WEEKEND CROSSWORD
PRIZEWORTHY
ACROSS 1 Classic Pabst beer brand 7 Place for hay or a choir 11 Facial mask offerers 15 Barter
19 Retort to “Am so!”
20 “La Traviata” solo, say 21 Many a smartphone message
22 By way of, for short
23 He played V in “V for Vendetta” [sci-fi writing] 25 Domain
26 German “a”
27 The, in Tours
28 Tarnish
29 Galahad’s title
30 Tina of pop
32 Mogadishu resident 33 “Rags to Riches” singer [Broadway]
35 Capital of Italy, in Italy 38 Golfers’ positions
40 Built on
41 Jungian inner self 43 Stallion, e.g.
44 Yellow shade
46 “Little Birds” actress [Canadian music]
49 Longtime member of the Four Tops [off-Broadway] 54 Fred dancing in films
55 Tile locale
57 Fly of Africa
58 Rice dish
61 Walton who wrote “The Compleat Angler”
63 Leaves port
64 Rub roughly
68 Ventriloquist with the dummy Charlie McCarthy [mystery writing]
71 Horse pace
72 “Incredible!”
74 Delight in
75 Bus stop
77 She’s asked to “peel me a grape” in film
79 Call to a pig
81 1982 Dustin Hoffman film 86 “Shameless” actress [television] 88 “The Picture of Dorian Gray” novelist [film]
91 Panache
92 La — Tar Pits
93 “The Piano” actor Sam 94 Remits in advance
98 Kids’ racers on tracks
101 Lyric verses
102 American labor leader [French film]
105 Verbalized
107 Go- — (no slouch)
108 Cager’s hoop
109 Went flat
110 Be in arrears
113 Blind as —
114 Uncork, e.g.
116 What any of the eight people featured in this puzzle should be?
118 Dust particle
119 Blu-ray Disc producer
120 Work benefit
121 Puts into law
122 Squeezed (out)
123 Circus barker
124 Actress Harper
125 Least refined
DOWN 1 Witty Mort
2 Like facts
3 Rules, for short
4 1969 Beatle bride Yoko 5 “— I love thee?”
6 Cooks, as asparagus 7 Kitschy 1960s light
8 First
9 High-quality
10 Gift label
11 Tarnish
12 “Firework” singer Katy 13 Tree toppler
14 Governor’s fiscal concern 15 “Tristram Shandy” author Laurence
16 Complained childishly 17 Actor Will of “30 Rock” 18 — Rico
24 Amo, amas, —
29 Distress call
31 Strip down
32 Island group near Fiji 33 Summer shirt
34 Tiny toddler
35 Indian royal
36 Big burden
37 Breath freshener 39 Treble —
42 “Take — from me” 44 On the train, e.g. 45 Illusion on a hot road 47 Sandusky’s lake 48 Merges
49 Seep out
50 In good order
51 Move a bit
52 Capital of Norway 53 Sticky home?
56 Cuba — (rum cocktail) 59 Tennis champ Andre 60 Courteous act, to a Brit
62 — secret (didn’t blab) 64 Judge’s wear 65 “Pardon me”
66 Done the backstroke, e.g.
67 Prefix with 104-Down 69 House unit 70 Jordanian queen dowager
73 Major combat
76 Word before hall or crier
78 Jesuit college in Worcester
80 Part of NYSE
82 Attach with laces, say 83 Lost traction on the ice
84 Waste time 85 Bioelectric fishes 87 Tiara go-with 89 Five-armed echinoderms
90 Lots to leave autos in, to Brits
92 “Lowdown” singer Scaggs
94 World of Warcraft, e.g.
95 Nike rival
96 Grand home 97 Touched comfortingly 98 Jewel 99 Blabbed
100 Meat sticker
103 Boxing venue
104 Plastic for a waterbed 106 Suburb of Minneapolis 109 —’Pea
110 In time past
111 Makes moist 112 Word before while 115 “The Raven” poet 116 Inclined
117 Rustic denial