CROSSWORD PUZZLE/Edited by Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS
1 Crunch beneficiaries 4 Agnus __
7 Rustic dwelling
13 Using a passport, say 19 Newman song that
mentions Santa Ana winds 21 Decisive point 22 Persuasive sort
23 Polite but unyielding
statement?
25 Stimulate
26 Petroleum source 27 Legendary rock guitarist 28 2018 Pyeongchang org. 30 Author Ferber
31 Bolt of lightning? 33 Caulking crew?
37 Building where things are taken back?
42 Within reach
43 How some dares are made 44 Major arteries 46 Impressive groupings 49 Seed cover
50 Flier’s choice
52 Sign on an available boutique?
55 Braun competitor 57 Director DuVernay 59 Comply
60 Joint for jumping 61 __-Cat
62 “Yikes!” 64 Empathetic comment 66 More than wondered 67 Serf surrounded by whales?
71 Leaves painfully 75 Wonder’s “My Cherie __” 76 __ game
77 Chemicals giant
80 Colorful fish
81 Levee
83 Org. that often strikes 85 Holiday candle holder 87 Fort Bragg lodger? 90 Crèche figure 92 Swelter
93 Bit of information 94 Avis rival 96 Former Disney CEO 98 One of a cube’s 12 99 Director Oliver to the rescue?
101 Never-used part of the
house?
106 It’s stunning
107 Denny’s competitor 108 “__ who?”
109 Bowls over
111 Capital of France 115 Recovered from a
knockout
118 Godzilla and friends
solemnly recite? 122 Did away with
123 Taft-Hartley Act subject 124 Prurient material 125 Dinged
126 One who’s really hot 127 Inexperienced
128 Iditarod segment
DOWN
1 Zeroes in 2 Uninspired 3 Common mixer
4 Land adjoining a manor house
5 Wearer of a “Y” sweatshirt 6 Like most sonnets 7 “High Voltage” band 8 Criticism
9 Canyon part
10 Doc bloc
11 Wrestle suffix
12 Laud
13 Untouched serve
14 A penalty may be served in one
15 Triple Crown venues 16 Rust, for example 17 Insurance giant 18 Fantasy
20 Highly prized 24 Defender of Troy 29 Cocktail hour nibble 32 Embassy employee 33 Arrange dinnerware on 34 Time spans
35 Brazen
36 Fictional Civil War novel setting
37 Colorful horses 38 Ill-fated Houston company 39 Capital on the Nile 40 Mardi Gras acronym 41 Two-time British Open champ
45 Fleeced
47 Civil War soldier 48 Dagger of yore
51 New Rochelle campus 53 Caribbean sorcery 54 Fictional newsman Baxter 56 Cuts short
58 Cause trouble 63 Japanese seaport
65 Shot that misses everything
66 Gulf between Yemen and Somalia
68 Tweak, perhaps 69 Apple or pear
70 Dishes from a “station” 71 Assignment
72 Tech debut of 2010 73 Operate using a beam 74 Shakespeare play featuring Ariel
77 Clog clearer
78 Like some buckets
79 “__ Everybody Knows Your Name”: “Cheers” theme song
81 Stoop
82 Bays, e.g.
84 Compulsively neat, say 86 Hamper
88 Cry with a flourish 89 Neighbor of Ghana 91 Kitchen gadget
95 Fast flight
97 Understanding words 100 Egypt’s second president 101 Cut into cubes 102 Chicago hub 103 Type of numeral 104 Victim of Romulus 105 Atmospheric layer 109 5 for B or 6 for C 110 Jerry in the NBA logo 112 Complain
113 Previously
114 Unaccompanied 116 Kickoff aid
117 Abnormal 119 Squelch 120 Sponge (up) 121 Novelist Levin