Chattanooga Times Free Press

Sunday Puzzler

- By Jim Barrick

ACROSS 1 Barges 6 Wilde or de la Renta 11 Lucid 16 Elaborate meal 21 Heavenly body 22 Sloping trough 23 — makes waste 24 Spear 25 Bedouins 26 Was concerned 27 Praise 28 Arrange 29 “Go, team!” 30 Not very interestin­g 31 Uncooked 33 Drop a syllable 35 Naval rank (Abbr.) 36 Imperfecti­on 38 Pipe fitting 39 Upperclass­man (Abbr.) 40 Grassland 41 Witness 42 Heaviness 44 Fair treatment 48 Kind of circus 51 Convoy 54 Raised platform 55 Ridicule 57 Have an effect on 61 Stringed instrument 62 Boxing match 63 Tine

65 One cubic meter 66 Top-notch (Hyph.) 67 “The Importance of Being —”

70 Fold 72 Legal matter 73 Failure 74 Settled after flight 75 Light brown 77 Young bird 79 Choose 80 Sign over a door

82 Dry, said of wine 83 Bothersome 85 Mickey Mouse creator 87 Tropical creature 89 Enervate 90 Demure 91 Work by Michelange­lo 92 Evening party 94 Brand-new 96 Sell-out sign 97 Arizona town 100 The “I” 101 Very pale 104 Fastener 105 — Brummell 106 Make lace 107 Racket 108 — Haute 110 Another helping 112 Compton of “True Blood” 113 Steer clear of

116 Be a parasite 118 — Major 119 Official rulings

120 Sea nymph 122 Marsh bird 123 — -dieu 124 The Sunflower State 125 Stuff

127 Wall Street contracts

129 Monarch 130 Machine part 133 Get some shuteye 135 Turf 136 Orchestra’s place 137 Spoken 141 Time 142 Banded equine 144 Office machine, for short 145 Cummerbund 146 Big bird 147 Tiny fly 149 Paramour 151 Bone in the ear

153 Open cart 155 Howe the inventor 156 Call forth

157 Elk

158 “Hip” language 159 Slightest 160 Doctrine 161 Freshwater mammal 162 Offstage area

DOWN 1 Cold weather wear 2 Pinkish shade 3 Missouri River city 4 Delicate trap 5 Rds. 6 Hidden

7 “— We Dance?” 8 Ringlet 9 Had a meal 10 Set right 11 Masticate 12 Not very strict 13 Punta del — 14 Island 15 Kind of map 16 Floating ice mass

17 Pinna 18 South American range

19 Play part 20 Laconic 30 Adroit

32 Tiny colonist 34 Far-out painter 37 Complete 39 Set of rooms 43 Baseball stat. 44 Journey 45 Mischievou­s child 46 Business abbr. 47 Environmen­talist’s concern 49 Print measures 50 Fitting 51 Avoid 52 American Indian 53 Salon preparatio­n 54 Column order 56 Recognized 58 Science of flight 59 Parisian pancake 60 Irritable 62 Farm machine 64 Girl

67 Most facile 68 Increase (2 wds.) 69 Levy 71 Tiresome 76 — Creed 78 Gift for a dad 81 Seaman 83 — Nuys, California 84 Show of assent 86 Piggery

88 Toy gun projectile 89 Auto feature 91 Name in fashion

92 Car type 93 Pointed arch

95 Fam. member 96 Meaning 98 Mediterran­ean island 99 Reference book

102 — and haw 103 Love god 105 Godunov or Badenov 109 Beige 111 Remedied 112 Game-winner’s cry

114 Rule (Abbr.) 115 Sesame 117 Prop for a magician 119 Rather or Aykroyd 121 Sand hill

123 In the next month

124 — and kin 126 Pill 128 Neighbor of Can.

129 Mug 130 Saddle animal 131 Nimble

132 TV, radio, etc. 134 Demonstrat­e 136 Stop for a moment 138 Lear’s daughter 139 With

140 Body organs 142 Gusto

143 The Bard’s river 144 Fingerboar­d ridge

145 — and lot 148 Argon, e.g. 150 Supplement (with “out”) 152 — a chance! 153 Compass pt. 154 Ring champ

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