Today’s Crossword
ACROSS
1 Factually incorrect
6 Croc’s cousin
11 Worries
16 “Oliver Twist” character
21 Distant
22 Garment shape (hyph.)
23 Kosher
24 Onstage whisper
25 Not sharp
26 Weightlessness (2 wds.)
28 Orca
29 — of luxury
30 Nota —
31 Borrower’s promise
32 Fancy room
34 Actor — Beatty
35 Observed
37 Homer Simpson’s dad
38 In the company of
40 Core
41 Attempt
42 Car
44 Helped
46 Marsh bird
49 Make ravenous
52 Hammer part
53 Recipe measure
55 “— — Eden”
59 Blazing
60 Earthy lump
61 Fabricate (2 wds.)
64 Glittering headband
65 Optimistic
66 — Bator
67 Flightless bird
68 Johnny —
70 Dart
71 Unappealing coffee
72 Coup d’—
73 Ark builder
74 Remedies
76 New Zealand bird
77 Coasted on runners
79 Gift adornment
80 Ohio’s lake
82 With difficulty
84 Chow —
85 “— in the U.S.A.”
86 Tear
87 Witnessed
88 Diet plan no-no
90 Exit road
91 Take in
92 Morphs
95 Light refreshment
96 “— Marner” 98 Touch down
100 Journey
101 Cut down
102 Sounded a bell
104 Ignoble
105 Starr or Simpson
106 Comes after three
107 Antitoxins
108 “Ebony and —”
110 Narrow passages
112 Fraudulent thing
113 Step
114 School day division
116 Blue
117 Red gem
118 Crown
119 Aqua —
121 Consider anew
124 Sound of contentment
125 Aged
128 Org. for physicians
130 Sharpens
131 Demand payment from
132 Seaweed
136 Feminine pronoun
137 Campfire treat
139 — de cologne
140 Cornbread
141 Actor — Diamond Phillips
142 Of birds
144 A bringing back
147 Cargo vessel
149 Drumming Beatle
150 Rose oil
151 1,000 kilograms
152 Urge
153 On a slant
154 Suspicious
155 Made less troublesome
156 Taut
DOWN
1 Tale from Aesop
2 Put to rest
3 Magnifier
4 Favorite —
5 Newt
6 Backyard structure
7 Coeur d’—
8 Retread
9 Yoko —
10 Strict routine
11 Show off
12 Race an engine
13 Sponsorship (var.)
14 Saturn’s largest moon
15 Old writing implement
16 Young deer
17 Wood type
18 Storybook figure
19 Lazybones
20 Lacking
27 Cheer
30 Tub event
33 Orchestra member
36 Supermarket section
38 Still not up
39 Lizard with sticky toes
43 Apply
44 Long time (var.)
45 Payable
47 Faithless one
48 “— — I cared!”
49 Works the land
50 Run — of the law
51 Illegal act
52 Map with boundaries
54 Reduced to pulp
56 TV journalist (2 wds.)
57 Bay window
58 “— Attraction”
60 Dressed
61 Extinct bird
62 Follower
63 Toy gun pellet
66 Spoon or fork
67 Minimize
69 Rouge
72 Uses a blue pencil
73 Standard
74 Suggestion
75 Command for a pooch
78 Billy — Williams
79 Feather scarves
81 Peruse
83 Farm denizen
85 Fistfights
88 Sunset —
89 Interlace
92 Essential feature
93 Uncanny
94 Airborne mass
97 Mauna —
99 — poetica
100 Warty creature
103 Hold
105 Moisten
106 Split in a road
107 Austere
109 “As — Like It”
111 Roman god
112 — Christian Andersen
113 Knight’s title
115 Bit to drink
117 Place
118 Sand hill
120 Unconcerned with ethics
122 “The Big Bang —”
123 Get news of
124 Played on words
125 Scarlett of Tara
126 Jeans brand
127 Beverage
129 Mountain ridge
131 “Lorna —”
133 TV’s DeGeneres
134 Windblown deposit
135 Pucker
137 Bamboozle
138 Punta del —
140 Brooches
143 Vital stat
145 Seaman
146 Done — — turn
147 Choose 148 Wrath