Chattanooga Times Free Press

Sunday Puzzler

- Answers on page F3 By Jim Barrick

ACROSS

1 Stage play 6 “Oliver —” 11 Gulf

16 Not at all wordy 21 Helicopter assembly 22 From now 23 A Marx brother 24 Hunter constellat­ion 25 Overact 26 Magical spell 28 Allow 29 Mousse cousin 30 Calendar abbr. 32 Dressing or drawing 33 Numbers game 35 Seaman 36 Food fish 38 On the summit of 41 Uncultured one 43 Parrot of New Zealand 44 Fluctuate 45 Grasshoppe­r 48 Kind of race 50 Hairy insect 52 A going up 55 First (abbr.) 57 Scarlet 58 Pinch together 62 Greek letter 63 Marine bird 65 Moray 67 Apple computer, for short 69 Long carpet 70 Farm animal 71 Wrath

72 In medias — 74 A spice 76 Color of unbleached linen 77 European range 79 Court divider 81 Penned

83 Ali — 85 Disencumbe­r 86 Goes after 88 Not quite right 90 Grad-to-be (abbr.) 92 Filled 94 Rank 96 Stage signal 97 There’s the —! 99 First place 100 Varmint 103 Folklore creature 105 Tendon 107 Variety of things

110 Big success 111 Remotely 113 Flat surface 115 Fond du — 117 “— Enchanted” 118 Malevolent 120 Long story 122 Mil. address part 123 Venus or Mars 125 Cereal grain 126 Rescuer 128 Wet spongy ground 130 Also

132 Nota — 133 Guitar cousin, for short 134 Snooze 135 Actress — Tyler 137 — Alto 139 Became aware of 141 Precious stone

143 Is idle

145 Flop 147 Rounded roof 150 Letter after zeta

152 Fine and liberal 154 Close with force 155 Water barriers 159 Actress — Gardner 160 Camel relative 162 Lump 164 Delicate trap 166 Gangster’s gun 167 Nervous 169 Shared feature 173 Rub out 175 Tennessee — Ford 176 Notions 177 Reception 178 Let slip 179 Severely simple

180 — Haute 181 Stratum 182 Rough fabric

DOWN

1 Sediment 2 Lover boy 3 Ring-shaped island

4 Bon — (witticism) 5 Length times width

6 “— days hath September ...” 7 Cyst 8 Abbr. in business 9 Mark from an injury 10 Singing voice 11 Room 12 Chapeau 13 Seed appendage 14 Spine-chilling 15 — Carlo 16 Fast food order option (2 wds.) 17 Goof 18 Lariat

19 Sub sensor 20 Item in a record

27 — de force 31 Design

34 Bar bill

37 Get with trouble (with “out”) 39 Norse god 40 Brooch 42 School type (abbr.) 44 “20,000 Leagues” writer 46 Opposing one 47 Expire 49 Genesis name 51 Old French coin

52 Wall hanging 53 Layered rock 54 Dog-eat-dog 56 Cotton cloth 59 Unbelievin­g 60 Earn 61 Puritan 64 Hazard to ships 66 Zodiac sign 68 Vehicle for hire 69 Mutineer 73 Paved ways (abbr.) 75 Jalopy 78 Short stage play 80 A twitching 81 Young canine 82 Otherworld­ly 84 Simians 87 Plant bristle 89 Take legal action 91 Habit wearer 93 Not punctual 95 Allude

98 — canto 100 Board game 101 Challenger 102 Knock

104 One of the states (abbr.) 105 Eavesdrop 106 Conduct 108 Thin piece 109 Destined 112 Skeletal part 114 Fitting

116 Use up 119 Medieval lord 121 Beverage in cans

124 Stag 127 Unclose, poetically 129 Great Pyramids site 131 Lummox 132 Recipe direction 136 Long-winded 138 — Vegas 140 Beatty or Rorem 142 Brooks or Gibson

143 Pie à— — 144 Astonish 146 ABA member 147 Appointmen­ts 148 Not hidden 149 Food from heaven 151 Implied, not stated 153 Wee 156 Standing wide open

157 En —

(all together) 158 Horse

160 A veggie

161 Of the U.S. 163 Entreaty

165 Hit hard 168 — Galahad 170 Impair 171 Climbing plant

172 Links item 174 Uncooked

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