Crossword
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Note: This puzzle is part of Merl’s best-of series.
ACROSS
1 Hill-climbing gear?
4 Log of chocolate
7 Eurasian area of conifer forests
12 Word in L.A.’s police slogan
19 Busy, like a gumshoe
21 Wiser, perhaps
22 Christmas chanteuse
23 Tells
24 Film director’s ancestor?
26 Actor’s ancestor?
28 Pews
29 Old music note, or a drink backwards
30 Marianne and Michael
31 Absorbed look
34 Rummage-sale condition
35 Rose beetle
37 Actor Novello
39 Worry beads?
41 Kids’ soccer assn.
45 “___ is my witness”
47 Rustic rearers
50 Rossellini’s Open ___
51 Author’s ancestor?
55 Wednesday smudge
56 Novelist’s ancestor?
57 A lot of lot
58 Deliberating group
60 “Alas!”
61 Fatso star
63 Third place
64 “Joe Hill” singer
65 Arctic grass
66 Early potato chip marketer
68 Henri ending
70 Herb indigenous to San Francisco?
72 “___-hoo!”
74 Agitate
76 Jobs of a lifetime
79 A molding
80 Actor’s ancestor?
83 Quick cut
84 Golfer’s ancestor?
87 Mr. Graf, the signature hound?
88 Kendall or Kyser
89 Detroit’s Della 90 Greek peak
91 Not ___ (mediocre)
92 Pealed
93 “Take yer paws off me, ya ___”
96 Filly at five
99 Lilting farewells
103 Ascends
105 Gadot of Wonder Woman
108 Parker and Parsons
110 Comedic actor’s ancestor?
113 Actress’s ancestor?
116 Organ effect
117 Another and that’s it
118 Midnight Cowboy character
119 ___ in the Sun
120 Elixir, perhaps
121 European steel city
122 Like ketchup
123 Successful pilferings, on a diamond: abbr.
DOWN
1 Ugarte in Casablanca
2 Shaquille’s last
3 Actor’s ancestor?
4 Slip-guard in the tub
5 ___ golf clubs
6 Do a blacksmith job
7 Mellow Mel
8 Bitter-juice plants
9 “___ delighted!”
10 Carnival crew
11 Court decree
12 Interest rate abbr.
13 Cheer
14 Mine varieties
15 “But I haven’t a thing ___”
16 Disney’s middle name
17 Old Greek belts
18 Curl of hair
20 Tooth topper
25 Chorus morsel
27 Roving
32 “Okey-doke!”
33 Bacchanal’s cry
36 Horse course
38 “___ bodkins!”
39 Type of singing
40 Dream
42 British fellow
43 Jackie and Jimmy
44 “___ ya wanna play rough, eh?”
45 Year, in Lisbon
46 Cram
47 TV actor’s ancestor?
48 1960s do
49 Entree full of orts
51 Author Kosinski
52 Armand Hammer’s oil co.
53 Lofts for artists
54 Nuclear headache
56 Regret
59 Olympic swimmer Evans
62 Civil War general
65 Disdainful comments
67 Gluck and Reville
69 Endeavor
70 Crower
71 Sea of Cortes content?
73 Sandinista leader Daniel
75 “___ be in England”
76 Wee worker in a colossal company
77 Old comics section
78 Predicament
81 Born
82 As part of a wager
85 Liza lyricist 86 Faxed
87 Kingdom of Moo dweller
91 Dimwit 92 Title anew
94 Beatty-Hoffman “epic”
95 War, in France
96 Significant
97 A way to go it
98 Merl relative
100 Sock end
101 Actress Woodard
102 Weaver Marner
103 Wedge birds
104 Playwright Joe
106 Unscripted mot
107 Film critic Jeffrey
109 Wet blanket?
111 For them, one war is over
112 Jules, to Jim
114 Italian’s 3
115 Pronoun for Sean Young