And Now a Word from Alcatraz

...It only looks hard This puzzle is part of Merl's best-of series

ACROSS

1 Pirate quaff

4 It’s said on Sunday 8 Fly catcher 11 Onesies and twosies game 16 Copenhagen coin 18 Butler of fiction 20 Tanning salon abbr. 21 New York town noted for its slick streets? 22 Cartoon flyer 25 Charley Weaver’s home

26 Sound of disgust 27 Order to fly? 28 Purchases at Frederick’s 29 Gillette’s ___ II razor 30 Enjoy, as a frozen pond 32 Baker of Minneapolis 37 Fleeced one

38 Price tag abbr. during a sale

40 “___ lied!”

41 B’ar killer of song 42 Pull ___ one 44 Name of the 1984 Olympics eagle 46 “___ of a better word ...”

48 Hart’s running mate? 49 Philippine island

50 Pot top

52 Bids bon voyage to 54 Harry’s VP

55 Arm bones

57 Base cops 58 Casserole candidate 60 Iditarod vehicle 61 Dickensian garb 63 Czech capital, to a Czech

65 The Sargasso, for one 66 Kunta and Alex, e.g. 67 Works, as an investment

68 Say further

69 The B & O et al. 71 Abbr. after Lowell Weicker’s name before he became an Independent

73 Film damagers, sometimes

75 Dove dwelling 76 Hawaiian tree 77 Sigma ___

78 Godly belief

79 Milk, in Mexico

80 Film vehicle, in Variety 83 Opposite of ext. 84 Invite to the penthouse, e.g.

85 Hit on the head 88 Plaza Hotel girl and namesakes

90 ___ long way 92 Anagram of MY CAR 93 Cardinal great 95 George Eliot was one 97 Young boxer? 99 Korean soldier 100 You’ll get a big kick out of them

102 “... drink and ___” 105 Pool tool

106 Ilk

107 Radiance

108 ___ degree (somewhat) 109 Penn and Teller forte

111 Love Song subject 115 Oscar role for Patty 116 Image center? 117 Wax nostalgic 118 Hammy dialogue? 119 Over 300 lbs. 120 Take chances 121 Conductance units 122 Little pain in the neck

DOWN

1 Long Island area featured in Woody’s Radio Days 2 Mom’s bro

3 ’80s Attorney General 4 TV oldie, The Law

and ___ 5 Charlie Chan assent 6 Order: abbr.

7 Four Tops lead singer Levi

8 Brat or knack completer 9 Creationism lady 10 Dance, to Danielle 11 TV detective 12 Swear on ___ of Bibles

13 Hit it off

14 Young Billy or young billy

15 Le Carré’s Leamus 16 Barbra’s A Star Is

Born co-star 17 Center funder

19 Get bored with 23 Lightning-bolt hurler 24 Odds, basically 29 Early relative of croquet 31 Worked for Underwriters Laboratories 33 Named, archaically 34 Unrefined 35 D-Day “theater” 36 UPS assignment 39 Big name in wine 42 “Amo, amas,

I love ___” 43 Perfect score 45 Christmas desserts 47 Taping again, as painters do before painting 51 Senegal’s capital 53 Monk’s title 55 Final resting place, perhaps 56 Kennebunkport catch

59 “The Great Gildersleeve” of radio and TV 61 Fish feature

62 First words of the song “Secret Love” 63 Employers of women in blue: abbr. 64 Four-time Pulitzer columnist

66 Pat O’Brien role 68 Cash-withdrawal mach. 70 Tending to ooze 72 Alliance of the Americas: abbr. 73 Impaling bird

74 Halt legally 75 Lucrezia’s brother 77 Comic strip set in the French Foreign Legion 79 Lancelot du ___ 81 ___ of one’s hair 82 Reagan memoir,

Where’s the ___ Me? 85 Deli sandwich 86 La-la preceder 87 Childish

89 A girl’s name or a wine

91 School colors? 94 Teeth straighteners 96 Regard highly 98 Brazil neighbor 101 Letter-shaped machine hole 103 French version of “oh, dear!” 104 Tibetan beasts 107 No amateur 109 Peace Prize decliner, Le Duc ___ 110 1860s fighter 111 Watergate figure Magruder 112 Consent or Reason, e.g.

113 Morse T 114 Goaltending site