Toronto Star

THE PREMIER

NATIONAL DATA

- BY FRANK A. LONGO

ACROSS

1 Bumper-car carnival ride 7 TV title alien 10 Garden pond fish 13 Cause to blunder 19 Cook too long 20 Ned of NASCAR 22 Ned of “The D.A.” 23 Appear gradually, as a scene 24 “No, seriously!” 25 Surrounded by 26 Mountain laurel 29 Clumsy type 30 Stocking stuffer 31 It's charged 32 Alternativ­e to ChapStick 37 “Old Folks at Home” 44 Vital artery 45 Spellbound 47 1989-2007 senator Trent 48 Stein fillers 49 Blue spruce 53 Propose a date to 55 Author Ferber 56 Pro — (in proportion) 57 “— a customer” 59 Joe of “GoodFellas” 60 Clinton aide Myers 62 Susan of “Goldengirl” 64 Eurasian animal with antlers 66 “North to the Future” 70 Used up 74 118-Across was one 75 Printing goofs 80 Humdinger 81 Reformer Ralph 84 “OK” from Tom Sawyer to Aunt Polly 86 Workplace welfare org. 87 Fuddy-duddies 89 Topaz 92 Relative of a lutz 93 Bullfight yells 95 Israeli airline 96 Right wrongs 97 Cactus wren 101 Went in 103 To the — power 104 Savings acct. accrual 105 Hail, basically 106 Some legislator­s (or the theme of this puzzle?) 117 Arrived by plane 118 Opera legend Pavarotti 119 Make a comment 120 Response to “You'd never do that!” 121 Ill-fated NASA mission of 1967 122 And others, to Ovid 123 Dwelt 124 Round bread of India 125 Subj. for some immigrants 126 Passable

DOWN

1 Tip politely, as one's hat 2 Human face's shape 3 Whoop- — (extravagan­t fanfare) 4 Expanded 5 Sedgwick of Warhol films 6 Marilyn of “Niagara” 7 In — (pronto) 8 Desktop illuminato­r 9 No longer being detained 10 Sax celebrity 11 Soulful Redding 12 Really tiny 13 “Saturday Night Fever” star 14 Hard Italian cheese 15 “Sure, put me down” 16 Toenail treatment, informally 17 Astral bear 18 Coffee holder 21 Rambled 27 Mexican city due south of Dallas 28 Elevate 32 Waiting with — breath 33 2013 Grammy winner for “Royals” 34 Dunne of classic films 35 Lieu 36 Chinese ideal 37 California county whose seat is Fairfield 38 Sign word after “Ye” 39 Stocking stuffer 40 Worked on a leaf collection? 41 “You beat me” 42 Tennis tie 43 Up and about 46 Gained access to 50 Refrigerat­ion fluid 51 Workers with shingles, maybe 52 Kofi, once of the U.N. 54 Caveman's weapon 58 Scrub nurses' sites, in brief 61 Be hammy 63 Tribal pole emblem 65 — Mountain (Vermont ski resort) 67 Two fives 68 — Mary-mount University 69 Stadium's kin 70 Britcom of the '90s 71 Pope before Paul V 72 Coors offering 73 Trade group 76 GPS calculatio­n 77 1941 Oscar winner Mary 78 Scottish title 79 Emitted a contented sigh 82 Ending for golden or New 83 Arnaz of TV 85 Decide on 88 Toned down 90 Outside clearance event, of a sort 91 Quite chubby 94 Bert with lion lines 98 Not delayed 99 Diamond substitute 100 Baseball pioneer Buck 102 Came closer 105 One way to fry food 106 Chunky slice 107 Garr of films 108 Spellbound 109 Flair 110 Cocooned insect 111 Son of Seth 112 Head, in Haiti 113 Classroom Apple, often 114 Glen 115 Bard's Ireland 116 Revue sketch 117 Pill-OK'ing agcy.

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