Take My Words Please

Take My Words ... Please

By Merl Reagle

ACROSS 1 Barrier at the beach 11 Secured 14 Race-car stick-on 19 First name of a First Lady 20 First name of a drug guy 21 Knightlike, perhaps 22 Incident 23 Pulitzer-winning novelist from

Kalamazoo 25 Completes a cycle, logically 27 When mastodons and monkeys first

appeared, (with "the") 28 Winter airs 29 Followers of Jacob's eighth son 31 They lead to overtime 33 Tallahassee sch. 34 Kid preoccupiers 36 Synonym for snapdragon, ___-mouth 37 Diet-cake feature 39 Insect pest, in Kentucky 41 Wheel-axle link 42 Clean and breathable 45 East or west add-on 46 Lock behind (you) 48 Dr. Atkins promise 49 Implore 52 Passes the acid test, in flying 54 Cognizant 55 Ivanhoe, for one 57 Lorna Luft's dad 58 Steadies a crossbow 62 Type of orig. 63 Classified anew 68 Poly or State preceder 69 Utterly, to Miss Piggy 71 1951 Scrooge portrayer 72 Body of laws 73 Dark, valuable wood 75 Interim 20-center from the Post Office 78 ___ symbol 79 City near Cheyenne 81 Watergate judge 84 They show your age: abbr. 86 Ancestor 87 Vacation time in Versailles 88 Bible book 91 Like Rocky the Flying Squirrel 92 Mus. publisher 94 Apocalypse Now abodes 96 Conks cold 99 "The best-___ schemes o' mice and men ..." 100 Insufferable cineaste 101 One from the heart? 103 "Double time!" 105 East-West link 108 Sensational loss? 110 Lousy, literally 111 Dental calculus 112 Certain undergrads 113 One who counts out 114 Church areas

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85 "?Quien ___?"

116 500,000-square-mile

42 Angle

86 Howdy Doody character

dust bowl

43 Yard aid

89 "... poor dog ___"

44 Missouri Indian

90 MASH, e.g.

DOWN

47 Org. that sponsors

91 Application-form abbr.

1 Big name in 1980s tennis

jamborees

2 "My ___ glory run" (Milton) 49 Flying mammal

93 Carol-title word 95 Where to hang a hat,

3 Bible bk. 4 Scuba diver's cousin 5 Russell and Weill 6 Used to be 7 Heady stuff 8 Symbol of authority 9 Seals in completely 10 Resound again 11 Knee-high 12 Veterans 13 When a famous quake

happened 14 Three, in Thuringen

50 Board bigwig

maybe

51 Belinda Carlisle's 1980s

97 Gaudily overwritten

band (with "the")

98 Fixed part on which

53 Claiborne of fashion

something rotates

55 Shortest member of the Rat 100 Saturday Night Live

Pack

alumnus Jay

56 Protuberance

101 ___ for the common cold

59 "Here ___!" 60 Tickle Me Elmo dolls, once 61 More devilish 64 Foundation-stone abbr. 65 G.H.W. Bush once headed it

102 Bright-eyed 104 School grps. 106 Chevalier tune 107 Breezed through 108 ___ discount 109 Cleo's coiler

15 Book boo-boos

66 Audrey's My Fair Lady

16 Portuguese explorer of

co-star

America in the 1500s

67 Dirk Bogarde's real first

17 Quite ___ (very pretty)

name

18 Env. filler

70 H.S. course

21 Salamanders 24 "Oh, give it ___!" 26 Beer bash buys 30 Yard aid

74 Australian cuties 76 Old English bard 77 Ingenuous artist 79 Antithesis of an Astaire

* PUZZLE FANS ! * For info on Merl's Sunday crossword

32 Mil. rank

80 Oval pieces

anthologies, visit

34 Co-worker of Flo and Alice 81 Aquatic entertainer



35 "Can ___ that in writing?" 82 "No sweat"

36 Canadian Indian 38 Proposition

83 They go to the head of the Puzzle ? 2019 by M. Reagle

class

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