Times Colonist

THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD

“LIP SERVICE”

- By Paul Hunsberger

ACROSS

1 Sphere of influence 6 Making waves? 12 Inbox clogger 16 Solstice mo. 19 Video game princess 20 One making bread 21 Wiry-coated terrier 23 Intuition of some “Star Wars” villains? 25 Bullied 26 Airport pickup concern, briefly 27 Good things to keep about you 28 Bob or weave 30 Actress Campbell 31 Lint roller target, maybe 34 Weaknesses of a prof’s helper? 39 Stage direction 41 Back 42 Purell target 43 Showy display 46 Church official 48 Penniless one 52 Surrendere­d 54 Hibachi residue 55 Help-wanted ad periods 57 Not all 58 Daytime __ 59 Holiday elves who can’t get along? 63 Mane character in Narnia 64 Gush 65 Posthumous 2009 George Harrison album 66 To the sky 67 British heiress __ Khan 69 Stud spot 70 Find on the dial 72 Ten-armed species 74 Goalie’s protective wear 77 See 85-Across 80 “Super Mario” brother 81 Coughing and sneezing? 82 Flashy promotion 83 Hardly hard up 84 Wisecrack 85 With 77-Across, “Amen!” 86 Call for 88 Cowboy hat 90 Doyle’s narrator 93 Wee 94 Tug or tub 95 Roof rim 96 Led Zeppelin’s “Whole __ Love” 98 Fashion collaborat­ion of actor James and a one-named rock-’n’roller? 103 Much-kneaded

treatment? 107 Up to it 108 Little cut 109 Like eyes “you can’t hide,” in an Eagles song 111 Time chunk 112 “Ghastly grim and ancient” poem title critter 115 Unexpected affection, and an alternate title for this puzzle 120 Jersey output 121 Fancy 122 Verbatim line 123 MD office posting 124 Skip over 125 Monster’s nickname 126 Flower part

DOWN

1 Montezuma subject 2 Maestro Zubin 3 Pasture cry 4 Dog tags, say 5 __ chi ch’uan 6 Put back to work 7 Brewer’s kiln 8 Pull with effort 9 Country stopover 10 19- and 80-Across letters 11 Like Keats’s urn 12 Indian title 13 Battles with thrown weapons 14 Orbit bit 15 49-Down, as a rookie 16 “Is this too big a chance?” 17 French student 18 Hands over 22 “Stop adding milk and sugar to these brews!”? 24 Noodlehead 29 Boathouse item 32 Dutch South Africans in need of exercise? 33 Get in the game 35 Pritzker Prize winner 36 Name of 13 popes 37 Green expanses 38 Journalist Kupcinet 40 Chemical experiment substances 43 Pasture moms 44 Tent site 45 Gimlet ingredient 47 European wine region 49 Holder of numerous pitching records who never won a Cy Young Award 50 General Bradley 51 Lean 53 Some surrealist works 55 IM pioneer 56 Was embarrasse­d 60 Sleep lab letters 61 Coot relative 62 Overlooked 63 O’Neill’s “The Hairy __” 66 Inordinate 68 Early 16th-century date 71 High-tech address 72 Some 35mm cameras 73 Pack it in 75 Scarf down 76 Crop circle makers, supposedly 78 “Breaking __ Hard to Do” 79 Long and slimy 81 Guards 84 Fonda’s “The Grapes of Wrath” role 87 Acrobats’ gear 89 Lamont, to Fred Sanford 90 Continues strolling 91 Prefix with fauna 92 One who is honored and hopeful 95 Cause of an env. bulge 97 Do miserably, in slang 98 Stick in a box 99 Not fancy at all 100 Gobs 101 Porcine patter 102 Those girls, in Oaxaca 104 Memorable moralist 105 Actress Scacchi 106 Gallery item 110 “Tintin in Tibet”

creature 113 “MTV Unplugged”

lack 114 Through 116 Uno e due 117 Clip-__: ties 118 High nos. for rocket

scientists? 119 Try to take to the cleaners?

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