SUNDAY CROSSWORD: CHOICE WORDS
Editors NOTE: place “epsilon” character in 15-down
ACROSS
1 Action done while saying, “Good dog” 4 Mischief-makers 11 It might click for a
writer
14 Fall mo.
17 Kind to Mother
Nature
18 Harris in the Country Music Hall of Fame
19 Living ____ 20 Member of the superfamily Hominoidea 21 Noted Apple release of 1968, to fans
23 Haphazard
25 Some crumbly
blocks
26 Inits. for a
theatrical hit 27 Send away, in a
way 29 Accomplished the
task
30 What wiggly lines in comics may represent
32 Cause of boom and
bust?
34 Convene for
another session 36 Up to it
37 What’s frequently
used by poets? 38 “To quote yours
truly ... “
41 ____ dish
42 Heath
43 Desperate 45 Traditional British
entree
48 Tries for
a role
49 S.F. metro
50 “Hey ... over here!” 51 Derby lengths 53 Equivalent of the Face With Tears of Joy emoji
56 Give a buzz 61 Inconvenience 64 Execute, as a royal
of old
67 Classic concert
chambers
68 Noted U.S. rock
group? 70 Approximately 73 See captain? 74 Studio fixtures 76 “I’m game!” 77 State of
equilibrium 80 Code-cracking grp. 81 Match-ending
rugby call 82 Bygone sovereign 85 Dance-a-____ 87 Build on
90 Military dismissal 96 “You game?” 98 State to be the
case
99 ____ Kornfeld, music promoter for Woodstock
100 Daddy-o 102 Great Basin native 103 Stun
104 Heavy weights in
Britain
106 “Murder, ____
Wrote”
107 Samuel ____, business partner of Marcus Goldman
109 Gradually wear
away
111 Lipton competitor 113 Keypad triplet
115 Critical remark
116 Regardless of the
outcome
118 Hectic trip abroad 121 Card in a royal
flush
122 Purposes
123 One runs from Me.
to Fla.
124 Seminoles’ sch. 125 “You betcha!”
126 Northern ____ (curiously named apple variety)
127 Have
128 Boggy expanse DOWN
1 Fare that’s eaten
hands-free 2 Wanted badly 3 Mano a mano 4 Negligent 5 Silicon Valley’s ____ Research Center
6 Candy bit that comes in a plastic roll
7 “Battlestar
Galactica” robots 8 Clerical vestment 9 F, in music 10 Southern region of
Mesopotamia 11 Fabric options 12 Sense of self 13 Fluent speaker of
Elvish, say 14 Uttered a sound
15
16 Bugs
19 Relative of a bug 22 Churchill ____ Rooms (London tourist attraction) 23 Long ball
24 City with a Little
Havana 28 Nickname for José 31 Farthest down? 33 Anklebone
35 Least messy 39 Sorority member 40 Yang’s counterpart 44 “I Wanna Be
Sedated” band 46 Horrid 47 Maximum degree 49 The brainy bunch? 52 Profligate sort 54 Measures of electrical resistance
55 One of the fire
signs
57 Alveolar trill, as it’s commonly known
58 Concept, in Cannes 59 Just in case 60 Glasgow gal 61 Mischief-makers 62 ____ court 63 Stage between
larva and imago 64 Consecrates
65 Act investigated by an insurance company
66 ____ ex
machina
69 QVC alternative 71 Journalist Fallaci who wrote “Interview With History”
72 Bindis, e.g. 75 Running behind 78 Kinda
79 Berate
blisteringly
81 They can be wrinkled or thumbed
83 Field that deals
with fields 84 The newest trend,
in slang
86 Inits. at
Westminster 88 Trigger
89 Head for
the hills?
90 Moved aside (for) 91 Cupidity 92 Changes from commercial to residential, perhaps
93 Words to live by 94 Wash out 95 Popular tick
repellent 96 Piercing eye hue 97 Trial
101 ____ of
Alexandria (wonder of the ancient world)
105 Clinch
108 Puerto Rico clock
setting: Abbr.
110 Ballpark figures, in
brief
112 Semiserious “Got
it!”
114 Places hangers
hang
117 Guff
119 Distributor of CARES Act funds
120 ____ Moines