13, Roman style 107 “The place ___ out

for..”

108 Pleasant

109 Androcles’ friend 110 Squad

114 Tofu source

115 The ___: Eng. rock

group

116 Wily

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