Sunday Puzzler

ACROSS

1 Figure on a card 6 Actors’ place 11 — plexus 16 Showed 21 Muscular guy (Hyph.) 22 Flower part 23 Spiny tree 24 Landmark in Texas

25 — — -vie 26 Bouquet 27 Dress in finery 28 Conestoga 29 Overhead railways 30 Purple fruit 31 Bath or welcome 33 To any extent (2 wds.) 35 WWII abbr. 36 Chirp 38 Teacher’s favorite

39 Bit to drink 40 Whitney or Wallach 41 Sun. talk 42 God of love 44 Satisfied 48 Goad 51 Potato skin 54 Soft, wet ground 55 Reduce 57 Announces 61 Standing apart 62 Campus building, for short 63 Quartz variety 65 Long-legged bird 66 Conflagration 67 Internet show 70 Catches 72 Time 73 — and wide 74 Genus of olives 75 Kind of poodle 77 Slow-moving creature 79 Do wrong 80 Seemingly (2 wds.) 82 Text msg. giggle 83 Japanese mat 85 Corroded 87 Dead duck 89 Amphora 90 Set of parts 91 Tower of — 92 Churchman 94 Frozen region 96 Rather of TV 97 Traveled 100 Tried for office 101 Ancient language 104 That man 105 Chinese gang 106 “The — of the Worlds” 107 Tip 108 Implied but unsaid 110 Pepper type 112 Star that flares 113 Sharp 116 Theme 118 Musical work 119 Sent a telegram 120 Flashback 122 Alaska town 123 Throw in the towel 124 Shout down 125 Ring 127 Spring back 129 Tub washing 130 Vigor 133 Bird of legend 135 Excavation 136 Hotshot 137 Breakfast fare 141 United

142 Pry 144 Exasperate 145 — d’Azur 146 Fish eggs 147 Military trainee 149 Room 151 ’60s graphics style (2 wds.) 153 Knowing 155 Cordial flavoring 156 Blunder 157 Not wordy 158 Moderated (with “down”) 159 Jumped 160 Spruce 161 Stage direction 162 Pres. Roosevelt

DOWN

1 Grazing animals 2 Norman Vincent — 3 Entertain 4 Pop

5 Dir. letters 6 Prepares fish 7 Kind of mystical card 8 — vera 9 Fitness venue 10 Study

11 Get out! 12 Poetic preposition 13 Old Italian money

14 Die down 15 Aristocrats 16 Cry loudly 17 Winglike part 18 Storms 19 Act, badly 20 Generous one 30 Blemish 32 Likely

34 “— that touch liquor ...”

37 Tea variety 39 Bellini opera 43 Ump relative 44 Around 45 Clean-air gp. 46 Old horses 47 Pass across 49 Amerindian 50 Dustcloth 51 Port in Israel 52 Assumed name 53 Printer’s error 54 Cover girl 56 Abbr. in a footnote 58 System of bridge supports 59 Uncanny 60 Tolerate 62 Sadness 64 The “I” 67 Skunk 68 Stiffen, as a collar 69 Child

71 Not familiar 76 Town in Washington 78 Central airport

81 Pro 83 Seaman 84 Soundstage item, for short 86 Baste

88 Zero 89 Building caretaker 91 Wedding announcement 92 The elite 93 Knight’s tool

95 — -tac-toe 96 Fried cake 98 Kind of orange 99 Exchange 102 Scottish cap 103 Desktop picture 105 Lukewarm 109 Use a stopwatch 111 Offspring 112 Small space 114 Spinning toy 115 Before 117 Calendar abbr. 119 Rainy

121 Tale 123 Cervantes’ Don —

124 Mist

126 Make less strict 128 Work in verse 129 Acrid 130 Outspoken 131 Lacking sense 132 Means of communication 134 Coconut meat 136 Sicker 138 — Canyon 139 Injured with horns 140 Squalid

142 Let it stand! 143 Section 144 Mere 145 Trolley 148 Clairvoyance 150 Sick room item 152 Animal enclosure 153 ABA mem. 154 Grief