Sunday Puzzler

ACROSS

1 Go at a snail’s pace 6 Highway 10 Prepares to fire 14 “Stop!” (at sea) 19 Give back 20 Followed a curved path 22 Fronts of vessels 24 Tare 25 Gladden 26 Zoroastrian 27 Bolt for an I-beam 28 Very, in music 29 Female animal 30 Coup — 32 Begets 34 State near Ark. 35 Beyond the norm 39 Tendon 41 Disappear 43 Offspring 45 Tex-Mex fare 47 An abrasive 48 Mil. rank 51 Unwavering 53 Buzzing place 55 Droop 56 Rend 59 Genus of honeybees 61 Entertainment award 62 Bun 64 Gully 66 Jeans brand 68 Cry out 70 “— Twist” 72 Birthmark 73 Very cold 75 Game played in pubs 77 Turf chunk 79 Sour 80 Cling 82 Part of NATO 84 Florida Indian 86 Wide chasm 88 “A Tale of Two Cities” city 90 Jay of TV 91 Come together 95 King in legend 97 Monster 101 — mater 102 White wine from Italy 104 — B. DeMille 106 Sensitive person 108 Allege 110 Garland 112 Tie, in a way 114 Inn for caravans 115 Crushed grain 117 Therefore 118 Table with wheels 120 Sponsorship 121 Moray 122 Backtalk 124 Abominable snowman 126 Celestial body 128 Letters 129 White poplar 131 Wheel spokes 133 The underworld 135 Having many skills 139 “— Doone” 141 Of local interest 145 Exude 146 Burns superficially 148 Father of Oedipus 150 Pasternak girl 151 Cowboy 153 Strictness 155 The Pentateuch 157 Tightfisted one 158 Cubic meter 159 Laugh of a kind 160 Related maternally 161 Sharp 162 Gulls 163 Diminutive suffix 164 Did in 165 Fertile spots

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1 — de cacao 2 Unwind 3 To pieces 4 Too diluted 5 Caustic material 6 Knock 7 Toward the mouth 8 Measures of farmland 9 Fate 10 Calendar abbr. 11 Rainbow goddess 12 Kind of star 13 Turn abruptly 14 Gardner of old Hollywood 15 Storage area in a church 16 Lost (2 wds.) 17 Meager 18 “To — own self be true” 21 Rigg or Ross 23 Cooks a certain way 31 Part of MIT (Abbr.) 33 Javelin 36 The dawn personified 37 Not talking 38 Foe 40 Spin 42 Body part 44 Played for stakes 46 Shaped like an egg 48 Farm animal 49 “Aida” is one 50 Black-andblue 52 Welsh poet — Thomas 54 Aka the “King” 56 Competing one 57 Habituate 58 Destructive creature 60 Yearning sound 63 Raze 65 Command against 67 Blockade 69 Support 70 Big bird 71 Tragic lover 74 Steel and snare 76 Streetcar 78 Bit of color 81 Pipe joint 83 Secrete 85 Standards 87 Burn brightly 89 Bag 91 “Kate & —” 92 Diminutive 93 Go by boat 94 Each 96 Because 98 Sword used in fencing 99 Army non-com 100 Blemish 101 Summit 103 — beaver 105 Unwilling 107 Sibilant sound 109 Kind of toast 111 Complete 113 Special pleasure 116 Food regimens 119 Fuss (Hyph.) 123 Hand tool 125 Object of devotion 126 Underlings 127 Ribbed fabric 129 Aft 130 “Seinfeld” role 132 Angry 134 Constituent of sand 135 Russian length 136 Overact 137 More mature 138 Plant fungus 140 Of hearing 142 — belli 143 Mountain ridge 144 — and penates 147 Kind 149 Fill 152 Legal matter 154 Itinerary (Abbr.) 156 Cut down 157 Chinese chairman