Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“HAIKU” By PAM AMICK KLAWITTER
ACROSS
1 Word heard in
Bedrock
6 West Point letters 10 Dark horses 14 Sam seen in bars 19 Scott who wrote “Island of the Blue Dolphins” 20 A golf green may be shaped like one
21 Face cream
additive 22 Paganini’s
birthplace 23 *What it often is on a summer day
25 Rodeo goad 26 Bother a lot 27 WWII spy gp. 28 Big mouths 29 Tampico trio 31 Mask wearers 33 Salem-toPortland dir. 34 Chihuahua or Maltese, in dog shows
35 Slangy sib 36 *One-to-one
conversation 43 Texter’s “Just a
thought ... ” 47 Candy aisle
choice
48 Kid in a ’60s
sitcom
49 K-12, in brief 50 Its flag features a
six-pointed star 52 Scale starting
words
54 911 responder 56 Barbecue supply 58 Functional 59 *Scuba divers’
bash 63 “Wayward __”: Shyamalan TV series
64 Salon supply 65 Ancient region of
Asia Minor 66 Longship crew 68 Half a track? 69 London’s “Ye
Olde Mitre,” e.g. 71 “The Way __”: 2007 Timbaland hit
72 Loud speakers 76 Travelocity
enticement 79 Pooh, to Roo 82 Broadway restaurant founder 83 *Highly soughtafter charter captain
86 Office holders? 87 Gilbert who created TV’s “The Talk”
88 The Silver St. 89 Graphic start 90 Warns
92 Frees
94 They catch a lot
of shrimp 97 Continue 98 Sitcom pioneer,
familiarly 99 *Iconic suburban
symbol
103 Word with link or
letter
105 French article 106 Damage
107 Haunted house
sounds
110 Lacking
112 Eye opener? 113 Improve, in
some cases 116 Cutie
117 Chop __
119 Feature of haiku, and of the answers to starred clues 122 Charged
123 Sport with
double touches 124 Slices of history 125 Minnesota’s
“10,000”
126 Play area
127 Cold War initials 128 Hide from an
animal
129 Treacherous type
DOWN
1 Pirate’s syllables 2 They’re often about
nothing
3 Adds to the pool 4 Rain-__ bubble
gum
5 Smith grad
6 High hairdo
7 José’s half-dozen 8 Satiric magazine
founded in 1952 9 Kid-to-kid retort 10 Military setting 11 Hurdle for
Hannibal
12 Mirror image? 13 Homeland of tennis star Novak Djokovic
14 “The X-Files” extra 15 *Awkward TV
silence 16 Protester 17 Defensive ditch 18 H.S. hurdles
24 Ma non __: not too much, in music
30 Cub great
Sandberg 32 Bubbly source 34 Lincoln Center attraction, familiarly 35 Eastern faith 36 Word in a Marines
slogan 37 48-Across player 38 __-France 39 Register a
preference
40 St. Peter’s
Basilica sight 41 Exile isle 42 Make, as butter 44 Katahdin is its
highest peak 45 Beatrix Potter’s
real first name 46 Cries after fútbol
goals 51 Freudian
conscience 53 Player in a loft 55 Vacation
choice
57 Aleppo native 60 Reservations can
help avoid one 61 Apportions 62 Eighth-century
pope 67 Puppeteer
Tony 68 *Sale indicator 70 Cap’n’s aide 72 Room at the
Louvre
73 Doesn’t give up 74 Enter noisily 75 Nautical pole 77 Word of origin 78 Marathon
practice run 79 Spike for Hillary 80 Like some focus
groups 81 Freetown
currency
82 Slew
84 Grow pale
85 Push
91 Did a few laps 93 Made on a wheel 95 Play set on an
island, with “The” 96 Cabinet
department 100 Greets the villain 101 Conforming 102 Elegant
trimmings 104 Speed
107 Orch. section 108 Primer layer 109 Novelist Jaffe 110 Psychic
111 Motion carriers 112 Tough test 113 Self-titled 1974
pop album 114 Many a techie 115 Latin being 118 FedEx rival 120 Otto I’s realm:
Abbr.
121 Knighted
McKellen