Scrapper’s Delight
Across
1. Check alternative
7. Sacred beetle
13. Tijuana pair
16. It can be natural
19. Creed in Rocky films
20. Winter melon
21. MPG-testing org.
22. Wordsworth work
23. Attorneys’ firm offering 25.“Day __”: 1965 hit
27. Way out
28. Put on a pedestal
29. With no one behind you 30. Capital NW of Boston
33. Secure at the pier
34. Pooch in pictures
35. Backtalk
38. Potential soldier
42. Storage unit
43. In hot water
45. Prefix with gender
46. Sorento or Soul
47. Cocktail party snacks
48. Tommy who teamed with Cheech
49. Queen’s “__ One Bites the Dust”
53. “Cool, dude!”
54. Drumstick
56. Buckeyes of the Big Ten
57. Handy sack
58. Sham sawbones
59. Lubricate
60. Church recess
61. Bird voiced by Rowan Atkinson in “The Lion King” 63. Road annoyances
64. Complete
66. Navy NCOs
67. Oodles
68. Thor Heyerdahl craft
69. Auspices
70. Pool tool
71. “Little Birds” author Anaïs 72. Provider of much change 75. Cracker-__: homespun
78. Everlasting
80. Deliver a stem-winder, say 81. Snake oil, allegedly
82. Multivolume set in the reference sect.
83. African capital
84. Veteran on the briny
85. Green Bay Packers coach LaFleur 87. Chatty Cathy is one
90. Deli choice
91. Many opera highlights
92. “National Velvet” author Bagnold
93. Site of a major part of the Bible?
95. Mid-20th-century First and Second Lady
97. Shoulder wrap
99. Snippet of dialogue
103. Hold back
104. Scrapyard commodity ... and what’s hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers 108. Charge
109. Infant suffix
110. Alphabetically first U.S. national park
111. Catholic devotion
112. OTC drug agency
113. __ Plaines: Chicago suburb 114. Homer, in baseball lingo 115. Tarzan, e.g.
Down
1. Ashen
2. High point
3.“Smarter than the average bear” bear
4. “Republic” philosopher 5. Word with caps or clear 6. Spanish article 7. Off-the-wall
8. Pricey delicacy
9. “Keep dreaming”
10. Risqué
11. Former Japanese prime minister
12. __-relief
13. Abhor
14. Part of OWN
15. Common word in a novel’s dialogue
16. Overtake
17. “__ Fideles”
18. Maker of iComfort mattresses
24. Mingo portrayer on “Daniel Boone”
26. Dabble in 29. Where many speeches come from
31. La Brea attraction
32. Brand similar to Spam
33. Fencing maneuver
35. ’60s White House daughter 36. Apple offering
37. N.W.A’s debut single
39. Focus of some committees 40. Bit of stoneware
41. Arrange in sequence
42. Library sect.
44. Retire at home, say?
46. Solemn sound
48. Lad
49. Bit of checkpoint deception 50. Coal train component
51. Exxon, once
52. Feels bad about
54. Seasoning in Indian cuisine 55. At lunch, say
58. California state bird
60. TLX autos
61. Western writer Grey
62. Came down
63. In __ daylight
64. Ancient German
65. Storybook fiend
69. Vintage video game name 70. Symbol of a year, perhaps 72. Tech news site
73. Explorer Amundsen
74. Estrada of“CHiPs”
75. Calls at home
76. Hard to grasp
77. Running behind
79. Helix-shaped pasta
81. Curly-haired pet
83. Genesis brother
85. Sounded like the wind
86. Tennis great Gibson
87. Govt. securities
88. __ Mansion, NYC mayor’s residence
89. Lizard feature
91. Calvin’s spaceman alter ego, in comics
92. Force to leave
94. Motrin alternative
96. Footnote abbr.
97. Whole bunch
98. “Nothing lived in him but fear and hatred”
100. List member
101. Family nickname
102. Flair
104. Common cleaning supply 105. Tourism opening
106. Target of a cheek swab
107. Common cleaning supply