A CENTURY AGO: Stuff from 1924
Across
1 Fragrance
6 “Silly me!”
9 USPS itineraries 13 Cherry-picks 18 Stately residence 19 Homeland
Security agcy. 20 Othello adversary 21 Where the blissful
walk
22 Its Winter
Olympics locale 24 The first book of them was published 26 Soldier’s
lunchroom
27 Runs easily
29 Half of a checked
pattern
30 Sty sound
31 Paint applications 32 Jet ID locale 33 Rectangular shape 36 Quit, so to speak 37 Old-fashioned
photos 41 Somewhere __ the
way
42 Broadway musical
debut
44 Rock band
accessory 45 Sorority letters 46 Architect Saarinen 47 Friendly nation 48 Swedish superstar
foursome 49 Beatles early
record label
50 He announced Andromeda as a galaxy
54 Wizard of Oz
composer 55 Mounts a revival of 57 After: Fr.
58 Boston seafood
servings
59 More dishonorable 60 Pakistan’s chief
river
61 Started eating 62 German’s hot
season 64 Extra-cost item 65 Restaurant fixtures 68 Blokes
69 It closed for
immigrant entry 71 Modern music 72 Light beams 73 Ballet bend
74 Elton John rock
musical 75 Minstrel’s
instrument 76 “Ready when you
__”
77 The heavyweight
boxing champ 81 Try to buy at
auction
82 Writer __ Kinnan
Rawlings
84 Grinch creator 85 Rent payer 86 Footnote abbr. 87 Pisa place
88 Reign over
89 The Time Machine
author
91 A sense
92 Russian grandma 96 It had its first radio
broadcast
98 His Magic Mountain was published
100 Brings on board 101 Be abundant
(with) 102 Group for those
50+
103 Trojan War catalyst 104 Pundits’ columns 105 Former JFK
landers
106 “Later!”
107 Bisected
Down
1 Car radio switch 2 Almost
unobtainable 3 Small bills
4 Windy, wet seasons 5 Bending backward 6 HP PC rival 7 Tennis official 8 Can’t stay 9 Manicotti filling 10 Wonderland
dessert
11 Self centers 12 “Send help” signal 13 Compose together 14 Now degreased 15 Scandinavian
Lawrence 16 Shoebox tops 17 Graduating grp. 19 Columbo portrayer 23 Put up, as a portrait 25 Not enough 28 Picnic spoiler 31 Religious regulation 32 Marquee name 33 Horse opera 34 Hold responsible 35 He became MGM’s
production boss 36 Tennis great Becker 37 Divulges
38 His poems de amor brought him world acclaim
39 Plant deeply 40 Stretches over
42 More recent 43 Local theaters,
slangily
46 Lawn tool
48 Pollo partner 50 Facilitates 51 Convenient, in
product names 52 High hairstyles 53 Model married to
Sarkozy 54 Showed initiative 56 Packs (down)
58 City of Tuscany 60 Didn’t do anything 61 Civil War
photographer 62 Leave quickly 63 GWTW heroine 64 Similarly
65 Passes quickly 66 Boca __, FL 67 Shelled out 69 Spanish national
hero 70 Smart-alecky
73 Church district 75 Football officials 77 Needing work 78 Thinks much of 79 Diner serving 80 Beer can opener 81 Original SNL cast
member
83 Cast aside abruptly 85 Polka band
instrument
87 “No more for me” 88 Sloping walkway
89 Indy Jones weapon 90 Irish republic 91 Takes to court 92 Snoozer of a
speaker
93 Sentry’s order 94 Had no doubt
about
95 Part of AD 96 Question of
identity
97 NHL tiebreakers 99 Foal food