Gulf News

WEEKEND CROSSWORD

- Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

“SCRAPPER’S DELIGHT” BY ROBERT E. LEE MORRIS ACROSS

1 Check alternativ­e 7 Sacred beetle 13 Tijuana pair

16 It can be natural 19 Creed in Rocky films 20 Winter melon 21 MPG-testing org. 22 Wordsworth work 23 Attorneys’ firm offering

25 ‘Day __’: 1965 hit 27 Way out

28 Put on a pedestal 29 With no one behind you 30 Capital NW of Boston 33 Secure at the pier 34 Pooch in pictures 35 Backtalk

38 Potential soldier 42 Storage unit

43 In hot water

45 Prefix with gender 46 Sorento or Soul 47 Cocktail party snacks 48 Tommy who teamed

with Cheech 49 Queen’s ‘__ One Bites

the Dust’

53 ‘Cool, dude!’ 54 Drumstick 56 Buckeyes of the Big Ten 57 Handy sack

58 Sham sawbones 59 Lubricate

60 Church recess

61 Bird voiced by Rowan Atkinson in ‘The Lion King’

63 Road annoyances 64 Complete

66 Navy NCOs

67 Oodles

68 Thor Heyerdahl craft 69 Auspices

70 Pool tool

71 ‘Little Birds’ author

Ana•s

72 Provider of much

change

75 Cracker-__: homespun 78 Everlastin­g

80 Deliver a stem-winder, say

81 Snake oil, allegedly 82 Multivolum­e set in

the reference sect. 83 African capital 84 Veteran on the briny 85 Green Bay Packers

coach LaFleur 87 Chatty Cathy is one 90 Deli choice

91 Many opera highlights 92 ‘National Velvet’

author Bagnold 93 Site of a major part of

the Bible? 95 Mid-20th-century

First and Second Lady 97 Shoulder wrap 99 Snippet of dialogue 103 Hold back

104 Scrapyard commodity ... and what’s hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers 108 Charge

109 Infant suffix

110 Alphabetic­ally first

U.S. national park 111 Catholic devotion 112 OTC drug agency 113 __ Plaines: Chicago

suburb

114 Homer, in baseball lingo 115 Tarzan, e.g.

DOWN

1 Ashen

2 High point

3 ‘Smarter than the

average bear’ bear 4 ‘Republic’ philosophe­r

5 Word with caps or clear 6 Spanish article 7 Off-the-wall

8 Pricey delicacy 9 ‘Keep dreaming’ 10 RisquŽ

11 Former Japanese

prime minister 12 __-relief

13 Abhor

14 Part of OWN 15 Common word in a

novel’s dialogue 16 Overtake

17 ‘__ Fideles’ 18 Maker of iComfort

mattresses

24 Mingo portrayer on

‘Daniel Boone’ 26 Dabble in

29 Where many

speeches come from 31 La Brea attraction 32 Brand similar to Spam

33 Fencing maneuver 35 ‘60s White House

daughter

36 Apple offering 37 N.W.A’s debut single 39 Focus of some committees

40 Bit of stoneware 41 Arrange in sequence 42 Library sect.

44 Retire at home, say? 46 Solemn sound

48 Lad

49 Bit of checkpoint

deception

50 Coal train component 51 Exxon, once

52 Feels bad about 54 Seasoning in Indian

cuisine

55 At lunch, say 58 California state bird 60 TLX autos

61 Western writer Grey 62 Came down

63 In __ daylight 64 Ancient German 65 Storybook fiend 69 Vintage video game

name

70 Symbol of a year,

perhaps

72 Tech news site 73 Explorer Amundsen 74 Estrada of ‘CHiPs’ 75 Calls at home

76 Hard to grasp 77 Running behind 79 Helix-shaped pasta 81 Curly-haired pet 83 Genesis brother 85 Sounded like the wind 86 Tennis great Gibson 87 Govt. securities

88 __ Mansion, NYC

mayor’s residence 89 Lizard feature 91 Calvin’s spaceman

alter ego, in comics 92 Force to leave 94 Motrin alternativ­e 96 Footnote abbr. 97 Whole bunch 98 ‘Nothing lived in him

but fear and hatred’ 100 List member

101 Family nickname 102 Flair

104 Common cleaning

supply

105 Tourism opening 106 Target of a cheek swab 107 Common cleaning

supply

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4/20/14 xwordedito­r@aol.com ©2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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