SUNDAY CROSSWORD

BORN YESTERDAY: On the Fourth of July

ACROSS

1 Not falling for 5 Storied soul seller 10 Samuel Beckett’s

no-show 15 Fly-fisher’s move 19 Beachhouse selling

point 20 About to bloom 21 Omit from

pronunciation 22 Grandson of Esau 23 Twin columnists born

July 4, 1918 27 Suffix for star 28 Go off course 29 Metaphor for control 30 A Van Gogh home 31 Defiant talk 32 Bit of cauliflower 34 Utility bill extra 35 Nation east of Jamaica 38 South Beach city 39 Worker’s

compensation 40 NY college that

opened July 4, 1802 45 “For __ a jolly good

fellow” 48 Unreliable one 49 Uncool ones 50 Uncolorful 51 Coin of Yemen 52 Less than rigorous 53 Evil spells 54 Keep hidden 56 “Infinite” descriptor of

black holes 57 Voice of Apple 58 Bracelet bauble 59 Ranked in a tourney 60 Patriotic song first published as a poem July 4, 1895 65 Last flower in the first section of a botanical dictionary 66 Tuba material 67 Floor covering 68 Put up 69 Christmas carol octet 70 Druid, for example 72 “. . . __ the cows come

home” 75 Coffee holders 76 Tool in a trunk 77 Not as rainy 78 Half a sneaker set 79 Ball-bearing peg 80 School founded by Booker T. Washington July 4, 1881 84 Camp beds 85 Set aside 86 Mountain evergreen 87 Musical releases 90 More arduous 92 Winter coat 94 The original reindeer

namer 95 Spend futilely 96 Town adjacent to

Windsor 97 Sorority letter 100 Colonial capital

founded July 4, 1636 105 Pool partition 106 Intense spirit 107 Capitol Hill helper

outers 108 Porous gem 109 Crossed marks 110 Records that may be

“personal” 111 In a devious manner 112 Capitol Hill helper

outer

DOWN

1 Avocado-shaped 2 Start of Alaskan zip

codes 3 Backpacker’s shelter 4 Pussy-cat’s poetic

partner 5 Court assessments 6 Peruvian range 7 Bus alternative 8 California’s Big __ 9 QB’s triumphs 10 No-name 11 Any song on Elvis

Radio 12 “That __ hurt a bit!” 13 Metrical tributes 14 Bags in a grocery bag 15 Sandpaper spec 16 Walk casually 17 Cavalry officer’s blade 18 Covert meeting 24 Be of use 25 Bakery by-product 26 Long and lean 31 Start to awaken 32 Inspires, with “up” 33 Pringles alternative 34 Poetic foot 35 Ship’s bottom 36 Gobi Desert locale 37 Big screen format 38 Zebra colt’s mother 39 Flimsy 41 Westernmost

continental Europe 42 Extreme opposite of

“nutritious” 43 Love to bits 44 Film genre 45 Typical Delhian 46 Stand for meeting

rooms 47 Musher’s vehicle 51 Coral structures 53 Brought onboard 54 Ancient board game 55 Science classrooms 56 Lower oneself 57 Moves at retail 58 Sudan neighbor 59 Queen Anne’s House 60 Sky hue 61 State with a 2020

bicentennial 62 Taken __ (astonished) 63 Tot’s wheels 64 Suggests strongly 65 Touch upon 69 Part of Einstein’s

equation 70 Before now 71 Contraction

heard in the first JazzSinger 72 Dull sound 73 Tiniest bit 74 Villainous visage 76 Protrudes 77 Removal instruction 78 “Mulligan”

meal 80 Marisa in Spider-Man

movies 81 Elastic straps

around socks 82 Venerated village

leader 83 Phone panel images 84 Slalom course,

essentially 87 More than enough 88 Seuss environmentalist 89 Trailblazing

folk hero 90 They often work

around the clock 91 Flamboyant tie 92 Auto frame material 93 Clamorous 95 “__ number one!” 96 Swirling water 97 Family guy’s

nickname 98 Unexpected

inconvenience 99 With nothing to do 101 Bit of hair gel 102 “Rumor __ it . . .” 103 Portrait medium 104 Cut (off)