Chicago Sun-Times (Sunday)

PREMIER CROSSWORD

EXPANSION TEAM

- By Frank A. Longo

ACROSS

1 Horse house

7 Talked about

16 iPhone buys

20 Medieval weapon

21 Stimulus

22 Garbanzo, for one

23 Kids’ writer who was a frequent flier?

26 North Carolina university

27 Ca++ or Cl28 Make up (for)

29 Architect who loved internet chatting?

38 “Oh yeah? —

who?!”

39 That man

40 In a chair

41 Rural tract

42 Helper

43 Not round-trip

47 Three, in Italy 48 1999-2004

Oldsmobile­s

50 Mystery writer who was a constable?

57 Give the right 58 Actor Arnaz

59 Old Japanese

governors

60 Classic toothpaste brand

63 Org. supporting sober motorists

65 Env. alerter

66 Novelist who had a law degree?

73 Pear center

74 Litigant

75 Extensive, informally

76 Vehicle often traded in

80 Actress Rae

82 Chess ploys

87 Showman who rehabilita­ted injured people?

91 Song that Kim sings to Hugo in “Bye Bye Birdie”

92 Long span

93 Third-century pope

94 Alpine goat

97 Test facility

98 Grinding tool

101 “— ’er rip!”

102 Anonymous guy

103 Comedian who did plumbing work?

108 Soda giant

110 Obama health

law, for short

111 Camp shelter

112 Actor who was always providing precedents?

122 Casino cubes

123 Has as a goal

124 Really must

125 Suffix with novel

126 Sticks firmly to

a decision 127 Prized violins, for short

DOWN

1 Health club

2 Actor Cruise

3 Part of IPA

4 Visorless cap

5 Boxer Ali

6 Former inmate

7 Awful racket

8 — jiffy (PDQ) 9 —-fi

10 Bright red

11 Remove the

cargo from

12 Bee attack

13 Moral lapse

14 Actress Best

15 French article

16 Slightly

17 Nancy in the House

18 Gave a lousy review of

19 “Gesundheit” elicitor

24 Kitchen pests

25 — tai

29 “God willing!”

30 Curtain fabric

31 Fuse, as ore

32 Dole (out)

33 Sheriff Wyatt

34 Ending for bed or home

35 Vogue rival

36 Hammerhead ends

37 Sun orbiter

42 Jokingly

44 Nintendo game system

45 Second part of a play

46 Barks of pain

48 In the thick of

49 Eye, in Spain

51 Extinct

52 Deep regret

53 Old autocrat

54 Tone down

55 —’acte

56 ID for the IRS

61 Rejections

62 Keenness

64 “Lah-di- —!”

66 Joke around

67 Harold of the Manhattan Project

68 Boston team

69 Keyboardis­t John

70 Dull and heavy

71 Ex-Yankee

Hideki —

72 Shortstop Garciaparr­a

73 Half-pint

77 The Bengals, on scoreboard­s

78 Fast Amtrak train

79 Morocco’s capital

81 “Am not!” rejoinder

83 “I’ll return very shortly,” in texts

84 As a whole

85 Fixed the pitch of

86 Actor Jimmy 88 Brain section

89 — and crafts

90 Part of IPA

94 Hamper

95 Withdrawal of the U.K. from the E.U.

96 Await

98 Printed circuit board, as for a laptop

99 Brings joy to

100 Comics’ Kett

103 Reddi- — (dessert topping brand)

104 — to go (fired up)

105 Plants with fronds

106 Map extra

107 Old-time anesthetic

109 Captain Hook henchman

113 “Deck the Halls” syllables

114 Suffix with novel

115 Transcript fig.

116 AOL or MSN

117 — low ebb

118 Pithy remark

119 Toothpaste box

inits.

120 “Inc.” relative

121 — Alamos

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