Day: May 4, 2014

Frequently Asked Question: Why isn’t the puzzle in my paper the same as the one shown on your blog?
If the puzzle in your paper doesn’t match the one that I solved, it is probably a Sunday crossword. On Sundays, the “LA Times” chooses to publish Merl Reagle’s excellent crossword, and not their own “LA Times” Crossword. The “LA Times” puzzle is still sent out in syndication, and is also published in the “LA Times” online. I’ve been asked to blog about Merl Reagle’s crossword, but frankly I don’t have the time. Sunday puzzles have lots of clues!

Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across
1. “100 Years…100 Movies” org. AFI
The American Film Institute (AFI) was founded in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). One of the AFI’s more visible programs is the “100 Year Series”, including lists of Best Movies in several categories and a list of the Best Movie Quotes in 100 years of movie-making.

4. Bill and Hillary, e.g. ELIS
Elihu Yale was a wealthy merchant born in Boston in 1649. Yale worked for the British East India Company, and for many years served as governor of a settlement at Madras (now Chennai) in India. After India, Yale took over his father’s estate near Wrexham in Wales. It was while resident in Wrexham that Yale responded to a request for financial support for the Collegiate School of Connecticut in 1701. He sent the school a donation, which was used to erect a new building in New Haven that was named “Yale” in his honor. In 1718, the whole school was renamed to “Yale College”. To this day, students of Yale are nicknamed “Elis”, again honoring Elihu.

When Hillary Rodham Clinton was appointed US Secretary of State, she became the first former First Lady to serve in a president’s cabinet. Hillary met her husband, President Bill Clinton, when the two were studying at Yale law school.

15. Mister Rogers’ network PBS
The “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” TV show starred Fred Rogers. It was the second longest running series on PBS television after that other iconic children’s show “Sesame Street”.

20. “True __”: 2010 Best Picture nominee GRIT
The classic 1969 western movie “True Grit” starring John Wayne is a screen adaptation of a 1968 novel by Henry Hathaway. The Coen brothers made another big screen adaption of the novel in 2010 starring Jeff Bridges in the Rooster Cogburn role previously played by John Wayne.

21. Sound qualities TIMBRES
The “timbre” of a sound is its distinguishing quality above and beyond its volume and pitch. “Timbre” was used in Old French to mean “sound of a bell”.

27. Nebraska native OTOE
The Native American people known as the Otoe were the first tribe encountered by the Lewis and clark Expedition. The meeting took place at a point on the Missouri River that is now known as Council Bluff.

28. Martini garnish OLIVE
The name “martini” probably takes it name from the “Martini & Rossi” brand of dry vermouth, although no one seems to be completely sure. What is clear is that despite the Martini name originating in Italy, the martini drink originated in the US. The original martini was made with gin and sweet vermouth, but someone specifying a “dry” martini was given gin and dry vermouth. Nowadays we use dry vermouth for all martinis and the term “dry” has become a reference to how little vermouth is included in the drink. Famously, Noel Coward liked his drink very dry and said that a perfect martini is made by “filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy”.

30. Wheat whiskers AWNS
Awns are hair- or bristle-like structures found in numerous species of plants. In some species, like barley, the awns can contain photosynthetic tissue.

31. Jefferson and others, religiously DEISTS
Deism (from the Latin “deus” meaning god) is the belief that a supreme being created the universe, a belief based on observation and reason and without the need for faith. Further, a deist does not accept divine intervention, but rather believes that the supreme being, having created the universe, leaves the world to it own devices.

President Thomas Jefferson’s views on religion evolved over time, but he was inclined towards deism for much of his adult life while following moral principles espoused in Christianity. He attended the Episcopal Church and raised his daughters in that tradition. Famously, Jefferson espoused the concept of “Separation of Church and State”.

37. Marine eagle ERN
The ern (also erne) is also called the white-tailed eagle or sea-eagle.

38. Rap sheet letters AKA
Also known as (aka)

A rap sheet is a criminal record. “Rap” is a slang term dating back to the 1700s that means “blame, responsibility” as in “to take the rap”. This usage morphed into “rap sheet” in the early 1900s.

40. BTWs, in letters PSS
One adds a PS (post scriptum, or simply “postscript”) at the end of a letter. A second postscript is a post post scriptum, a PPS.

By the way (BTW)

44. Takei role SULU
Mr Sulu was of course played by George Takei in the original “Star Trek” series. Takei has played lots of roles over the years, and is still very active in television. Did you know that he appeared in the 1963 film, “Pt-109”? He played the helmsman steering the Japanese destroyer that ran down John F. Kennedy’s motor torpedo boat.

47. “__ I know …” AS FAR
I think the phrase “as far as I know” is more common than “as far I know”, but both seem to be used.

51. Bear with backup musicians? SMOKEY AND THE BAND (from “Smokey and the Bandit”)
“Smokey and the Bandit” is a 1977 comedy action film starring Burt Reynolds as “the Bandit” and Jackie Gleason as “Smokey Bear”.

Smokey Bear is the mascot of the US Forest Service. Smokey first appeared in 1944, in an advertising campaign directed towards preventing forest fires.

58. Simpson judge ITO
Judge Lance Ito came in for a lot of criticism for his handling of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The lead prosecutor in that trial was Marcia Clark, you might recall. I read the book that’s Clark wrote about the trial called “Without a Doubt”, and she pointed out one trait of Judge Ito that I think is quite telling. Ito would almost always refer to the prosecutor as “Marcia”, while addressing the men on both sides of the case as “Mister”.

60. Night sky feline LEO
The constellation called Leo of course can be said to resemble a lion. Others say that it resembles a bent coat hanger. “Leo” is the Latin for “lion”, but I’m not sure what the Latin is for “coat hanger” …

62. 86-Across, overseas LTD
(86. 62-Across, in the States INC)
In Britain and Ireland the most common type of business (my perception anyway) is one that has private shareholders whose liability is limited to the value of their investment. Such a company is known as a private limited company, and has the letters “Ltd” after the name. If the shares are publicly traded, then the company is a public limited company, and has the letters “plc” after the name.

64. Poker variety OMAHA
Omaha is a poker card game similar to Texas hold ‘em. The two games differ in that there are four initial hole cards per player in Omaha (as opposed to just two in Texas hold ’em). And in Omaha each player’s hand is made up of exactly three cards from the board and exactly two of the player’s own cards.

68. Picturesque Japanese peak FUJI
Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest and most famous mountain. It is an active volcano, and is located just west of Tokyo.

73. “A Jug of Wine …” poet OMAR
Omar Khayyam was a Persian with many talents. He was a poet as well as an important mathematician, astronomer and physician. A selection of his poems were translated by one Edward Fitzgerald in a collection called “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”.

Here are some lines by 11th-century poet Omar Khayyam:

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

75. Granola cousin MUESLI
“Muesli” is a Swiss-German term describing a breakfast serving of oats, nuts, fruit and milk. Delicious …

79. China’s Chou En-__ LAI
Zhou Enlai (also Chou En-Lai) was the first government leader of the People’s Republic of China and held the office of Premier from 1949 until he died in 1976. Zhou Enlai ran the government for Communist Party Leader Mao Zedong, often striking a more conciliatory tone with the West than that of his boss. He was instrumental, for example, in setting up President Nixon’s famous visit to China in 1972. Zhou Enlai died just a few months before Mao Zedong, with both deaths leading to unrest and a dramatic change in political direction for the country.

84. Innovative musician Brian ENO
Brian Eno started out his musical career with Roxy Music. However, Eno’s most oft-played composition (by far!) is Microsoft’s “start-up jingle”, the 6-second sound you hear when the Windows operating system is booting up. Eno might have annoyed the Microsoft folks when he stated on a BBC radio show:

I wrote it on a Mac. I’ve never used a PC in my life; I don’t like them.

94. “Peg Woffington” author READE
Charles Reade was an English author who came to public attention with a two-act comedy play called “Masks and Faces”. Reade turned the play into a prose story in 1852 that he called “Peg Woffington”. Reade also wrote a historical novel called “The Cloister and the Hearth” about a married man who becomes a Dominican friar on hearing that his wife has died. Years later he discovers that his wife is in fact still living and a struggle develops between the man’s obligation to family and his obligation to the Roman Catholic Church.

97. Flips, e.g. DOS
The flip hairstyle was popular with women in the sixties, and was characterized by an upward curl in the ends of the hair (a “flip”).

101. Moon and Starr: Abbr. QBS
Warren Moon is a retired quarterback who is now a broadcaster for the Seattle Seahawks.

Bart Starr is a retired football player and coach who spent his whole career with the Green Bay Packers. Starr was quarterback for the Packers from 1956 to 1971. Starr was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the first two Super Bowls.

104. Stylist’s jobs? BUILDING PERMS (from “building permits”)
“Perm” is the name given to a permanent wave, a chemical or thermal treatment of hair to produce waves or curls. I don’t worry about such things, as it’s a number-one all over for me …

109. Tennis rival of Roger RAFAEL
Rafael Nadal is a Spanish tennis player who is noted for his expertise on clay courts, earning him the nickname “The King of Clay”.

Roger Federer is a Swiss tennis player considered by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time.

115. O’Neill’s “__ Christie” ANNA
The playwright Eugene O’Neill was born in a New York City hotel room in what is now called Times Square, in 1888. That building no longer exists and there is a Starbucks on the site today, but you can go take a look at the commemorative plaque at the Northeast corner of 43rd and Broadway. O’Neill died in 1953, in room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston. His last words were, “I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room.” Eugene O’Neill won a Pulitzer for his play “Anna Christie”.

122. Nomeite, for one ALASKAN
Nome, Alaska has over 3,500 residents, the majority of whom are Native American. The next largest ethnic group in Nome is the white population.

123. Salad dressing initialism, à la Rachael Ray EVOO
Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)

Rachael Ray is a celebrity chef and host of several shows on the Food Network television channel. Ray comes from a family that owned and managed a number of restaurants in the northeast of the country. One of Ray’s TV shows is “$40 a Day”, in which she demonstrates how to visit various cities in North America and Europe and eat three meals and a snack on a daily budget of just $40.

126. Game show purchase AN E
Someone on “Wheel of Fortune” might buy an E.

Down
1. Skee-Ball locale ARCADE
Our word “arcade” comes from the Latin “arcus” meaning “arc”. The first arcades were passages made from a series of arches. This could be an avenue of trees, and eventually any covered avenue. I remember arcades lined with shops and stores when I was growing up on the other side of the Atlantic. Arcades came to be lined with lots of amusements, resulting in amusement arcades and video game arcades.

Skee Ball is that arcade game where you roll balls up a ramp trying to “bounce” it into rings for varying numbers of points. The game was first introduced in Philadelphia, in 1909.

5. Copier size: Abbr. LTR
Like so many things it seems, our paper sizes here in North America don’t conform with the standards in the rest of the world. ISO standard sizes used elsewhere have some logic behind them in that the ratio of width to length is usually one to the square root of two. This mathematical relationship means that when you cut a piece of paper in two each half preserves the aspect ratio of the original, which can be useful in making reduced or enlarged copies of documents. Our standard size of “letter” (8.5 x 11 inches) was determined in 1980 by the Reagan administration to be the official paper size for the US government. Prior to this, the “legal” size (8.5 x 14 inches) had been the standard, since 1921.

7. Start to celebrate? SOFT C
The word “celebrate” starts with a soft letter C.

9. George’s lyrical brother IRA
Ira Gershwin was the lyricist who worked with his brother George to create such American classics as the songs “I Got Rhythm” and “Someone to Watch Over Me”, as well as the opera “Porgy and Bess”. After George Gershwin died, Ira continued to create great music, working with the likes of Jerome Kern and Kurt Weill.

10. Torn-up turf piece DIVOT
A divot is a chunk of grass and earth that is removed by a golf club while striking the ball. “Divot” is derived from a Scottish word for a piece of turf or sod used as a roofing material.

11. PDA pokers STYLI
Personal digital assistant (PDA)

12. “Wildboyz” co-host STEVE-O
Steve-O is someone who made a name for himself doing silly things on the TV show “Jackass”.

14. CPR pro EMT
Emergency medical technician (EMT)

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has for decades involved the simultaneous compression of the chest to pump blood using the heart, and artificial respiration by blowing air into the lungs. Nowadays emergency services are placing more emphasis on heart compressions, and less on artificial respiration.

16. “__ John Malkovich” BEING
“Being John Malkovich” is a 1999 fantasy comedy starring John Cusack and Cameron Diaz, and of course John Malkovich. The crazy storyline features a puppeteer (played by Cusack) who discovers a portal into Malkovich’s mind.

17. Govt. nos. SSNS
A Social Security number (SSN) is divided into three parts i.e AAA-GG-SSSS, Originally, the Area Number (AAA) was the code for the office that issued the card. Since 1973, the Area Number reflects the ZIP code from which the application was made. The GG in the SSN is the Group Number, and the SSSS in the number is the Serial Number. However, this is all moot, as since 2011 SSn’s are assigned randomly.

19. Spunkmeyer of cookie fame OTIS
Otis Spunkmeyer is a company noted for producing muffins and cookies. Kenneth Rawlings founded the company in 1977 in Oakland, California. “Otis Spunkmeyer” isn’t a real person, and instead is a name that was made up by Rawlings’ 12-year-old daughter.

22. Pippi’s do BRAIDS
Pippi Longstocking appears as the heroine in a series of books written by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Lindgren was quite the activist, very well known in the circles working for children’s and animal rights, In particular, Lindgren campaigned heavily against corporal punishment.

24. Trail food GORP
“Gorp” is a name sometimes used for trail mix, particularly by hikers. It’s not really known for sure how this name came about, but some say it stands for “good old raisins and peanuts” or perhaps “gobs of raw protein”.

39. Actress Poehler AMY
Amy Poehler was a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” from 2001 to 2008, notable for appearing in many great sketches, including those where she played Hillary Clinton opposite Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin. Poehler also starred with Fey in the 2008 movie “Baby Mama”, and now has her own show on NBC called “Parks and Recreation”.

45. Old TV dial letters UHF
The radio spectrum is divided into bands based on frequency. “High band” is composed of relatively high frequency values, and “low band” is composed of frequencies that are relatively low. FM radio falls into the band called Very High Frequency, or VHF. Television signals use frequencies even higher than VHF, frequencies in the Ultra High Frequency band (UHF). AM radio uses lower frequencies that fall into the relatively low bands of Low, Medium and High Frequency (LF, MF, and HF).

46. Romanian coin LEU
The currency of Romania is the leu (plural: lei), a word meaning “lion”. The leu is also the name of the currency of neighboring Moldova. Romania joined the European Union in 2007, and had planned to join the Euro zone in 2014. This implementation date is in jeopardy as Romania struggles to meet economic goals set by the EU.

50. Piece for a hood ROD
A gangster (hood) might carry a gun (rod).

51. “Kinderszenen” composer SCHUMANN
“Kinderszenen” (often “Scenes from Childhood” in English) is a suite of thirteen pieces for piano composed by Robert Schumann. The pieces are written to evoke memories of childhood. The seventh title in the suite is the lovely Träumerei” (“Dreaming”), perhaps the most familiar of all thirteen.

55. Qatar’s capital DOHA
Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar located on the Persian Gulf. The name “Doha” translates from Arabic as “the big tree”.

Qatar is a sovereign state in the Middle East occupying the Qatar Peninsula, itself located in the Arabian Peninsula. Qatar lies on the Persian Gulf and shares one land border, with Saudi Arabia to the south. Qatar has more oil and gas reserves per capita of population than any other country in the world. In 2010, Qatar had the fastest growing economy in the world, driven by the petrochemical industry.

59. Sunscreen letters SPF
In theory, the sun protection factor (SPF) is a calibrated measure of the effectiveness of a sunscreen in protecting the skin from harmful UV rays. The idea is that if you wear a lotion with say SPF 20, then it takes 20 times as much UV radiation to cause the skin to burn than it would take without protection. I say just stay out of the sun …

65. Turkish bigwig AGA
“Aga” (also “agha”) is a title that was used by both civil and military officials in the Ottoman Empire.

69. Mideast flier EL AL
El Al Israel Airlines is the flag carrier of Israel. The term “el al” translates from Hebrew as “to the skies”.

70. Legendary tree site EDEN
In the Christian tradition, the “fall of man” took place in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve succumbed to the temptation of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, against the bidding of God. As a result, Adam and Eve were banished from Eden to prevent them becoming immortal by eating from the tree of life. The first humans had transitioned from a state of innocent obedience to a state of guilty disobedience.

71. Anderson of “WKRP in Cincinnati” LONI
Loni Anderson’s most remembered role was Jennifer Marlowe on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati”. Anderson has been married four times, most famously to actor Burt Reynolds from 1988 to 1993.

74. Some NFL linemen RTS
In American football, linemen specialize in playing in the line of scrimmage. RT stands for Right Tackle. That’s about all I know, and even that I am unsure about …

76. Mideast currency SHEKEL
The shekel is the currency used today in Israel. The first use of the word “shekel” was in Mesopotamia around 3000 BCE when it probably referred to a specific weight of barley.

78. List in a subsequent printing, perhaps ERRATA
Errata is the past participle of the Latin word “errare” meaning “to err”. We use “errata” to mean a list of errors that have been noted in some publication.

79. Actress Tyler LIV
Actress and model Liv Tyler is the daughter of Steven Tyler, lead singer with Aerosmith, and Bebe Buell, a celebrated model and singer.

82. Pontiac muscle car GTO
The acronym GTO stands for Gran Turismo Omologato, which is an Italian phrase that translates as “Grand Touring Homologated”. Italian car manufacturers started the tradition of calling their luxury performance cars “Gran Turismo”, and calling those cars they approved for racing “Gran Turismo Omologato”. The phrase “gran turismo omologato” translates as “grand touring homologated”, with “homologated” being a technical term signifying official approval.

83. Goal for explorer Coronado ORO
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was a Spanish conquistador who explored part of what today is the southwest US. He was drawn by the myth of the Seven Cities of Gold, seven cities that were rumored to have great riches and luxury.

85. “Up” studio PIXAR
“Up” is the tenth movie released by Pixar studios, featuring wonderful animation as we have come to expect from Pixar. The film earned itself two Academy Awards. The main voice actor is Ed Asner, whose animated persona as Carl Fredricksen was created to resemble Spencer Tracy in his last film, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”.

88. Ye follower, often OLDE
The word “olde” wasn’t actually used much earlier than the 1920s. “Olde” was introduced to give a quaint antique feel to brand names, shop names etc.

95. Name of six popes ADRIAN
There were six popes who took the name Adrian, including Pope Adrian IV (1154-1159) who was the only Englishman to have led the Roman Catholic Church.

96. Singer Warwick DIONNE
Dionne Warwick is a very, very successful singer, with more Top 100 hits than any other female vocalist other than Aretha Franklin. Warwick had a pretty successful cousin who was a singer as well … called Whitney Houston.

98. Old trail terminus OREGON
The Oregon Trail was established by fur trappers and traders as early as 1811. The first migrant wagon train traveled the route in 1836, starting off in Independence, Idaho and going as far as Fort Hall, Idaho. In the coming years, the trail was extended for wagons as far as the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

99. Barrie baddie SMEE
In J. M. Barrie’s play and novel about Peter Pan, Smee is one of Captain Hook’s pirates and is Hook’s right-hand man. Smee is described by Barrie as being “Irish” and “a man who stabbed without offence”. Nice guy! Captain Hook and Smee sail on the pirate ship called the Jolly Roger.

101. City of Botany Bay flier QANTAS
QANTAS is the national airline of Australia. The company name was originally an acronym for Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.

102. 1800s Mexican leader Juárez BENITO
Benito Juárez served five times as President of Mexico, taking office for the first time in 1858, and leaving office for the last time in 1872. A number of locations across the country, and beyond, have been named in his honor, including the city of Ciudad Juárez that sits just across the US-Mexico border from El Paso.

110. Man-goat deity FAUN
Fauns are regarded as the Roman mythological equivalent of the Greek satyrs, but fauns were half-man and half-goat and much more “carefree” in personality than their Hellenic cousins. In the modern age we are quite familiar with Mr. Tumnus, the faun-like character encountered by the children entering the world of Narnia in C. S. Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”.

111. Doc-to-be’s exam MCAT
The acronym MCAT stands for the Medical College Admission Test.

117. Reggae relative SKA
Ska originated in Jamaica in the late fifties and was the precursor to reggae music. No one has a really definitive etymology of the term “ska”, but it is likely to be imitative of some sound.

119. “Vive le __!” ROI
“Vive le roi!” is French for “Long live the king!”

121. Heavy ref. OED
The “Oxford English Dictionary” (OED) contains over 300,000 “main” entries and 59 million words in total. It is said it would take a single person 120 years to type it out in full. The longest entry for one word in the second edition of the OED is the verb “set”. When the third edition was published in 2007, the longest entry for a single word became the verb “put”. Perhaps not surprisingly, the most-quoted author in the OED is William Shakespeare, with his most quoted work being “Hamlet”. The most-quoted female author is George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans).

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. “100 Years…100 Movies” org. AFI
4. Bill and Hillary, e.g. ELIS
8. Gives a boost, say AIDS
12. Direction from Columbus, Ohio, to Columbia, S.C. SSE
15. Mister Rogers’ network PBS
18. Fall back on RESORT TO
20. “True __”: 2010 Best Picture nominee GRIT
21. Sound qualities TIMBRES
23. Mashed potatoes feature? CENTER OF GRAVY (from “center of gravity”)
25. Board at a station ENTRAIN
26. Prefix with meter ALTI-
27. Nebraska native OTOE
28. Martini garnish OLIVE
30. Wheat whiskers AWNS
31. Jefferson and others, religiously DEISTS
34. Signature clothes-washing move? CREATIVE WRING (from “creative writing”)
37. Marine eagle ERN
38. Rap sheet letters AKA
40. BTWs, in letters PSS
41. Casually considered, with “with” TOYED
42. Walk unsteadily LIMP
44. Takei role SULU
47. “__ I know …” AS FAR
51. Bear with backup musicians? SMOKEY AND THE BAND (from “Smokey and the Bandit”)
58. Simpson judge ITO
59. Cookie sellers SCOUTS
60. Night sky feline LEO
61. Stoked FUELED
62. 86-Across, overseas LTD
63. Shot PHOTO
64. Poker variety OMAHA
66. Dismissal OUSTER
68. Picturesque Japanese peak FUJI
69. Heads-up from your co-star about a former mate in the wings? EX STAGE LEFT (from “exit stage left”)
73. “A Jug of Wine …” poet OMAR
75. Granola cousin MUESLI
77. Take in ADOPT
78. Put up ERECT
79. China’s Chou En-__ LAI
80. Tried it HAD A GO
84. Innovative musician Brian ENO
85. Crime scene clues PRINTS
86. 62-Across, in the States INC
87. Home of robot jugglers and digital clowns? ELECTRONIC CIRCUS (from “electronic circuits”)
90. Sweater type V-NECK
92. In COOL
93. Decimal opening HEXA-
94. “Peg Woffington” author READE
97. Flips, e.g. DOS
100. Have some grub EAT
101. Moon and Starr: Abbr. QBS
104. Stylist’s jobs? BUILDING PERMS (from “building permits”)
109. Tennis rival of Roger RAFAEL
111. Sticky situation MESS
112. Helicopter part ROTOR
113. Wide sizes EEES
115. O’Neill’s “__ Christie” ANNA
116. Briefs CLUES IN
118. “Never mind,” and a hint to this puzzle’s theme FORGET ABOUT IT
122. Nomeite, for one ALASKAN
123. Salad dressing initialism, à la Rachael Ray EVOO
124. Cut off ALIENATE
125. Business card abbr. TEL
126. Game show purchase AN E
127. Bring under control, with “in” REIN
128. Watch over TEND
129. Lawn roll SOD

Down
1. Skee-Ball locale ARCADE
2. Antenna FEELER
3. Left for the day, maybe ISN’T IN
4. Poetic preposition ERE
5. Copier size: Abbr. LTR
6. Accord starter I TOO …
7. Start to celebrate? SOFT C
8. Goes along AGREES
9. George’s lyrical brother IRA
10. Torn-up turf piece DIVOT
11. PDA pokers STYLI
12. “Wildboyz” co-host STEVE-O
13. Muscular SINEWY
14. CPR pro EMT
15. Shrimp kin PRAWN
16. “__ John Malkovich” BEING
17. Govt. nos. SSNS
19. Spunkmeyer of cookie fame OTIS
22. Pippi’s do BRAIDS
24. Trail food GORP
29. ICU sight IV TUBE
32. Chat up TALK TO
33. What’s up? SKIES
35. Right hand: Abbr. ASST
36. Checks in the accounting office RE-ADDS
39. Actress Poehler AMY
43. Where to get dates PALMS
45. Old TV dial letters UHF
46. Romanian coin LEU
48. List on the left FILE MENU
49. Acts like an opposite? ATTRACTS
50. Piece for a hood ROD
51. “Kinderszenen” composer SCHUMANN
52. Milk for kids? MOO JUICE
53. Unlikely lint-gatherer OUTIE
54. “No ice, please” NEAT
55. Qatar’s capital DOHA
56. Calling for a lookup? ALOFT
57. Not masc. or fem. NEUT
59. Sunscreen letters SPF
64. Rust, e.g. OXIDE
65. Turkish bigwig AGA
67. Like an inner tube TORIC
69. Mideast flier EL AL
70. Legendary tree site EDEN
71. Anderson of “WKRP in Cincinnati” LONI
72. Distinctive time EPOCH
74. Some NFL linemen RTS
76. Mideast currency SHEKEL
78. List in a subsequent printing, perhaps ERRATA
79. Actress Tyler LIV
81. Sound common to Boston and New York ACCENT
82. Pontiac muscle car GTO
83. Goal for explorer Coronado ORO
85. “Up” studio PIXAR
88. Ye follower, often OLDE
89. Average mark CEE
91. War precipitators CRISES
95. Name of six popes ADRIAN
96. Singer Warwick DIONNE
98. Old trail terminus OREGON
99. Barrie baddie SMEE
101. City of Botany Bay flier QANTAS
102. 1800s Mexican leader Juárez BENITO
103. Scheduled SLATED
104. Ball focus BELLE
105. Standard USUAL
106. Errand runner GOFER
107. Erase all doubt about PROVE
108. Attack SET AT
110. Man-goat deity FAUN
111. Doc-to-be’s exam MCAT
114. Clearance event SALE
117. Reggae relative SKA
119. “Vive le __!” ROI
120. Rubbish receptacle BIN
121. Heavy ref. OED

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