THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH PREMIER CROSSWORD / HAVING FLITTING THOUGHTS
ACROSS
1 One of Chrysler’s K-cars 11 Imaginary
21 Lack of refinement
22 Open to discussion
23 * Golf format not based on the number of holes won
24 * Part of an internalcombustion engine
25 Take an ax to
26 Ornate wardrobe
28 Nice ’n Easy product
29 Shin locale
30 Stumblebum
33 Austrian cake
34 Up on the latest
37 “Binary” singer
Difranco
39 S. Amer. country
40 Much like
41 Calculus pioneer
Leonhard
42 Hot temper
43 Scanned ID in a market 44 Cartoon pic
45 Twist, as in a hose
47 Dark deli loaf
48 City haze
49 The Browns, on sports
tickers
50 Volunteer’s response 52 Star pitchers
54 Getz of jazz
55 List-curtailing abbr.
56 Brief letter
57 Roofing material
59 Like an old apple’s consistency
Bit of a script
Fear greatly Longtime operating system
Spanish pot Blackthorn fruits Supplement
Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the five starred clues
69 Trousers
70 Car navig. aid
72 Owner of Wordperfect 73 Cato’s “I love”
75 Brainteaser
79 Sacred spots
81 Soviet spacecraft series 86 “Lord Jim” novelist Joseph
* Buyer’s final figure Membrane covering a lung 60 61 63
64 65 66 67 87 88 89
Creole cooking pods Temporarily stylish thing Take to court Leash, e.g. Tony winner Schreiber Roofing material “It’s so-so” Winter illness Director Preminger
102 Roof part
103 Mine car load 104 Yoko of art 105 Shark part
106 Sped
107 Genesis twin 109 Small stream 111 “Smooth Operator” singer
113 * Vessel for crustacean fishing
117 * Removes tenderly, as a lover’s tears 122 City in central
Illinois
123 Hawaii’s
nickname
124 Super-corny 125 Occupancy
levies 90
91 93 94
95
96 99 101
DOWN
1 Talk smack to
2 Like official public statements Freed from federal restrictions
Give off light “Look, mice!” Ripen
Lil Jon’s genre Around H’wood, e.g. French card game Actress Jane
One asked to attend a party 12 Less remote 13 Eye creepily 14 Thanksgiving mo. 15 Summer, to Jeanne 16 Form a lap
17 Tough
18 Many a virtual bidding
event 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 19 20 27 29
30 31 32 34
35 36 38 46 48 51 53 54 55 58
Ork, Krypton or Melmac Lion’s home
Paris airport “Righteously” singer Williams
Desk wood Pseudonym Groups for devotees Vast Asian mountain system
Satirical device Tent securer Straight up, in a bar Reeves of “The Matrix” Fair booth Straight up, in a bar Sutured
Like altruists Singer Fitzgerald Obtain by threatening 59 62 65 68 71 74 75 76
77 78 79 80 82
83
84 85 90
Singer Rita Church teachings Film holders Rock’s Clapton Launching platform Star athlete, for short Place to learn, in Lyon Smartphone company
The opposite way Cemetery plot Animal trap
Pack full Information group for analysis
Big name in car cleaning products Speechify “Thwack!” Remote 92
95 96 97 98 ©2021 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE
Moniker for a Yale student Coverer of a bald spot Unlike gods
Brian of Roxy Music Pipe with a flexible tube
100 Open, as a Ziploc bag 108 Band blasters
109 Renege (on)
110 Drug bust unit
112 Mgr.’s helper
113 “Wait a —!”
114 “In your face!”
115 Actor Saget
116 Singer Rita
118 Toping sort
119 That girl
120 Supped
121 “Definitely!”