14 BRAIN BUSTERS PUZZLE MANIA

ACROSS

1 Mosque leader 5 Language from which “cummerbund” is derived

9 Banjo sound

14 Social division 19 Nixed, at NASA 20 Sisters

21 Oklahoma Air Force

base

22 Lift up 23 For-display-only Greek

deli items?

25 Twenty minutes of juggling and acrobatics?

27 Live

28 Stumble over 30 Capital south of

Oklahoma City

31 Like things that go

bump in the night 34 Pasture sound 35 Cubs’ org.

36 Actor Alda who wrote the best-seller “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?” 38 Game winner 41 Dietary claim

43 Salsa singer Cruz

45 “If u ask me ... ” 46 Alien with high heat

tolerance?

48 Einstein’s asset? 50 Backup group

51 Starts after a crash 53 Get a feeling 54 Racetrack ratios 55 “SpongeBob

SquarePants” setting 58 Maryland coll. team 59 Season trio: Abbr. 60 Milne hopper 61 Herculean acts

63 It may be matched 64 Hogwarts’ first High

Inquisitor __ Umbridge 68 Magic words ... and a hint to four side-byside pairs of puzzle answers

72 Hosp. triage expert 73 Ear piece?

74 Rush’s Neil known for his 360-degree drum set 75 Foxlike

76 Shares an email with 77 It’s fed on streets 79 Driller’s deg. 80 Recover

81 Old calculators 84 Tranquilized

86 New Zealand native 87 Play part for a giant

god?

89 Bachelor pad? 93 NBA’s Magic

94 Cats in Cádiz

95 Simon & Garfunkel

genre

96 Rent

97 Palindromic bread 99 “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” channel

100 Toon collectible

101 Après-ski drink

103 Bills featuring Ben

105 Five o’clock

phenomenon?

107 Microwaved

111 Musician evoking

compassion?

113 Resist extra calories at

Thanksgiving?

116 Poker strategy

117 Ten out of ten

118 Standard Oil brand

119 On the calm side

120 Daily Planet name

121 Pond critters

122 Flabbergast

123 Camera component

DOWN

1 Facts and figures 2 Lamentation

3 Lo que un desierto no

tiene

4 Spunk

5 Aussie college

6 Boring routine 7 MyHeritage service 8 KGB country 9 Expensive Super Bowl

purchase

10 “Yippee!”

11 Auth. unknown

12 ATM maker

13 Earn a perfect report

card

14 Phi followers 15 Ventricular outlet 16 Archimedes, by birth 17 Dangerous waves 18 Sci-fi staples 24 Qualifying match, briefly