Feel Better Now?
...Feed your head
This puzzle is part of Merl's best-of series
ACROSS 1 Grosbeak’s beak 4 New Mexico Indian 8 Actress Allgood 12 Hard-to-lift instruments 17 Soothing TV game show?
20 Don’t forget (to) 21 No-pain novelist? 22 Gift-giver’s urging 23 Door doohickey 24 Climber’s spike 25 Instrument heard at the start of J. Arthur Rank films
27 TV journalist Curry 28 Jenny in Love Story
29 Neet rival 31 Doberman hue
33 San Francisco, e.g. 35 Surface for Kerrigan 37 Checkers doubledecker 39 Cartoonist who invented the Republican elephant 41 Small horse-drawn carriage 43 Unfamiliar 44 Newsman Charles and family
46 Crude stone tool 49 First name of 96 Down 51 Pre-1917 rulers 52 The remainder of the remedies? 54 Exisle?
55 Pope in 1050
57 A movie was all about her
58 “___ about it!” 61 Chord with a flatted third and fifth: abbr. 63 Caterpillar hairs 65 First words of Cash’s “I Walk the Line” 67 Puppy’s bark 68 Superstitions, home cures, etc. 69 Soothing former game-show host? 71 Part of SHAZAM 72 Start of a verse? 73 Eniwetok event 74 99’s pal
75 Abuse
76 “Let’s shake on it!” 78 Ill-comforted one 79 Jazz style (original name)
81 Roscoe of Cimarron 82 Soothing advice to a victim of red tape? 86 Surveillance planes 89 Star of “The Flight that Failed”? 91 Shuffle method 92 Give-___
94 Tax I.D. no. 95 R-O-L-A-I-D-S? 97 Fiery liquid 99 Writer Seton
100 G.I. busters
101 Half of MIV 102 “Toe” preceder 104 Leg part or animal 106 Shot from guns 107 Electrician’s chant? 109 Last letters 111 Zombie island 114 Victor Hugo’s daughter 116 Tsongas beat him 118 Soothing opera piece? 121 Keyboard works 122 Q: “Are these the pills you want, Fonzie?”
A: “___” 123 Beer-tasting nuance 124 Overwhelms 125 Spontaneous generation de bunker Francesco 126 Airline to Den. DOWN 1 Rejector of everything 2 Day times 3 Composer Alban 4 Tourist attraction, often 5 Headache-free societies 6 Low points 7 “Peace ___ hand” 8 Hardly any 9 Bowed segment 10 Light again 11 Au’s is 79 12 Assist, in Alabama 13 Voyaging 14 Indian feeling no pain? 15 Laid-back hero of the comics? 16 Encyclopedias en masse 18 Memorable Broadway Lola 19 Sinaloan singleton 20 Rick Blaine portrayer 21 Military cap with a plume 26 Meet the Press network 30 “___ it goes” 32 Burning
34 “... sow, so shall ___”
36 She may feel shear terror 38 Slap-shot stopper 40 ___ Aviv 42 Sounds of wonder 45 N Utah city
47 City on the Allegheny 48 Plateaus
50 Bank CD abbr. 52 Skating feats 53 Number of days in avril 56 Archipelago units 59 Certain engrs. 60 RCA output, once 61 Congestion-free competitions? 62 Rock song that leaves you clearheaded? 64 Hanoi holiday 65 “Sweet as apple cider” girl 66 Tea and Sympathy stars
68 French pronoun 69 Had a club at the club?
70 Cluster of flowers 71 Villa ally, once 73 Ionescoesque 75 “___ that happen?” 77 Atmosphere prefix 78 Central Israel seaport 80 Commonplace 83 William Tell’s canton 84 Idea for Richard Simmons 85 Singer Shannon 87 Aussie capital 88 Azures 89 Doctrine 90 Grabs
92 ___ oneself (took advantage) 93 Reduces, as pain 96 First U.N. chief 98 On duty 103 Anarchy 105 Saudi king crowned in 1982
108 Form 110 Hotheaded Sicilian? 112 Kmart chopper? 113 Actor Novello 115 Solves
116 Mr. Bumble? 117 Plop preceder 119 Denmark city
120 Le dernier __