Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“ENDIVES” By DAVID ALFRED BYWATERS
ACROSS
1 Take pieces from?
7 Applaud
11 Practice fighting
15 Likely to evoke an “Eww!”
19 Big fan
20 Sword handle
21 Andrew Jackson carried one with a sword in it
22 Not just eat
23 Marie Curie has two of them
24 Tiny bit
25 Juan’s “yesterday”
26 Grandson of Eve
27 Spirited style
28 Disney film set in Polynesia
30 Amphetamines, e.g.
32 Petit four purveyor
35 West Coast ZIP starter
36 Wore (away)
37 Econ. indicator
39 Alcohol type
40 Braided Jewish bread
42 Julia LouisDreyfus’ eleven
44 Deutsche darling
46 Lab dish eponym
47 It was inspired by Sunshine Hydrox cookies
48 Not quite circular
49 Dangerous snake
51 Hebrew winter month
53 Finishes
56 Ill will
59 Something you don’t see everyday
61 Derby favorite, say
63 Black-and-white
65 Get some rays
66 Neighbor of Mex.
67 Rehab symptoms, briefly
70 Where Tennyson’s “light brigade” charged
71 Noble Brit
73 Cloud site
74 Very long time
75 Gift-wrapping aid
76 Asset in a crisis
79 Trite saying
81 Happened to
82 Use just one water ski 86 Hamlet’s first option
87 Letter abbr.
89 1986 U.S. Open champ Raymond __
91 Over with
92 Dupes
94 Organic fertilizer
96 Domestic platforms
99 Not at all glossy
101 Actor Douglas and quarterback Cousins
102 Snowboarder White
103 Cigar discard
104 Latin lover’s assertion
105 Horse color
107 Playground game with a rope and a pole
110 Wallabies and wombats
113 Bread source
114 Not much
117 Soft cheese
118 Notice
119 Sushi seaweed
120 Ready to play
122 Over again
123 Silhouetted road sign animal
124 Soon, long ago
125 Succumbs to static
126 Impertinence
127 Span. miss
128 Warp
129 Becomes aware of
DOWN
1 Jutland native
2 False god
3 Tearjerker’s quality?
4 Large venue
5 Brother, e.g.: Abbr.
6 Title assassin in a 2005 Pitt-Jolie film
7 Mysterious foliage-sprouting proclivity?
8 Model train giant
9 Vow locale
10 Org. concerned with students
11 Vocal improv
12 Remit with goatskin?
13 Persistent weakness
14 Show again
15 Notion
16 Vehicle for transporting bark spice?
17 Difficult to solve
18 Words of assent
29 Rapper Ice Cube’s first name
30 Senator’s place
31 Lascivious look
33 Gumshoe
34 Spanish airline
37 Seize, slangily
38 Met celebrity
41 Donkey song?
43 Come across
45 Radar screen spot
46 Sheet material
47 Greek victim of
the Furies
50 Glen cousin
52 Shame
54 Writing __
55 Legal suspension
57 Desert plants
58 Online stock transactions
60 Moving memoir subject?
62 Nordic toast
64 Get ready to eat?
65 Western hero noted for his thoughtfulness?
67 Card balance, say
68 Matador’s opponent
69 Tales of social climbers?
72 Move, in some ads
77 Gush
78 Pops, to baby
80 Essence
81 Short-term memory?
83 Farmers market baked goods?
84 Change for a five
85 Netting
88 Ceramic dog, maybe?
90 “The Wreck of the Mary __”
93 Quechua is one of its official languages
95 Trading places: Abbr.
97 Text entries named for their traditional red color
98 Genetic letters
99 African snakes
100 Historic Nile excavation site
101 Roll or emperor
102 2000s Israeli leader Ariel
106 Slanted columns
108 Steak named for its shape
109 Virgil’s language
111 Stitches up
112 Heavenly harp
115 Kansas-born playwright
116 Hardy’s “Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”
119 Pick up
121 Phillies’ div.