Crossword

Oktoberfest ... Drink it all in

Note: This puzzle is part of Merl’s best-of series.

ACROSS

1 Early wake-up call 7 Frankenstein, ___ Modern Prometheus 12 Rabbit run 15 Onset of cold 19 Valley girl’s reaction to her first beer? 21 Mock, in a way 22 It makes a freeway into a fee way 23 The ___ (bending the elbow?) 25 TV Johnny, the rebel 26 “Star Wars,” really: abbr. 27 Global turning point 28 Tyson’s home, for a while 29 Pig Latin cancellation 30 Con vote 32 Rattles 36 Lethargy 39 Beer-lover’s dinner? 45 North by Northwest star’s first name 46 Guam et al. 48 Feathered “friend”? 50 Beery attorney? 52 Swiss river 55 Forty-___ 56 Memo opener 57 On the tip of 58 “___ the bag” 60 See 45-Across 61 Start of a Shakespeare comedy 63 What Rip Taylor says even when he’s on the wagon? 66 With 71-Across, a beer drinker’s bio? 71 See 66-Across 74 Ataturk’s first 79 Tranquillity Base place 80 Last letter 81 Sandy getaway 85 Go over again 86 Llama land 88 Top number? 89 Bit of grade-B entertainment for beer drinkers? 92 Brosnan’s sleuth 94 Jonathan Kozol classic, Death at an ___ 95 Allen or Robbins 96 Smarter about beer? 100 Subaru model 102 Memory-testing game show hosted by Bill Cullen, 1966-69 103 Last one to know 104 Outfit 108 East of Eden brother 109 Street-name word 112 Startling syllable 115 Fontanne’s guy 116 One-beer bars? 122 Slaw, for one 123 Pay this: abbr. 124 Getting romantic in a bar? 125 Split this 126 Country contest 127 Indian or Korean 128 Respect DOWN 1 Three after E 2 Angers 3 Invalid 4 Ocean phenom 5 Enzyme tail 6 Jim of ABC Sports 7 Everything: prefix 8 Evidence of dreaming 9 ___ degree 10 Slangy Nazi 11 Time for vacances 12 Must 13 First game 14 For each 15 A river, or Nike’s mother 16 Part of speech 17 Mahler’s mate (who later married Walter Gropius) 18 Recreation 20 Spell 24 Doing 29 “What ___ without the beasts?” (Chief Seattle) 31 Join this 32 Zoic preceder 33 Closely trimmed, as meat 34 Anti-smoking org. 35 Queue after Q 36 Old photo tint 37 Pizzeria appliances 38 Fend off a fencer 39 Jog 40 Hawaii city 41 Scrape with a file 42 Susan’s Kane 43 Desilu partner 44 Suspicious 47 Doctors’ org. 49 Like some beers 51 1906 car 52 Bulletin board abbr. 53 In ___ (very soon) 54 Vex 58 “The wolf ___ the door” 59 Milit. person 62 Ashes holder 63 Palindromic Swedish group 64 Malaprop or Robinson 65 ’60s Atty. General 67 Impediment to humility 68 Calibration: abbr. 69 Saber alternative 70 Attractive quality?: abbr. 71 TV sidekick in buckskin 72 Reagan’s third Interior secretary 73 “___ a vacation!” 75 Pull a boner 76 Grocery section 77 Let in or on 78 Like clay 79 Rustic parents 81 Drug abuse, discrimination, etc. 82 Leonard ___ (Roy Rogers) 83 Regan’s dad 84 Work unit 87 Stay down, as a yo-yo 89 Murray and West 90 Eye part 91 ___ vu 93 Station ending 94 Fleecy one 97 Grew into 98 Peter Lorre in Casablanca 99 Unexciting 101 Snare hit, usually 103 Level 104 Mrs. Charles Laughton 105 Walk out 106 Free, in a way 107 News tidbit 109 Earth goddess 110 Opposite of “fer” 111 Amtrak stop: abbr. 113 “Coffee, tea, ___?” 114 Free, in a way 116 Truck part 117 ___ Na Na 118 Derek doubles 119 Mr. Wallach 120 Letters on a video 121 Scud missile, for one: abbr.