Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
OBSERVER CROSSWORD For the think machine
ACROSS
1 Cut-and-___
6 Cicatrix
10 Nimbus
14 Plant of mint family 19 Utopian
20 Sharpen
21 On the apex
22 Expunge
23 Traduce
25 Hateful
27 Garb of a Scotch Highlander 28 “The ___”: 2011 Oscar 30 Chapter of the Koran 31 Winter vehicle
32 Jrs.’ dads
33 Sacred vessels
34 Poetic contraction 36 Auction
38 S-shaped curve
39 March date
40 ___IX
42 Weights of India
44 One of the Three Musketeers 47 Laments
49 Arranged beforehand 53 French revolutionist
54 Frog genus
55 Marbles
57 To frighten
58 Ancient country
59 Venetian navigator 60 Babylonian hero
62 One of the Bears
63 Salt
64 Venerate
65 Theological schools 67 Mohammedan magistrate 68 A rodent
69 Newt
75 To withdraw
78 Place to rest
81 English school
82 Female ruff
83 Gruel of maize meal 84 Spanish measure of length 85 Flower part
87 Ooze
88 Presses for payment
89 Gods of Teutonic pantheon 90 Three-legged stand
92 Act as chairman
94 Purpose
95 Always
97 Lake bordering California 98 Without: comb. form 99 Chum
102 Cry of Bacchanals
104 Harbor boat
105 Chopping tools
106 Elvis Costello tune
109 Medicinal plant
111 Taylor Swift tune
113 Surgical saw
115 Portico
116 Dissension
119 Loudspeakers
121 Concerning 122 ___ homo
123 Tuna-type sandwich 124 Goddess of peace 125 Pinnacle of glacier ice 126 Japanese beer 127 Grafton and Miller 128 Hereditary factors
DOWN
1 Chooses
2 Robin ___
3 Vends
4 Tense
5 Shade tree
6 Evades
7 Winter wears
8 Against
9 Appraise again 10 Possessed
11 Western’s actor Roscoe 12 Yoga position 13 Musical dramas 14 Wager
15 Macaws
16 Valuable fur
17 Aits
18 English cathedral city 24 Nostrils
26 Dried orchid tubers 29 Puente or Jackson 33 Mine entrance 35 Writing tablets 37 Blunders 39 Mohammedan priest 40 General trend 41 Growing out
43 Safe
44 Wine vessels
45 ___ avis
46 Russian inland sea 47 Infant
48 Floated
50 Hindu garment 51 Scottish-Gaelic 52 Afternoon parties 54 Waterworm gullies 56 Snuffles
59 Fragrant wood 61 Positive pole
64 Male sheep 66 Beverage
67 Party tidbit
69 Irish clan
70 Biblical name 71 French author Pierre 72 Profound
73 Turn inside out 74 Iterate 75 Certain messages 76 Musical study 77 Geometric solid 78 Foundation
79 Ireland
80 Flit
84 Interdiction
86 Deep affection 89 Pismires
91 River in Scotland 93 Close
94 Ancient tribe of Britons 96 Paths
98 Elevates in rank 99 Rodents
100 Unaccompanied 101 Antisocial person 103 Common heath 105 Pome fruit
106 Dutch painter
107 Lena ___
108 Comforts
110 Sicilian volcano 112 Short-legged stocking 114 Australian bird
115 Father
117 And so forth: abbr. 118 Born
120 Pear-shaped fruit