THE BIG X-WORD
9/5
ACROSS
1 Pungency
5 Kind of roof 10 Manhattan Project
project: hyph. 15 Hebdomad
19 Maple genus 20 Assuage
21 Hindu princess: var. 22 — podrida 23 Breakfast: 4 wds. 27 Catapult for rocky
projectiles
28 NHL player
29 Actor Poitier 30 Three-pip card 31 Entreaties
32 Design detail,
for short
33 Epic by Virgil
36 Leaf
37 Taints
41 Dulcet 42 Threesome,
proverbially 43 Seconds
44 Pitfall
45 Hardy heroine 46 Body and beauty 47 Certain performer 49 Rime
50 Treasury div. 51 Whips
52 Meager
53 Reduce in rank 55 Fab — of the ’60s
56 Gless or Stone 58 Old Greek dialect 59 Lunch: 3 wds. 65 Rowed
66 Crams 67 Homophone
for seize
68 Put away
70 Affirm
71 Gone up
73 Corvine cry
76 Do the wrong
thing
77 Ladle
79 Did a kitchen job 80 Libertine 81 Anatomical
passage 83 Spool
84 Church area 85 Pesto ingredient 86 Place of esteem 88 Rapture
89 Patron
90 Shortage
91 Word in a forecast 92 Eschew
93 Like a lout 96 Bundle of papers 97 1983 Al Pacino role 101 Dinner: 3 wds.
104 O.T. name
105 — -courier
106 Praying statue 107 Celebrity
108 Aide: abbr.
109 Congressional
aides
110 Like a julep
111 Recent
DOWN
1 Russian news
agency
2 Part of CPA: abbr. 3 Stout’s Wolfe 4 Recipients
5 Prated
6 Solder is one 7 Blasted
8 Feller
9 Supercilia 10 Engaged in debate 11 Groundwork
12 — — even keel 13 “Featherless bipeds” 14 Counterpane 15 Engraving
16 — vital
17 Word in a threat 18 “—, bar the door!” 24 Deserve
25 Routine
26 Theater area 31 Fields’ yield 32 Variety
33 Sparkling wine 34 Pitcher 35 Promontory 36 Ranine creature 37 All there is
38 A — (presumptive) 39 Ploy
40 “The King’s —” 42 Notes in
combination
43 Ripple pattern 46 Swerve
47 Kind of action
48 Blush
51 Went out of
business
52 Utter
54 Haylofts
55 Rocketed
56 Disconnect
57 Second Egyptian
president
59 On-dits
60 The ostrich,
for example
61 Pressed
62 Sistine —
63 Mean dwelling 64 Exigency
69 Very affordable: 2 wds. 71 Perch
72 Rainbow goddess 73 Etui
74 Related
75 Raised mark
78 Hit a ceiling 79 Leadership
80 What udometers
measure
82 Kindle anew
84 — and jerk
85 Book jacket quote 87 Obi
88 Cries like a farm
animal
89 Garrulous
91 Effulgence
92 Paltry
93 Between Pelion
and Olympus 94 Simians
95 Waller or
Domino
96 Hart
97 Bean or Astin
98 Inter —
99 Curdle
100 Bondman
102 New Deal org.
103 Diagnostic device