Chicago Tribune (Sunday)

Triple Play

- By Alan Olschwang Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis

Across

1 Wii or Xbox

aficionado 6 Tantalizes

12 Mop & __

15 Persian Gulf capital 19 Moby Dick, e.g. 20 Hint at, with “to” 21 Long time 22 Unknown author,

for short 23 Cherries jubilee? 25 Area that separates a nave from a

sanctuary

27 Nixed, at NASA 28 Make less strict 29 Areas of human

developmen­t 30 “Macarena” band

__ del Río 31 Topped, in a way 34 French possessive

pronoun

35 “I mean a different

cereal box mascot!”? 37 Actor Holbrook 38 Swill

40 Warn with a horn 42 Brown in the

kitchen

43 Spring flower 45 India’s smallest state 47 “Trinity” novelist

Leon

49 Ships with

staterooms 52 Headline after the IT department fixes a bug on Hulu? 57 “Law & Order:

SVU” actor

58 All over the place 59 Headliner

61 Merrie __ England 62 Hold on to 65 Comedian

Silverman 68 Scrutinize­d

70 All __ sudden 71 Tipped off

73 Neck parts

75 Sea nymph of

Greek mythology 77 Junior

78 Roof with

removable panels 80 Defensive trenches 82 Birch family trees 83 Check mark 85 Reggae great Peter 87 Plain

89 Sailing

90 Beer brewed by the

Royal Family? 96 Security system

component 99 Manitoba First

Nations people 100 __ trip

101 North Carolina

college town 102 Crook

104 “Yeah, right!” 106 Tight-fitting 109 Former owner of

Virgin Records 110 Where NHLers

serve penalty time? 113 Game with

matchstick­s

115 Fruit jam in Sacher

tortes

117 Japanese IT

services giant 118 Mila of “Bad Moms” 119 Useless, batterywis­e 121 Small fruit pie 122 Knight spot? 124 Wading bird that a girl can really look up to?

128 River in Tuscany 129 Before, in ballads 130 Changed into 131 Battery terminal 132 “Oh, shoot”

133 Leb. neighbor 134 “... if you know what’s good for you!”

135 Repairs

Down

1 Hudson Riv.

crossing 2 Sushi-grade tuna 3 Official flower of

two Southern states 4 __ grease

5 Rules

6 Schoolyard game 7 Dresden’s river 8 Margaret Atwood’s

“__ Grace”

9 Nightly show with

free admission 10 Beats by a whisker 11 “Catch my drift?” 12 Really bug

13 Golfer Ochoa 14 Winning steadily 15 Some govt. lawyers 16 Dolly the sheep,

sitting all by herself? 17 Climb aboard 18 Nasty anagram 24 Yule tune

26 Tucci’s “Road to

Perdition” role 29 Lets loose 31 Gambler’s marker 32 Almost unique 33 Religious doctrine 36 “Pagliacci” clown 39 Audre Lorde and

Lord Byron, e.g. 41 NHL great Bobby 44 Ink mishap

46 Like most of the

world’s people 48 Make full

50 Colorful timber tree 51 Places

53 Travis of country 54 “BoJack Horseman”

voice actor Will 55 “Get lost!”

56 BLT spread

60 Car manufactur­er’s

woe

62 Many dreadlocks

wearers

63 Plaza Hotel girl 64 Cheap perfume? 66 Mil. mail drop 67 Fling with force 69 Street of mystery 72 Way in

74 __ whisper

76 Wise words

79 Tiny fraction of a

min.

81 Catches

84 Golean cereal

maker

86 Hound

88 Massey of old films 91 French article 92 Sven of “Frozen,”

for one

93 Kind of microscope 94 Dallas quarterbac­k

after Bledsoe 95 Cross mood 97 Farmyard noises 98 Picture puzzles 103 Fancy duds

105 Intense

107 Until

108 “Gilmore Girls”

actress Lauren 110 Early Peruvian 111 India’s first prime

minister

112 Compound in

fireworks

114 Taj __

116 Joliot-Curie who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry 120 Pols from blue

states, usually 123 Brillo rival

124 “Succession”

network

125 Food Network host

Drummond

126 Out of the ordinary 127 Early video game

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