WEEKEND CROSSWORD
MECHANICS OF SOLVING ACROSS
1 Has a snooze
5 Workout unit
8 Anti-DUI ad, maybe
11 “The Maltese Falcon” hero 19 Conical-bore woodwind
20 Log chopper
21 Possess
22 Former airline to Rome 23 Composer of the 1938 ballet “The
Incredible Flutist”
26 Squirrel-sized monkeys 27 Super-cold
28 Podded plant
29 What a dieter may reduce 31 Pressure-reducing elastic stockings 34 Mork’s home planet
35 German city
36 Ordinal suffix
37 Yvette’s “yes”
38 “Gremlins” actress Cates
44 Folk great Bob
47 Edison’s phonograph medium 49 Writer Rand
52 Prefix with treat or trust
53 Bird bill
55 Booting out
56 Horn honk
58 Cleans up, as code
60 Hit PC game of the 1990s 62 Director Preminger
63 Heater along the bottom of a wall 67 Houston ballplayer
68 Ending for Gator
69 CIO partner
70 Greek vowels
75 Bracing wear for a bodybuilder 81 Dog in “The Thin Man”
85 “Little” actress Rae
86 Mrs. with a famous cow
87 “500” auto race
88 Hone
90 William of “Hopalong Cassidy” 91 Its cap. is Buenos Aires
93 Levy 94 Video surveillance device, briefly 97 Of — (somewhat)
99 Bit of skin art
100 Timid
101 Cable TV channel for buying
goods
103 Flee to wed
107 “I solved it!”
108 Type of needle-free syringe 111 ThinkPad power source, e.g. 118 Cl- or Na+
119 Gold, to Luisa
120 Zesty potato chip go-with
121 Where nine key words in this
puzzle can be found
124 Word after poet or Nobel
125 LA-to-MI dir.
126 Tea vessel
127 Swing about
128 Evaluated
129 Lobed thing
130 Turndowns
131 Actress Harper
DOWN
1 Not at all, quaintly
2 Ancient calculator
3 Corals, e.g.
4 Workout unit
5 Less ordinary
6 Brit living in America, e.g.
7 Architect I.M.
8 Soil-enriching compound
9 Very muscular, in modern lingo 10 Year, to Nero
11 Like “Weekend Update” reports 12 “Alas and —”
13 “Bosch” actress Rogers
14 Lee of Marvel
15 Component
16 Et — (plus others)
17 Rinky- —
18 Relieve
24 Person for whom a thing is named 25 Kilt wearer
30 Butter-and-flour mixture 32 Crosswalk user, for short 33 Coop female 37 Tree of Illinois 38 Largest dwarf planet 39 — and hers 40 Aware of 41 Revise text 42 Crooked 43 Therefore 45 Venice beach resort 46 Totally lost 47 “That — close call!” 48 Former Royals manager
Ned
49 “Mamma Mia” group 50 In-favor votes
51 Chick’s home
53 Indian religion founder 54 White heron 57 For each 59 Talks big 60 Ticked off 61 Crimean resort port 64 Curtsy, e.g. 65 How often the sun rises 66 Fix, as a fight 71 Osaka sash 72 Festival shelter 73 Actor Alan 74 River of myth 76 “Old MacDonald” letters 77 Lacks entity
78 Impend, as a deadline 79 Investments for later yrs. 80 Songwriter Laura
81 Helper: Abbr.
82 Old New York ballpark 83 Diplomacy 84 In — (mired) 89 Expert 90 Large inlet 92 Actor Lorne 95 Like a slingshot or a wishbone 96 Schmooze
97 Singer DiFranco 98 Pampering, for short 101 Cowboy doing a roundup, say 102 Eye affliction
104 Peter of “Becket”
105 Spongelike
106 Wears away
107 Grab — (eat fast)
108 Actress Elfman
109 Hot rod fuel 110 Long — (winter undies)
111 Singer Falana
112 Santa — (hot winds)
113 Name of 12 popes
114 Ripped
115 Small bills
116 Sidewalk smooches, e.g., for
short 117 Melody
122 Leg it
123 Prez after FDR