Crossword
Note: This puzzle is part of Merl’s best-of series.
ACROSS
1 Hydrogen ___ (gas that smells like rotten eggs) 8 Flop 12 Florence sits on it 16 Something to stand on 19 Beaver’s last name 20 Soprano’s neighbor 21 Turn sharply 22 Resident of San Simian? 23 Cup-shaped flower 24 Interrupted film about Southern farmers? 27 Military or music abbr. 28 Made tracks 29 Pianist Rudolf 30 Whitman’s dooryard bloomers 31 Half-wild, half-domesticated canine 34 Gide’s good 35 Conceal 36 A step ahead of the MPs 38 Interrupted bluecollar spinoff of Dallas? 45 Rise up 47 Darned spot 48 Barrister’s quaff 49 Mr. Kazan 50 Laid orbs on 51 Interrupted-aerobics-show theme? 57 Photographer Adams 58 Oligocene critters (literally, “toothed mountain dwellers”) 60 Last gasps for gamblers 61 Plutocrat’s digs 62 Mount that Moses climbed 63 Recommended amt. 64 Dew Drop and Dolly Wright 65 Canadian prov. 66 Sinking signal 67 Interrupted show about prune-loving private eyes? 72 Detour abbr. 75 “You betcha” 76 Letterman’s time 77 Hawaiian tuna 78 Supermodel who wed David Bowie in 1992 82 Awakened, in a way 84 Bust bottom 85 Frankenstein neck feature 87 Jannings and Gilels 88 With 96-Across, the other Tammany Hall scandal? 90 “Too much!” 91 Opposite of sud 92 Golfer Hogan 93 Auction gesture 94 Ark of the covenant, e.g. 96 See 88-Across 103 Oft-dedicated poetry 104 ___-Contra 105 Jousting title? 106 Muscadet wine city 108 A Musketeer 111 Take to a higher authority 114 Sizable: abbr. 115 Geometry proof abbr. 118 Interrupted series about a cramped flying saucer? 120 Blend 122 Parent co. of Universal Pictures 123 Glass coloration 124 Anarchist Goldman 125 Hop on an iron horse 126 Astronomer’s tableau 127 “Wine-dark” places 128 Some grains 129 Lives
DOWN
1 Bait-and-switch, e.g. 2 Arm bone 3 Interrupted actor who’d been sitting around too long anyway? 4 Clan: abbr. 5 A paler shade of white 6 Don’t mention it, in Durango 7 Previously, to the Bard 8 Diet restrictions 9 Skin cream herb 10 Pianist José 11 Attach firmly 12 Mary Kay rival 13 Boxer separator 14 Starting-over goal 15 Maker of Tater Tots 16 Aa or pahoehoe 17 Roots was one 18 Hair goos 25 Guesser’s plea 26 Tin is one 32 Ring cheer 33 Bask successfully 35 A living nightmare 36 Incendiary crime 37 “___ not amused” 39 Heaps 40 Luau accessory 41 Linden and Roach 42 Casablanca role and namesakes 43 Mislead intentionally 44 Elihu and Linus 46 ’60s mindbender 52 Go downhill 53 Settle 54 “A big fat hen” preceder 55 Recipient 56 Unseat 57 Italian wine city 59 JFK’s spy hero 61 Caruso or Fermi 64 ___ Teenage Werewolf 65 Last box on a questionnaire 68 Mirror-breaker’s bad-luck span, briefly 69 A concrete amount 70 Crusades crusher 71 Part of a circle’s area 72 Demetrius’ workplace 73 Slot machine fruit 74 Classic Ford, familiarly 79 Interrupted show about lawn-care crimefighters? 80 ___ of one’s own medicine 81 Salamanders 83 “That ___ religion” 84 See 59-Down 85 Sierra Club sci. 86 Baby’s need, for short 88 Word in a Joe McCarthy question 89 Biol. blueprint 92 Pet 95 Weed yanker 97 Watch sites 98 Some snakes 99 Dog in old RCA logos 100 Gorgeous, to a girl 101 More subdued 102 V-8, for one 107 Gray’s Anatomy et al. 108 Baksheesh 109 Top 40 format 110 Fired, as a torpedo 111 Mound dwellers 112 Pinnacle 113 Poetic pastures 116 City or canal 117 Hibernation stations 119 ___ big way 121 Angle or cycle preceder