WEEKEND CROSSWORD
“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