Toronto Star

SUNDAY CROSSWORD

- By Fred Piscop

A GUY THING: With years as hints

ACROSS

1 Large quantity 5 Get ready, for short 9 Chocolate substitute 14 Galileo’s hometown 18 Jai __ 19 Solid reasoning 21 Honda’s luxury line 22 Neighbor of Yemen 23 Rolling Stones leader [2003] 25 “Maggie May” singer [2016] 27 Overfill 28 Overly sweet 30 African scavengers 31 Lacrosse stick attachment­s 33 Break of day 34 Ending like -arian 35 For naught 39 Wagner genre 41 Mideast royal house 42 Task to do 45 Beasts with tusks 46 Bee Gees cofounder [2018] 48 Cantina tidbit 49 Places to lodge 50 Moonstruck Oscar

winner 52 “__ fair in . . . “53 City north of Des

Moines 54 Infomercia­l ritual 55 Draws in 57 Captain Hook

associate 58 Public commotion 59 Earliest stage 61 Set free on a farm 63 Places to lodge 64 National Lawn and

Garden Mo. 66 One of the Fab Four

[1997] 70 Caught on to 71 __ sauce (seafood

topping) 73 Francs’ successors 74 City on the Missouri 76 Small pop groups 77 Nutmeg spice 78 Dull finish 81 Common Russian

female name 84 Large quantity 85 Merit badge holder 86 Government­al center 87 On a road trip 88 Natural balm 89 “Candle in the Wind”

singer [1998] 93 Latest thing 94 Highest Scrabble tile

point value 95 Halloween decoration­s 96 Runs like sap 97 “But of course!” 98 __ Romeo (Italian

auto) 99 Civil rights icon Parks 100 Author Wiesel 102 Choose 105 Workers in wicker 107 Gist 112 “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” composer [1969] 114 What the eight male musicians in this puzzle all achieved 116 Watson of films 117 Finnish tech giant 118 Sudden rise 119 Previously enjoyed 120 Didn’t return 121 Extremely small 122 Large inlets 123 Turn down

DOWN

1 Farm animals 2 Inter __ (among

others) 3 Bit of truth 4 __ torch (luau light) 5 Typewriter roller 6 Thesaurus pioneer 7 Frittata base 8 Oven-prepared

desserts 9 Source of sandwich

seeds 10 Symbol of growth

potential 11 Nickname like Dolph 12 Dr. show locales 13 Soaking settings 14 Instigate 15 “__ open book!” 16 Paretsky of whodunits 17 Hobby farm animals 20 More boorish 24 Singer Joplin 26 Got a glimpse of 29 Actress Teri 32 Cool-headed 34 Weasel cousin 35 Footnote notation 36 Zip 37 “Brown Eyed Girl”

singer [2016] 38 Incendiary crime 40 Trim down 41 Mum 42 Irish flutist [2001] 43 Not ruling out 44 Most despicable 47 Arcade regular 48 Food truck fare 50 Easy to grasp 51 Rwanda native 56 A Bolivian capital 57 Burst of activity 58 What Brits call some

beans 60 Cruise ship facilities 62 Cpl. or sgt. 63 Had a follow-up

session 64 Besides 65 Sentence shortener 67 Barest minimums 68 Large quantity, in

Quito 69 “__ creature was

stirring . . .” 72 Reusable bag 75 Stale, as jokes 77 Island in the

Commonweal­th 79 Big Apple’s Arthur __

Stadium 80 Suspensefu­l 82 Steady look 83 Roll-call votes 85 Dock area 90 Lunchtime

for many 91 San __ (Costa Rica’s

capital) 92 Branson’s region 93 Toy box 95 Alliance 97 They may be “best” 98 Key beside G 99 __ to go (eager) 101 Flamingo descriptor 102 About 3,300 feet, to

runners 103 Apple or pear 104 Forecast stat 105 Traditiona­l wedding

serving 106 Social slight 108 Former Israeli leader

Barak 109 Carrot, for a snowman 110 Filmmaker brothers’

surname 111 Whirling water 113 Tribulatio­n 115 Glass of public radio

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