Chicago Tribune (Sunday)

CROSS-WIRD PUZZLE: Yes, something’s a little off

- By S.N. | Edited by StanleyNew­man (stanxwords.com)

Across

1 Tinseltown trophy 6 Smile broadly 10 Soil-enriching

material

15 Anti-fur org. 19 Witherspoo­n with

a 1 Across

20 Best Picture 1Across

winner for 2012 21 Role model, slangily 22 First to arrive 23 Certain rural plane 25 Getting going 27 Nonarrival

28 With no place __

(SRO)

30 Desserts, candies,

etc.

31 Where a fork might

form 32 ActressHan­nah 33 Shove off

34 Red veggie 37 Dairy-less diet 38 Post-op areas

39 TV pro bono spot 42 Gladden greatly 43 Dench andWinslet,

in a 2001 biopic 45 Sign of condensati­on 46 Dark blue

47 What many 3

Down have 48 Regarding

49 Title forMerkel 50 Poetic prepositio­n 51 Leno’s Tonight

Show successor 55 Put forth, as a

question

56 Accepts

enthusiast­ically 58 Tilted type, for short 59 Snarky

60 Train patron 61 Industrial tank 62 Carne __ (burrito

filling)

64 Get a grin from 66 Tiny bit of dust 68 Had a sandwich,

perhaps 71 Xylophone kin 72 Dennis theMenace

cartoonist 74 Federal audit agcy. 75 Crossed marks 76 Long garment 77 Warner __

78 Things we share 79 DVR button 80 Aromathera­py

liquid

84 Tutu material 85 “You shouldn’t

have done that!” 86 What an 87 Across

might be

87 Drinks for everyone 88 Succeed in a bigway 89 iPhone ancestors:

Abbr.

90 Pasta “alla vodka” 91 Big beverage

brewers

92 “Drat!” 95 Nickname

alternativ­e to Terry 96 Mideast capital 100 Ubiquitous Japanese

restaurant­s

102 Where The Kiss is

kept

104 French state

105 Brief concession 106 Actor Epps

107 Nonreactiv­e in the

lab

108 Authors (as a verb) 109 Group of naysayers 110 Where L. Frank Baum set his bestknown novel 111 McEnroe contempora­ry

Down

1 Predatory dolphin 2 One from Belgrade 3 Tops of org charts 4 Harshness of tone 5 Rudolph’s claim to

fame 6 Headquarte­red 7 Art Deco illustrato­r 8 Era

9 “Mere” people 10 Postcard sentiment 11 No later than 12 Would-be DA’s

hurdle

13 YMCA class

14 Taco topping 15 Instrument array 16 Small advantage 17 Stretched to the

max

18 Electrical measures 24 See 29 Down

26 “If only!”

29 With 24 Down, city

near Provo 32 Youngest Girl Scout 33 Look down on 34 Actress Zellweger 35 Cause to be

concerned

36 “Take Five” jazzman 37 Strollers in Surrey 38 SSA assignment­s 39 What surrounds 96

Across

40 Not capricious 41 Highly perceptive 43 Any of an ’80s PC

team

44 Lunar valley 47 Common clickers 49 Melted, inMarseill­e 51 Green gems

52 Race of 3+ mi. 53 Sharp as __ 54 Hanukkah pancake 55 Scriptural poem 57 Advances in rank 62 Playwright Fugard 63 Salty water

64 Keep from

happening

65 Stirs or shakes up 66 Marching band

group

67 Nabokov novel

68 Irritating to the eyes 69 Cheers server 70 Canadian clod 72 The elite

73 Sort of steak 76 Land around the

South China Sea 78 Surpassed in

splendor 80 Burdened 81 Boutique

merchandis­e 82 Really long time

83 Lose control 84 Ivy’s twiner 88 “Shudder” starter

for “some” 89 Browning and

Byron

90 Coke alternativ­e 91 Uses a ridesharin­g

app

92 Planning, for short 93 Can’t bear

94 Arab League

sultanate 95 Tugboat sound 96 Straight __ arrow 97 Port of Yemen 98 One word in the 10 longest answers, if one letter is changed 99 Descriptor for LAX

or JFK

101 Network launched

as CNN2

103 Thurman of Pulp

Fiction

 ??  ?? Last week’s answers can be found in today’s “Puzzle Island Solutions.”
Last week’s answers can be found in today’s “Puzzle Island Solutions.”

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