BY THE DOZEN: A very varied group

Across

1 Show approval 5 Jazz riffs

10 Cirrus cloud’s

shape

14 Number on a letter 17 Gopher’s creation 18 Video game

pioneer

19 Beetle Bailey dog 20 Act too broadly 22 New Testament

dozen

25 Tired out fully 26 Insignificant 27 Ballet costume 28 Believer in

anarchy

30 German auto 33 Some PCs

36 Small drum of

India

37 Household winter

warmer

40 City near Santa

Barbara

42 Very funny folks 44 Smooth-talking 46 Sound asleep 47 Solid geometry

dozen

50 Glanced at 52 Distinctive scent 54 Thicken, as cream 55 Wipe clean

56 Dalí contemporary 57 Water conduit 58 Place on a leash 61 Part of a grove 62 Food thickener 63 Script writers, for

short

65 Done in mosaic 67 Officially

designates 69 Cowell of reality

TV

72 Bridge deck dozen 75 Closeup map 76 Fairly divided 78 Small part for a big

star

79 Emulating 80 Aussie leapers 81 Poker ritual 84 Rind remover 86 Make small talk 90 Rice of vampire

fiction 91 Instructional

sequence

93 Steel mill residue 94 Made a rip in 95 Wood for archery

bows

96 Cannes coin dozen 99 Recycling

container

100 Italy’s “Supreme

Poet”

102 Gourmet

mushroom

103 Irksome one 105 Offbeat

106 Impolite looks 108 Whimpers

110 A new shade now 112 Hot Springs’ state 115 Helped oneself to 117 Dry Italian wine 121 Mislead

122 December song

dozen

127 Oversize hair 128 Surveyor’s

measure

129 Ryder truck-rental

rival

130 Give forth

131 GPS lines 132 Sharp flavor

133 Burn slightly 134 Vended

Down

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8

British fellow Leisurely gait Very often Green sauce Actor Kilmer Filled up on Sailboat pole Pleased with

oneself

9 Bakers’ gadgets 10 Adversity

11 Part of TGIF 12 Leave speechless 13 Assume true 14 Astrology dozen 15 Medical suffix 16 Cooped (up)

20 OK to ingest 21 Reciprocal of kilo23 Keyboarding error 24 Month after junio 29 Was previously 31 Retrieves a DVD 32 Punch server 34 Unaccompanied 35 Go first

37 Gunk

38 Rival of 30 Across 39 Go no further 41 “Can’t help

myself!” 43 Lingering mark 45 Martial art 48 Moral code

49 “__ directed” (prescription phrase)

51 Least satisfactory 53 Regretful feeling

56 Concert headliner 59 DC or AC 60 Postgame

rundown 64 Modern crime clue 66 British noble title 68 Product from

olives

69 A shore thing 70 Resolved, with

“out”

71 NASA dozen 72 Fruity soft-drink

brand 73 Oscar winner

Witherspoon 74 Dress elegantly 77 Winery workers 79 Large merchant

ship

82 Contract period 83 British racetrack

town 85 Golden-__ corn 87 Traveler in

boxcars 88 Rarely rained on 89 Watch over

92 Not at all pleased 96 Court reporters 97 Still learning about 98 The whole gang 101 Retro “Sweet!” 104 Novelist Gerritsen 107 Egyptian Peace

Prize recipient 109 2014 Winter

Olympics city 111 Showers affection

(on) 112 “A pity”

113 Difference of

opinion

114 Pop singer

Bareilles

116 Genghis __

118 Snowballs, at times 119 Rockies ski resort 120 Founded: Abbr. 123 Craving

124 Become droopy 125 Hallway covering 126 Suffix for percent