The Final Frontier
By Gary Larson and Amy Ensz
ACROSS
1 Country that's about 24 times longer than its average width
6 Vendor's wagon
14 Online access cos.
18 Nixon's older daughter
19 It established Congress
20 PDQ, in the ER
21 Satisfied with one's work in the transporter room?
23 Miles' "Sideways" love interest
24 NFL official
25 Conger catchers
26 Daring deed
28 Informer
29 Setting for searches
31 Black
34 Big mess
36 Title book in a classic computer game
37 Brezhnev of the USSR
40 One who gets in
42 Detain Dr. McCoy?
47 Sends, in a way
48 Cover letters?
51 One may be painted
52 Fancy topping
54 Mangy mutt
55 Apple product
56 Opening tempo of Dvorák's "New World Symphony"
58 — gratia artis: MGM motto
61 End of a warning
63 Weave
66 "Be silent," in music
68 Arch type
69 Phaser, slangily? Tiny
73 Katniss' ally in "The
74 Hunger Games"
76 Surpasses
77 Forward pass
79 No. with two dashes
80 Ski weekend
destination
82 Pluck
84 Flamenco shout
85 Heineken brand named
for a Mexican city
87 Recurring
90 Actor Beatty
91 Warm sign-off
93 DNA sample from Kirk's chief engineering officer?
Beverly Cleary title dog 97 Defrauded, say, with 99 "on" 18-wheeler
100 Frontier home 104 Either Zimbalist 105 Creme-filled Drake's 107 cake
111 Bobby of the Bruins
112 Contents of some banks
114 Gloomy
116 Wedding promise
117 Newton, e.g.
119 Masseuse trained in massage techniques from Spock's home planet?
124 Fabled loch
125 Observing lions in the
wild, maybe
126 Sign up
127 De Matteo of "The
Sopranos"
128 Uncalled-for
129 Candy mogul H.B. —
DOWN
1 Makes with skill
2 Gender-specific pronoun
Less cordial 3
Flax fabric 4
High nester 5
"Easy to Be Hard" 6 musical
Song and dance
7 Unnamed degree 8 Cocktail party staple 9 "Bad Moon Rising" 10 band, briefly
11 Adjust in a garage
12 Flight by night
13 Connections
14 School of thought
15 Allure of boldly going where no man has gone before?
16 Pony up the service
charge, say
17 Museum pieces
18 Wee
21 Cup part
22 Bayou, perhaps
27 Poet who used the
name Old Possum
30 Abbr. often after a
comma
31 Carbon compound
32 Storage spot
33 Horatian work
35 Sports org. name since
1910
38 Historic time
39 It's a wrap
41 Big name in jeans
43 Elevator name
44 Runs easily
45 Grazing area
46 Barely enough
48 News exclusives
49 Clears of data, as a PC
50 Happy Meal toy replica
of Captain Kirk's ship?
53 "A Death in the Family"
author James
56 Wonderstruck
57 "Buenos —"
59 Flea market deal
60 Did salon work
62 Allow
63 Latin "behold"
64 Bygone depilatory
brand
65 First word in all but one "Seinfeld" episode title
67 Cause of inflation
70 Everglades deposit
71 Wheel connectors
72 Play delayers
75 Gave in (to)
78 Start of a classic
accusation
81 Fabled racer
82 Flapjack cooker
83 Dorm overseers, for
short
86 Wilcox daughter in
"Howards End"
87 Tabloid couple
88 Sign-off letters before L 89 Nice season
91 Blow away
92 "Ambition should be made of — stuff": "Julius Caesar"
94 EMT skill
95 It's found in banks
96 Immigrant's subj.
98 Tighten the strings of,
maybe
101 Safe to have
102 Example
103 Composer Stravinsky
106 Bogus
108 Church official
109 Nemo's creator
110 Habituate
113 Makeup line
114 Galahad et al.
115 Action movie weapons
118 Screening org.
120 Heel
121 CIO partner
122 Dundee denial
123 NYY rival