The Day

THREE’S COMPANY

- By Ed Sessa

ACROSS

1 Creature of __ 6 Profound

10 Golden Arches

pork sandwich 15 Crime novelist

Buchanan 19 Lingering evidence 20 One-named singer

from Ireland 21 Pimento holder,

perhaps

22 Mireille of “Big Love” 23 Big brawl 24 Dvorak, Masaryk,

Havel?

26 Riveted

27 Wee woolly one 28 Bit of heckling 29 Great Plains people 30 Asian island capital 32 More mad

34 Sp. misses

35 Suez Canal ship 36 Find not guilty 38 Jeans line 39 Holiday, Hampton,

Red Roof? 42 Circular

43 Declares

45 Harbor haulers 46 Evergreen tree 47 Fair __ coffee 48 Touch lightly 49 Small amphibians 51 Number of billiard

ball colors

52 Down in the dumps 53 Cathedral topper 55 Exclusivel­y

56 Music genre with

accordions 57 Voucher

58 Home buyer’s option 60 Queen, drone,

worker?

62 Two-bit 64 Continenta­l org. 65 Measure of

brainpower 66 Pharoah, Chou,

Leno?

67 Aesop’s

grasshoppe­r, e.g. 68 Some golf trophies 69 MacDowell of “Four Weddings and a Funeral”

70 “Stay” singer Lisa 71 Longtime NPR news analyst Roberts

73 “I knew it __ you” 76 With 92-Across, “The Dragons of Eden” writer 77 Actress Merrill 78 Elisabeth of “Leaving Las Vegas”

79 Put up

81 Prefix with meter 82 “Severance” actor

Scott

84 Make right 86 Panasonic TV line 87 First, Second,

Third?

89 Purple flower 90 Boris who won three Wimbledon championsh­ips in the 1980s

91 City on the Seine 92 See 76-Across 94 Boardroom stand 95 Azadi Tower city 97 Assertive to a fault 98 Wily

99 Michelle, to Barack 102 Cooking show

appliance

103 Galahad, Lancelot,

El Cid?

106 Strength

107 Marshy land

108 Radii neighbors

109 Dynamic start?

110 Lower joint

111 Ran, as dye 112 Scholarly article

reviewers

113 “Probably shouldn’t open this in your cubicle” shorthand 114 Younger siblings,

probably

DOWN

1 Web programmin­g

language

2 Focus of study 3 ChapStick, Burt’s

Bees, Lip Smacker? 4 Frozen over

5 Light shirt

6 Interior design 7 Automaker Ferrari 8 Organ with a lens 9 Hoarders

10 “Dune” actor Jason 11 Lobster portions 12 “Let You Love Me”

singer Ora

13 “So __ heard” 14 Topping

15 More creepy 16 Genetic fingerprin­ts 17 “Nothing doing” 18 Prosecco kin 25 Blackjack request 28 Wager

31 MLB playoff event 33 Vanpool, e.g. 34 Bering, Coral,

Baltic? 35 Responsibi­lity 36 Liberal __

37 Red Sox manager

Alex

38 Recipe instructio­n 39 __-bitty

40 Pretend not to

notice

41 __ journal

43 Bunny slope

conveyance

44 Mail recipient 50 King Arthur, Gold

Medal, Pillsbury? 51 Short messages 54 Plumbing part

55 16 oz.

56 Personal sources

of aggravatio­n 57 Poet Day-Lewis who wrote mysteries as Nicholas Blake 59 Worrywart’s lament 60 Squabble

61 Prefix with distant 62 Manitoba’s country 63 All the Earth’s water 66 Social reformer Riis 70 Fancy transport 72 French affirmativ­es 73 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday?

74 Part of a plot,

maybe

75 One of Old Glory’s

50

77 Place of honor 78 Graffiti artist’s

handful 80 Fermented beverage in Asian cuisine

82 Gillette razor 83 “Down the hatch!” 85 Elite __: March

Madness round 88 Merited

90 __ window 92 Baking staple 93 Campfire remnants 94 Macaroni shape 95 Many an

archaeolog­ical site 96 Hardly holy 97 Evergreen tree 98 Banzai Pipeline

feature

100 Sensed

101 Woolly ones

104 Nats’ div.

105 French article

106 Drain

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