Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- “FIRST THINGS FIRST” By DON GAGLIARDO and C.C. BURNIKEL Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS

1 Pocket for falafel 5 Crossing sign? 9 Some old

notebooks 13 Came up short 17 USNA part: Abbr. 18 Snuck 19 Eponymous store

founder

20 Gulf State native 21 Willie Mays won 12 in 12 consecutiv­e years

24 Brake

components 25 “More!”

26 Left hanging 27 John Wayne types 28 In the offing

30 “99 Luftballon­s”

singer

31 Org. created in a 1949 sports merger

33 Lyft offer 34 German

exclamatio­n 37 Pitt of “The Big

Short”

39 “Mad Men”

actress 42 Glasgow’s river 44 Vineyard grape 46 Decorative

metalwork 47 “And there you

have it!”

48 “No worries” 49 Kept out of sight 50 Brewery named

for a Dutch river 53 Stonehenge

worshiper 55 Brahms’ “Variations on a __ of Paganini” 57 Putin’s former org. 58 Wish Tree artist 59 Canada’s most populous province

61 Pot growth from

overwateri­ng 64 Sonata finale,

perhaps

66 “I __ differ” 68 Certain group

leader

70 Hunter with a belt 71 Von Trapp girl who sings “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” with Rolf

72 Eye twinkle 73 Enable

75 Subject for Keats 76 “__ Kapital” 78 Capri or Elba,

locally

80 Jack in the deck 82 Settles, as a debt 84 GI bill?

86 Stout quantities 88 Enter the pool, in

a way

90 Exotic vacation,

maybe

92 Praline nut

93 Ed with Emmys 94 Early ’60s group that included John Glenn 97 Cherry-pick 99 Sound near a “Beware of Dog” sign

100 Dog attractor 101 East, to Goethe 102 Shelter chorus 104 Kite trailer 106 Philly cagers 108 Hotel

convenienc­e 111 Heir and heiress 115 Way to step 116 1990 movie with a muscular teacher

118 Like acid in some

disinfecta­nts 119 Fascinated by 120 Citrus hybrids 121 James of jazz 122 Tech gadget

review site 123 Trade org. 124 Island in a

computer game 125 Roulette bet

DOWN

1 Printer output 2 Tapped image

3 It’s 1 on the Mohs

scale 4 Accessory

5 Expert

6 Big name in denim 7 Home to the first collegiate business sch. 8 Groan elicitor 9 1967 Spencer

Davis Group hit 10 Stinging rebuke 11 Pioneering fast

food name 12 Part of TBS: Abbr. 13 Fraternity O’s 14 “Rip Van Winkle”

author

15 Protect from hackers, hopefully 16 Insults 18 Golf-friendly

forecast

20 __ Mae: Whoopi’s

“Ghost” role 22 Diving bird 23 Succeed in 27 Whirlpool brand 29 Totally absorbed 32 Push-up top 34 Take the stage 35 Garbed 36 Component of

hair bleach 38 Purify, as whiskey 40 Reuters rival 41 Fullback on the NFL’s 1960s AllDecade Team 43 Unnerves 45 Pessimist’s words 48 Wyo. neighbor 49 Captain’s post 51 Inner: Pref. 52 Minnesota’s state

bird

54 “See?!”

56 Polite addresses 57 Stay fresh 60 Cleaning cloths 62 Language that

gave us “galore” 63 Annual fact book 65 Daphnis and

Echo, e.g. 66 Fuzzy image 67 Its legislatur­e

is the Oireachtas 69 Hard rain? 74 Signs off on 77 Colt .45s, since

1965

79 Venue for free

discussion 81 Constantly 83 Sanction, as a

college 84 London trash

cans 85 Prospector’s

target 87 Letter-shaped bolt

holder

89 __ on the side of

caution

91 Cries of dismay 92 As such 93 Tea party attendee 94 Inlaid design 95 Rival of Tesla 96 __ Trophy: annual PGA honor for lowest scoring average 98 Doesn’t fade 103 Yielding to

gravity

105 Tablecloth

material

107 DVR button 109 Farm swarm 110 Besties

112 Numerical prefix 113 “Moi?”

114 Go toe-to-toe 116 Korean carmaker 117 Slowing, to an

orch.

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