Brain games
Use the letters highlighted in the finished puzzle to spell January’s flower
ACROSS
1 Lend a hand 5 Poke holes in 9 Eyebrow shape 13 Undergrad degs. 16 Wanderer 18 Island feast 19 “Funny!” 20 Raiders of the Lost
21 “a Grand Old Flag” 22 Face-to-face exam 23 Revise 24 Grassy field 25 Entice
27 Gray matter 29 Took a load off 30 Golfer’s goal 33 Banana skins 35 Website address ending
36 Bud holder 37 Breakfast choice 39 Corn units
41 Wrapped garment 44 Shoppers’ headache 45 Opposite of quiet 47 Wrote 51 Insurance sellers 53 Monthly TV bill 54 Guinness Book entry 55 Seating sections 56 Paper ballot punch- out 58 Cooking meas. 60 “I see that coming!” 61 Carpe
62 Nest eggs, briefly 64 Golden delicious, e.g. 68 Cardinal’s color 70 Freudian topics 71 Facts and figures 75 Mouth puckerers
77 Out of bed 79 Put
81 TV collie 82 Copycat 83 Foreword, for short
84 CPR pros 86 Twosome 88 Soak up 89 Beanies
92 kwon do 94 American symbol
96 The Catcher in the
97 Food stat. 98 Best of both 101 Wedding cake layers 103 Pop- ups, e.g. 104 Landed (on) 105 Star Wars princess
107 Dots on a map
111 After expenses
112 Bingo relative
113 Try for size (2 wds.) 114 “Hurray!” 115 Poetic preposition 116 Baker’s dozen? 117 “Check this out!” 118 Cookers
DOWN
1 “luck?” 2 Ghost’s cry 3 Ostrich relative 4 Small fruit pie 5 Inclination 6 Slow road crosser 7 Battery size 8 Future flower 9 Out in front 10 Circle measurement 11 Goatee site 12 Derbies, e.g. 13 Light wood 14 Neighborhoods
15 Glide over the ice 17 Like the divers’ end of the pool 26 Ran into 28 Outcome 30 Like some bears 31 Buddy 32 Extend a subscription 34 Lettuce dish 36 Leonardo da 38 Telescope part 40 Actor Lowe 42 Spring mo. 43 Marsh growth 46 Plan 48 Doze (off)
49 Suffix with east or west 50 Banned pesticide 52 Biol., e.g. 53 Photographer’s need 57 Pronoun for a ship
59 In favor of 61 Jeans material 63 Death on the Nile cause, perhaps 64 “Is that ?” 65 Cause of storybook insomnia 66 Evenings, briefly 67 Misplaces 69 Steeped 70 Strange 71 Aykroyd and others 72 Stage presence? 73 Absorbent fabric 74 Building block 76 Undertake, with “out” 78 Caribbean, for one
80 Statue of 85 Yo-yo necessity 87 Proportions 88 A pint, maybe 89 Construction site sight 90 Calculator, at times 91 Adhesive 93 Choir voices 95 Economy-size 98 Rouse from slumber 99 Designer Cassini 100 Lose one’s footing
102 General Hospital, e.g.
106 Men in Black creatures, briefly 108 First baseman in a comedy routine 109 Forget- me110 Emergency signal