Scrapper's Delight
By Robert E. Lee Morris
ACROSS
1 Check alternative
7 Sacred beetle
13 Tijuana pair
16 It can be natural
19 Creed in Rocky films
20 Winter melon
21 MPG-testing org.
22 Wordsworth work
23 Attorneys' firm offering
25 "Day —": 1965 hit
27 Way out
28 Put on a pedestal
29 With no one behind
you
30 Capital NW of Boston
33 Secure at the pier
34 Pooch in pictures
35 Backtalk
38 Potential soldier
42 Storage unit
43 In hot water
45 Prefix with gender
46 Sorento or Soul
47 Cocktail party snacks
48 Tommy who teamed
with Cheech
49 Queen's "— One Bites
the Dust"
53 "Cool, dude!"
54 Drumstick
56 Buckeyes of the Big
Ten
57 Handy sack
58 Sham sawbones
59 Lubricate
60 Church recess
61 Bird voiced by Rowan Atkinson in "The Lion King"
63 Road annoyances
64 Complete
66 Navy NCOs
67 Oodles
68 Thor Heyerdahl craft
69 Auspices
70 Pool tool
71 "Little Birds" author
Anaïs
72 Provider of much
change
75 Cracker-—: homespun
78 Everlasting
80 Deliver a stem-winder,
say
81 Snake oil, allegedly
82 Multivolume set in the
reference sect.
83 African capital
84 Veteran on the briny
85 Green Bay Packers
coach LaFleur
87 Chatty Cathy is one
90 Deli choice
91 Many opera highlights
92 "National Velvet"
author Bagnold
93 Site of a major part of
the Bible?
95 Mid-20th-century First
and Second Lady
97 Shoulder wrap
99 Snippet of dialogue
103 Hold back
104 Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers
108 Charge
109 Infant suffix
110 Alphabetically first
U.S. national park
111 Catholic devotion
112 OTC drug agency
113 — Plaines: Chicago
suburb
Homer, in baseball 114
lingo
Tarzan, e.g. 115
DOWN
1 Ashen
2 High point
3 "Smarter than the
average bear" bear
4 "Republic" philosopher
5 Word with caps or
clear
6 Spanish article
7 Off-the-wall
8 Pricey delicacy
9 "Keep dreaming"
10 Risqué
11 Former Japanese
prime minister
12 —-relief
13 Abhor
14 Part of OWN
15 Common word in a
novel's dialogue
16 Overtake
17 "— Fideles"
18 Maker of iComfort
mattresses
24 Mingo portrayer on
"Daniel Boone"
26 Dabble in
29 Where many speeches
come from
31 La Brea attraction
32 Brand similar to Spam
33 Fencing maneuver
35 '60s White House
daughter
36 Apple offering
37 N.W.A's debut single
39 Focus of some
committees
40 Bit of stoneware
41 Arrange in sequence
42 Library sect.
44 Retire at home, say?
46 Solemn sound
48 Lad
49 Bit of checkpoint
deception 50 Coal train component
51 Exxon, once
52 Feels bad about
54 Seasoning in Indian
cuisine
55 At lunch, say
58 California state bird
60 TLX autos
61 Western writer Grey
62 Came down
63 In — daylight
64 Ancient German
65 Storybook fiend
69 Vintage video game
name
70 Symbol of a year,
perhaps
72 Tech news site
73 Explorer Amundsen
74 Estrada of "CHiPs"
75 Calls at home
76 Hard to grasp
77 Running behind
79 Helix-shaped pasta
81 Curly-haired pet 83 Genesis brother
85 Sounded like the wind
86 Tennis great Gibson
87 Govt. securities
88 — Mansion, NYC
mayor's residence
89 Lizard feature
91 Calvin's spaceman
alter ego, in comics
92 Force to leave
94 Motrin alternative
96 Footnote abbr.
97 Whole bunch
98 "Nothing lived in him
but fear and hatred"
100 List member
101 Family nickname
102 Flair
104 Common cleaning
supply
105 Tourism
opening
106 Target of a cheek swab
107 Common cleaning
supply