THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD
My Tax Day Film Guide ...It just takes a lot out of me This puzzle is part of Merl's best-of series
ACROSS
1 TYpe of salad? 5 Half of an African capital 10 Bouquet holder 14 Composer Berg 19 Like a Studs Terkel history
20 Della Street’s favorite subatomic particle? 21 Very top
22 “The truth” 23 Earthbound phobia 24 1987 Van Damme ninja flick 26 Buoyant body bar 27 Kurosawa’s Macbeth,
1957 29 Price-earnings, for one 31 “Nuts”
32 It’s a little possessive 33 Flower or color 36 Name of many a theater
39 Card player’s cry 42 Show at the front? 44 Willing one’s words 45 Reversal of Fortune star
46 1979 John Huston film 50 Worn-down end 51 Vergil’s escort 52 Vodka brand
53 Mo. of the squeezed wallet
54 Take-off time, approx. 56 Word in many Bugs Bunny titles 58 Revenuer’s find 60 Matching towels, etc. 64 Adept person 66 Clumsy person 68 Writer Anita 70 Paine’s ___ of Reason
71 Rib donor
72 1984 Coen Brothers film
76 By and by 77 Unseat
79 Ballot abbr.
80 A vote 81 Pt.-scoring passes 82 Chipped beef ___
84 Baretta costar
87 Part of ABA: abbr. 89 Common connector 90 Type of bagel
92 Find out
94 Gets within spittin’ distance 98 Cheerful, mon cheri
100 1979 Audrey Hepburn pic 102 Bennett and Curtis 103 Paderewski’s first 106 Person
107 ___ matrix printer 109 Frequently 110 Thanksgiving noise makers?
112 Org. overseeing the skies
115 Where it all began? 117 Not tucked in 118 1959 Roger Corman flick
124 Pond sound 126 1982 Stallone opus 128 “Yes ___?” 129 Sand-castle site 130 Actress Falco 131 Hartford-based firm 132 Mr. Big, to the Norse 133 Hot, spicy drink 134 Tawdry tabloids 135 State anew 136 Lavish love (upon) DOWN 1 Turn or trench follower
2 ELO, for one 3 Roseanne of Roseanne 4 1948 Mitchum drama 5 “Waves of grain” color
6 Fit in 7 Beginning 8 Nincompoop 9 Relative of “witness ye” 10 Vicks product
11 “... peas in ___” 12 Indian weight 13 Spare
14 Making headlines, as a couple 15 Affectionate 16 1941 Tyrone Power movie
17 People blow it all the time 18 Napoleon’s field marshal
25 Old French moolah 28 Mid-Atlantic state? 30 Enthusiastic 33 Solve word searches 34 Land bird 35 Johnny Gray 36 Contract offer 37 Tax-time acct. 38 Garfield’s “owner” 40 ___ Jima 41 Quick drinks
43 Ski event 47 Barfly
48 Hex
49 Ball, for one 52 Ring out 54 Country S of Eritrea: abbr.
55 1973 Vincent Price thriller 57 Clothing for Pierre? 59 Law, to La Salle 61 Baracas and co. 62 Freudian concepts 63 List total, often 64 Middle East gulf 65 1935 Errol Flynn classic
67 Fancy dresser 69 Seeker of secrets, perhaps
71 Fuss
73 Where the Ducks play
74 Wall Street name 75 With less fat 78 Chapfallen
83 Call me on it: abbr. 85 Surfing mecca accessory 86 Camera pioneer 88 Shut up in a mausoleum 91 Oozy specimens 93 Old car
95 Tiny carpenter 96 New York city 97 Tax-form I.D. 98 Jazz job
99 In the past 100 Honey hoarders 101 Makes less dangerous
104 On the train 105 Gumby creator Art 108 Connie StevensDean Jones comedy, ___ Guillotine
111 Allude
113 Pose
114 Mogul emperor 116 The time ___ 118 Jail for McHale 119 Battlefield Robt. 120 Little ones 121 Latin word on a dollar bill 122 “Step ___!” 123 Over with 124 Zone of Ark. 125 Greek letter 127 Theatrical Princess