Presidential
Pizza Party
By Merl Reagle
ACROSS
1
Reservoir former
4
Word of woe
8
KGB predecessor
12Replace at the plate
18When this bird takes off, it’s only
running
19Easy ___ (no sweat)
20A Giant star
21Pitcher Jim Palmer was one
22First, ___ all the ingredients ...
25Daily neckwear for Mrs. Cleaver
26Reaches
27... then ___ the pepperoni ...
29God, to Gomez
30Pulling even
31Deep red stone
32Fit as a fiddle
33TV listings, e.g.
34Rousseau’s The ___ Contract
37Elvis’s dad
39... ___ the plates ...
46Came up
49Make ___ (purchase)
50Take, as the stairs
51Neptune’s neighborhood
52Ruins
53Throng
54Actor Gulager
55Globes
56Your, among Friends
57Monetary unit of Laos
58... then (with 70 Across) the
usual horseplay happens ...
631967 Petula Clark hit,
“This ___ Song”
64Female grad
65Opening remarks, casually
67Restless
70See 58 Across
77Secondary spelling: abbr.
78Giant or Noble tree
79Plane door sign
80Animal on Boynton greeting cards
81South American river?
82A Musketeer
84“Well, ___ jiggered!”
85“Yankee Doodle Dandy” start
86Caplet alternative
87Sevillian address?
88... ___ but cleans it up later ...
91The piper’s son?
93More optimistic
94Audition, in a way
96Hems and ___
98Memorable Lola
100 Ir. apostle
104 Kankakee’s st.
105 ... ___ it into ten perfect pieces ...
107 Overstuff (oneself)
109 Abstraction made concrete
111 ... and everyone runs to the ___
for a Bromo
113 Charts anew
114 Feel like ___ again
115 “Be-in” bigwig of 1966
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116 Smoke solids
117Help
118 Notorious sub builder
119 Desert fruit
120 Stage name of Amy Camus
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104
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91
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109
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94
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67
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36“She is fair ... as a fair day 84Helen Reddy hit
85Symbol: 77 Across
___” (Shak.)
86The De Niro Godfather
38Not, to Snuffy Smith
88Elaborate lie
39Door sidepost
89“Wherever toys ___”
40Hassan of The Arabian
90___ south (a direction)
Nights
92Yen for tea?
DOWN
41Pride arrivals
94Crown’s cousin
1
Render less caloric
42Thieves’ take
95North Pole crew
2
The town in Jaws
43The heights phobia
97Plumber’s aid
3
It means “many”
44Bird beaks
98Don Novello’s comic
4
New dad’s announcement
45Redeem, as a bond
persona, Father ___
5
Swedish character on
47Speed-read
Sarducci
Little House on the Prairie
48Catch sight of
99Dumbbells: abbr.
6
Wartime prez
52Resuming words
101 Word with hose or waist
7
Tuft of hairs on a spider’s foot 54M divided by 4
102 Mr. T oldie, with The
(such a useful word)
56Show music?
103 Aquarium fish
8
In a strange way
59Horse course
105 Nods off
9
Carnival performer
60Spanish queen
106 Certain chord, in mus.
10Make very dry
61In a wise way
107 Sing like Ella
11Having a 5 o’clock shadow 62Great Lakes prov.
108 Swiss river
12“Big” singer of
63Bar or tope preceder
110 Asian exercise, ___-ch’i
“Chantilly Lace” fame
66Commemorating oeuvre
112 Teachers’ org.
13War god
67Gabor and others
14Andalusian auntie
68Bit of macho posturing,
15... ___ his drink over ...
perhaps
16Stan’s pal
69... ___ the oven on his
17Plant new grass in
thumb ...
* PUZZLE FANS ! *
19Churubusco chums
71Bar under the car
For info on Merl's
23Meyer of the underworld
72Pen points
Sunday crossword
24Scott’s ___ Roy
73Hot duo, to Liz Smith
anthologies, visit
28Plaza sounds
74Literary Leon
www.sundaycrosswords.com
31Streamers playwright
75Edged with gold
33Sensitive
76Place for an ace?
35George who played Mr.
78Steadfast
Puzzle © 2017 by M. Reagle
Thatcher in Citizen Kane
83Academic