“Coming To Terms”
By David Alfred Bywaters
ACROSS
1 Well-trodden ways
6 Fountain favorite
12 Encountered
15 Darns, say
19 In the area of
20 Go too far
21 The Pac-12’s Sun Devils: Abbr.
22 Fall lead-in?
23 Grill a bit too long?
26 19-Across, on a memo
27 Title TV role for Sandra Oh
28 Comme une jeune fille
29 Sound from a snorter
30 Stairway alternative
31 Oppressive ruler
33 Won’t let go
36 — bean
37 Estimate words
39 “No Time for Sergeants,” e.g.?
42 Venomous slitherers
45 Text letters often in blue
47 Way more than drizzle
48 Qtys.
49 One may be saved or taken
50 Stew veggies
52 Fishing nets
54 Tough H.S. tests
57 Palatial mansion navigation need?
61 Old Norse poetic work
62 Wild way to run
63 Dismiss contemptuously
64 Novel features 66 Na+ or Cl
67 “The Munsters” matriarch
68 Sheltered from the sun
69 TV series with funny animals?
71 Host
72 Make special mention of
73 Beer nickname
74 Joan —
75 Name on the “Robot” sci-fi series
76 Miner’s finds
77 Stuck in —
79 Fresh food fight?
82 Go beyond dating
83 Neckwear accessory
85 Arid
86 Prefix with cumulus
87 Achy
88 More than just comfortable Weaken
91 Source of class 92 struggle?
93 Endorse certain property barriers?
98 Cut
100 Opera highlights
101 Commercial bigwigs
103 Less verbose
107 Edges
108 Grooming style named for a continent
110 Saturate
112 Miembro de la familia
113 “Hunny” lover
114 Immortal confection?
118 Besides that
119 Feel bad about
120 Court errors
121 Confused conflict
122 Oolong and pekoe
123 Boot a grounder, say
124 Joint effort, briefly
125 Visionaries
DOWN
1 Measured, with “off”
2 Too good for
3 Reference library array
4 Wheel center
5 Daze
6 Apple juice eponym
7 Confront opposite
8 Far from festive
9 Arboreal apex
10 Harris and a horse
11 Happy companion?
12 20th-century Chinese ideology
13 “Around the Horn”
channel
14 Elephant feature
15 Haunted house occupants, it’s said
16 Titular Verdi bandit
17 Become fond of
18 Go faster, with “it” Attacks
24 Award recipient
25 Closing pieces
32 Portuguese year
34 Post-op places
35 Chance-of-rain nos.
36 Utah city that’s an
38 anagram of an Italian city
40 Admirers, as a group
41 “Let me clarify ... ”
42 Cigar end, in two senses
43 Coast
44 Examined by touch
46 Eagerly accepted, as compliments
51 Shaker grains
53 Foolish ways
54 Friendly
55 Ferret relatives 56 Largest of the Inner Hebrides
58 — wolf
59 Just fair
60 Word after scared or bored
62 Yale, for five U.S. presidents
65 Big name
68 Winter forecast
69 Mashed into a paste
70 French vineyards
71 “— Beso”: 1962 Anka hit
73 Scot’s tot
75 Winter road hazard
78 Done with, perhaps
80 Ensnare
81 Tyke on a trike
83 One may stand on them to reach a high shelf
84 Prime time time
87 Big hits
89 Third-century date
90 Attentive
93 “Arabian Nights” vehicle
94 Colorful songbird
95 Cocktail named for a plant
96 — John: meat brand
97 Book predecessor
99 Fixes the edge of
102 Sealy rival
104 Didn’t take well?
105 Down source
106 Valentine’s Day gift
108 Traditionally, amount of land plowable by one man in one day with a team of oxen
109 Common par
111 Govt. accident investigator
115 “Brockmire” network
116 Confucian path
117 “I had no idea”