Edmonton Journal

“BUSINESS MEETINGS”

- by Matt Skoczen

ACROSS 1 They’re put up in fights 6 Zany 12 Small car brand 20 12-time NBA All-Star

Thomas 21 San Francisco mayor, 1968-’76 22 Draft-y building? 23 “Gladiator” Best Actor winner 25 High-reaching ruminants 26 Stomach opening? 27 In-crowd 29 [“Boohoo”] 30 Eastern Nevada city 31 Silents star Negri 34 Old European capital 36 900 and 9000 39 Ended up where one started 44 Poet Edgar __ Masters 45 Long Beach sch. 47 Hackled headwear 48 Florence farewell 49 Theater section 50 Ipso __ 52 About to faint 54 Cinematic sled 56 Supplier of

household dishes 58 Hotel supervisor 62 Explosive state 63 Editing mark 66 Frosty material? 67 Modern address 68 They really never come home, figurative­ly 70 One in a hospital

room display 74 Some cameras, for short 77 Preschoole­r’s protector 79 Skylab org. 80 Asparagus unit 82 “The Little Mermaid” collectibl­e 83 Annual sports event, familiarly 87 Colorful Italian dessert 89 Not what a fox wants to hear 90 100 kopeks 93 Syndicated computer adviser Mr. __ 94 Sole 95 Flamenco cries 98 Tilts a little 100 Affirmativ­e at sea 101 __-1701: Starship

Enterprise markings 102 One may include

Barbies 106 Home of Iwatayama

Monkey Park 108 Baking __ 109 This, to Tito 110 Some undergrad

degs. 113 102-Across chorus,

maybe 116 Colorful tank fish 119 “__ Full of Love”:

“Les Miz” song 121 Take over, as a role 124 Triceps-strengthen­ing exercise also called a French press 127 Banquet product 128 Floral parts 129 Acid type 130 Hospital recreation

areas 131 Look 132 Under, to Byron

DOWN 1 Musical lament 2 Run-of-the-mill 3 __ Suzuki, mother of Bond’s unborn child at the end of Fleming’s “You Only Live Twice” 4 Vane direction 5 Nepalese people 6 Evil, to Yvette 7 Proof is its std. of

strength 8 Desperate 9 Slangy “Excellent!” 10 Whenever you want 11 Like Shakespear­e 12 GQ, e.g., briefly 13 Laila and Tatyana 14 Coastal bird 15 Lounging site 16 1992 Nicholson role 17 Old West showman 18 Sweet ending 19 Marks on a ballot 24 They have shuttles 28 Szmanda of “CSI” 32 City on the Seine 33 Where many travelers come from? 35 “Entourage” agent Gold 37 Kicked off 38 Sesame __ 39 Precious 40 Tiny Tim’s instrument 41 Leopold’s nefarious partner 42 Turin term of affection 43 Script “L” feature 45 African capital 46 Marx Brothers forte 49 Some military

transports 50 S&L guarantor 51 Job: Abbr. 53 Baroque composer Jean-Marie 55 R-V connectors 57 Graffiti ID 59 Online guffaw 60 Érié and others 61 Applaud 64 Sicilian spewer 65 Christmas or Carroll poem opening

C217597 69 Inane 71 Mulholland Drive segment 72 Is offended by 73 Fist bump 75 Taylor of “The Nanny” 76 Opposite of likely 78 Activist Nellie 81 Cuba libre liquor 83 __-pants: foppish 84 Sound on a track? 85 Hang loose 86 Glean 88 Haunted house

sound 89 Honky-__ 91 Honey source 92 Victoria’s Secret frill 96 Lullaby trio? 97 British poet laureate

Carol Ann Duffy, for

one 99 Plucked instrument 102 Piece with pips 103 Ukrainian port 104 Fried Hanukkah

fare 105 Obama, by birth 107 Hoglike mammal 110 Coastal Brazilian

state 111 “__ we all?” 112 German brewer

Bernhard 114 Dating word 115 Floral part 117 __ Arena: Kentucky

Wildcats home 118 Latin wings 120 Carlisle’s wife in

“Twilight” 121 Part of 126-Down:

Abbr. 122 Norris Dam prog. 123 Surg. centers 125 Business “meeting” hidden in nine puzzle answers 126 Western Fla.

Panhandle setting

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