THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
ACROSS
1 Durable, lustrous fabric for table linen
7 Babysits, e.g. 12 Heavy burden 16 Machines connected to mice 19 Person expressing
viewpoints
20 Do some igniting 22 Syrup source 23 Beginning of a
riddle
25 Even a hint of 26 Not so bright
27 Old sporty Pontiac 28 The Palm Treo
was one, in brief 29 Arctic home
31 Riddle, part 2 39 “— qué?” (“Why?,”
to Juanita)
40 Tofu base 41 Contest involving balancing on a floating log 42 Lead-in to bad
news
45 “— girl!”
47 Fortunetellers 49 U.S. pres. during
the Gulf War 53 Riddle, part 3
57 Austrian “a” 58 Hidden valley 59 “— From Muskogee” 60 “Incredible”
superhero
61 Bert’s Muppet pal 63 “— darn tootin’!” 64 Broad smile
65 Foal’s father 66 Mini-carpet 68 Riddle, part 4 72 Woman with will
power? 74 Deteriorates 75 Dahs’ Morse
counterparts 76 Pet treater 79 “Tomorrow”
musical
80 — d’oeuvres
81 Peru’s capital 82 “Gotta go!”
83 Muscle jerk 84 Riddle, part 5 89 Tree of Life’s garden
91 Boffo reviews 92 Funnywomen Schumer and Poehler
93 Has a go at 94 Have a loan from 96 Lead-in to puncture or pressure 97 Class for U.S.
immigrants
98 End of the riddle 107 Put back to 0,
perhaps
108 NASA “yes” 109 Tolkien meanie 110 Rom- — (film genre) 112 Aussie avian
113 Riddle’s answer 121 Diana Ross musical, with “The” 122 Relaxes, informally 123 Shoelace hole 124 Disco — (guy on “The Simpsons”) 125 “Yes, yes!,” in Yucatán
126 Discontinues 127 Cookout condiment
DOWN
1 Op-ed columnist Maureen
2 Green garden pest 3 Marlins’ city 4 House pest 5 Stitch up
6 Food chain 7 Letter-shaped opening in a machine shop 8 LAX abbr.
9 Certain caucus reply 10 Visit briefly 11 Reading room 12 Two — kind
13 Not a one 14 Website ID 15 Frozen floating brine 16 Church song 17 Tippy craft 18 Observe slyly 21 Put — on (limit) 24 Broadway’s Hagen 30 Mapmaker’s sci. 32 Home to Barcelona 33 Driver’s alert 34 Lauder of perfume 35 Chomsky of
linguistics 36 Vacuum cleaner
company 37 Actress Petty 38 Rick’s love in
“Casablanca” 42 Azalea of rap
43 Manicurist’s tool 44 From the time that
45 Guitarist Chet 46 Entity
47 Rejects with disdain 48 Trapped morays 50 Much-married
English king 51 Nintendo console
that debuted in 2012 52 Rare blood type,
in brief
54 Pierces 55 Japanese massage technique 56 Ogling looks
62 Old washcloth 64 Say “hi” to
65 Cutoffs, e.g. 66 Hostility
67 Affix a new label to 69 Hexa- halved 70 Recurrent theme
71 Benefit spiritually 72 Dislike a lot 73 “National Velvet”
novelist Bagnold 77 Roof’s edge 78 Feet have five 80 Widespread
destruction 81 Primate of
Madagascar 82 Keyboard command for “paste” 85 Rich rocks 86 Vatican’s denom.
87 Go quickly 88 Stilted-sounding reply to “Who’s there?”
90 G flat, for one 95 — hat (Broom-Hilda
costume part) 96 Beginning of a
classic JFK quote 97 Artist working on
glass
98 Pub offerings 99 Send in, as payment 100 Japanese truck
maker
101 “Mighty” trees 102 Yule songs
103 9-Down and 119-Down are opposite ones 104 Bit of a circle
105 GI tract bacterium 106 Tender spots
111 Fictitious tale 114 “Bali —”
115 Officeholders 116 Hi-tech film effects
117 Dove’s noise
118 Cobra type
119 Certain caucus reply 120 — Aviv-Yafo