THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
PREMIER CROSSWORD / CALCULATING CHARACTERS
ACROSS
1 Pet doc
4 “Come again?”
8 Treats maliciously
14 Tennis player Borg
19 Narcissist’s problem
21 Actress Andress
22 Ate, as prey
23 Football Hall of Famer
Bronko
24 Arrive on wheels
25 Frankie or Cleo of song 26 Start of a riddle
29 Noise in a comic book
gunfight
30 Exotica singer Sumac 31 “The Human Stain”
novelist Philip
32 Cure-all
37 Race of people in an
H.G. Wells novella
39 Some sorority letters 40 Donations to the
destitute
44 Riddle, part 2
48 Like much greasy food 49 See 83-Across
50 Corp. leader
51 Skip over, as a vowel 52 World War II film, when
tripled
53 Charged bit
55 Place — (be active on
ebay, say)
57 Cheap cigar
58 Riddle, part 3
63 Simile middle
66 Chaney of film
67 Song-belting Merman 68 On a pension, maybe:
Abbr.
69 Military draft gp.
70 Riddle, part 4
75 ZZ Top album whose name is Spanish for “The Crazy One”
76 Hamm and Farrow
77 Neither’s partner
78 Tingly feeling
82 Totally tired
83 With 49-Across, touter
of green eggs and ham 84 “Yes” vote
86 Early arcade giant
87 End of the riddle
93 — -Flush (bathroom
brand)
94 Architect I.M. —
95 Made angry
96 Florida fruits 97 R&B great Marvin 99 Not at all new 100 Golf club
102 Riddle’s answer 111 Stalin-era labor
camp
112 Polecat’s kin
113 Urge against
114 Muscat native 115 Do over
116 Office squawker 117 Fender dings 118 Mimics a mad
mutt
119 Helper of
Frankenstein
120 Inventor
Whitney
DOWN
1 “—, vidi, vici”
2 “The Keep” novelist Jennifer
3 Forum wear
4 Angel’s
instrument 5 Drunk 6 Writer Gogol 7 Third-largest
city in Israel 8 Ride a wave 9 Eighthbrightest star in the sky
10 Like a hajji’s
religion
11 Secondlargest city in Oklahoma 12 Charles Lamb’s
alias 13 Bay Area California city 14 Equivalent of A sharp 15 Lee Tracy’s “Bombshell”
co-star 16 Like praiseful poetry 17 Gossipy Barrett 18 Bakersfield-to-boise
dir.
20 Letters before
39-Across 27 Swiss watch brand 28 Clueless 32 Fizzle sound 33 Sleek, informally 34 Hair removal brand 35 Top squad 36 Mooer’s mouthful
38 On the — (fleeing) 39 “— say more?”
41 Actresses Vivien and
Janet
42 In — res (mid-plot)
43 Clay pigeons to be
shot, informally
45 Three x three
46 Frozen spear
47 Eats away at
53 “Were — it all over
again ...”
54 “It can’t be!”
55 One of the Three
Musketeers
56 Nickname for singer
Justin, with “the”
57 Derisive smile
59 One of the three Furies 60 R&R alone
61 “— boy!” 62 Pisa’s river
63 Nuclear trials, for short 64 Class of antimicrobial drugs, in the British spelling
65 Actress Sorkin who once hosted “America’s Funniest People”
71 Like animals that don’t
roam
72 So-called “fifth taste” 73 Apartment near the
super’s, perhaps
74 Mesh well
79 Piquancy
80 Ontario tribe
81 Cat’s warning
83 Pittsburgh footballers 84 “Chances —”
85 “Catch my drift, bro?” 86 Pie-mode link
88 1974 CIA parody film 89 More lacteal
90 Not cardinal, as a
number
91 Plundering
92 Writer Sábato
98 Patronage
99 “— Loompa”
101 Half-diameters
102 Journalist Brit
103 Zing
104 Lucy Liu’s “Kill Bill” role 105 Insect traps
106 Exploiter
107 Mongrel mutt
108 Frilly material
109 Shrine figure
110 Moore of “G.I. Jane” 111 Shrine figure