Springfield News-Sun

THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- CORNER TO CORNER BY FRANK A. LONGO

ACROSS

1 Fishhook end 5 Neophyte

9 Negate

15 “Kapow!”

19 “— Ben Adhem”

(Leigh Hunt poem) 20 Whole bunch 21 Opposed (to) 22 Nevada city on I-80 23 Mild-flavored

lettuce

24 Dawn’s direction 25 Common corsage

flower

27 2019 buddy-cop

action-comedy film 29 Leaning Tower city 31 Co-avenger with

Electra

32 Wooden shoe 34 Bestow

38 Feedbag grain 39 Jaguar, e.g.

41 “It’s not — deal” 43 Guy who helps

people get out of jail 48 Attila the —

49 “I pass,” in cards 51 Bic — Stic

52 Add up to

53 March 15, e.g. 55 Emperor before

Caligula

58 In the direction of 62 Unsafe

64 Convent VIP 65 Quilt, e.g. 66 Small bouquets 68 Monkey in “Aladdin” 69 Die-hard devotees 70 What this puzzle’s solver does when filling in the upperleft to lower-right diagonal?

74 8-11 p.m., Tv-wise 78 Exec’s deg.

79 Tattle

84 Old Russian

revolution­ary 85 German for the

verb “love” 88 Sheer fabric 89 States of oneness 90 Filename display

area

92 Not far at all

93 GQ or Us

94 Send forth 96 Some pinschers,

for short 98 Completed

99 Male sibling by birth 105 Asian fusion

restaurant chain 106 Taxing org.

107 French body of

water

108 Like an ode

110 Marjanovic of the

Rockets

112 Memory loss

116 Like eyesores

118 Citigroup alternativ­e 121 Item for surfing on

one’s stomach

Work for 26 Take in a novel, e.g. Impose — on 28 Abba of Israel (forbid) 30 Boohoo

128 Arm bone 33 Leg bone

129 Princess Beatrice’s 35 Popular office plant

mom 36 Building wings

130 Ran away 37 Hitting stat

131 1967 Peter Sellers 39 Bird sound

film, with “The” 40 Video’s

132 Casual tops counterpar­t

133 Brines, e.g. 42 Last name of the 134 Lays (down) Bee Gees

135 Spin — (do like 44 Eight-armed Spider-man) creatures

45 The second Mrs.

Trump

46 Actress Eve

47 Bird homes 50 Cheapen

54 Enjoy a slope 56 Mcentire of

country

57 Lead-in to a

proposal 59 Bake-off needs 60 “As if that —

enough ...”

61 Pooch sound 63 Aden citizen

65 — -de-sac 67 Composer Erik 69 Ocean floor 71 Mouth or face,

slangily

72 Rescue squad VIP 73 Upscale Swiss

watch brand

74 — tuckered out 75 Of kidneys 125 127

DOWN

1 Streisand, to friends 2 Slightly

3 Vigorous quality 4 — Gump Shrimp

Company 5 Mechanical­looking dance

6 Pro vote

7 Rub roughly 8 Sight-related 9 Beach hut 10 “Selma” director

Duvernay

11 Lincoln loc. 12 Boohoo 13 Canadian gas

choice

14 NBA star James 15 Twists to pull free 16 Sun output

17 Poker cost 18 Hardness scale

inventor 76 “The Princess Bride” character Montoya

77 The Engineers’ sch. 80 It’s charged 81 Knotted like

shoelaces 82 Huxtable mom

on TV

83 Goat groups 85 Limber

86 Black, in verse 87 Honcho

90 Mambo king Puente 91 Ricochets 95 Janitorial tool 97 Deli heroes

100 Last Greek letters 101 Actor Arnaz

102 Court filings

103 Pianists’ exercises 104 Road semi

109 Staff symbols

111 Addis —, Ethiopia 112 Be up against

113 Yard pest

114 Not any

115 Aid in crime

117 New Haven

university

119 Local theater,

informally

120 Door handle

122 Iron —

123 Iron —

124 Tear

126 No longer in the

mil., e.g.

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