Muscat Daily

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Periwinkle

6 Verve

10 Habitat plant form 14 French magazine 18 Close by, to a poet 19 Dispatch a news

story 20 Parent-to-be’s

choice

21 Din of voices 23 Tuffet-sitter 25 He’s huge and

jolly, in ads 27 High church

position 28 Paragon of

dryness

29 He or she brings

home the bacon 30 Braeden, of TV 31 German painter and woodcut expert 32 Broadway musical 33 Morse code

symbol

36 Fishing for morays 39 “The ___ Balloon” 40 Book by Robert

Louis Stevenson 50 “. . . ___ comes

the sun”: D.H.

Lawrence

51 Jazz jobs 52 Cartoonist’s need 53 Letter phrase 54 North American

country

55 Cap or box lead-in 56 One, in Paris 57 Entertain

59 WSW plus 180

degrees 60 Check-writing need 62 Tokyo, once 63 Riverbank landing

places

64 Fanciful activity 69 First canonical

hour

71 Meadow sound 72 Actor’s signal 73 Mom’s partner 76 Seeping slowly 77 Restaurant check 78 Make knotted lace 80 Greek moon

goddess 83 Unruffled

84 Canine

85 He played Emile

Zola

86 Thirty, in Toulon 87 Mark Twain’s

classic, “The ___” 92 Eternity

93 Graph or meter

lead-in

94 It’s opposed to

NNW

95 Real

99 Skating arenas 101 Babylonian god 105 “Jane Eyre” author 106 Hill-builders

107 Corrupting

112 Pumpkin-coach

passenger

114 He ate his

Christmas pie 115 Cloak-and-dagger

men

116 Nautical hazard 117 Comedian

Johnson

118 Rapper Katrina’s

nickname

119 Small fruit pie 120 Italian noble

house

121 Bring up the ___ 122 Glutted

DOWN

1 Shoe part 2 Dolphin-like cetacean 3 Monster’s loch? 4 Social division 5 Medieval suit 6 Wipes out 7 English elevator 8 Away from the

weather

9 Court barrier 10 Devour greedily 11 Chili con ___ 12 Moslem prince 13 Billy ___ Williams 14 Fencing position 15 River in France 16 Climbing tropical

vine

17 Serfs

22 French verb 24 Swiss canton 26 Desert in Israel 28 German

confederat­ions 31 Slow, sad song 33 Tap or belly

follower

34 Indian or Arctic 35 Early Scotch clan

chief

37 Urging or inciting 38 Secular

39 D.C. stadium 41 Retirement plan 42 Conducted 43 Arranging in folds 44 Curtain material 45 Undivided

46 Actor Phoenix 47 Small dagger 48 Makes a mistake 49 Tennis play 56 Japanese

vegetable 57 Abhors

58 Herb eve 61 Printer’s measures

62 It might go on trips 63 Univ. at Baton

Rouge

64 Fence steps

65 Hit the lottery 66 Likeness

67 Jack, in cribbage 68 Film director’s

word

69 Fad ring

70 Sea of ___ 73 Patron saint of

France

74 Feeds the kitty 75 American

manufactur­er 76 Wood sorrel 77 High, craggy hill 78 University in

Medford MA 79 Against

81 Pitching stat. 82 Ayres of filmdom 84 Press for payment 85 Holds up to scorn 88 Most orderly

89 He played Charlie

Chan

90 Capital of NM 91 Name or

nickname 95 Fundamenta­ls 96 Gene symbol 97 Medical combining

form

98 Before ground 99 Crackles

100 Small bay or

creek

102 Wood for baseball

bat

103 Overshoes

104 United Nations

relief org.

107 Remove the rind 108 Chord or meter

lead-in

109 Cap. letter

110 Hawaiian goose 111 June VIP

113 Before

114 Jolt or shock

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