A CENTURY AGO: What happened in 1919
Across
1 Throat bug, for short
6 Woodcutter Ali __ 10 Painter of ballet
scenes
15 Front of a ship 19 Basketball venue 20 Wide-eyed 21 Writer Wharton 22 Mechanical
learning
23 First woman in the House of Commons (1919) 25 Home of The Thinker, which opened in 1919 27 Mask cutouts 28 Novelist Segal 30 Makeup exam 31 Ancient, in a 1/1
song
32 Formation fliers 33 Indian attire 34 Repetitive cries 37 Disposed (to) 38 Awaited instead of
sleeping 42 Top-level dwellings 43 National Park
established in 1919 45 New Haven student 46 Measures of work 47 Timely benefit 48 Major nuisance 49 Minor anomaly 50 Hardwood tree 51 Prohibition legislation enacted in 1919
55 Still in contention 56 Back-wheel connector 58 Subatomic particle 59 Dinesen’s real surname 60 Meddlesome 61 Cooked for too long 62 Celebrity elite 63 Induced improperly 65 Assumed name 66 Unpretentious pub 69 Can’t find 70 Thoroughbred racing coup first achieved in 1919 72 Have a lapse 73 Dollar sums, for short
74 Den __, Netherlands 75 Purposes 76 Berry from palms 77 Teachers’ org. 78 Rebel leader at the 1919 Battle of Juárez 82 Empty talk 83 Erstwhile Heathrow lander 85 Talk-show group 86 Coated with chrome, say 87 Grand Ole __ 88 Star in Cygnus 89 Erstwhile Heathrow lander 90 Impertinent
93 One with no hope 94 Lefty 98 Treaty-signing site
of 1919
100 Babe Ruth’s 1919 league-leading homer count 102 Part of QED
103 Lasso loop
104 Grand Bahama, for
instance
105 66 Across servings 106 Proscribed thing 107 CNN medical
reporter
108 Piercing tools 109 Latin explanation
opener Down 1 Sound-minded 2 Cafeteria carrier 3 Actress Russo 4 Casts a spell on 5 Disbursements 6 Stationed (in) 7 CIA operatives 8 Cry of disapproval 9 Come to terms about 10 Somewhat dry, in wine-speak 11 Draw forth 12 Major silents star 13 Eroded 14 Hilton alternative 15 Golf magazine staple 16 Traveled by bus or bike 17 Elevator innovator 18 Traveled
24 Bard comedy title starter 26 Episode’s second showing
29 Pull to pieces 32 Foundation donation 33 “Speak up!” 34 Cloudless 35 Carousel carving 36 Asian nation that declared independence in 1919 37 Ordinary writing 38 Cinema counter purchase 39 Toon debuting in 1919 40 Greenish hue 41 Approach maturity 43 “Awesome!” 44 To pieces 47 How some chocolate is sold 49 Supreme joy 51 Florist’s accessories 52 Supply what’s needed to 53 Of hearing 54 Performance in un ballet
55 Calibrate 57 Choir attire 59 Gusts of air 61 Bounty captain 62 Allure in the air 63 Bugs Bunny’s voice 64 Bard tragedy title starter
65 In __ against time 66 Barbecue hardware 67 Give an address 68 Was 60 Across 70 Driving Miss Daisy Oscar winner 71 Novelist Carr 74 Being a nuisance to 76 Spider or scorpion 78 Family nickname 79 Water far from land 80 Wind-powered spinner 81 Disinclination to act 82 Symbols of Australia 84 Admits, informally 86 Look sulky 88 Old-time “accomplish” 89 Dog biscuit shapes 90 Common Swedish name 91 First-century despot
92 Land on the Caspian 93 Far-from-gourmet fare 94 Dispose of for cash 95 Needle producer 96 “Farm” animals 97 Novelist Nathanael 99 Teammate of the Babe
101 GPS reading