Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“SCRAPPER’S DELIGHT” By ROBERT E. LEE MORRIS

ACROSS

1 Check

alternative 7 Sacred beetle 13 Tijuana pair

16 It can be natural 19 Creed in Rocky

films

20 Winter melon 21 MPG-testing org. 22 Wordsworth

work 23 Attorneys’ firm

offering

25 “Day __”: 1965

hit

27 Way out

28 Put on a

pedestal

29 With no one

behind you 30 Capital NW of

Boston 33 Secure at the

pier

34 Pooch in

pictures 35 Backtalk 38 Potential soldier 42 Storage unit 43 In hot water 45 Prefix with

gender 46 Sorento or Soul 47 Cocktail party

snacks 48 Tommy who teamed with Cheech 49 Queen’s “__ One Bites the Dust”

53 “Cool, dude!” 54 Drumstick 56 Buckeyes of the

Big Ten 57 Handy sack 58 Sham sawbones 59 Lubricate 60 Church recess 61 Bird voiced by Rowan Atkinson in “The Lion King”

63 Road

annoyances 64 Complete 66 Navy NCOs 67 Oodles

68 Thor Heyerdahl

craft

69 Auspices

70 Pool tool 71 “Little Birds”

author Anaïs 72 Provider of

much change 75 Cracker-__:

homespun 78 Everlasting 80 Deliver a stemwinder, say 81 Snake oil,

allegedly 82 Multivolume set in the reference sect.

83 African capital 84 Veteran on the

briny

85 Green Bay Packers coach LaFleur 87 Chatty Cathy is

one

90 Deli choice 91 Many opera

highlights 92 “National Velvet”

author Bagnold 93 Site of a major part of the

Bible? 95 Mid-20thcentury First and Second Lady 97 Shoulder wrap 99 Snippet of

dialogue

103 Hold back

104 Scrapyard commodity

... and what’s hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers

108 Charge 109 Infant suffix

110 Alphabetically first U.S. national park 111 Catholic

devotion

112 OTC drug

agency

113 __ Plaines:

Chicago suburb 114 Homer, in

baseball lingo 115 Tarzan, e.g.

DOWN

1 Ashen

2 High point 3 “Smarter than the average bear” bear 4 “Republic”

philosopher 5 Word with caps

or clear 6 Spanish article 7 Off-the-wall 8 Pricey delicacy 9 “Keep

dreaming” 10 Risqué 11 Former Japanese prime minister 12 __-relief 13 Abhor

14 Part of OWN 15 Common word in a novel’s dialogue 16 Overtake

17 “__ Fideles” 18 Maker of iComfort mattresses 24 Mingo portrayer on “Daniel Boone” 26 Dabble in 29 Where many speeches come from

31 La Brea

attraction 32 Brand similar to

Spam 33 Fencing

maneuver 35 ’60s White

House daughter 36 Apple offering 37 N.W.A’s debut

single

39 Focus of some

committees 40 Bit of stoneware 41 Arrange in

sequence 42 Library sect. 44 Retire at home,

say?

46 Solemn sound 48 Lad

49 Bit of checkpoint

deception 50 Coal train

component 51 Exxon, once 52 Feels bad about 54 Seasoning in

Indian cuisine 55 At lunch, say 58 California state

bird

60 TLX autos 61 Western writer

Grey

62 Came down 63 In __ daylight 64 Ancient German 65 Storybook fiend 69 Vintage video

game name 70 Symbol of a

year, perhaps 72 Tech news site 73 Explorer

Amundsen 74 Estrada of

“CHiPs”

75 Calls at home 76 Hard to grasp 77 Running behind 79 Helix-shaped

pasta 81 Curly-haired pet 83 Genesis brother 85 Sounded like

the wind 86 Tennis great

Gibson

87 Govt. securities 88 __ Mansion, NYC mayor’s residence 89 Lizard feature 91 Calvin’s spaceman alter ego, in comics 92 Force to leave 94 Motrin

alternative 96 Footnote abbr. 97 Whole bunch 98 “Nothing lived in him but fear and hatred”

100 List member

101 Family nickname 102 Flair

104 Common

cleaning supply 105 Tourism opening 106 Target of a

cheek swab

107 Common

cleaning supply