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WEEKEND CROSSWORD

- Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis “SPORTING CHANCE” BY GARY LARSON 4/20/14 xwordedito­r@aol.com ©2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

ACROSS

1 Model in the Beach Boys’ ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ 6 ‘Nightmare’ street 9 Middles 15 Demonstrat­ing skill 19 Subtle glows 20 Wasikowska of ‘Damsel’

21 Allergic outburst 22 Hudson Bay nation 23 *Grizzly, for one 25 *Olaf II of Norway, notably

27 Ornamental vase 28 Earthly

30 MLB Hall of Famer Fox and journalist Bly

31 __ a soul

32 Va. winter hours 34 Genesis twin 35 Hose clamp tightener 37 More klutzy 40 Prepare, as a contract

45 Like some dorms 46 *It goes up in cold weather

48 Sound of shock 49 Sharply hit baseball 51 Relax, maybe

52 Wolf down 54 Guru’s residence 56 Pool concern 57 Loses steam 60 Claim no longer allowed on cigarettes 62 Fortune

64 Show with constant

cliff-hangers

66 Cell division

68 NL Central club 69 *Nickname for Joe

DiMaggio

73 Words of understand­ing

75 Uses, as a scale 77 Candy bar with a

Nordic name 78 Self-reproach 80 Thinks

82 Played really badly 85 Comic book artist 86 Mentally assimilate 88 A musician usually has

a good one 90 Originally called 91 Bete __

92 Willing to listen (to) 93 *The sun will eventually be one

97 Button alternativ­e 98 Posse carriers

101 Max Ernst, for one 102 True

104 Yearn

106 Eye, to a poet

107 Pickup relatives,

briefly

108 Condemnati­on

111 Zip one’s lip

114 ‘Rugrats’ dad

117 *ICBM booster until

1987 120 They’re on the same side ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues

122 Pizzazz

123 Spirituali­st Deepak 124 Bagpiper’s topper 125 Past pudgy

126 Target of a military

press

127 ‘Dear Evan __’: 2015

musical

128 Mahershala of ‘Moonlight’

129 Grown-up efts

DOWN

1 Perfume that sounds

forbidden

2 VP under Jefferson 3 Par-3 choice, often 4 Not even rare? 5 Insurance that covers

dams?

6 Manicurist’s board 7 Yarn spinner

8 Dark area on the

moon 9 Surfboard/kayak

hybrid

10 Yellowfin tuna 11 Response to goo 12 Slugger’s creation 13 Shades

14 ‘I’m __ to hear from

you!’

15 Smoothie fruit 16 Cheese on crackers 17 Telescope part 18 To this day

24 Docking place 26 Result of one too

many, maybe 29 Rookie, briefly

31 ‘I can’t agree to this’ 33 Scrabble piece 35 Going places? 36 *Kipling’s Shere Khan

is one

37 Author Sheehy 38 Relaxed

39 Airline with an allkosher menu 41 Turkish bigwigs 42 *’Virtuous Woman’

reggae singer 43 Solheim Cup team 44 Fluoride-in-water

meas.

45 Cat’s weapons 47 Little trickster 50 Confirms, as a password

53 Sub

54 China __: showy bloom 55 Use for preservati­on,

as wine barrels 58 Takes off

59 Pass rusher’s stat 61 Small intake 63 Attacks

65 Story line

67 Singer Ed featured in the 2019 film ‘Yesterday

70 ‘Just kidding!’

71 Place for a pad 72 Modern Persians

74 __ throat

76 Utopias

79 Knowledge of spiritual

matters

81 Bareilles of ‘Waitress’ 83 Without ice 84 Understand­ing 86 Quote from Homer 87 2012 Facebook event,

for short

89 Overhaul 94 Sunbather’s pride 95 Poke fun at

96 Best Supporting

Actress before Ingrid 99 Merit

100 Discolor by burning

101 Military alert state 103 Jack of ‘Some Like It

Hot’

105 To-do

107 It was added to create an everyday quintet in 1990

108 Tick off

109 Series finale: Abbr. 110 Huff and puff

112 R&B great James 113 Ring at a wedding 114 State of suppressed

worry

115 Reason to cram

116 List for a versatile tool

117 Talk acronym

118 Mil. mess duties

119 Before, poetically

121 Presidenti­al nickname

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