CROSSWORD PUZZLE:
ACROSS
1 Miss
5 More than excited
10 Grub for a grub
14 Elliptical
18 Where a phone might be
tapped
19 Last Oldsmobile model 20 Site of the Bocca Nuova crater 21 Regional flora and fauna 22 Facial feature of a Lego man? 24 Sparkling Italian wine 25 With 81-Across, flashy
basketball play 26 Completely remove
27 Blew off steam?
29 “Hold your horses”
31 Word before job or joke 33 M.C. during a power outage? 37 Regulus is its brightest star 38 Small change?
40 Most eccentric
41 Formerly
42 What means most in the end? 43 Some somber music
45 “So what?”
46 Tailor’s measurement 48 “The elite fighter pilots may
skip the rest of the lecture”? 53 New Cub Scout
54 Hairy hunter of Genesis 55 Looney Tunes devil, for short 56 Hostile declaration 59 Decision
60 Expense for a political campaign 62 List of available courses 64 What the abscissa and
ordinate are measured from 66 Take in
67 Drive a getaway car through
Australia’s outback? 72 Cousin ____ (“Jimmy
Kimmel Live” regular) 74 Major account
75 Nickname of a 2010s pop idol, with “the”
76 Bird in Liberty Mutual commercials
77 Work mates
79 Answer
81 See 25-Across
84 When Caesar is told to
“Beware the ides of March” 87 Give in
89 What you might do after the movie previews are finally over?
93 Yeshiva instructor
94 Civil War side: Abbr. 96 Group who ought to know
better?
97 Rx prescribers 98 Pioneering programmer
Lovelace
99 Fish whose name means
“very strong” in Hawaiian 103 Put away
105 “The devil’s lettuce”
106 Where spaghetti and orzo rank in terms of their suitability for making necklaces?
109 Resident of Japan’s “second city” 111 ____ Mendeleev, creator of
the periodic table
112 Martin ____, star of 1960s
TV’s “Route 66” 114 Opera singer Fleming
116 Play with, as a toy mouse 118 To boot
120 One who believes
exclusively in a sea god? 122 Political columnist Molly 123 Noted Christian
124 Role in the 2005 hit
musical “Jersey Boys”
125 Electric-flux symbols
126 “Pretty please?”
127 Like child’s play
128 County on the Thames 129 Legal postponement
DOWN
1 What Winthrop speaks
with in “The Music Man” 2 Give in
3 Musicians’ slip-ups 4 Hang-ups
5 Fannie ____
6 Isaac Newton, by hobby 7 Classic soda brand
8 Source of the word “galore” 9 Xbox and GameCube 10 Cause
11 Long-distance travelers,
informally
12 Composer Dvorak 13 Passed out
14 De-squeaked
15 Thick cloud above a peak 16 Took in
17 ____ of the land
21 System used in computer code 23 Frist’s successor as Senate
majority leader
28 That, in Spanish 30 Quizzical utterances 32 Actress Conn of “Grease” 34 Popular tablets 35 Antique-shop deal 36 Stovetop item
37 Where a herd might be heard 39 Aretha Franklin’s Grammy
nominated sister 44 Thingamajig
47 Kind of order for the
circled letters in this puzzle 49 Swedish Air Force supplier 50 Guys
51 Making a clerical error? 52 Exercise in dexterity 53 Grease
57 Cry from a nursery
58 The king of diamonds
carries one
61 It might be glassy or icy 63 Ragtime great Blake 65 Shrub that produces a
crimson-colored spice 67 Two-time Emmy winner
for “30 Rock”
68 Common thing to lie about 69 Rule that ended in 1947 70 Prime cut
71 “____ is life”
72 Carving in a cartouche 73 Business whose patrons
are often fighting 78 Entanglement
80 No. 44
82 Completely embarrasses,
slangily
83 Piece of music that evokes
the countryside
85 Certain percussion player 86 Home of the Komodo dragon 88 Knuckleheads
90 *Swoon*
91 Southwestern ski resort 92 Prime meridian std. 94 Absurd pretense 95 20-Across’s island, to locals 100 Sum total: Abbr.
101 Storehouse
102 ____ polloi
104 Voting district
107 Like the newspaper Al-Shabiba 108 Ancient empire builders 110 Something to play for
113 Some are shockers
115 Online handicrafts
marketplace
116 Part of many a postcard, briefly 117 Gardner of old Hollywood 119 Nine-symbol message
121 Word often spoken in pig Latin