The Bakersfield Californian

CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Include so other recipients don’t know, briefly 4 California

neighbor, familiarly 8 Bulk

12 Gloomy

18 Pleased sigh 19 Genesis victim 20 Train

21 Painful

22 It’s “gravy” to some Italian Americans 25 Tropical vines 26 Frau’s partner 27 Hit one in the

trees, maybe

28 Off course 30 Bunch of bills 32 Somme soul 33 Gothic architectu­re

feature

36 Tender spots 39 Preserved, in a way 41 “Melrose Place”

complex 44 Derelict

46 Fine, lightweigh­t

cloth 47 Obamacare, for

short

48 Venus, at times 52 With passion 55 Mao’s successor 56 Cartoonist Peter 57 AOL alternativ­e 60 Events with bulls

and barrels

61 Like desert climates, comparativ­ely 62 Stern with a bow 64 Bit of statuary 65 Like some pkgs. 68 Real estate listing

datum

71 D.C. bigwig 72 Classical name of

Troy

74 Fool 75 Fervently wishes 76 “For honest men and bonie __”: Burns

78 Star Wars initials 79 Bar mitzvah staple 80 Wells race 84 Tropical Chinese tree

85 Grade school presentati­on

88 “I’ll take what I can get,” in classified­s 89 Hearing tube 94 Foray

95 Favor asker’s lead-in

101 Archaeolog­ical site 102 Damascus’ land 103 Introducti­on 104 ‘ 70s extremist gp. 105 “The A-Team” actor

106 WNBA great Weatherspo­on 108 Off the wall

111 Playground retort 114 Long battles

116 America’s most popular dogs in 2017

120 Go-ahead

121 Big cat hybrid 122 Beauty chain with a salon inside each store

123 Black gold

124 Assignatio­ns 125 Ages

126 Coordinate

127 GATT successor

DOWN

1 Big blowout 2 Superhero garb 3 Dickens’ Mrs. Dilber and Andy Capp’s wife Flo 4 “Phooey!”

5 Fins in registers 6 Long-distance traveler’s concern 7 Nissan sedan 8 Caps, e.g.

9 Évian water

10 TV monitor

11 Mont Blanc’s range 12 Artist who created fashion designs for Schiaparel­li

13 Most frigid 14 Hebrew hello ...

and goodbye 15 Some Vulcans, via

melds

16 Gasteyer of “Mean

Girls”

17 NFLers near

centers

20 “The Waste Land”

monogram 23 Sampling the

smorgasbor­d 24 “Happy birthday”

writer, perhaps 29 Accomplish­ment 31 First name in early

TV

34 Tiny queen

35 Ling of “The

Crow”

37 Put inside 38 Remains awhile 39 One of the

Weasley twins 40 Dream, in Dijon 42 Corporate alias

abbr.

43 Back

45 Gobble (up) 49 Dirty money

50 Bad looks

51 Like the zone between two tropics

53 Many are mailed in 54 Altar avowal

57 No __: menu

notice

58 Plato’s “tenth

Muse”

59 Thin

61 Beneficiar­y 62 Publicity, slangily 63 “Goodies” singer 65 Resting places in

cases

66 Magazine with a

lagomorph logo 67 Rudeness

69 Here, to Henri 70 Printers’ primary

colors

73 __Kosh B’gosh 77 Cabinet mem. 80 Ancient region of

central Italy 81 When tripled, song that begins, “Oh, the weather outside is frightful”

82 Lena of “Chocolat” 83 Martinique et

Guadeloupe 85 Mariner’s

measures 86 Experience­d, as

fun

87 Quad building 90 Word after a drop 91 Responsive to

treatment 92 “Westworld” airer 93 “Malcolm X”

(1992) director 96 Feudal lords 97 Lacks the courage

to

98 She, in Italy 99 Old-fashioned

warning

100 Stick in one’s craw 107 Contractor­s’ figs. 109 Network with regular pledge drives

110 Little newts

112 “Laugh-In”

segment

113 Munch Museum

city

114 Convened

115 Leb. neighbor 117 Put on TV

118 NY airport named

for a mayor

119 “Go team!”

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