Chattanooga Times Free Press

Sunday Puzzler

- By Jim Barrick

ACROSS 1 Breakfast staple 6 Beat it! 11 Throaty sound 16 Alloy 21 Get away from 22 Tropical resin 23 A Marx brother 24 Last letter 25 Oscine bird 26 — Heights 27 Glowing coal 28 Earthling 29 Dir. letters 30 Promise to pay 31 Cicatrix 33 Plant bristle 35 Cap-a- — 36 Accounts book 39 Merited 43 “Exodus” hero 44 Print measures 45 Short sock 47 Aspects 49 Cousin to an assn. 51 Gloria, in “Madagascar” 54 Infer 57 Footman’s uniform 59 Meat for stew 63 Cuckoo 64 Pallid 66 Standard 68 Grow weary 69 Like a missing GI 70 Stripe 72 “— a boy!” 74 Smudge 76 Deprivatio­n 78 Carvey or Andrews 79 Command against 82 Greek letters 84 Dried out 86 Pester playfully 87 Escapade 89 Streetcar 91 Teachers’ org. 92 Look at 93 A letter 95 Tend 97 Mild oath 99 Zilch 101 Quid — quo 104 Allow 106 Landing place 108 Far East servant 110 Arete 114 Flavoring plant 117 Tense 119 Unnamed author 121 Sponsorshi­p 122 Regretted 124 One of the states (abbr.) 126 Common abbr. 127 Elevator name 128 Fat 129 Complain 131 Basic (abbr.) 133 Steal from 135 Dutch commune 136 Dried out 137 “— Under the Elms” 139 City in Egypt 141 Buenos — 143 Sell-out sign 145 Rends 147 Snake-haired monster 149 A pronoun 152 Strange 154 Of a succession of rulers 157 Pagoda 161 Smoked salmon 162 — de grâce 164 Arab ruler 165 Caviar 167 Negligent 168 Anchor position 170 Mole 173 Water lily 175 Hurt 177 Energy 178 Helmet decoration 179 Benefit 180 One of the Beatles 181 Lab compound 182 Swords 183 Fight (hyph.) 184 Concern of NSA

DOWN 1 Angled surface 2 Skirt shape (hyph.) 3 Remedied 4 Poem 5 Recent (prefix) 6 Kind of lily 7 Made obscure 8 Kinsman (abbr.) 9 Collect 10 Recipe direction 11 A flavoring plant 12 Butt 13 Sphere 14 Simians 15 “M.A.S.H.” setting 16 Wool variety 17 Ratite bird 18 Town in Arizona 19 Anew 20 Bowling alleys 30 Annoy 32 — poetica 34 Helen of — 37 Opening 38 Sufficient­ly, formerly 40 Vingt- — — 41 Redact 42 — -may-care 46 Edible seed 48 Asian goat antelope 50 Clearing 51 Custom 52 Pointless 53 Ship of 1492 55 Male swan 56 — Stanley Gardner 58 Varnish ingredient 60 Cognizant 61 Cash 62 Skate part 65 Help 67 Common dog 71 Escritoire 73 Con game 75 Hard to come by 77 British gun 80 Domain 81 Journey 83 Long tale 85 Hirsute 88 Grow together 90 Baby talk 94 Leap or fiscal 96 College official 98 Scandinavi­an 100 Car for VIPs 101 Urge 102 Scoundrel 103 Willow rod 105 Armistice 107 Ill-mannered 109 Souped-up car (2 wds.) 111 Overly fond one 112 Direct 113 Letters 115 — Park, Colorado 116 A leavening 118 Soft mineral 120 Sgt., for one 123 Wiped 125 New Zealand bird 130 Say grace 132 “La Bohème” role 134 Ignoble 137 Extinct creature 138 Borgnine and Hemingway 140 New enlistee 142 “—— a Camera” 144 Chair of a kind 146 Cooke or Snead 148 Amerindian 149 Helot 150 Desires 151 Put forth effort 153 Dummy 155 “— Marner” 156 Treasure — 158 Factory 159 Gigantic 160 Praise 163 Wrongdoer, for short 166 City in Norway 169 — Maria 171 Flight formation 172 Employ 174 Make lace 175 — Lanka 176 Time per.

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