The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
50 YEARS ON
Jason Mueller, of Lincoln, Mo., has degrees in physics, math and economics from the University of Missouri. He loves trivia and was captain of his college’s quiz-bowl team. Nowadays he creates puzzles and works on his family’s farm. Jeff Chen, of Seattle, is a writer and professional crossword constructor. This is Jason’s sixth crossword for The Times and Jeff’s 100th. — W.S. ACROSS
Org. whose workers
can be a little frisky?
4 Meager
9 Charged
14 Picture framer’s aid
17 Bad things for astronaut suits to have
Part of a broadcast feed
20 On the qui vive
21 Second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands “However,” in textspeak
23 Name of a sea
first visited in 1969
25 Pot starter
26 World capital near the 60th parallel
What mattresses and spirits may do
28Signs of nervousness
29 Good name
for a fishmonger?
30 Gaming neophyte
31 Kind of diet
33 They don’t keep their thoughts to themselves
36 Two tablespoons
37 W.W. II zone: Abbr.
38 End of a rope
40 Sean who played
Rudy in “Rudy”
42 La-la lead-in
43 Certain seafood
delicacy 19 22 27 44 Attention
45 Not as one
49 Appropriately palindromic reply to “Madam, I’m Adam”
50 Someone who might engage in a hobby with some frequency?
51 Bit of media hoopla
53 Words of Jesus
55 “Great” birds
57 Hillary who
climbed Everest
59 The Notorious ____ (Supreme Court nickname)
60 Possible response
to “No, you’re not”
62 Skin-care brand
64 Classic place to hide
money
67 “Je t’____”
70 Suave competitor
71 Newsmaker of July
1969
72 Weeper of myth
73 Relating to the
kidneys
74 Santa ____, Calif.
75 Where I go “when my baby smiles at me,” in song
76 Bartender’s supply
77 Necessity for
going online, in brief
79 Passed
83 Loopy cursive letters
84 “There was
no other choice!”
87 Deactivate
88 Request for a cold one
92 Bottom-dwelling
fish that lack fins 94 “____ NewsHour”
95 Wizards, but not
witches
96 Place to get a shot
97 Amenities at some
hotels
100 Understanding
102 The last Pope Julius
103 ____ Stic (pen
brand)
105 Hawk → snake
→ frog → insect, e.g.
109 Summer pest
110 Announcement
of July 1969
115 “A-O.K. for launch!”
117 Do-nothing’s state
118 Trojan warrior in the “Iliad”
What’s gotten into your head Represented in sheet music
1980s TV’s “Remington ____” Carol Brady and Camilla Parker Bowles, for two
125 Scruffs
126 Binoculars
attachment 121 122 123 124
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1 Ticket issuers
2 Straddles
3 Long-distance
traveler of 1969
4 800 things?
5 One putting on a show
6 “What goes up must come down” and others
7 Diarist Anaïs
8 Chef’s hat
9 Mrs. Gorbachev 10 Totally
11 Some sound
effects in westerns
12 Performer
13 Texter’s sign-off
14 Achievement of 1969
15 Dictator
16 Rafter connectors
18 Unconventional home in a nursery rhyme English football powerhouse, to fans
24 Strike caller
32 What 71-Across took in 1969, as represented literally in a corner of this puzzle
34 Regan’s father
35 French comic actor Jacques
What 71-Across took in 1969, as represented literally in another corner of this puzzle Third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands
41 Composer Charles
46 Domain of a municipal department
47 Extent
48 Wild party
52 Capital of South
Australia
53 Dressed up
54 Dangerous substance that smells like bitter almonds
56 Receiver with a crystal Org. with an Inspiration Award and an Award of Valor
61 So 21 36 39 58 62 Big inits. in news
63 Wrath
65 Nationality seen
in most of Romania
66 Superman’s father
68 Stat for which Hank Aaron holds the alltime record
69 Common Market inits.
Sport that players are not allowed to play left-handed
80 Nile biter
81 One waiting in
line at an airport 78 82 Network with “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”
83 Goes out
84 Apple on a desk
85 Pitch
86 Comes clean about
89 Member of a popular package delivery service
90 Mother of Hermes
91 Release
93 Tough job
for a mover, maybe
95 “Peter Pan” dog 98 Access an account
99 Convinced of
100 Fuels (up)
101 Angered
104 ____ Weizmann, first
president of Israel
106 Dirty mouth?
107 Economy
108 Test taker’s
downfall, perhaps
109 “The Maids” playwright Jean Obstacles to teamwork 111 112 113 114 Very long time “Illmatic” rapper People with badges: Abbr.
Part of the foot between the toes and the ankle
116 Mr. Turkey
119 ____ mode
120 Mo. in 1962 in which J.F.K. gave his “We choose to go to the moon” speech
115