Sunday Puzzler
ACROSS
1 Orbiting
body
6 “The Gift of
the —” 10 Commence
15 Limb 18 Playing
marble 19 Surveyor’s
flag
21 Crowbar 22 Name in
Genesis
24 — -nez 25 Detach a
certain way 26 Undermine 27 Distance
measure 28 Poetic time of
day
29 Hard to
comb 31 About-face
(Hyph.) 33 Fleet
35 Nerve
network 37 Tablet
38 Say
definitively 39 Moral 40 Wood for
flooring 42 Flambeau 43 Hunter
constellation 44 Mark with patches of color 46 French
painter 47 Cans
48 Wind
52 Concoct 53 Compare 54 Religious
faith 56 Howard or
Perlman 57 French
department 58 Rescue
59 Tantalize 60 Edible bulb
62 Mud
63 — Creed 65 Feel poorly 66 Misgivings 67 Serpentine
shape
68 Fail to
mention 69 Tam-tam 71 Drink
noisily 73 Ragout 75 Triumphed 76 Commerce
77 Sine — non 78 The basics 82 Cousin to a
chimp 84 “Present!” 85 Went
down 86 Argument 87 Fish-eating
hawk 90 Distress call
letters
91 Ill will
93 Pear, for
one
94 Luster 95 Goes by
boat
97 Plate 98 Imprisoned 99 Spinning
plaything 100 Knot
102 Upholstered
piece
104 Skull joint 105 English
school
107 Bargain 108 Kind of salt 109 Gemstones 110 — statesman 112 Manservant 113 Type style 114 Postal
employee 117 “Bad, Bad —
Brown” 118 Line of
stitches 119 Melville
captain 123 Not balanced 124 Estate
125 Beetle
127 Whitney or
Wallach 128 Beginner
(Var.)
129 Lightemitting — 131 Hinder
133 Hank of
baseball 135 Birthright
seller
136 — Sam
137 Invented 138 Off the mark 139 Letters 140 Creator
141 Unusual
thing
142 Shelf
DOWN
1 Antic
2 Pointed arch 3 Contemporary of 46-Across 4 Catchall abbr.
5 Abound
6 Layer of the Earth
7 Seraph
8 — the lily 9 Promise to pay (Abbr.) 10 Detective 11 Pied-a- — 12 River in England 13 Blushing 14 Dissertation 15 Small rodent 16 Early computer 17 Meir of Israel 19 Unproductive 20 Elementary
particle 23 Close 30 Cobbler
fruit 32 Diplomacy 34 Letter after pi 36 “The — Strikes
Back”
38 Achy
39 One of the
Muppets 41 Church area 42 Coin of a
kind 43 Lubricates 44 Cease and —
45 Disinclined 46 Catlike
animal
47 Duck
49 Seed cover 50 Weaving
machine 51 River in
Austria 52 Change purse
items 53 Decisive
defeat
54 Light brown 55 Hungry Hungry Hippos quorum 58 Cowell or
Templar
59 Bike for two 61 Wine region in
California
63 “— —, Jose!” 64 Exit
66 Tremor
70 It rests in
76-Across 71 Flatten 72 Midday
break 74 Sported 76 Rowboat pin 79 Accent or wing-tip shoe
80 Ones with
promise
81 Scandinavian 83 Torn
85 Cut
87 Bone
(Prefix) 88 Gun pellets 89 Hard-rind
fruit 90 Window
part
92 Fully grown 93 Coating on
metal 95 Nasty look 96 Culture
medium 98 Where
Havana is 101 Postscript 102 Relating to
heat
103 Comply 104 — cum
laude
106 Edgy
108 Poi source 109 Laughed out
loud
111 Rest
112 Superficial
layer
113 School
book
114 Attractive 115 Cordial
flavoring 116 Showed
again
117 Kitchen
utensil
118 Play part 120 King of
Judea
121 “— came a
spider ...” 122 Spree
124 Ridicule
125 Short drive 126 Cry
130 Once — —
while
132 Bovine
sound
134 Exist