Crossword

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

ACROSS

1 Everydog 5 Peter Pan beast, briefly 9 Assertive Parks 13 Shows disinterest 18 Kids’ cereal 19 Some soil 20 “How about if ___ you halfway?” 22 A Barrymore 23 “Gordon Jump came as ___” 26 Maria’s friend in West Side Story 27 Type of twisting or wrestling 28 “Frances Farmer came as ___” 30 “David Lean came as ___” 35 Early Super Bowl 36 Famed Siamese 37 First name in the Dreyfus Affair 38 A ___ soap 40 Hernando’s house 42 Reagan’s first Secretary of State 46 Dentist’s deg. 47 Summon a genie 48 “Lee Horsley came as ___” 51 “Eddie Cantor came as ___” 56 Adm.’s place 57 It holds a donkey tail in place 58 Sign up for (with “in”) 59 Yankees legend Gehrig 60 Mag mogul with a mansion 63 Even under ideal conditions 65 Two-pronged 67 Viper type 69 New York city 71 Geiger of counter fame 72 “Three Dog Night came as ___” 76 Fellow 77 It’s for the money 78 Proto finish? 79 Delicate wording 80 Woodchuck’s cousin 82 Actress Joanne 84 Ms. Moore’s production co. 86 Amp schlepper 90 ___ Nuevo (New Year) 91 La-la starter 93 “Jane Goodall came as ___” 96 “Glenn Close came as ___” 100 ___ au vin 101 They were Freud’s idea 102 The “A” in A-Rod 103 Change course suddenly 104 P.W. of South Africa 107 Whoopi in The Color Purple 109 Dye group 111 Lennon’s Plastic ___ Band 113 “Maria Callas came

as ___” 115 “Willard Scott came as ___” 120 Coached 121 Much impersonated guy 122 “Albert Broccoli came as ___” 128 Unforgiven first name 129 Starts a chip building enterprise? 130 Cola-can meas. 131 Tucson campus, familiarly 132 Head of the Comets 133 Actor Richard 134 Gala get-together 135 Feel sorry for

DOWN

1 Truth in Lending enforcer: abbr. 2 A Gershwin 3 Valley in the road ahead 4 The end of the bovine soup? 5 Attack K2 6 Veteran Kovic 7 Acorn-y subject 8 The common chord 9 Latvian capital 10 Muscat citizen 11 Cop played by Pacino 12 Of the wind 13 Long (for) 14 When things are darkest? 15 Fillmore was one 16 Rembrandt’s homeland: abbr. 17 Box-spring support 21 Overly 24 “Rule, Britannia!” composer 25 Frowned-on act 29 ___ frown (looks unhappy) 30 Small anchor 31 Lower Saxony port (anagram of EMEND) 32 Baseball-cap feature 33 “Snug as ___ ... “34 Secret society 39 Scourge of 1918 41 Early Beatle Sutcliffe 43 Colorado quakers 44 “Scuse me while ___ the sky” (Jimi Hendrix) 45 Capricious Peer 47 Pass again on the track 49 Tenth bk. of the N.T. 50 Corn option 52 Clinton’s maiden name 53 Stickum containers 54 Temporary replacement 55 A Deadly Sin 61 Substitute 62 Memo abbr. 64 Tavern total 66 Gielgud’s john 68 Dispenser sweet 70 Superlative ending 72 Seat of queens 73 Neither Dem. nor Rep. 74 Seven-hill city 75 Long-time Iraqi diplomat, ___ Aziz 76 Ear or Erie follower 80 Nude or clothed Goya subject 81 Actor Howard 83 Nome tool 85 ___ Picchu 87 Lacy protector 88 Cummerbund country 89 German industrial city 92 “Command understood” 94 Tarzan creator’s monogram 95 Target 97 Give the once-over 98 Calling all cats? 99 Jazz saxophonist Coleman 105 0 on the ph. 106 Charge of a sort 107 “Here she is now” et al. 108 Lands, ultimately 110 Like a certain Italian? 112 Playful fish-eater 114 Burn like the noonday sun 115 Solidarity guy 116 Cinder ender 117 Bad to the bone 118 Marsh elder plant 119 Line to the sprinkler 123 Flamenco shout 124 Received 125 “Pardonnez” follower 126 Not fore 127 Dissenting vote