Big Buttinsky
...But enough about you This puzzle is part of Merl's best-of series
ACROSS
1 Indistinct 6 Old Greek coin (or a wolf spelled backwards) 10 Leopold’s accomplice 14 Slays 16 Where Clint was the law, for a while 18 Whacks figure? 20 Famed race car driver from the Midwest? 22 Glue brand 23 Poetic paean 24 Is flub-prone 25 Dandruff? 27 Role that’s not exactly a stretch for most aspiring actors? 31 Had mush or mushrooms 32 Meteor’s tail? 33 Mark with heat 34 Baby word or baby food 35 Opposite of dim., in music 37 Some window transactions 38 Pillsbury’s Doughboy? 45 Mad Libs request 46 Delhi dressing? 47 Good name for an accountant? 48 Youngster’s recitation 51 Ghost star’s first name 54 Cytoplasm content 55 Mel Brooks’s Life ___ 58 Robert Morse hit 59 How some hard-toplease kids like their peanut brittle? 63 Pogo’s creator Kelly 65 Supper downer 66 NBA finesse shot 67 Electronics giant 68 Winner of India’s first marching-band contest? 71 Begone beginning 72 Edit out 73 From ___ Z 74 Kin of ergot 76 Part of MVEMJSUNP 77 Chicano bear 78 “And ___ that sincerely” 80 Plant with pads 82 Teacher’s remark to a kid with a metaphor problem? 88 Sister “worth” two mules 89 Half of a palindromic Cambodian 90 That one, to Tia Elena 91 Take your turn 93 Knotted accessory 94 Miss identification? 96 Get around that darned Regal? 101 Country with the spittin’est team in beisbol? 105 Breezed through 106 “___ know you?” 107 Frayn farce, ___ Off 108 Made-for-TV movie about, well, something obviously very weird that I wouldn’t be trying on any time soon? 112 Free-love free-for-alls 113 Hosts 114 They’re nuts 115 Hiking of the ball 116 “Yikes!” 117 Health, to Henri
DOWN
1 Big name in sneakers 2 Ossicle 3 Author Deighton 4 Wear and tear 5 Up andabout 6 Ungraceful one 7 Unethical gift 8 Astrologer Sydney 9 “___ smile be your ...” 10 French city for which a thread is named 11 Emerald City princess 12 “Watchman” of the Old Testament 13 Catholic cap 15 Scand. country 16 Some calculators, brand-wise 17 Densely packed semiconductor: abbr. 18 Not taken 19 Winding routes 20 Do a yard chore 21 Prefix to comedy 26 Hungary’s Imre 28 Gus and Madeline 29 Cookie often crumbled 30 Little ones 35 These places are buzzing 36 Touch-___ 37 Movie-set bullets 39 Dirty-campaign missile 40 ___ hit (single) 41 Half of a spy’s name 42 Will of Arrested Development 43 Conform 44 Actor-monologuist Bogosian 48 Periodic chart abbr. 49 Astronomer Tycho 50 House mosquito genus 52 Conductor Riccardo 53 “___ with seven wives ...” 55 Pavlov’s bellringings, e.g. 56 Oklahoma Indian 57 Michoacan mister 60 Chatterbox 61 Hormel bestseller 62 Some breads 64 City on Puget Sound 65 Source of Monterrey’s rays 69 Actress Virna 70 Horse of another color 75 Alice in Wonderland (2010) director Burton 76 “Skip to ___” 78 A promising start? 79 TV scientist Bill et al. 81 Precarious perch 82 Bligh’s guys 83 Quitter’s announcement 84 Mtn. road abbr. 85 Does an ore chore 86 Louis Armstrong 87 Perfectly clear 88 Dictation taker 92 Scotland, in France 94 Respond to Nytol 95 Sound of disapproval 96 Steal, as eggs? 97 Elizabeth of cosmetics 98 Jalopy 99 Falco and Sedgwick 100 Do-it-yourselfer’s buy 102 Where Mongolians barbecue 103 Pitcher drink 104 Floor model 109 Composer Delibes 110 TV maker 111 Moving-day rental