Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“FILM OPENINGS” By GARY LARSON ACROSS

1 DSL provider 4 MSNBC rival 7 Living room piece 12 Tennyson poem that begins, “I waited for the train at Coventry” 18 Extreme degree 19 Sushi topping 20 Saudi neighbor 21 Turkey’s highest

peak

22 Review of a 2013

Disney musical? 25 Small shooter 27 Green-winged

night flier 28 Sudden air

movement 30 Olympic skater

Baiul

31 Singer with numerically named albums 32 Vocalist Kitt

35 Job for an actor 37 Hanoi holiday 38 Place for a béret 39 1:58 for the duration of a 2016 Amy Adams sci-fi flick?

41 QB’s stat 42 Inventor Otis 44 Macho guy 45 Reduce bit by bit 47 U.S. Army medal 48 Spoke at length 51 George who was VP for both Jefferson and Madison 53 Three-time Oscarwinning director 54 Stand-in

57 Closes securely 60 How some stock

is sold

63 Leader in a beret 65 Hammock rests 68 Star NFL player 69 Great, in slang 70 Author of a 1990 Swayze/ Moore fantasy romance? 73 Many ages 74 Prefix with currency or zoology

76 Tool for a duel 77 Pretentious talk 78 Pretentious 79 Events with tea,

perhaps

81 Word on a

dipstick

83 Book IDs

85 Not easily able 88 Expired

90 Cassis aperitif 93 Performed with

brilliance 95 High-spirited

horse

98 Diva Dion

100 __ mentality 101 Box-office receipts for a 1988 Tom Hanks comedy?

104 Sugar bowl

marchers

105 Professional org.

since 1847 106 Sans

accomplice 107 California wine

valley

108 Titled rapper 109 Immortal NBA

first name

111 Go yachting 113 By birth, what

Professor Jones wasn’t, surprisingly 115 West African

country

117 First draft of a 1995 De Niro/ Pacino thriller? 120 Bordeaux wine 121 Houston player 122 Host’s invitation 123 Perceive

124 Conger catchers 125 Second-stringers 126 General on a

menu

127 Benchmark:

Abbr.

DOWN

1 Blew up

2 Pastries from the German for “whirlpool”

3 Like the spelling “kuh-zin” for “cousin,” e.g. 4 Oreo filling 5 Laying-down-thelaw item

6 More orderly 7 Holliday title 8 Texting qualifier 9 Jazz singer Sarah 10 Yearbooks, say 11 Tiny complaints 12 School of whales 13 Brightly plumed

songbird 14 German thanks 15 Tennessee state

flower

16 TV commercial for a 1983 Chevy Chase comedy? 17 Finished

23 “The Diamond

Store”

24 Blacken

26 Not a shiny finish 29 Courtroom event 33 Winter coat 34 Super Bowl

highlights? 36 Old Dodges 39 Group lobbying for lower drug prices

40 HBO competitor 43 Winter coat 45 Series-ending

abbr. 46 Painting aids 49 St. Louis

landmark 50 Western resort 52 Within reach 53 Sea in two

continents 55 Single

56 Tavern

58 Footed vases 59 Ring-around-therosy bouquet 60 Beginner’s class

material 61 Corrida

opponent 62 Pretentious chatter about a 1960 Hitchcock thriller? 64 Debatable ability 66 Orwell’s Napoleon, for one

67 Unwanted spot 70 Medal for

30-Across 71 Wonderland drink 72 Canadian tank

filler

75 Container weight 78 Chip in chips 80 New World

colonizer 82 Exhaust 84 Pittsburgh Pirates

nickname 86 Prods 87 Keyboard key 89 __ Domini 90 Subject of some

random acts 91 Private infosharing system 92 Begrudged 93 Wee

94 Hockey

advantage 96 Most hectic 97 Quarantine 99 West Coast

NFLer

101 More scrawny 102 Qatari leader 103 Least out there 106 Mr. Moto

portrayer 108 “Same here” 110 Honest-togoodness 112 Queequeg’s

captain

114 Speaker’s spot 116 @ signs

118 Musical syllable 119 Cruise, for one