Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- “CODE CRACKERS” By MARK McLACHLAN Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS

1 College loan

co-signer, maybe 4 Establish as law 9 Long-legged birds 15 Five-O nickname 19 Before, poetically 20 Prepare to surf 21 Reunion attendee 22 King Harald’s

father

23 One way to enter

a pool

25 __ media

26 Film scene shot without interrupti­on 27 Kenya’s first prime minister __ Kenyatta 28 Hydroelect­ric

project

29 One end of a

church key 31 Amazon assistant 33 Abundant element

in Earth’s core 35 Thingamaji­gs 36 Physical location? 41 Humor

42 Winans of gospel 43 Most hip 45 Supposed to

arrive

46 Spa sounds 49 Plotting chuckle 51 Delta rival

renamed in 1997 53 Moving aids 54 “Mobile” communicat­ions device used in law enforcemen­t 60 Jack in a suit 62 Initial Hebrew

letter

63 Mountain melody 64 Tchaikovsk­y’s “1812 Overture” has one that includes cannon fire

68 Lose it 69 Matching game 71 Total, as a bill 72 2012 Beyoncé hit with the repeated line “Say you’ll never let me go” 76 Slips through the

cracks 79 Domingo, for one 80 One of Australia’s

six 81 Summing-up

words

83 Thin coin 86 Digitally approve 88 Game-winning

line

89 Hallelujah trio? 90 Spanish article 91 Sharp tingle, as

of fear

95 Ford

contempora­ry 98 Discount

102 Guru whose opinions are trusted

107 Surname on Elm

Street

108 Chiwerespe­aking native 109 Trial subject 110 2019 “Game of

Thrones” event 114 45, in classic

pop

117 Well-behaved 118 Like many

Horace works 119 Mexican madam 120 Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them 122 __ Reader 123 When Hamlet

kills Polonius 124 Divider of pews 125 Word in many

obituaries 126 Collectibl­e ’90s

caps

127 Put away for later 128 Kingdom

129 Important stretch

DOWN

1 Kanye West label 2 Ring of color 3 Regarded

4 2003 holiday

comedy 5 Reason for being

barred at a bar 6 Taj Mahal city 7 Immense

8 Blast cause 9 Suspected 10 Heaps

11 Tear channel 12 Czech track

legend Zátopek 13 Cellular process affecting nucleotide sequences 14 Scene of some “Gunsmoke” action 15 College address

ending 16 Actor born Alphonso

DA’ bruzzo

17 First of three Leslie Nielsen comedies, with “The” 18 Supervises 24 Venomous

29 U2 frontman 30 Whale group 32 Pitching staff star 34 VCR button 37 Masseuse’s target 38 Not sure (of) 39 12th Jewish

month

40 Hi-__ graphics 44 Munro pen name 46 “Great minds think

alike,” e.g. 47 Fire-suppressin­g

gas 48 Position

50 Med. care

provider

52 U.K. fliers

53 They may be changed by judges

55 Place side by side 56 Taking it badly? 57 Run in place 58 Modernist’s prefix 59 TV chef Brown 61 Love of antiques 64 Renowned clown 65 Navel formation 66 Stand-up comic’s

seat

67 Lock __: come

into conflict 70 Front-of-bk. list 73 __ Bo

74 “Just what I

wanted!” 75 ’70s Israeli prime

minister 77 “Music for Airports” producer 78 Move quickly 81 Ruler unit

82 Veg out

83 A piece of cake 84 More than familiar

with

85 Growing up 87 “Shoo!”

92 Brand with a pitcher-shaped mascot

93 Bard’s instrument 94 Freudian focus 96 Mo. when Festivus is celebrated 97 Beetle Bailey

nemesis 99 Treats again, as a

sprain

100 Grow older 101 Actress Thompson and ice dancer Virtue 103 Disney Beetle 104 “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” singer Warwick 105 Drama queen,

e.g.

106 View from Jidda 111 Really digging 112 Pinot __

113 Grammy winner

India.__

115 Galileo’s

birthplace

116 Strip __

120 Away

companion 121 Rock in a setting

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7/14/2019

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