“INSIDE HELP”

ACROSS 1 Fowl poles 7 Something for a rainy day 14 Bad mark 20 Lenient sort 21 Not quite par 22 Snorkeling site 23 Infielder traded by the Yankees to get Alex Rodriguez 25 Journalist Peter 26 John Irving’s “__ of

the Circus” 27 Bit of derring-do 28 Obi-Wan portrayer 30 Ratio words 31 Fit to be fried 33 Bygone U.S. fuel stop 36 Like 38 Fair-hiring inits. 39 “Moon River” composer 41 Ran into 42 “How the Camel Got His Hump” et al. 45 Select 47 Jets’ former group 50 Cuts short 51 __ of vantage: favorable position 52 Literary lord 53 Court answer 54 Lucy Lawless role 55 Coastal flooding cause 57 Where Hope sprang

eternal? 59 Soft “Hey, you!” 61 Didn’t quite win 63 You can skip the flat ones 64 Stage remark 67 Part of a Maui welcome 69 Barber’s challenge 71 Año starter 72 Back from a trip, say 74 Mideast native 78 One-named supermodel 80 Japanese food staple 82 “West Side Story” number 84 Lift near a lodge 88 Purim’s month 89 Stock mkt. opening? 90 Lean cuisine lover 91 Theater district 93 Address bk. datum 94 Modern address 95 “CBS News Sunday

Morning” host 97 Smashed 99 Was of use 101 Excessively 102 Short missions? 103 Area in the North

Atlantic 106 Fivesome 108 Grenoble girlfriend 109 Problem’s end? 110 It may be used in a

pinch 112 Suspicious of 114 Iowa and Indiana are

in it 116 Lord Kitchener of

Trinidad et al. 121 Available for work 122 Most avant-garde 123 Earthquake prefix 124 Walk unsteadily 125 Strengthens 126 Ridges in ranges DOWN 1 Cape Town’s home: Abbr. 2 Dancer enslaved by Jabba the Hutt 3 When many trades

are made 4 Put up with 5 Least resonant 6 His, to Henri 7 Long time follower? 8 Slaughter on the

field 9 Spanish muralist 10 Vous, familiarly 11 One of the Peróns 12 Torah starter 13 Become gradually

more desirable to 14 Bias 15 Do road work 16 Start to burn 17 Abandons the band 18 Slogan 19 Dramatist Chekhov 24 Gives more than the

once-over 29 The way things

stand 32 Raises 33 Puzzle 34 Pretty 35 Band booster 36 Comet competitor 37 Garage job 39 Marshmallowy treat 40 Plain font choice 43 Hidden entrance 44 Ft. Worth campus 46 John of “Good

Times” 48 A smaller number 49 Nab, in oaters 52 Karate kin 53 Frustrating series of calls 56 N.L. Central team 58 Originate 60 Attaches, in a way, with “on” 62 Shade of green 64 Get in one’s sights 65 Nasty 66 “There there” 68 Hockey great Phil,

familiarly 70 Upper-bod muscle 73 Dark genre 75 Bag mate of a cleek

and a niblick 76 Classic Chevy 77 __ Haute 79 Strand 81 Like a baseball home team 83 Manhattan suffix 85 Exam many examinees won’t look at 86 Over 87 Fishing gear 92 Big name in gloves 94 Hagen of Broadway 95 Falls 96 Leaves in 98 “That makes sense” 100 Spoken 103 Cousin of a clog 104 Essential acid 105 More sound 106 Cabal activities 107 1973 #1 hit for the

Stones 110 Graf __ 111 NCAA member?:

Abbr. 113 “Him __”: beau’s

ultimatum 115 Ahead of, in verse 117 Size above med. 118 Pound sound 119 Patience-virtue link 120 Help found inside

eight puzzle answers