THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD

Something in Common

...Listen up and listen good This puzzle is part of Merl's best-of series ACROSS

1 Alvin Childress role 5 Maybelline concern

9 Picnic director Josh 14 What “he’s making” 19 Tea farewell 20 “Available to serve” 21 Muse with a lyre 22 Chowderhead 23 _________ 27 Travails 28 Pseudopod possessors 29 Bustling 30 Thumb and Waits 31 Yemen city 32 Measures in a bottle 34 New York county or lake 37 Arrow-release sound effect 38 Rum-lemonpineapple juice cocktail 41 _________ 47 Antonym of “glanced at” 48 Fateful day in Rome 49 A triglyceride 50 Regarding 51 Saldana of Avatar

52 A dyeing class 53 Mexican restaurant exit

55 Words to live by 57 Big talkers rattle them 60 Corny place 61 Junior Miss jewelry 62 _________

68 “___ God’s plenty” (Dryden) 69 Nightcap for Andy Capp

70 Where eagles have landed

71 Certain collars 72 Copy desk catches 75 Have ___ at (try) 76 Giant’s hat 79 Where Linz lies: abbr. 80 The Academy’s founder

81 Lid or cover, in Spanish

83 Big name in pens 85 _________ 90 Stirring song 91 Mahogany relative 92 Itinerary segments 93 Promgoer, perhaps 96 Munro’s pen name 97 Word in “The Witch Doctor” refrain 98 Kin of suis, in Strasbourg 99 Somewhat 103 Anagram of “hedonism” 107 _________ 110 Chinese premier, 1949-76

111 “The Velvet Fog” 112 Grab some Zs 113 114 Lancaster/York badges 115 Authority on the march 116 Kool-Aid holder, often

117 Like Hotspur

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1 Big bang origin? 2 Bamako’s country 3 Singer Redding 4 Be economical, in a way 5 It produced Dallas 6 “I’m in” actions 7 A surgeon does it in closing 8 1960s aftershave, ___ Karate 9 Teresa Brewer plea of 1954 10 He’s Hank in Touch of Evil 11 Arena proceeds 12 Get from ___ (progress) 13 Nick’s better half 14 Lemon or lime 15 Fringe member 16 ___ altogether (bare)

17 Use soap pads 18 Stretches 24 Damaged, as popularity 25 Dolor

26 Twilled wool fabric used in jackets and blankets 31 “Je t’___” 33 “Society’s Child” singer Janis 34 Words after Wizard 35 Off 36 Perry’s creator 37 Singer Pia 38 Actress Dillon 39 Cut

40 Corn lily 42 Louis of law 43 Bit of madness, to Mimi 44 Gluck work 45 46 Meterless medium 52 Basics 54 More like a seaman, perhaps 55 56 Tatters

57 British gun 58 Flaws and all 59 A dash more sage? 61 Small band 62 Oakland team 63 Excited

64 Was broached 65 Molly of Ulysses 66 Game of Clue piece

67 Ear or eye, e.g. 72 Yalies 73 74 Flattered 76 Common excuse 77 Gal Friday 78 Good points 80 Indicating two or more

82 Jai ___

83 Part of a fern, in France 84 Comic relief? 86 Antenna bristles 87 Actress Stark who was once one of Prince Andrew’s escorts

88 Asian body of water 89 Deliveryperson 93 Norton’s milieu 94 Cultural combiner 95 Actress Patricia’s namesakes 96 Marijuana dregs 97 Undoing of many a star 100 Antonym of 99 Across 101 “Same for me,” more formally 102 Drive-___

103 Put away 104 Icelandic stories 105 Flower of one’s eye? 106 The Tooth Fairy, e.g. 108 109 Rhapsodic rhyme