Today’s Crossword
ACROSS 1 Chirp 6 Discard 11 NBA team 16 What’s popular now 21 Insect stage 22 Nonsense 23 Type of pear 24 Squad car device 25 Outrage
26 Pit viper variety 28 Broadway backer 29 Low 30 Airborne speck 31 Annoy 32 Substantial 34 “— Ventura: Pet Detective” 35 Pocket bread
37 “— had it!” 38 Great expanse
40 Hit the slopes 41 Spectrum color 42 Climbing plant 44 Extreme 46 Abominable Snowman 49 Sense of taste
52 “— there, done that” 53 Wynken, Blynken and — 55 Riffraff
59 Not quite right 60 Light meals 61 Compositions for piano 64 Sent a telegram
65 Easygoing 66 — and void 67 Platform in a hall
68 — -tac-toe 70 Red and Yellow 71 Foot part 72 Slangy negative 73 Building on campus 74 Faux chocolate 76 — Maria 77 Increase 79 Take hold of 80 Small case 82 Metallic element
84 — — uncertain terms 85 Party 86 Hang loosely 87 Musical symbol 88 Flower part 90 King in a play 91 Sick 92 Beauty contest 95 Ottawa’s prov. 96 Mitigated 98 — over matter 100 Find new digs 101 Utter 102 Some August babies
104 Lisa Simpson’s instrument 105 Church area 106 Departed 107 Discontinue 108 Actor — Flynn 110 Settlement 112 City district 113 Composition 114 Fashions 116 Zodiac animal 117 Brume 118 Sleazy
119 Of the ear
121 Leafy vegetable 124 Lion’s hair 125 Bank staple 128 Destiny 130 Fruit with a stone
131 Milk container 132 Impulse 136 “Cry — — River” 137 Azure flower 139 Sound system component 140 Ascended 141 Poetic work 142 Make ingress 144 High and steep 147 Frugal fellow 149 — Dame 150 Actor — Welles 151 Charter 152 Javelin 153 Great fear 154 Well-groomed 155 Streisand film 156 BBC receiver
DOWN 1 Vise 2 Capital of Vietnam 3 Plant fungus 4 “All About —” 5 Golf standard 6 Endeavored 7 Shipping container
8 — of passage 9 Likely 10 Fish-eating bird 11 Picnic item 12 Serv. branch 13 Actor — Neeson 14 Erie and Superior 15 Underhanded 16 Cafeteria item
17 Tried for office 18 — Rice Burroughs
19 Family member 20 Distributed (with “out”) 27 Blunders 30 “Your guess is as good as —” 33 Rank 36 Nautical command 38 Greek god 39 Skull cavity 43 “— a small world” 44 Bargain 45 Food fish 47 Playing marble 48 Leggy bird 49 Fake diamonds 50 “— — for the Misbegotten” 51 Biography (2 wds.) 52 Zone 54 Particular 56 Had an early meal 57 Permission 58 Ford that flopped 60 Melody 61 Attention 62 Monthly project plan 63 Knight’s title 66 Actor — Cage 67 Dog breed 69 Lens shape 72 Comics orphan 73 Kind of processing 74 Choose 75 Sheer nonsense 78 Tiny creature 79 Require
81 “I — you so!” 83 So-so grade 85 Skeletal muscle 88 Warsaw natives
89 Unmoving 92 Small lake 93 Singer — Judd 94 Used a keyboard 97 Plant pouch 99 — League 100 Additional 103 Fly alone 105 Unsettled one
106 Look
107 “The Taming of the —” 109 Tennis term 111 Insect secretion 112 Conduct 113 Weight unit
115 Place for a window box
117 With joy 118 Flavoring plant 120 Discount voucher 122 Smart 123 Knock against 124 Seafood item 125 Change to improve 126 Male singer 127 Dull surface 129 — cotta 131 Knights’ contest 133 Crude house 134 Standard of perfection 135 Joyous 137 Born and — 138 Try
140 Horse of a certain color 143 Baseball stat. 145 Bed
146 Links peg 147 Defunct jetliner 148 Simian