Toronto Star

SUNDAY CROSSWORD

- PURPLE PROSE: In various shades by Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 Caterpilla­r, for one 6 Object of worship

10 Colony dwellers 14 Four-team rounds

19 “The bombs bursting __”

20 PBS science series

21 Honolulu’s locale

22 Coax a smile from

23 Herbal oil source

26 Country residence

27 Iron-fisted ruler

28 Within arm’s length

29 Common Main Street merchant

30 Top dog, for short

32 __ de toilette

33 Seeing red

35 Filled with freight

37 UFO pilots

38 Tell-__ (some bios)

40 Very hot, so to speak

43 Social skills

45 Flower-focused spring celebratio­n

49 Path between floors

50 Nielsen or Caron

51 Red Cross headquarte­rs

52 T-shirt applicatio­n

55 Tasks for tugs

57 Center for

97 Across

60 Premiere performanc­e

61 Pulls even with

64 Mideast airline

67 Leading the pack

68 Isle near Venezuela

69 Gerundial ending

70 Suspect in Clue

73 Moral lapse

74 Myopic toon

76 Face-to-face tests

77 Noticed

78 Backyard structure

79 Enter with a keyboard

80 Sit for a shoot

81 Notice

83 Upper-bod muscle

84 Peace Nobelist nun

89 T-shirt applicatio­n

93 Confound

97 Bubbly beverage

99 Noisy nappers

101 Don’t leave the house

102 Prefix meaning “outer”

103 Stick with a kick

104 Actor Zac

106 Poetic monogram

107 Jack Ryan

employer

110 Term of endearment

111 Best for harvesting

113 Bear with too-hot porridge

115 Serenaded

117 Outlines of eggs

118 Shy one

123 Section of a song

124 What orzo resembles

125 Pennsylvan­ia port

126 Walk away

127 Pursuer of Bugs

128 Pert talk

129 Day breaks

130 City north of Bonn

DOWN

1 False account

2 Andy’s inanimate sister

3 2 Down and Andy

4 Loathsome

5 Come to mind

6 Not farmed out

7 Oaf

8 Caesar’s eggs

9 Washroom, in brief

10 First-rate

11 Tennis star Rafael

12 Aries alias

13 Big __, CA

14 African grassland

15 Kuwaiti monarch

16 Plant in the monkey/ weasel song

17 Chain of keys

18 Roebuck partner

24 Cruise amenity

25 Salad green

29 Flexed

30 Referee’s ruling

31 Writer Wiesel

33 Bit of dust

34 Closely related

36 Court VIPs

39 Deices, as a driveway

41 NYC’s NBA arena

42 Apachean language

44 Pillow filler

46 AFL merger partner

47 Less numerous

48 Rock concert lighting

53 Blake of ragtime

54 Oboist’s accessory

56 Sort of sailboat

58 Carton sealer

59 Doesn’t work at all

60 Stream stopper

61 Shy

62 Devoid of import

63 Italian deli sandwich

65 Hair that Beyoncé has had

66 Barest minimums

67 Braying beast

70 Poker prize

71 Takes a nap

72 Detach, as a medal

75 Play better than

78 Vermont ski center

82 www.redcross.__

85 Porch furniture material

86 Noteworthy times

87 Scottish terrier

88 Arabian Nights prename

90 Name of two czars

91 Mindful of

92 Very vivid, as crayons

94 Stage actor’s aide

95 Didn’t hang around

96 Botch something

98 Where pet gerbils live

99 Be a whiner

100Oscar actress Loren

103 Valuable stash

105 Some undercover agents

108 Paper that might say COD

109 Light on one’s feet

112 “Anything __?”

114 Bake sale offerings

115 Quick cut

116 Low water testers

118 HS yearbook section

119 Range of knowledge

120 S&L offering

121 Paradise Lost woman

122 Where to see Hamilton

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