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SUNDAY CROSSWORD

LAND LINES: A down-to-earth puzzle

By Gary M. Larson

ACROSS

1 Hostile parties 5 Assessed

10 Quite __ off (rather

distant)

15 Croft of video game

fame

19 Othello villain 20 Writer Zola

21 Got together

22 Very devoted

23 Burger, essentially 25 Robin Williams doctor

role

27 Midday restorative

rest

29 Fine point

30 Reddi-__ (dessert

topping brand)

33 Title for Churchill 34 Subtle radiance 36 Vehicle for desserts

37 Nowhere nearby 40 The Deer Hunter

Oscar winner 42 Mid-February

sentiment

44 Cop portrayed by

Pacino (1973)

46 Tile installer

48 City on Tampa Bay,

for short

50 Bailiwicks

51 Half a Wagnerian title

pair

53 Long-tailed rodents 55 Eyelashes, to

anatomists

56 German industrial city 58 Minor arguments

61 With aroma added 63 Put a new price on 64 What some margins

are for

66 Ropes on a ranch 68 Support for glasses 69 With arms and legs

outstretched

73 Cost of membership

75 Superman nemesis 78 Disney Dalmatians

dad

79 Sheltered harbors 81 Restaurant freebies

for tots

84 Substantial 86 Archaeological site

87 Malodorous

89 Ingot shaper

91 Springsteen nickname 93 Dutch Caribbean

island

94 Hair-care concoction

97 Piece of a grapefruit 100 Melted cheese + toast 103 Office fill-in

104 Composer Ferruccio 105 Suffix for languages 106 Egyptian goddess 108 Bath bar

110 “Send help!”

111 Forget-me-__

112 Immediately 114 Pot pie morsel

117 Renamed government-run shipping option

121 T-bone alternative 125 Very often

126 The __ Lama

127 Chip away at

128 Winged drone, e.g. 129 First claim, informally 130 Provide with a trait

131 Stair's vertical piece 132 Stick around

DOWN

1 Fruit from Turkey 2 Blade in a boathouse

3 Self-image

4 Metaphor for fog 5 Burgundy and

Beaujolais

6 Color of honey

7 Stadium level

8 Justice Kagan

9 Factory setting 10 Intensify, with “up”

11 Withdraw gradually 12 Storage area of a sort

13 Desert plants

14 Sun or moon

15 __ Godiva

16 Director DuVernay

17 Edge of a hoop 18 Pop-ups on monitors 24 What a bull may be

wearing

26 Lures in

28 Stage-play accessory 30 Org. with a panda

logo

31 Ending for adverb 32 Story arc

35 State with confidence

37 All you can see 38 Berry flavor for yogurt 39 Civil rights icon Parks

41 M*A*S*H setting 43 Timetable stats. 45 Asks too many

questions

47 ACLU concerns 48 Catch by trickery 49 And more: Abbr.

52 Copycat

54 Auction off, say 56 Before, in verse

57 Naval commando 59 Catch by trickery 60 Genesis city 62 Scottish denial 65 Philosopher

Descartes 67 Witnessed

69 Faux cheese

ingredient

70 Dance in a gym

71 Geode mineral 72 Black-clad teen,

often

74 Dollar sign shape 76 Extended family 77 Consumed

something 79 Bulbs that bloom in

the spring

80 Boots out

82 __ de plume

83 Space on

a schedule

85 “Sure”

87 Cabbie's client 88 Spans of history 90 Club costs

92 Certain jazz fan 95 Skyline haze

96 Less abundant

98 Sean __ Lennon

99 Little quibble

101 Half a Wagnerian title

pair

102 Harsh-sounding 107 Chew out

109 Lab dish inventor 110 Scornful

112 Parts of a circus

schedule

113 Old Testament twin 115 Cupid alias

116 S&L dispensers

117 Launching place 118 __ Baba

119 Burglarize

120 Plastic bag closer 122 Munch on

123 __ carte menu

124 Crucial

PUZZLES

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