Crossword

A Dog’s Life ... Some people are always in the doghouse Note: This puzzle is part of Merl’s best-of series.

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1 Give it a chance? 6 Will Rogers prop 11 Sporty autos 15 Garbage barge 19 Diner actress 21 Ill-tempered sort 22 Sighing remark 23 Greatest American Hero star 24 Puccini piece 25 Greek house 26 Field covers 27 One type of knowledge 29 Moves a little 30 Southern st. 33 Bird word 34 Austrian mountains, to an Austrian 35 Goofballs 37 Gore’s guy-turned-gal 39 “Untrue!” 41 AAA offering 43 Gregory McDonald’s freewheeling reporter 46 Heston epic 48 TV T-man 49 Like Hunan food 51 London dining district 52 Jacket popular in the 1960s 53 Type in 55 Cockney greeting 56 Demitasse of discord 57 Eddied 59 When Aïda dies 62 Abbr. in Murphy-Nolte movies 63 Have ___ (enjoy oneself) 64 Snubbed 67 “Can ___ on you?” (secret-teller’s query) 69 Boarding areas 70 More succulent 71 Finnish lake 72 Feasts one’s eyes on 73 Keeps on keepin’ on 74 The ___ Were 75 Bit of pier gear 76 Big event on campus 78 Director Sydney 80 Free, in a way 82 Kid’s car game 83 Thrill 87 Indian metropolis 88 Undiluted, as liquor 89 Loamy deposit 91 Away from the wind 92 Actor Werner 93 Prized flower 95 Mud-bath center 96 Species of wheat 98 Brain, in Spain 99 Horne and Olin 101 “___ live, not vice versa” (diet motto) 103 Ancient art? 105 A real keno state: abbr. 106 Ricochets 108 One listening 110 Make ___ (get rich) 112 “Nasty” of tennis 113 Underwrite 114 Quiller Memorandum actress 119 Klensch of fashion 120 Throb 121 Dapper crooner of Saturday Night Live fame (and commercials, too) 122 Willy Wonka’s creator 123 Ring wins, briefly 124 Apportion 125 Full up

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1 Sermon seat 2 Actor Wallach 3 Completely 4 Early ax or early European 5 Early computer 6 Skewered, as in a skit 7 Holy vessels 8 Reggae relative 9 Have orchestra seats, e.g. 10 Available, as beer 11 Actress in The Group 12 Taj Mahal site 13 Interrogate 14 Home of the Calypso 15 What No. 1 indicates, pencil-wise 16 The Dead Zone star 17 One of Dwight’s general colleagues 18 Sprays 20 Word after land or robber 28 Dream phenomena 29 The sun, to some 30 Closing words 31 The Carol Burnett Show’s Mr. Handsome 32 Pulitzer poet who wrote Conquistador 34 Secy. to the secy. 36 “The Very Thought ___” 38 FedEx charge 40 Binary 2 42 Steals 44 Director-star of silent comedies 45 ___-totsy 47 Most boring 50 Dirt ball 54 Doctorow book 58 Chicago trains 60 Greek letters 61 Romance hero of Orlando Furioso 64 Kirghiz grasslands 65 One of President Reagan’s press secretaries 66 “Just what ___ funny?” 68 Sans sunshine 71 ___ Jima 72 University of Maine city 73 Tortilla dough? 77 Poet Doolittle 78 Separate, as onion layers 79 Russian ballet company 81 Tenuous 84 When the credits rolled, in old movie theaters 85 Popular dog food 86 Golf gadget 90 River to the Moselle 94 Org. that looks for undocumented folks 97 Ishi was the last of his 100 Crude abode 102 Electrical genius Nikola 104 Iditarod vehicles 106 Competed 107 Singer Fitzgerald 109 Second opinion? 110 ___ time (never) 111 Grass, to Giuseppe 113 Mr. Masterson 115 Name from Cambodia’s past 116 Attained 117 Ethyl or methyl ending 118 Like some pencils