“RETURN OF THE OLYMPIANS”

ACROSS

1 Boxer Max or Buddy

5 Fall behind

8 Alternatives to Macs

11 Emergency shelter array

15 Caesar’s rebuke

16 Graceful steed

18 Cosmetics giant

19 Site of the first modern Olympic Games, launched 125 years ago Tuesday (April 6, 1896)

21 Parks in civil rights history

22 Conk out

23 Lagoon surrounder

24 Harder to schlep

26 Skedaddle

28 What each first (yes, first) place winner received

30 Relay race segment

32 10% of MXX

33 Assistance

34 Lashes into

38 Homes in trees

40 Fist bump

43 Host country’s crown prince who opened the 1896 games

45 Musical sequence

47 Arduous journey

48 Scratch, say

49 Rebellion leader Turner

51 Penne __ vodka

52 Gillette razors

54 ___ Stadium, 1896’s main venue, made entirely of marble, where the biennial hand-over of the Olympic flame from former host-nation to new still takes place 57 Feeling low

58 It’s up for debate

60 __ Chapel

61 Academic address ender 62 Wks. and wks.

64 Sgt. or Cpl.

65 What each first place winner also received

70 Readily available 74 Tactful handling 75 The slightest margin 77 Guadalajara gold 78 “You said it!”

79 The only non-European team came from here, and had the most first-place wins

82 Quayle successor

83 Mob inductee

84 “Handwriting on the wall” word 85 Cornerstone abbr.

86 Windy City trains

87 DDE’s WWII command 88 Actor Sharif or Epps

DOWN

1 Mardi Gras mementos 2 Unfinished story? 3 Anesthetic of old

4 Regret

5 Trailing the pack

6 Rival of ancient Sparta 7 Culinary clove

8 Treat served in a tin 9 Hidden stash

10 Show disdain for 11 Sculpted

12 Egg-shaped

13 Where sailors go

14 Guard dog’s warning 17 Sparkling peachy cocktail 20 “Whatever you want” 25 Slightly off

27 Third-least populous state 29 Capital on the Danube 31 Glitzy rock genre

34 Stand in for

35 Somewhat, informally 36 Dummy Mortimer 37 Loses one’s cool 39 Senate spots

40 Lead-in to Lama

41 Fully committed 42 Tranquility

44 Psychological wound 46 Football Hall of Fame city 50 Pizza crust choice

53 Entree add-ons

55 Nursery arrival 56 Accompany

59 Encompass

61 Squared (up)

63 Devious plan

65 Old enough

66 Fancy rides

67 Nonreactive 68 Kidney-related

69 Tore into

71 Sacred item for some tribes 72 Skybox locale

73 Tricky question

76 “There __ there there” 80 SSNs and such

81 “I love,” in Latin