South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)

TRIPLE PLAY

- By Alan Olschwang

ACROSS

1 Wii or Xbox aficionado

6 Tantalizes

12 Mop & __

15 Persian Gulf capital

19 Moby Dick, e.g.

20 Hint at, with “to”

21 Long time

22 Unknown author, for short

23 Cherries jubilee?

25 Area that separates a nave from a sanctuary

27 Nixed, at NASA

28 Make less strict

29 Areas of human developmen­t

30 “Macarena” band __ del Río

31 Topped, in a way

34 French possessive pronoun

35 “I mean a different cereal box mascot!”?

37 Actor Holbrook

38 Swill

40 Warn with a horn

42 Brown in the kitchen

43 Spring flower

45 India’s smallest state

47 “Trinity” novelist Leon

49 Ships with staterooms

52 Headline after the IT department fixes a bug on Hulu?

57 “Law & Order: SVU” actor

58 All over the place

59 Headliner

61 Merrie __ England

62 Hold on to

65 Comedian Silverman

68 Scrutinize­d

70 All __ sudden

71 Tipped off

73 Neck parts

75 Sea nymph of Greek mythology

77 Junior

78 Roof with removable panels

80 Defensive trenches

82 Birch family trees

83 Check mark

85 Reggae great Peter

87 Plain

89 Sailing

90 Beer brewed by the Royal Family?

96 Security system component

99 Manitoba First Nations people

100 __ trip

101 North Carolina college town

102 Crook

104 “Yeah, right!”

106 Tight-fitting

109 Former owner of Virgin Records

110 Where NHLers serve penalty time?

113 Game with matchstick­s

115 Fruit jam in Sacher tortes

117 Japanese IT services giant

118 Mila of “Bad Moms”

119 Useless, batterywis­e

121 Small fruit pie

122 Knight spot?

124 Wading bird that a girl can really look up to?

128 River in Tuscany

129 Before, in ballads

130 Changed into

131 Battery terminal

132 “Oh, shoot”

133 Leb. neighbor

134 “... if you know what’s good for you!”

135 Repairs

DOWN

1 Hudson Riv. crossing

2 Sushi-grade tuna

3 Official flower of two Southern states

4 __ grease

5 Rules

6 Schoolyard game

7 Dresden’s river

8 Margaret Atwood’s “__ Grace”

9 Nightly show with free admission

10 Beats by a whisker

11 “Catch my drift?”

12 Really bug

13 Golfer Ochoa

14 Winning steadily

15 Some govt. lawyers

16 Dolly the sheep, sitting all by herself?

17 Climb aboard

18 Nasty anagram

24 Yule tune

26 Tucci’s “Road to Perdition” role

29 Lets loose

31 Gambler’s marker

32 Almost unique

33 Religious doctrine

36 “Pagliacci” clown

39 Audre Lorde and Lord Byron, e.g.

41 NHL great Bobby

44 Ink mishap

46 Like most of the world’s people

48 Make full

50 Colorful timber tree

51 Places

53 Travis of country

54 “BoJack Horseman” voice actor Will

55 “Get lost!”

56 BLT spread

60 Car manufactur­er’s woe

62 Many dreadlocks wearers

63 Plaza Hotel girl

64 Cheap perfume?

66 Mil. mail drop

67 Fling with force

69 Street of mystery

72 Way in

74 __ whisper

76 Wise words

79 Tiny fraction of a min.

81 Catches

84 Golean cereal maker

86 Hound

88 Massey of old films

91 French article

92 Sven of “Frozen,” for one

93 Kind of microscope

94 Dallas quarterbac­k after Bledsoe

95 Cross mood

97 Farmyard noises

98 Picture puzzles

103 Fancy duds

105 Intense

107 Until

108 “Gilmore Girls” actress Lauren

110 Early Peruvian

111 India’s first prime minister

112 Compound in fireworks

114 Taj __

116 Joliot-Curie who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry

120 Pols from blue states, usually

123 Brillo rival

124 “Succession” network

125 Food Network host Drummond

126 Out of the ordinary

127 Early video game letters

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