THEME CROSSWORD

CONNECTIONS

ACROSS

1. “If I had to __ __ all over again ...”

5. Three from the East

9. Sternward

14. __ avis

18. O.T. book: Abbr.

19. Picture

20. Sprite

21. Freshly

22. Kind of fence

24. Junk mail: 2 wds.

26. Mexicali mayor

27. Evening wear for gents

28. Johnny-come- __

29. Malay dagger

30. Sweets

31. __ morgana

32. Pert

35. Tin lizzie

36. Muzzles

40. Whodunit board game

41. Means of restraint: 3 wds.

45. Magician’s prop

46. Transfixed

47. Say

48. Gladden

49. Flavouring plant

50. Increase (with “up”)

51. Underway

52. Means of public transport

53. Lover: Suffix

54. Closed figures

56. Pork cuts

57. Woodworker

58. “Now __ talking!”

59. Shuttlecocks

60. Big swallows

61. Derided

63. Imminent

64. Good luck charm

67. Yearned

68. Treeless plain in Argentina

69. Perfume ingredient

70. Sash

71. Twofold

72. River in France

73. Sequence in opera

74. Integument

75. __ Pasha

76. Two-wheeler part: 2 wds.

78. Yield

79. Composite pictures

81. Clothesline

82. Painful places

83. Gray

84. Hoisting device

86. In __ (as first positioned) 88. Deft

91. Semblance

92. Spend lavishly

95. Embroidery technique: 2 wds.

97. Forced laborers: 2 wds.

99. Males

100. Uncanny

101. Spotted rodent 102. Designer __ Tahari 103. Sultan of __ 104. Inscribe

105. Bowled over 106. Miami- __ County

DOWN

1. Winter mo.

2. Labour safety org.

3. Type type: Abbr.

4. Stocky

5. Start for liter

6. Corrosive substances

7. Consumed

8. Toner

9. Plant louse

10. Flattened bread roll

11. Line of symmetry

12. Flipper

13. Fib: 3 wds.

14. Wicker material 15. Status quo __

16. Bobbin

17. Off-kilter

23. Not one

24. Body of literary work

25. Devoured

27. Volga region native

30. Gem facet

31. Commands

32. Discarded bit

33. Texas landmark

34. Source and flow of goods: 2 wds.

35. Some singers

36. Impostors

37. Pack-a-day creature of habit: 2 wds.

38. Ern

39. Guide

41. Tannen of “Back to the Future”

42. United: 2 wds.

43. Disparage

44. Social groups

49. UFOs

51. Suffering fever

52. Human trunk

53. Greek city-state

55. Rube

56. Richie or Barrymoe

57. Roman emperor

59. Sauvignon __ 60. Adorned with parsley, e.g.

61. “Call Me __”

62. Eye: Prefix

63. Fills

64. Step

65. Bear

66. Dressed to the __

68. 1980s TV’s “Cagney & __”

69. Yellow pigment

72. Play the tourist

73. British baked treat

74. Flogged

76. Aspersorium

77. Digital money

80. Follower of Lao Tzu

82. Amaze

84. Young charmer

85. Kitchen utensil

86. Gap

87. Trojan War story

88. Behaves

89. Arab boat

90. Avatar of Vishnu

91. Encircled

92. Bandleader Artie __

93. Fundraising event

94. Loved by Geraint

96. Sawbuck

97. Books maven

98. Go right