THEME CROSSWORD

ORAL HYGIENE

ACROSS

1. Crisp cookie

5. Aquatic plants

10. Born and __

14. Pungent taste

18. Prank

20. Under an evil spell

21. Stir up

22. Part of QED

23. Very, in music

24. Lend __ __

25. Start of a quip by Jay Leno: 3 wds.

27. Chinese “way”

28. Barbados native

30. Competent

32. Extend

33. Hard-rind fruit

34. Countermand

36. Old Roman cloak

38. Part 2 of quip: 6 wds.

44. Contains

45. Co-worker

46. Abbr. in timetables

47. D.C. org.

49. Doctrine

50. Makes bored

52. Park ranger’s concern

55. John or Jane

56. Abbr. on a map

57. Dihydrogen monoxide

58. Slices

59. Female ruff

61. Tears in pieces

63. Coup d’__

64. Collect

65. Part 3 of quip: 5 wds.

69. Theater curtains

72. Some paints

73. Loving touches

77. A pronoun

78. Gem

80. Cook’s creation

81. __ Pasha

82. Islet

83. Hotel chain

85. “Age of Anxiety” poet

86. NATO mem.

87. “It’s cold!”

88. Fort __, N.J.

89. Both: Prefix

90. Calumniate

93. Part 4 of quip: 5 wds.

99. Garden figure 100. Della or Pee Wee 101. __ vera

102. Diagonal spar 104. “The King and I”

setting

105. Tested

107. Rds.

110. End of the quip:

2 wds.

113. Nightstick 115. George or T.S. 117. Move carefully 118. Cocoyam

119. Perfect

120. “Death Be Not

Proud” poet 121. Battle fatigue: Abbr. 122. Peruse

123. Fairground huckster 124. Abound

DOWN

1. “Beat it!”

2. Space Shuttle org.

3. Lhasa __

4. Toy-gun projectile

5. Cashew nut

6. Kind of moth

7. Soldier with “pineapples”

8. __ Hutchinson of Arkansas

9. Unfamiliar

10. S.O.S. rival

11. Widespread

12. Isle of __

13. Pro __ et patria

14. Smear

15. Heavy metal band: 2 wds.

16. Piquancy

17. Diminutive suffix

19. __ __ steak

26. Exhort

29. Turncoats

31. Except for

33. Liq. measures

35. Gives assent

36. Fills

37. Actress Gardner et al.

38. Attempt

39. Place in NW Italy

40. Spiritual force

41. Most pink

42. Medicinal plant

43. Propelled

48. Crystal-gazer

51. Virginia willow

52. Foibles

53. Swear word

54. Engaged in barter

57. More affectionate

58. Scarf

60. Figure in Greek myth

62. “Sacred” bird

63. Minneapolis suburb

64. Ornate candle holder

66. Head covering

67. National park in Maine

68. Yarn

69. Gore

70. “Cheep!”

71. Degenerate

74. Long stories

75. Tropical resin

76. Homeric temptress

78. Beam

79. 1970s sitcom

80. Tenant of a kind

84. Not know from __

85. ISU city

89. Old distillation apparatus

91. Undermined

92. “Ugh!”

94. One

95. Old printing process, for short

96. Poseidon’s son

97. __ tree oil

98. Without success 102. Walk

103. The tops, as said in the ‘90s

104. Antitoxins

106. Horse of a color 107. __ die

108. Musical sound 109. Check

111. Common contraction 112. Insect secretion 114. AMA cousin 116. Destiny