Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“PREP-POSITIONING”

ACROSS

1 Cheese companion 4 Brewery fixtures 8 Minute dispute 12 Sandal features 19 “Barefoot Contessa” cook Garten 20 Journalist Larson 21 Pro shop

purchase 22 Group bar orders 23 Revenue for a

monarchy? 26 Crêpe cousin 27 “My mom is

gonna kill me!” 28 San Simeon

family

30 Sleep __ 31 Running total 32 “The Hurt Locker”

backdrop 33 Upscale

automaker

35 It might be

generic 38 Novelist Waugh 39 Kids nagging parents about lack of air conditioning? 44 Which one 45 Predator and

Iconia computers 47 Jack Reacher

creator Child 48 Dept. formed

under Carter 49 Bread grain 50 Agassi rival 53 Muses’ domain 55 Massage offering 57 Important span 58 Bungalow inundated with vacationing relatives?

63 __ column: concrete-filled steel support 64 Rope in

66 Quite a stretch 67 Freshly stained 68 Dr. Leary’s turnon

69 Sullen

70 Old Venetian coin 72 Capital that’s home to the Potala Palace 74 “This is my __” 77 Dodge logo critter 79 Poor, as excuses

go 80 Ghee-brushed

bread 81 Unwitting victim 83 Puts the worm on 85 Funny BBQ scene

that got cut? 88 It’s often

bookmarked 89 Be there 91 Decorative jug 92 It may be lit during the holidays 94 Withdrawn

95 They may be

wireless 98 Ristorante suffix 99 Links army leader 100 Loan letters 101 Unlikely winner of a trite joke contest?

104 Vicksburg

soldiers

108 One of Tom

Brady’s three 110 “JAG” spin-off 111 Has too much 112 Piazza De

Ferrari city 113 Humorist Barry 115 Takes care of a

toy? 119 “To conclude ... ” 120 Govt. watertesting sites 123 Group unhappy with election results?

125 SoCal daily 126 Pre-calc course 127 Rich deposit 128 Job ad abbr. 129 Pose a greater climbing challenge 130 “I’ll get this one” 131 Chuck

132 Chekov’s orig.

“Star Trek” rank

DOWN

1 NHL Hall of Famer

Stan

2 Dog or dogie

3 It may be scented 4 WWII surrender

celebration 5 2016 MLB retiree 6 Virginia senator

Kaine

7 Vail toppers

8 Gp. advocating

adoption 9 Substandard 10 Charity

11 Line dance step 12 On the job, initially 13 “Rebel Without a

Cause” actor 14 The Bee Gees,

e.g. 15 New-product div. 16 Preview from St.

Peter?

17 Candy invented in

Austria 18 Dallas-to-Houston

dir.

24 Easy pill to

swallow 25 Pianist Peter 29 Confident

32 Less favorable 34 Unpleasant noise 36 DIY mover 37 Sidestepped 39 Flung with force 40 Put on conspicuous display 41 Seedless plants 42 Green of “Robot

Chicken” 43 Question

doggedly 46 Shoe with lots of

holes

50 Tourney ranking 51 River of Pisa 52 “You’re a big girl

now”?

54 “Who cares?” 56 Roundup catcher 59 Postgame staple 60 Band aide 61 Should have said 62 Area 51 creatures,

it’s said 65 Doggone mad 71 Battleship letters 72 Hugh of “House” 73 “Just __”

75 Fiend of fantasy 76 Legendary soccer

star

78 “Morning Joe”

network

80 Ad infinitum 82 Hatcher of “Desperate Housewives” 83 Jazz count

84 Pal of Aramis 86 Relative who shares your birthday, perhaps

87 “Hair” styles 90 Queen’s mate 93 Mother canonized

by Pope Francis 96 Hammer throw

trajectory 97 Impudent sort 99 Pasta water prep

instruction 102 Did, but doesn’t

now

103 Campus

recruiting gp. 105 Dining selection 106 Balladeer

Michael

107 Give the

okay

109 Bush or Clinton,

once

112 Rubbernecks,

with “at”

114 Seductive sort 116 Struggling to

decide

117 Triathlon

component 118 “Picnic”

playwright 119 Bygone Fords 120 2015 Payne Stewart Award honoree Ernie 121 Touch gently 122 Return ID 124 Great Lakes’ __

Canals