Chicago Tribune (Sunday)

PUMP-KIN PATCH: As seen through the clues

- For interactiv­e puzzles and games go to chicagotri­bune.com/games By Greg Johnson | Edited by StanleyNew­man (stanxwords.com)

Across

1 Reach for, like apooch 6 Treat with cocoa 10 Scoring test for

hospital newborns 15 At __ time

(preschedul­ed) 19 It’s west of Daytona 20 “Standing room

only” situation 22 Big piece of marble 23 Ren Faire strings 24 Where to buy

PUMPS

25 Pooches

26 Hot saison

27 Most-used English

word

29 Dueler’s attendant 30 Roll a ball toward

the pins

31 Marine rank 34 Machines with

water PUMPS 38 First verb to be

telegraphe­d 39 Portugal’s second city 42 Question marks 43 Comics cry 44 Drawn-out attack 46 Had a date

47 Mall Santa

photograph­er 48 Request for

permission

49 Org. for the best

drivers

50 Try to hit 52 Greetings with

PUMPS

55 PC shortcut key 56 Fey once of SNL

57 Cockpit reading 59 __ in “extraordin­ary” 60 Sea urchin delicacy 61 Make a last

moment eBay bid 63 Fall behind 64 New England house

style

68 Undecided 70 Facilities with rows

of PUMPS 73 Vocalize

74 Helps out

76 Rested 77 Overintere­sted one 79 CivilWar insignia 80 One less than quad81 Fell off

83 Gull cousin 84 Starchy side dish 85 Salon supplies with

PUMPS

89 MLB division with

CA teams

91 Airport in northeast

OH

92 Coin of a gold-and

silver color

93 Please __ Here

(checkout sign) 94 Committee leader 95 Scrabble’s 100 97 Commotion

98 Fall parade

participan­t

99 Book after Job 101 Thrill ride shout 102 Cleansers inPUMPS 105 Midtown healthful

haven

109 Ahi, at a sushi bar 110 Berry Farm family 113 Negative connector 114 Harrison, in four films 115 Curve without a 47

Down

116 Machines with

centrifuga­l PUMPS 119 Not far from

121 Shallowest Great

Lake

122 Since January 1 123 Gatorade sister brand 124 Part ofNAACP: Abbr. 125 “Inmy humble

opinion …” 126 Prefix for while 127 Da and ja

Down

1 2 3

Global extremes Highly perceptive Appliances with PUMPS

4 Tavern’s “pale” pour 5 Market research tools 6 ClarkKent colleague 7 An old college cry 8 Greek god with wings 9 S-shaped molding 10 Behave badly, as a kid 11 “ASAP!” 12 Nickname of Mercury

astronautC­ooper 13 Cause to be captivated 14 Courses for drivers:

Abbr.

15 “Same here”

16 What might

precede a flat

17 2 Down vision 18 Basic cable

superstati­on

21 Steep slope

28 “I told you so!” 30 Air gun pellets 32 Hand-to-throat

signal in charades 33 Dancing shoe

attachment­s 35 Barbecue sauce

selection

36 Pro athletes’

downtime

37 Sports equipment

often waxed

40 Bake sale sponsor 41 Scoreboard posting 44 Athens’ long-ago foe 45 Traditiona­l Arctic

abodes 46 Short-lived crazes

47 Terminus

48 Sail supports 51 Shaped like some

mens’ shoes 52 Steam product 53 Auspices

54 Royal pal of Falstaff 58 Diner serving 62 Think piece 64 Noisy napper 65 Places that sell

PUMPS 66 Temporaril­y

discounted

67 Events with snowboardi­ng and skateboard­ing 69 Part of TNT 71 Brown shades 72 Tobecomea prince,

for Aladdin inAladdin 75 Yearbook editors,

usually: Abbr. 78 Hospital’ s animal

interactio­n offering 81 Extremely, so to speak 82 Wonka creator 85 Become well again

86 Checkers of books 87 GroupwithM­ohawks

andSenecas

88 “That didn’t work!” 90 __ it (leave in a hurry) 94 ’ 50s revolution­ary 96 Biblical name ending 98 Traveling through 99 Bakery-cafe chain 100Erratic

101 Intl. commerce

agency

103 Set free, in a way 104 Cajun staples 106 Ready for a take 107 Short delay

108 Contingent of

naysayers

111 Impertinen­ce,

informally

112 The LionKing villain 115 Where a herdgrazes 116 Memo opener 117 War zone danger,

for short

118 Gold nos.

120 Pollinatio­n

participan­t

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© 2020 Creators Syndicate. All rights reserved. Last week’s answers can be found in today’s “Puzzle Island Solutions.”
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