Gulf News

WEEKEND CROSSWORD

- OPENING ACT” BY PAM AMICK KLAWITTER Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS

1 Savvy 7 Degrees for corp. execs

11 Grates on 16 Couples’refuge? 19 Come to a boil

20 __ of office

21 They have Mystery and Birthday Cake varieties

22 It’s tipped in a parlor 23 Appreciati­ve freeloader­s? 26 English cathedral town

27 Early mobile home? 28 Merged telecom co. 29 Brie coverings 30 Poems that glorify 31 Entrust, as authority 35 Little bitty bits 37 World conference participan­ts? 43 Platte River valley native

45 Spherical opening? 46 Crews of ‘America’s Got Talent’

47 ‘__ something I said?’ 48 __ set

52 Bad way to come on 56 Garfield’s foil 57 1993 Oscar nominee Rosie 59 Longtime SeaWorld star

61 Proof of ownership 63 ‘Neath opposite 64 Taco topping 65 ‘There’s snowplace like home’ or ‘I only have ice for you’? 69 FedEx alternativ­e 71 NFL’s Gronk and others

72 Special __ 73 Vietnam holiday 74 Writing that’s both flowery and thoughtful?

80 Sketch starter 84 U.K. locale 85 Tolstoy title name 86 Goofs around

87 B in chemistry 88 Spare tire, perhaps 90 ‘Nausea’ novelist 93 Court cry

95 Grade

96 Sunset direcci—n 98 Fictional captain with the middle name Tiberius

100 Hebrew prophet 102 Time anticipate­d by

environmen­talists? 109 Time-honored words 110 It may be requested

before a sentence 111 Much junk mail

114 WWI battle river 116 Time of preparatio­n 117 Take effect

122 Old Mideast alliance:

Abbr.

123 Bad dream about

Cerberus?

127 USMA part, briefly 128 Beloved 1981 bride 129 Memo letters

130 Silver State NFLer 131 Sign of a hit

132 Bier holder

133 Aussie hoppers 134 Dakota del Norte, por

ejemplo

DOWN

1 Marines NCO 2 ‘Over __!’ 3 Gather

4 Major suffix 5 Cajole 6 Rapper Mos __ 7 Like lava 8 Troublemak­er 9 Absorbed, as a cost 10 Doo-wop syllable 11 Silk Road desert 12 Big sporting spots 13 Bring about 14 Much

15 Sound from a flat 16 Breezed through 17 __ of thumb 18 Florida attraction 24 Hybrid citrus 25 Fantasized 30 Bony prefix

32 Just managed, with ‘out’

33 ‘This is so relaxing!’ 34 Gets ready to drive 36 Winter setting in the Rockies: Abbr. 37 Show off a new outfit, say

38 Pays to play

39 Film set VIP 40 Passion

41 Gave it a whirl 42 Watchful ones 43 Lollapaloo­zas

44 In the Black?

49 Top row keyboard key 50 Had success on the links

51 Clark Kent, on Krypton 53 Post-Trojan War epic 54 Prefix with con 55 Fellow

58 Frank of avant-garde rock

60 Whse. inventory 62 Geeky sort 66 Voldemort’s title 67 Skating gold medalist Ohno 68 Certain footrest 70 Pacific Division NBA team

74 Clear, as a windshield 75 Calculus pioneer 76 Clear the board 77 Genetic material 78 Curie or Cardin

79 Houston-to-Miami dir. 81 Restaurant critic Claiborne 82 Raised-chair dance 83 Sarcophagu­s symbol 89 Second-stringers 91 Ring ref’s decision 92 Ransacked

94 #30 on a table 97 Last word, say 99 Author Kesey

101 Tabasco time-outs 103 Brit’s rats?

104 Greek markets 105 Mocha native

106 Grado de examen

perfecto

107 Bacon and Smith 108 10 C-notes

111 Adding results

112 Couple

113 1968 self-named folk

album

115 Have in mind

118 Send out

119 ‘Done!’

120 Ticked off

121 Roman ruler of ill

repute

123 NFL scores

124 Dinghy mover

125 Muscle car in a ‘60s

hit

126 Where Charlemagn­e

reigned: Abbr.

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