King Kong School

...It's a jungle out there This puzzle is part of Merl's best-of series ACROSS

1 “How tasty!” 4 “Hogwash!” 9 Notorious traitor 14 Greek isle where Pythagoras was born 19 Mouth prefix 20 Florida city

21 Martha or Norma

22 The Hollywood Bow 23 Hairy singers? 26 City of rubber 27 Rice or Tyler 28 London district 29 Religious commune 31 “___ Kentucky Home” 33 Landing site, 1969 35 Fork over

37 Open with a key 40 With 44 Across, hairy spinster’s fate? 43 Japanese tea-andsympathy girl

44 See 40 Across

46 Ice, to Weiss 47 The Wild Duck playwright

50 Word heard on New Year’s Eve

51 Car salesman’s motto 55 ___ the rear (heads for the back seats) 57 Fast planes 60 Prime-time time 61 Meat-rating dept. 62 Great American Smoke-Out mo. 65 Being from Melmac 67 Top Iranians, once 68 A sheep remark 69 Instrument heard in The Third Man 72 Persian king 74 Scratch (out) a living 76 Spinning toys or Greek snacks

78 Hazel’s boss, familiarly 79 Pot for pods 80 Pluto’s tail?

81 Way to address a guru 83 Dallas nickname 86 Flame Trees of Thika author Huxley 89 Soviet provinces 90 Dream, in Reims 93 Crack ___ (do some deciphering)

94 Kobe robe accessory 95 Hairy Steinbeck novel? 100 Munich medic 104 Hairy diet maven? 109 Pepper reaction 110 ___ bender

111 Serpico author 112 Beginning 113 Swaps

115 ___ side (song No. 2 on an old 45) 117 Vex 118 Down-to-earth color 120 Health store for hairy vegetarians? 126 Type of broom 127 Indian pole

128 “___ a dream ...” 129 Tell’s had to be true 130 Kudrow and Ling 131 Make ___ at (hit on) 132 Big horns 133 Proposition position

DOWN

1 Exclamation that’s almost a cellist 2 A compound of element 92 3 Gilligan’s boat 4 ___ favor

5 Bot. or chem. 6 March or Roach 7 Everything 8 Apologized 9 Baseball great Gibson

10 At the usual level 11 Doo-dah prelude 12 Decked out

13 Lip 14 Card-game authority John 15 Acid opposite 16 With 48 Down, harried hairy one’s lament? 17 Cortes’s loot 18 Dirty Harry’s city, part 1

24 Ile ___ cité

25 Asia Minor folks, once 30 Buscaglia welcome 32 Units of force 33 Dallas dribbler 34 Unshutters, poetically 36 Philippine native 38 Hairy cousin of Jack Benny?

39 Top 40 guy Casey 41 Faxed 42 Brit. honors 45 When Brigitte hits the beach 47 “Everybody knows that,” in hairy terms? 48 See 16 Down 49 Sweating setting 52 Part of a slope ratio 53 Grunted opinions 54 ___ Na Na 55 Silent runner, sometimes

56 Can. province 58 Income outgo

59 Did in 63 Resistance unit 64 Predicate part 66 Backward 69 Animal houses 70 “Life ___ fair” 71 Crossing-home credit, briefly 73 Jaguar model 75 Bible ending 77 Stephen of Angie 80 TV oldie, ___ Sharkey 81 Forest

82 Space org. abroad 84 David who played Rhoda’s husband Joe on Rhoda 85 Slanderous one 87 “Do” preceders 88 Joe ___ from Kokomo

91 Bug’s cousin 92 Earth goddess 96 Sporting-goods store 97 A, to Otto 98 Criticizes severely 99 Donkey

101 Singer Brewer 102 Where Branson, Mo., is 103 Danger hue 105 Crucifix letters 106 Faulkner’s ___ Dying 107 Journalist Bly 108 Emits vapor 114 Singer James 116 Alters, as pants 118 Hogwarts bird 119 With “sox,” a team, for short 121 Greek letter 122 Outspoken 1960s madame

123 Yak, yak, yak 124 Eggs

125 It’s not your bus.