Sunday Puzzler

ACROSS

1 Amulet 6 Track 10 Brilliant display 15 Baseball stat.

18 “— and Juliet” 19 Spoke angrily 21 Water-filled chute 22 Venetian magistrate 24 A Muse 25 Hire 26 Last 27 Abbr. in footnotes 28 Curvy letter 29 Metallic element 31 Hot dog 33 “What’s — Gilbert Grape?” 35 Nuisance 37 Processing plant 38 Farmyard sound 39 Elastic 40 Standing wide open 42 Color variety 43 Pic 44 Creamy soup 46 Kind of glass 47 Costly 48 — and void 52 Cruse 53 Fiery signal 54 Cunning 56 By way of 57 Mertz or Merman 58 Noggin

59 Candy-box shape 60 Make better 62 Mimic 63 Column base 65 Assoc. 66 Compact 67 Title for a knight 68 Move carefully 69 “God’s Little —” 71 Do a teacher’s job

73 Try 75 Insect 76 Blueprints 77 Take from illegally 78 Watch over 82 Cockamamie 84 Hoarfrost 85 Very bad 86 Witness 87 Vehicle on runners 90 Perched 91 Water down

93 For men only 94 Direction in music 95 Proposed price

97 Jar

98 Bow or Barton 99 Black cuckoo 100 Lacking in social graces 102 Throttle 104 Blackboards 105 Cry

107 Venus de —

108 Fierce look

109 Made music 110 “Carmen” is one 112 Showing displeasure 113 Complaint 114 Temporary cessation 117 Cake 118 Gloomy 119 Earnhardt or Carnegie 123 Sufficient 124 Insert indicator 125 Became bubbly 127 — arabic 128 Cotton seed capsule 129 Leavening agent 131 Transform 133 Chicago airport 135 Thomas — Edison 136 Strike 137 Plunderer 138 External 139 Gas (Prefix) 140 Piano expert 141 Tilt

142 Tall and slender

DOWN

1 Go furtively 2 Thoroughbred 3 Collect

4 On a pension (Abbr.) 5 Earth’s satellite 6 Make resentful 7 Seraph 8 A romance lang. 9 Chair part 10 Erase

11 Jailhouse 12 Awkward fellow 13 Rx writers’ org. 14 Send by “beaming up” 15 Book version 16 A songbird 17 Getting older 19 Formula 20 Make empty of air 23 Nervous 30 Picture 32 Ill-mannered 34 Skill 36 Ragged piece 38 Burn 39 Underground passage 41 Effrontery 42 Bias

43 A pome fruit 44 Stew in a flaky shell (2 wds.) 45 Different folks

46 Jet

47 Pull

49 Eye part 50 Yarn fuzz 51 “— and the Tramp” 52 Brute 53 Spirited 54 Largest asteroid 55 Length measure 58 Unfilled 59 Like a rhino 61 Encounter 63 Fruit for preserves 64 Rock salt 66 Postpone 70 Rotating disk 71 Game bird

72 Travel plan 74 Branchlet 76 Gab 79 Manor

80 Got close to 81 French painter 83 Very excited 85 Thin piece 87 Cabbage salad 88 Country way 89 Ohio’s lake 90 London district 92 — tower 93 Killed with laughter 95 Quantity of paper

96 Sch. out west 98 Applaud

101 Purple gem 102 Stuff in a jumble

103 Loathe

104 Goo

106 Well-liked 108 Pierce with horns

109 School book 111 Sow

112 Ale

113 Carved

114 Singer — McEntire

115 — Gay 116 Unriddle 117 Eat a little of 118 Israel’s — Meir

120 Type size 121 Enticed 122 Abrasive mineral 124 Genesis name 125 Pâté de — gras 126 Hatch

130 Big bird 132 Kilmer the actor 134 Color