Sunday Puzzler

ACROSS 1 Components 6 Harness part 11 “Aida,” for example 16 Hurt 21 Indigenous Alaskan 22 “War and —” 23 Black bird 24 Avid 25 Underground chambers 26 Wrath 27 Correct a text 28 Saying

29 Old coin of France 30 Love god 31 Tooth on a wheel 33 Less common 35 Contend 36 Distort 38 Private place 39 Ring on a can 40 Allow 41 Letter for plurals 42 Abbr. in footnotes 44 Think 48 Homeless child 51 Brunch fare 54 Piece of glass 55 Discovery

57 — of Capricorn 61 Fox 62 Gentleman 63 Anklebone 65 Place of contest 66 High peaks 67 Loch Ness — 70 LA player 72 Mother Superior

73 — Aviv

74 Met melody 75 Bad (prefix) 77 Drive back 79 Samovar 80 Birthright seller

82 Tic- — -toe 83 Adoring 85 Burst of gunfire 87 Of warships 89 Kiddie 90 Cravat 91 Ledger entry 92 Attacked with talons 94 Polar mass 96 Thickness measure 97 Stones 100 Bowler 101 Namely (2 wds.) 104 Knotts or Rickles 105 Coffin stand 106 Swab 107 Black cuckoo 108 Broadcast again 110 Succession of rulers 112 Female horse 113 Scrub 116 Of musical sounds 118 Matures 119 Terra- — 120 Counselor 122 Kind of palm 123 Declare solemnly 124 Superficial layer

125 A cheese 127 A candy 129 Yearn 130 Image, for short 133 Relatives 135 Gibson the actor 136 Bread roll 137 Bark 141 Notable time 142 Hard-rind fruit

144 SSE, e.g. 145 Repetitive learning 146 Payable 147 Whittle 149 Not exact 151 — savant 153 Woo

155 Book of maps 156 City in Germany 157 Nobody (2 wds.) 158 Footnote abbr. 159 Bright signs 160 Small 161 Hinder 162 Squalid

DOWN 1 Walks back and forth 2 Oh, woe! 3 Variety show 4 Calendar abbr. 5 Blvds.

6 Was merciful toward 7 Mortise and — 8 Tattered clothes 9 Expert 10 Cotton material

11 A state (abbr.) 12 Grier or Dawber 13 Perpetually 14 Of the kidneys 15 — Lloyd Webber 16 Burn 17 Insane 18 Century plant 19 Philbin of TV 20 Woody plants 30 Use a blue pencil 32 Kimono sash 34 Coup d’— 37 Tricks 39 Doctrine 43 London’s Big — 44 Light wood 45 Newt 46 Small bottle 47 Make bigger 49 Nest-egg letters 50 Favoring 51 Egg-shaped 52 Distance measures 53 Reason 54 Wild fear 56 Nobleman 58 Next to last 59 Habituate 60 Shrewd

62 Of right and wrong 64 Month after Aug. 67 Bullfighter 68 Overacted 69 Urban pest 71 Noisy merrymaking 76 Tedious recital 78 Throw in a curve 81 Labor union letters 83 Sawbones 84 Bite

86 Back talk 88 Onetime GI 89 Doomed ship of 1912 91 Food regimens 92 Gulf 93 Knight’s weapon 95 Food fish 96 Tightwad 98 Rich cake 99 Javelin 102 Kind of suit or blanket 103 Press

105 Roll with a hole 109 California’s — Valley

111 — orange 112 Loot 114 Western Indian

115 Pole 117 Roman god 119 Time period (abbr.) 121 Libertine 123 Shawnee or Seminole, e.g. 124 Creeping plant 126 Birdseed grain 128 French friend

129 Golf club

130 A nut 131 Angry 132 Monte — 134 Loop in a lasso 136 Debby or Daniel 138 Bring out 139 Sensational 140 Small-minded 142 Jumble 143 Move ahead slowly 144 Gainsay 145 Wild disturbance 148 Panel truck 150 Upperclassman (abbr.) 152 Deer

153 Kind of lettuce 154 Unclose, to poets