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Crossword g Puzzle 2

- “SUPPORT GROUPS” By PAUL COULTER Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS

1 Part of a sea

urchin’s diet 5 Rest of the

afternoon 11 “Beat it!”

15 Big first for

babies 19 Wellsian race 20 “Life of Pi”

director 21 “Boo’d Up”

singer __ Mai 22 Mani mate 23 *Hotel

convenienc­e 25 Manicurist’s

assortment 27 Beholden 28 George who plays Stokes on “CSI” 30 Minneapoli­s’ Target Center, e.g.

31 Roger of

“Cheers” 32 Stand

34 Hotel offerings 37 Cat’s attentiong­etter, maybe 40 *Address essential details 45 Caspian feeder 47 Novelist Rita __

Brown 48 Pitcher John on three different MLB championsh­ip teams 49 Bonanza find 50 Scholars 54 Roofing support 55 Really cool 56 *Wannabe lawyer’s milestone 59 Most clever 61 Brian of rock 62 Evening affairs 63 NYC congresswo­man, in headlines 64 Saint-Saëns’s

“__ Macabre” 66 Paid informer 67 EPA-banned

chemicals 71 Swing site 75 RN workplaces 77 Nantucket

arrivals

79 “... __ he drove out of sight”: Moore

80 Board game

bonus

85 *Keep one’s identity secret, say

87 Big name in

chips

88 Enmity 90 Place for an

anchor 91 Denver-toOmaha dir. 92 Eyepiece 93 Reverence 95 Kid’s retort 96 *Prepare emotionall­y for, as something unpleasant

102 What “/” may

mean

103 Prepared for cooking, as corn

104 Consort of

Psyche

105 Yours, to Yvette 107 Carry away

109 Biblical scribe 111 Exhibits unease,

maybe

115 Harbormast­er’s

chart

118 Miami Sound Machine and others, and a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters

121 On deck,

perhaps 122 High-tech

workers

123 Words from behind a door, maybe

124 Blue hue

125 Go on

126 Acronym on a

protective vest 127 Battery terminals 128 Back talk

DOWN

1 Visored French

cap

2 Brio

3 Byron’s title 4 Stingy sort 5 Important coastal drainage river in South Carolina 6 Swallow

7 “Good grief!” 8 35mm camera

type

9 Leaves in a cup 10 Sea at one end of the Dardanelle­s 11 Texter’s button 12 Stand-up types 13 “Aladdin” prince 14 1960s chess

champ Mikhail 15 Ornamental

shrub 16 Astronomer’s

tool

17 Fall place 18 Galileo’s

birthplace

24 “__ your pardon” 26 Like many rich

foods

29 School room encouragin­g creativity 32 Fancy neckwear 33 Dolly, for one 35 “Family Matters”

nerd

36 Spain’s

peninsula 37 Mashed, as

oranges 38 Grande dame of

pop

39 Doyle’s narrator 41 Composer

Shostakovi­ch 42 Big galoot 43 Singer

Kristoffer­son 44 Breakaway

group 46 Arles article 51 Choir supports 52 Mayo is in it 53 “Hooray, the

weekend!” 54 Dorm figs.

55 Big name in

kitchenwar­e 57 Chick magnet? 58 Distressed cry 60 Thickets

65 Goes out with 67 One in a pod 68 Call out

69 Asian sultanate 70 Cosecant’s

reciprocal 72 Overhaul 73 Game stick with

a net

74 Jamie of

“Bosch”

76 “In the Bedroom”

Oscar nominee 77 Some mil. bases 78 One of eight

Eng. kings 80 Beat it

81 Carry on 82 Antiglare wear 83 Occupied 84 Alexandria’s

area 85 One often seen

in curls

86 TV pioneer

89 __ de mer 92 Attack

93 Back

94 Is no longer 97 Best at putting

things away? 98 World’s largest

peninsula 99 Mother of note 100 Middle ear bone 101 Archaeolog­ical

find

106 Apple varieties 107 List-ending

abbr.

108 Three-time WNBA MVP __ Leslie

110 Gusto

111 List of appts. 112 “Only Time”

songwriter

113 Old food label

nos.

114 IRS IDs

116 Sit-up targets 117 Fiddle stick

119 Taylor of fashion 120 Sulu portrayer

John

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