Hartford Courant (Sunday)

Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- “ABRACADABR­A!” By KEVIN SALAT

ACROSS

1 Mosque leader 5 Language from which “cummerbund” is derived

9 Banjo sound

14 Social division 19 Nixed, at NASA 20 Sisters

21 Oklahoma Air Force

base

22 Lift up 23 For-display-only Greek

deli items?

25 Twenty minutes of juggling and acrobatics?

27 Live

28 Stumble over 30 Capital south of

Oklahoma City

31 Like things that go

bump in the night 34 Pasture sound 35 Cubs’ org.

36 Actor Alda who wrote the best-seller “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?” 38 Game winner 41 Dietary claim

43 Salsa singer Cruz

45 “If u ask me ... ” 46 Alien with high heat

tolerance?

48 Einstein’s asset? 50 Backup group

51 Starts after a crash 53 Get a feeling 54 Racetrack ratios 55 “SpongeBob

SquarePant­s” setting 58 Maryland coll. team 59 Season trio: Abbr. 60 Milne hopper 61 Herculean acts

63 It may be matched 64 Hogwarts’ first High

Inquisitor __ Umbridge 68 Magic words ... and a hint to four side-byside pairs of puzzle answers

72 Hosp. triage expert 73 Ear piece?

74 Rush’s Neil known for his 360-degree drum set 75 Foxlike 26 Ark unit

76 Shares an email with 29 Turkish hospice

77 It’s fed on streets 32 High-__ monitor 79 Driller’s deg. 33 Grammar best-seller 80 Recover “Woe __”

81 Old calculator­s 35 Crosses paths 84 Tranquiliz­ed 37 Zilch

86 New Zealand native 38 “One of Us” singer 87 Play part for a giant Joan

god? 39 Like some pet cats 89 Bachelor pad? 40 Info in this puzzle? 93 NBA’s Magic 42 Backing

94 Cats in Cádiz 43 Midriff-exposing shirt 95 Simon & Garfunkel 44 Ruby Red vodka brand genre

47 Biological duct

96 Rent

48 Eames’ “Law & Order: 97 Palindromi­c bread

CI” partner Bobby 99 “Anthony Bourdain:

Parts Unknown” channel

100 Toon collectibl­e

101 Après-ski drink

103 Bills featuring Ben

105 Five o’clock

phenomenon?

107 Microwaved

111 Musician evoking

compassion?

113 Resist extra calories at

Thanksgivi­ng?

116 Poker strategy

117 Ten out of ten

118 Standard Oil brand

119 On the calm side

120 Daily Planet name

121 Pond critters

122 Flabbergas­t

123 Camera component

DOWN

1 Facts and figures 2 Lamentatio­n

3 Lo que un desierto no

tiene

4 Spunk

5 Aussie college

6 Boring routine 7 MyHeritage service 8 KGB country 9 Expensive Super Bowl

purchase

10 “Yippee!”

11 Auth. unknown

12 ATM maker

13 Earn a perfect report

card

14 Phi followers 15 Ventricula­r outlet 16 Archimedes, by birth 17 Dangerous waves 18 Sci-fi staples 24 Qualifying match, briefly 49 Fix a lawn

52 Wisest choice 55 Gertrude McFuzz

creator 56 Effortless­ness

57 “No thanks, I already

__”

59 Keeps from drifting 61 Compelling 62 Formally withdraws 64 Group of two 65 Perfume ingredient 66 Make bigger

67 Job that requires

cutting class? 69 Joshua tree genus 70 Minuscule bits 71 Marry

77 Runners occupying

bases

78 Like many used cars 80 “You __ to be there” 81 Heaps

82 Like some children of

mixed marriages 83 Athens attacker, in

Plato

84 Dizzying Playskool toy,

at times

85 Word with party or

skinny

86 Vietnam’s __ Delta 88 Tied, as skates 90 Rams’ football gp. 91 Sticky stuff

92 Partners’ abbr. 95 Diver’s quest

98 Racket

100 Copier, maybe

102 Hearing-related

104 Many a gamer

105 Eject

106 Poems of praise

108 Healthy salad green 109 “Why __ bother?”

110 Indigo and henna

111 Backing

112 Suffix with chlor114 Seminoles’ sch.

115 “... the dew of __ high

eastward hill”: “Hamlet”

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