Muscat Daily

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Far East baby’s nurse 5 Indonesian paradise 9 Robbery 14 Korbut’s namesakes 19 Challenge 20 Forecaster, of sorts

21 Jibe 22 English seaport 23 Hunk or fox 25 Pacific Princess 27 Sacred beetles? 28 Addison’s output 30 Persians

31 Take a crack at 32 Iroquoian speakers 33 Lenin’s predecesso­r 34 TV trophies 37 Like Medusa’s hair 38 Letters from Greece

39 Tic follower 42 Neck garland 43 River transport 46 Gee-whiz

47 “The Immigrants”

author Howard 49 Of night: prefix, L. 50 Avifauna, uncommonly 51 Killer whale, so called 52 Conjunctio­n of

yore

54 Recurrent themes 56 Broods

57 Alpine area 58 C&W singer

McEntire 59 Mickey Mouse,

e.g. 60 Residue

62 Having identical

problems

67 HST’s successor 68 Exceeds the limit 70 Bridge expert

Sharif

71 Repetition shortcut 73 Florida cape 74 Burr and Hamilton did it

76 Collect on a surface

77 Country founded

by Esau 78 Medicinal plant 79 J.R.’s mom

81 Steak sauce,

spelled out 84 Aegir’s realms 85 Recreation­al

vehicle

87 Author Rand 88 Former Orly

arrival: inits. 89 “___ Well That

Ends . . .”

90 Brit truck

91 Fed the kitty 93 Anacondas, e.g. 94 Fine’s partner 95 ___ media: middle

way

96 Presides

99 Diverts

101 Morsels

105 Disturb the status

quo

107 Tethered abode 109 Breathing pause 110 “___ Vanilli”

111 “Bus Stop”

playwright

112 James or Place 113 Cold ones

114 Auto type 115 Free ticket 116 Hammett’s “The

___ Curse”

DOWN

1 Uses a calculator 2 Artist Chagall 3 Tract of land, say 4 Nourishing 5 Chelsea cop

6 ___ Alonzo Stagg 7 “Glee” star Michele 8 Affect each other 9 Playing marble 10 Turkish officials 11 Quarry 12 Sniggler’s haul 13 Collector’s car 14 La Scala offerings 15 Anatomical adjective

16 Ruffian

17 Jai ___

18 Coteries

24 Phobos’ planet 26 Social calls 29 Landlocked Indian

state

32 Legislate 33 Massenet opus 34 Tolkien creature 35 ___ culpa

36 Fail to understand 37 Damaged

38 Chat

39 War vessel 40 Climb

41 Virtuous

44 Pole from North

America

45 Payola, for one 46 Beneficial

48 Kid’s plaything 49 Vegas glitter 53 Wedding VIP 55 Pray in Latin 56 E pluribus unum,

e.g.

59 Worker’s reward 60 Reckon the value 61 Black suit?

63 Dogs

64 Correct 65 Evergreen shrub 66 Kubrick’s

“Space ___” 69 Shade providers 72 La-la leader

74 Buys and sells 75 Fillet

76 Composer

Olivier ___ 78 Hanks - Hannah

hit

80 Noble’s domain 82 Louis, Carrie or

Bill

83 Remnant 86 Connective tissue 89 Main lines? 91 Yes-man 92 Collared 93 Motorcycli­st 94 Cameroon

seaport: var. 95 Workbench devices 96 Seafood cake 97 Keep one’s fingers

crossed

98 Teen bane 99 Rose’s love

100 Pattern

101 Harbor sights 102 Jot

103 Director Jacques 104 Baseball’s Musial 106 Bad ___: German

town

108 Munson of “Gone

with the Wind”

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