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WEEKEND CROSSWORD

‘MAKE MINE A TRIPLE’ BY PAM AMICK KLAWITTER

- Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS

1 Willing partner

5 Dapper dudes 9 Break-even transactio­n 13 ‘__ Eye Is on the Sparrow’: hymn

16 Easily played 18 Hilarious sort 19 Thelma, to Louise, or

vice versa

21 __ Mae: Whoopi’s

‘Ghost’ role

22 *Game piece with a

‘6’ on it

25 ‘3x’ on an Rx 26 Baskin-Robbins

treats

27 27-member gp. 28 Good way to plan 30 GPS command

31 Toon maker of a female

road runner costume 32 Garland’s girl

35 Tee sizes, initially 38 Curtain holder

39 Pool hustler

41 It’s found in a fizz 42 __-Dazs

44 Like many a bow 45 Selfish pair?

47 Take advantage of 48 Fluish symptoms 49 Lends a hand

50 Do some road repairs 51 Add to the pot

52 Yard opening

53 Skin soother

54 Name above ‘The Lady and Her Music’ on a 1981 Broadway poster 55 Kikkoman sauces 57 One of two field borders 59 Where it’s at

61 ‘I will if you will’ 63 Neither partner 64 *Camp sleeping arrangemen­t

68 Pops

70 Hardly a vet

72 ‘... __, short and stout’ 73 As-the-crow-flies route 75 Chute opener? 77 FedEx rounds, briefly 78 Hollywood brothers’

name

80 Extras

81 __ town

82 It needs a driver

84 __ dog

85 Cook-off bowlful 86 Stomach 87 Thumbs-ups

88 Move quickly, as clouds 89 Big name in theaters 90 Literally, ‘going,’ in

scores

92 Sierra Nevada lake 94 Man Ray contempora­ry

95 Higher ed hurdle 96 Some union acquisitio­ns 98 Poet

99 Lowry of kid lit

101 __ firma

102 Pulls an all-nighter 104 Fictional pilot who said, ‘Never tell me the odds’

107 ‘TMI!!’

108 *Where women once

learned to stitch 113 Stranded letters? 114 Disguise, in a way 115 Wrap that sounds

apologetic

116 Giant’s NFL foe

117 Belarus, once: Abbr. 118 El __

119 Parted partners 120 One of three found in each answer to a starred clue

DOWN

1 ‘Gemini Man’ director Lee 2 Signal-strength

display

3 ‘In __ of gifts ... ‘ 4 Occasion

5 One on a Facebook list 6 Spa supplies

7 Pro in a party

8 What a comedy show

might have you in 9 Get one’s feet wet 10 Book of memories 11 Cruise amenity 12 Actor Linden 13 *Primary concern of a

Four Seasons chef 14 One with a vision 15 Metaphoric­al rushhour subway rider 17 Stands the test of time 19 Garson of ‘Mrs.

Miniver’

20 Plains, in Peru 23 Industry tycoon 24 Sportscast­er Rashad 29 ‘__ Haw’

31 In reserve

33 Rae of ‘The Lovebirds’ 34 Reds and Cards, briefly 35 Shadowless? 36 French military leader with an eponymous line

37 *’50s-’60s ad competitio­n

40 Actor Wynn

43 ‘__ Louise!’ 44 Andalusian uncle 46 Celery piece

49 Early seal hunter 50 Shorten further

51 ‘I’m outta here’ 53 Mayo is in it

54 Timber wolves 56 Quaint shoppe adjective

58 Notable feature of

59-Down

59 Toon with a 58-Down 60 Subsided

62 Adam of ‘Grown Ups’

films 65 Smoothie fruit 66 Most up-to-date 67 Dusk, to Donne 69 ankering

71 Like clams on the half

shell

74 Bert in Oz

76 ‘I didn’t __ be here’ 78 Informed, with ‘in’ 79 Ref. that added ‘chapstick’ in 2021

81 Base bars

83 City on the Orne 84 ‘Taxi Driver’ director 85 Tony Soprano’s ‘Got

it?’

86 Really nails

87 Marked down 88 Trickeries

89 ‘Don’t think so’ 91 Aries mo.

93 Put down 94 Grammy winner

Morissette 97 Offspring

100 Word with panel or

system

103 Overhaul

104 Bring on board 105 Maracaibo, por

ejemplo

106 Munch Museum city 109 Fashionabl­e Taylor 110 Caesar’s 601

111 Tussaud’s medium 112 School yr. division

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

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