Gulf News

WEEKEND CROSSWORD

“BREAKFAST WITH YOUR SUNDAY PUZZLE”

- BY PAUL COULTER Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS

1 Kind of pool 6 Arthur Ashe’s alma mater

10 Clyde cap 13 British bakery buy 18 Antipasto morsel 19 Insulted smack 20 Asian nurse 22 Welcome words to a hitchhiker

23 Wry suggestion at breakfast about what to feed the cat when you’re out of milk? 26 A Passage to India

heroine

27 Nostradamu­s, e.g. 28 Seagoing force 29 Thumb-and-finger sounds

31 __ center 32 Retired flier 34 Suggested which breakfast bread to brown?

37 Strike out 40 R&B’s Boyz II __ 41 Story featuring Paris 42 Choice group 43 A, in Arles 46 Title sitcom bookstore owner

48 Columnist Bombeck 52 Sign of a sloppy breakfast eater?

56 Nine-digit ID 58 Chit 59 Code word 60 The Seinfeld Chronicles ,eg 61 @@@@ 63 Intensifie­d

65 Mex. miss

67 Brain scan letters 68 Make __ of: botch 70 Mantegna’s Criminal

Minds role 71 Secure a breakfast supply? 76 Somewhat, informally 78 Beast of Borden 79 One of the Reagans 80 First-rate 83 Introducti­on

84 St. with a panhandle 85 Monterey County seat that’s the birthplace of John Steinbeck 88 50 Cent piece 89 Handful

90 ‘__ voyage!’ 92 Breakfast complaint about getting the oolong by mistake? 95 Family lads 97 Advances

99 ‘Come again?’ replies 100 Apprehensi­on 101 Video store section 103 It’s game 106 Damon appears as

him in five films 107 Breakfast go-with that comes from a plant?

113 Sundial marking 114 Curtain holder

115 French Alps river 116 Humble

118 Not that

122 Like many elephants 124 Reference with rows and columns covering all varieties of a breakfast drink? 127 Cheesy snack

128 1984 Peace Nobelist 129 Sitcom sign-off word 130 Pan-fry

131 Relatively cool heavenly body

132 Damascus is its cap. 133 Detect

134 Scarecrow stuff

DOWN

1 Clothes

2 Tennis great Nastase 3 One may be done from a cliff

4 Put off by

5 Floral necklace 6 World power initials until 1991

7 Walk noisily 8 Truman’s Missouri birthplace 9 Tarzan’s realm 10 Upsilon preceder 11 Awry

12 Longtime Lehrer partner

13 Cascades peak 14 Atlantic catch 15 Palais Garnier performanc­e

16 Frasier character 17 Legislate 21 Like Irving’s horseman 24 London art gallery 25 Jest 30 What careful people take

33 Surgical tube 35 Ten sawbucks 36 Gray’s The Progress of

Poesy, e.g. 37 Accomplish­ments 38 ‘Enigma Variations’ composer 39 Jeanie’s hair color, in an old song 43 Allow to fluctuate, as a currency 44 Whinnied, say 45 Immigrant’s class: Abbr.

47 Boxer’s director 49 Humdinger 50 Homer’s hangout 51 Autobahn auto 53 Baker 54 Brewery heads 55 Believer’s antithesis 57 Bust maker 62 Storied Robin Hood target 64 Debatable 66 Johnson of ‘Laugh-In’ 69 Elite unit

72 Foot in a poem 73 Chan portrayer Warner __

74 Perk

75 Take __: rest

76 Nos. affecting UV exposure 77 Crumbled sundae topper

81 Song of joy 82 Fictional falcon seeker 84 Essentiall­y 86 Alkaline solution 87 ‘Same here’ 91 Blends

93 Bone head? 94 Large flying mammal 96 Govt. benefits org. 98 Laughing gas, familiarly

102 Key of Brahms’ First

Symphony

104 Pinnacle

105 Targets marked with

flags

106 Tab

107 Annoying, as a call 108 Gift for el 14 de febrero 109 Decree

110 Substantia­l

111 Ready to pour

112 Instrument for Joel or

John

117 Adjoin

119 Rush __

120 Letter before kappa 121 Bias

123 ‘Bingo!’

125 Cat coat

126 Capital of Switzerlan­d?

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4/20/14 xwordedito­r@aol.com ©2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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