Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT” By JEFFREY WECHSLER
ACROSS
1 Make a face,
perhaps
7 Tab on old cash
registers 13 Tarkington tween 19 Disagreeable 20 Brunch fare 22 Like zebras and
donkeys
23 __ pin: metal
fastener
24 They know their
stuff
25 Plants with flavorful and irritating varieties 26 Sweaters in King
Arthur’s court? 29 “Ciao!”
30 Shiraz’s country 31 PC shortcut key 32 Earth goddess 34 Offshore retreat
for comedians? 43 NL West team 47 Thing thrown
from a tree? 48 Hotel selection 49 Director Kazan 50 Clog (up) 53 Amsterdam’s Anne
Frank House, e.g. 56 Swindle
57 “Best ever”
acronym 58 Harsh-smelling 60 Spectrum maker 62 Query to a U.K.focused think tank?
68 Pic, in Peru 69 Buffalo QB Josh 70 Utah ski resort 72 Altered the revealing side of a dress?
80 Work with pupils 81 Mazda two-seater 82 Adverb for
Descartes 83 Police force
acronym 86 Venue for the premiere of Handel’s “Water Music” 90 Genesis casualty 91 Come across 92 Capital of Yemen 94 Allows access 96 Diner counter
array
98 Siblings who produce court orders?
101 Tusked beast 103 Like the lower half of the Polish flag
104 Allows access,
poetically
106 Major appliances 111 Dieters’ interim report on smallersized clothes? 119 March
120 Out of the loop 121 Prison with a
Greek eponym 122 Worshipper 123 Lead off
124 Kitchen gadget 125 Defy
126 Biological quintet 127 Members of the
genus Vipera
DOWN
1 Saves, with “away” 2 Pot boiler in
“Macbeth” 3 Remove, as a knot 4 Female driver Ortiz of “Fast & Furious” films 5 Augur
6 Rookie
7 Cosa __
8 Missouri River city 9 Ordinal for Uranus 10 Bygone fruit spray 11 Longtime TV host who gives automotive advice in “Popular Mechanics” 12 Caesar’s penultimate words
13 Mortar partner 14 Congo line? 15 More than cold 16 Currency of
30-Across
17 In the distant past 18 __ Arc, Arkansas 21 Common ID 27 Quaint word of
revulsion 28 South Asian lentil
dish
33 Evaluate 35 Sam-I-Am
offering 36 Rutgers URL
ending 37 Android
alternative 38 Won all the
games
39 Official note from
the boss
40 What beaux do 41 Texter’s letters for
two cents? 42 “That’s
unfortunate” 43 Simon who played Scotty in 2009’s “Star Trek”
44 Distant 45 Unicellular alga 46 Onomatopoeic
rapping 47 Notebook type 51 Network for film
buffs
52 Gold in La Paz 54 Sch. near
Providence 55 Term starter 59 Chopped liver
purveyor 61 Something taken
on a bus 63 Transfer point 64 Sammie with
crunch 65 Twenty quires 66 Bay of Bengal’s
ocean
67 Sound system 71 Madonna companion, in much art
73 Put away 74 Dresden “Drat!” 75 Word on old
tablets
76 Hook partner 77 The VW Amarok,
e.g.
78 __ fresca: pico
de gallo
79 Little ones 83 Bismarck-toTucson
dir. 84 Journalist Hemingway’s assignment 85 Singer DiFranco 87 “No big deal” 88 Summer at the
Sorbonne 89 Bygone
geopolitical abbr. 93 Wears down 95 Meteorological
lines
97 Put on display,
with “out”
99 Go back
100 Dedicated verse 101 Engenders 102 Brutus Buckeye is its mascot: Abbr.
105 Intrinsically 107 Made an official
choice
108 IRS option 109 More amiable 110 Marquee names 111 Enjoy the kiddie
pool
112 Cupid analog 113 Sreenivasan of
PBS News 114 Oft-corked
container
115 Chicago pizzeria franchise, familiarly
116 Security source 117 Hotel bed
request
118 Valley with
vintners
119 Course goal for
many