Muscat Daily

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 South Pacific islands 5 Word of wondering 8 700, to Caesar 11 Boxing feint 15 Tea cakes 17 Early auto 18 Ubiquitous phone 19 Solitary

20 Wee portion 21 Unit of energy 22 Lotion ingredient 23 Siamese fighting

fish, e.g.

24 TV alien 25 Spellbound,

struck, swathed 29 Menagerie 30 Before Beth or Donald

31 Isle

32 Poetic prepositio­n 33 Stray

34 Loop, nip,

computer unit 39 Dos Passos opus 42 Bring out 44 Wife of Zeus 45 Olé at the Omni 46 Attend Andover,

e.g.

47 Crispy cracker 49 Coalesces 50 Make tracks 51 Tapestry

52 Stiff collar 53 Begs, quarries, laud

57 Cal. counterpar­t 58 1934 heavyweigh­t

champ

59 Eureka!

60 Cigar fallout 61 Mole holes,

donkeys, towns 70 A very long time 71 “The Gold Bug” author

72 Ireland

73 Formerly named 74 Views, places, summons 81 Boggy ground: abbr.

82 Five books of Moses

83 Arca contents: Sp. 84 Religious leader 85 Zest

86 Dash

87 Track star ___ Jo 88 Profit or musket

followers

89 About bees 91 After free and high 92 State, hair, chief 95 Recede

98 Bill

100 Ox preceder? 101 Altar constellat­ion 102 1812 event

103 Harden, releases,

wall band

110 Chicago-Louisville

dir.

111 Major airport 112 Scowl: var.

113 Cover

114 Butterfly fave 116 Air: comb. form 117 Roadhouses

118 Gibbon, e.g.

119 Circa

120 Constructe­d

121 Sen. Moynihan 122 Barbie’s beau 123 Stitches

DOWN

1 Pro, front, quartet 2 Immigratio­n org. 3 Scoff

4 Of the Muslim religion 5 Pathetic one 6 Munich mister 7 Posing exercise 8 Cross out 9 Lummox

10 Ball of yarn 11 Snoozed 12 Fragrant petals and spices 13 Initial wager 14 Interpret 15 Haze plus smoke 16 Black or blue 18 Per ___: for each person

23 Woe

26 Use a beeper 27 Twosomes, trims, pomes 28 Baseball’s Bambino 34 Prickly seed capsule

35 He and she 36 Units of loudness 37 Donkey’s

comment

38 Sweet potatoes 40 Global seven 41 Basilica area 43 Sanctum of sorts 46 Indonesian boat:

var.

47 2006 Cy Young

winner

48 Aleutian island 49 Clothing style 50 Grasslands

51 Fiery felony 53 Puppets

54 Legal thing

55 Pi follower

56 Eiffel Tower milieu 58 Changing room for

Clark

62 Oldtime actress

Ada ___ 63 Competent 64 Dodger

schoolboy

65 ___ noire:

bugaboo 66 Beaver st. 67 Wildebeest­s, reports, Greek letters

68 Miami five 69 Utah’s lily 74 Burgoo or

ragout

75 SE Kansas city 76 Oldster, to

Shakespear­e 77 Brander’s tool 78 ___ Man Race 79 Trite humor: sl. 80 ___ dixit: L. 81 Sine ___ non 85 Card game 87 Faux fur

88 Arab chiefs: var. 89 Rhine feeder 90 Public squares in

Italy

92 Labyrinth 93 Stage directive 94 Describing a first

voyage

96 Street of blues 97 Staff of life 99 Weird

103 Lather

104 Cassowary’s

cousin

105 Impudent 106 Novelist Jaffe 107 Criticism,

informally 108 Ready to eat 109 Emerald Isle 115 Women’s rights

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