Chicago Tribune (Sunday)

SAND BLAST: Ideal for a day at the beach

- By Greg Johnson | Edited by Stanley Newman (stanxwords.com)

Across

1 Unwanted engine

sound

5 Pair of sisters, say 9 Consumer activist

Ralph

14 Tech teams’

developmen­ts 18 Footnote notation 19 Simple earring

shape

20 Scott who wrote Island of the Blue Dolphins

21 Bond in a bottle 22 Austen heroine 23 Not pro24 Watery Olympic

moves

25 Olympic event 26 Composer friend of

George SAND 29 Followed orders 31 Min. fraction 32 Gruff retort

33 Relay finale

35 Big hole in the

ground 37 Not-so-big shot 39 Go through 40 Bighorn butter 43 Shrill barks 44 Working with

SANDpaper 49 Poetic “previously” 51 Isn’t oneself

52 Poor report card 53 Ferber novel

54 Puts into alignment 55 Helmets and

hospital masks: Abbr. 56 Major figures in a

field

58 Fix deeply

60 Many businesses

with breakfaste­rs 61 Kitten’s plaything 63 Get off the ground 65 Down the road 67 Comics creator of enormous SANDwiches 72 Field judge 75 Cooking rod 76 Pollen producer 80 Felt regret 81 Oniony side dish 85 Came out with

something 87 Woman on a Sistine

ceiling

88 Person from Muscat 90 Shipyard center of

Italy

92 She’s not quite 20 93 Pals in Paris 94 Nightline airer 95 SAND-filled timer 97 Pipe-support

hardware

98 Old school cheer 99 Automated Web

browser

101 Fair-hiring initials 102 Tough puzzles 104 Thing above a

doorway

108 Goof-offs

111 Brewpub designatio­n 113 Innocent victim 115 Threesome for Carl

SANDburg

118 State with the 45thhighes­t high point 119 Morning hr.

120 State with the seventh-highest

high point

121 Sushi seaweed 122 Engaged, as apron

strings

123 Proof of innocence 124 Wilson married to

Tom Hanks

125 Contempora­ry of

Agatha and Dashiell 126 Half-rectangles

127 Insistent summons 128 Initial utopia 129 Profession­al trade

org.

Down

1 They’re bigger than

quibbles

2 Proof of a withdrawal 3 Verbal bully 4 Contented 5 Unselfish one 6 Water beside Messina 7 Make a mess of 8 Intense, as chili 9 What the confident

have

10 Take __ (go

swimming)

11 Red Halloween

costume

12 Justice Kagan 13 Kidnapped

monogram

14 Feel the same way 15 Where rompers

land in SAND 16 Dark purple

17 Bit placed in a

flowerpot

27 Needle holes 28 Boxcar rider 29 Ends to some NFL

games

30 Sound at sheep

shearings

34 Hint at

36 Many S&L execs 38 Thing on a tree 41 Space for boat shows 42 Needing neatening

43 Talks too much 45 Edison’s __ Park 46 It means “bone” 47 DJIA tech company 48 Pointy pen part 50 Curly-haired

Peanuts girl 52 Miner, on the job 56 Pest in a swarm

57 Regrettabl­e 59 Gets the better of 62 “It was somebody

else”

64 American Masters

airer

66 Damon or Dillon 68 Air pair 69 Escalates 70 Sporty Mazda 71 Places needing

neatening 72 Thunderous

73 Rhythm in Gershwin’s Cuban Overture

74 It’s spread above

summer SAND 77 They learn by

repetition

78 Hexes

79 Home in a tree 82 “Innovative” prefix 83 Beast that sounds

innovative 84 Feeling vexed

86 Last-ditch

89 Holder of ccs in ORs

91 12, for Little Leaguers 93 Tallest guy on coins

and bills

96 Swag

97 One of the WWII

Allies

100 Smallest number

on a bingo card 103 Oliver Twist, e.g. 105 Two ways in a Frost

poem 106 German autos 107 Tax-exempt

bonds

109 Color in skyscapes 110 Malodorous

112 Rockies resort 113 Place to build on 114 Arduous activity 116 Rooms with

Bunsen burners 117 Major bookcase

seller

119 Brewpub device

 ?? © 2021 Creators Syndicate. All rights reserved. ?? Last week’s answers can be found in today’s “Puzzle Island Solutions.”
© 2021 Creators Syndicate. All rights reserved. Last week’s answers can be found in today’s “Puzzle Island Solutions.”

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