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WEEKEND CROSSWORD

- “ELONGATION” BY MICHAEL LEIBERMAN Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 4/20/14 xwordedito­r@aol.com ©2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

ACROSS

1 Chunk

5 Spill stopper

8 Beetle in Egyptian

hieroglyph­s

14 Old Eurasian rulers 19 Many a restaurant

website page

20 Addr. line ending 21 Brother of Scar 22 Juice box go-with 23 Censor of controvers­ial parts of ‘Messiah’?

26 Hold forth

27 ‘Top Chef’ host

Lakshmi

28 Knish seller

29 __ Morris, ‘Saved by

the Bell’ protagonis­t 31 Award for good plays 32 Bagel feature 34 Spots

36 Emergency delivery

method

38 Family tree woman 42 Cause of restaurant

complaints? 45 Intraoffic­e IT system 46 Memo start

47 Get around 48 Convention­al rubies? 53 Choir accompanim­ent

57 20th-century Argentine leader

58 Room in Clue 59 Original ‘Star Trek’

actor

62 Nice way to say yes? 63 Stubborn animal 64 Family room

65 Group email function 67 A, in Aachen

69 Sign of a cat burglar? 74 Shoppe modifier 75 Brand mentioned in the Beatles’ ‘Come Together’

77 Golf club part

78 ‘I pity the fool’

speaker

79 Word that’s a homophone of its first letter

80 Willing subjects 82 Melodious

85 BILLY bookcase sellers

88 Big dipper

90 What people and leopards have in common?

93 Gallery event

96 __ top

97 Kinshasa’s country,

briefly

98 Stallone hero putting more film in his camera?

102 Research staples 104 Sister of Laertes 105 Like yellow bananas 107 Look for gifts, say 108 Green and white 109 Almost never

112 Greenish-blue

114 Allow to fluctuate, as

a currency

117 Type of navel

119 Enjoy the track

meet?

123 Can’t live without 124 Bible book read during Purim

125 Hardly walking

distance

126 Neutral shade

127 Doesn’t do much 128 What a broken escalator can serve as, aptly

129 ‘Go for it!’

130 Loafer, e.g.

DOWN

1 ‘This can’t be,’ in

texts

2 Faithful spring? 3 Actress Kendrick 4 Founder of an Eastern religion 5 Euphoria

6 Providers of liquid

assets?

7 Out of juice

8 Cheese alternativ­e? 9 Adorable ones

10 ‘100 Years... 100

Movies’ org.

11 Heckle

12 On the briny

13 Chain of pubs with

video games 14 General on a menu 15 Tot toter 16 Peninsula between the Red Sea and Persian Gulf 17 Sanction

18 Candy store buys 24 Personifie­d things in Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’

25 Sticky home? 30 Isn’t serious 33 Money in MŸnster 35 It may be cracked 37 Prepare for new

planting, as a garden 38 Zero-star fare

39 Not seen often 40 Spellbound

41 On deck

43 Upbeat melody 44 ‘Master of None’ cocreator Aziz __ 49 Book after Daniel 50 Dame Dench

51 First place

52 Musical Lynn contempora­ry 54 Commits a hoops

violation

55 ‘__ Lang Syne’ 56 River to the Mediterran­ean

60 ‘The Masked Singer’

panelist Jeong 61 Able, facetiousl­y 66 Radiohead lead singer/songwriter Thom

67 Subj. including the

study of extinction­s 68 Field of Dreams set

ting

69 Nemesis, e.g.

70 Late philanthro­pist

Broad

71 Like tadpoles 72 Combine

73 A.G. under Clinton 76 ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ actress Hines 78 Biscuit whose name

describes its shape 81 Part for one

83 Men’s grooming

brand

84 Exams for future

attys. 86 Decent-sized lot 87 Brief periods 89 Summer cabin site 91 Sport

92 Racing the deadline 94 Chamber music work 95 Spirited events? 98 Corkscrew pasta 99 Warmed up the

crowd

100 French fashion house

101 Agitated state

102 Like Beethoven, late

in life

103 Pie fruit

106 Pie fruit

110 Ones getting a lot of

props?

111 ‘At Last’ singer James 113 Split

115 A pop

116 Halal cart offering

118 Supergirl symbol 120 Greek X

121 Tolstoy title word 122 Refuse to settle

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