Boston Herald

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- “FIRST THINGS FIRST” By DON GAGLIARDO and C.C. BURNIKEL / Edited by 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

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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 All-Decade 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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