Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“INNER CITIES” By GARY LARSON
ACROSS
1 Plot again
6 Brand created by a periodontist in the 1950s
11 Zap
15 Kite user’s verb 18 Yawning
19 Iris aperture 20 Being broadcast 21 Toledo’s lake 22 *Alternative to a
pizza oven 24 Word derived from the underworld god Orcus 25 Quarterback’s
option 26 “Romanian Rhapsodies” composer 27 Birds that tell
time?
29 Tolkien race 30 What Brits cross
to get here 34 Forsaken 35 Orange __
36 Like some
airports: Abbr. 38 *Office group
leader
42 Those with clout 43 Reef dweller 45 Line of clothing 46 Harsh
48 Blow away 49 Latin being
51 Part of a court
game name 53 Elimination 56 General on a
menu
57 Rat
59 Antique shop
transaction 60 *Online gaming
attraction 65 Designer Cassini 67 Street in Mason’s
office
68 Sews up 69 Dynamic start? 70 Norse patron 72 Encouraging
words
73 Rotund man in a
bright suit 75 Metalworking
union 77 *Mathematical abstraction with evenly spaced integers 79 Farriers’ tools 81 Like some
mistakes
83 Ode title starter 84 Shooting marble 86 Passion
87 Daring exploit 89 Luthor, to
Superman 92 Not for kids 94 Sign up 96 Wrangles 98 Former General
Motors division 100 *Only occupant
of Vostok I 102 Varieties
103 Teaspoon equivalents, roughly
105 Goddess with
cow’s horns 106 Track wagers 109 Conception 110 Not full
113 Judging groups 116 Ring at the
chapel
117 YA fiction reader 118 Startup funds
... and a hint to what’s hidden in the answers to the starred clues 122 Manitoba tribe 123 Fails to be 124 Beach, in Baja 125 Futuristic toon
dog
126 Monopoly token 127 D-Day craft 128 Gunpowder
ingredient 129 Feed, as a fire
DOWN
1 “Streamers”
playwright 2 Pulitzer-winning
novelist Jennifer 3 “The Egg and I”
woman
4 In an imitative way 5 Parts of a pound 6 Special __
7 Same old same old 8 GI’s address
9 “The Mod Squad”
role
10 __ cheese 11 Began to deal with 12 Fluffy felines 13 Like gales vis-àvis breezes 14 Gift-wrapping
times, perhaps 15 *Lead singer of a group whose first two Top 40
hits reached #1 16 Champ dethroned
by Clay in 1964 17 Approvals
21 Duel tool 23 Political initials
since 1884
28 V8 relative 31 Elevator name 32 Hawaiian goose 33 Court figs. 35 Program for
future docs 36 Draft pick 37 When repeated, a
cautioning word 39 Wherewithal 40 Timbuktu’s land 41 Incessantly 44 Cancún cash 47 Reddish rash 50 McGwire rival 52 Apple storage
place
54 __ wrench 55 Limited-term
usage contract 56 More irritable 57 Eric of “Pulp
Fiction” 58 Position of control 60 Travel docs 61 Defeatist’s words 62 *Breakfast order usually made with ham, onion and green pepper 63 “Ben-Hur” author
Wallace 64 Valuable rocks 66 Idle talk 71 “Cone of shame”
docs
74 Quiets
76 90 degrees 77 Wafer brand 78 Goes bad
80 In __: as found 82 Twinge
85 Strange quality 87 Unofficial EU
leaders group 88 Peak seen from
Messina 89 15-Down singing
style
90 TV planet
91 Start to save? 93 Political opposition 95 Cause of yelling,
often
97 One working on a
bench? 98 Snag
99 Writer Welty 101 2014 World
Series champs 104 __ ale
107 Tax pro
108 Calamares or
caracoles 110 Elec., e.g. 111 Locker room shower, at times?
112 Where to find a
hero
114 Bit of mischief 115 Wild plum 119 Wolf down 120 Salon coloring 121 Saturn or
Mercury