The Cockney Backlash
...That letter you lost? It’s back This puzzle is part of Merl's best-of series
ACROSS
1 Bible bk. after Nahum 4 Reagan’s metaphorical coating
10 Capitol Hill nickname 14 Giovanni’s glassful 18 Flaws and all
20 Julia on Seinfeld
21 On the mark 22 Dana’s Church Lady 23 “(n.) a natural raised part of the earth’s surface”?
25 Elmer Fudd’s weapon? 27 Kate’s friend, on a ‘90s sitcom 28 Acumen
30 Roman wrap 31 Laundry problem for beachgoers? 34 Unconcern
37 Clear the decks? 40 “Certainly, sir!” 41 Projection-room pile from the past 42 Goblet part
43 Sans support
45 A tide
46 Pitcher’s mound? 49 Freedom of movement 52 The O of XOX 54 Simple wind instrument 55 Sailing 56 “Bleeding” items, to conservatives? 59 Daring
61 Having wings 62 Movie couple’s terrier 63 Drinking too much beer? 67 Pampering, briefly 68 Range rovers 71 Smile inducer
73 Enero starts a new one
74 Answer to “Why do you think the natives are restless, Tarzan?” 76 “Daddy’s sander is not ___!” 77 Sculptor James ___ Fraser 79 Governess Jane 80 Weekly special at Denny’s?
84 Where a French-wine hangover hurts 87 “Because ___” (Mom’s reason) 89 Carnival city 90 “Even ___ speak” 91 Spielberg after filming at sea?
93 Pitfall
95 Droll DeGeneres 96 Very, to Verlaine 97 Amish, Mennonites, etc. 99 Awkward one 102 “Don’t ___” 103 Music-room key 106 Where you left the clippers? 108 Superman can bend it 110 Washing bowl 112 ___ Methuselah 113 “___ ... nice wall!” (line from a Roman epic starring Sylvester Stallone?) 117 Went bareheaded on the bus?
120 “... ___ of chocolates ...” 121 Strong wind 122 Chicago cow owner 123 Be, to Brutus
124 Bird on New Zealand coins 125 Tighten, as text 126 Physicist Heisenberg 127 “___ the season ...”
DOWN
1 Joke response 2 Faulkner’s ___ Dying 3 “Send an invoice; then I’ll pay” 4 Ball stand 5 Santa’s helper 6 Saudi king 7 Tablecloths, sheets, etc. 8 How to stand a Christmas tree 9 Buntline and Flanders 10 Utmost
11 The Modern ___ 12 Links from Leipzig 13 Comb parts 14 Secrecy symbol 15 Notorious 16 Zero
17 Keats composition 19 Faux pas 24 “Nothing runs like a ___” 26 Prince Charles, for one 29 Gnaws away on 32 Vaquero’s rope 33 Flower part 35 The defendant and the jury
36 It means “both” 38 “The joke’s ___” 39 1990s group, Salt-N-___ 42 Back bones 44 Tibet’s capital 45 Yeltsin’s refusal
46 Marina sights 47 Cattle breed, Black ___
48 Magna cum ___ 49 Poet Sylvia 50 DeGaulle’s birthplace 51 Manila hemp 53 Author Potok 57 Singer Helen 58 Ending meaning “lingo”
60 “... his fiddlers ___” 63 Caveat emptor addressee 64 Poets 65 Post-wedding relative 66 Seeing eye ___ 69 Hatch in the Senate 70 The Price Is Right response
71 “It’s our biannual sell-___!”
72 Do a lawn job 75 Actor Christopher 76 Buffoons 78 Quick letters? 80 Glyphics preceder
81 Tom Swiftie word 82 Get rid of, as a getaway car 83 Tampico to Matamoros, e.g. 84 Hedda Gabler character 85 Snakes in the reef 86 Oprah or Dr. Phil 88 Bulletin board abbr. 92 Sacked out
94 ___ in the dark 97 Baseball’s “Duke of Flatbush”
98 Of a well-known volcano
99 This is “most unusual” 100 Sampras foe 101 ___ up (comes clean) 104 Become one 105 Tale of Achilles and Hector
106 “___ mio ...” 107 Fashion mag 109 Something to share in Manhattan 111 “Pretty maids all in ___” 113 Shoot the bull 114 Kimono need 115 Three-time heavyweight champ 116 “Inter” ender 118 Charles V’s realm: abbr. 119 Birthplace of Robert Burns