Sunday Puzzler
ACROSS
1 Admit
6 Isle of exile 10 Usual
weather 15 Of a cereal
grass
20 Hot spot
21 Pome fruit 22 Clear 23 Containing
salt
24 Weary
25 Rub smooth 26 Sharp 27 Formal
speaker 28 Frost 29 French or
folding 31 Defunct
acronym 33 Means
justifier 35 Storage
structure 36 Prune-to-be
37 Barrel maker 39 CD- —
41 Sword 44 Freshwater
fish 45 Nathan the
patriot 48 Bid
53 Antelope 54 Raised
platform 55 Group of
singers 57 Sicker 58 Went down
59 Frayed 60 Antagonist
61 Brume 63 Horse
coloring 64 Deadlock 65 Quantity of
wood
66 — plexus 68 Close 70 Destroy the
interior of 71 The ones
there
72 Old ship
74 Plummet 76 Job
79 Fill with joy
81 Coup d’— 83 Lavender 87 Skin
openings 88 City in
Latvia 89 Understanding
words 91 Observed 92 Money back 94 Dimple 96 Reverie
97 Prods 98 Cellphone
message 100 More grimy 102 Complaint 104 Get
browner
107 — avis
109 Bring
about
110 Cheerful
111 Edge
114 “— — Named
Sue”
116 Hidden
bomb
118 Pen-and- — 119 Lascivious
look
120 Confront
121 Water
barrier
123 Popular
fruit
125 Steadfast 126 Hopeless
one
127 Loud sound 128 Addict
129 Space for
movement 130 Mild
131 Admit
133 Investor’s
profit
136 Saucy 137 Narrow
opening
141 Noggin
144 Sepulcher 145 Tropical
tree
146 Small dog, for
short
149 Constabulary
151 Started 153 Touch on 155 Bouquet 157 Panamanian
cat
158 Get away
from
159 Force
160 Place in SE
Asia
161 Implements 162 Hourglass 163 Like breakfast
dishes
164 Put forth
effort
DOWN
1 — Spumante 2 Secular 3 Enticing thing
4 A pronoun 5 Walked like a duck
6 Surrey racecourse 7 Nonsense poet 8 Prohibition 9 Difficult 10 Hold tightly 11 Moolah 12 Hosp. area 13 Tiny bit 14 “East of —” 15 Item for a sculler
16 Cry of sorrow 17 Diminutive monkey 18 Lab compound 19 Fiddling ruler 23 Tolerable
(Hyph.) 30 Your and my
32 Blubber 34 Arrayed 36 Carnation
color
37 Site for a
goatee 38 Greek letter 40 Do a yard job
41 Sleep
42 Jai —
43 Glass piece 44 Funny guy 46 Branch
47 San — Obispo 49 In favor of 50 Ranine
creature
51 Son of Isaac 52 Landlord’s due 54 Window in a
roof
55 Bubbly drink 56 Billow
59 Sadness 60 Duffer’s cry 62 Waterproof
cover
65 — Alan Arthur 66 Diabolical 67 One on a
pension 69 Lazed
71 Handle
72 Like zoo
animals
73 Kind of printer 75 Evidence 76 EMT’s
specialty 77 Farm item 78 Sphere 80 Cover 82 Oolong is
one
84 School org.
85 Directed 86 Asner and
Begley 90 Insignia
93 School event 95 Instruct 96 Platter
99 Old Roman
official
101 Albacore 103 Corn spike 104 Soapstone 105 Cain’s victim 106 — Scotia 108 Genus of
ducks
110 Microbe
111 Talk wildly 112 Where Reykjavik is (Abbr.)
113 Simple
115 Hankering
117 Chem. suffix 119 Androcles’
pal
120 Baptism bowl
122 Conceit 124 Abbr. in
timetables 125 Disallowed 126 Relevant 129 Hard liquor 130 Hair
preparation 132 Sharpen 134 Work for
piano
135 Dry ink
136 Meat
portion
137 See
138 Crazy
139 Butter
substitute 140 Cash drawer 142 Aid and — 143 Sub shop 145 Box-shaped
sleigh
146 The bishop of
Rome
147 — Khayyam 148 Beer
ingredient 150 Kind of
lettuce
152 Chicle
154 Mammoth 156 Oedipus —