Little Stinker
By Merl Reagle
ACROSS
1 Tangy drink, hot or cold
9 Maryland flyer
15 Olympic athletes, formerly
16 Shell shock, today: abbr.
20 Perfume manufacturer
21 Home of Brigham Young University
22 Yard tool
23Fervid
24 ___ exchange (traveler’s money
concern)
25 Hunger, e.g.
28 Dark clouds, to some
29Descendant
31 Great deal
32 Brit. surgery school
33Benefit
37Sparse
40 Start of a sequel?
43 Fame, Justice, and others
44 At any time
45 Oilman Pickens
47 Wide, as some computer screens
49 “Are you two ___ again?”
50 Joan Crawford superlative
51 He played Nero in Quo Vadis?
54Cotton-pickin’
55 Message in a bottle
56 Like a VISA balance
57 Addressee preceder: abbr.
58Discourages
60 Shelley drama in verse
66 Pygmalion’s “love,” for one
67 ___ egg
68Masterworks
70 Wisdom’s partner
73 Dutch cheese
74 Paper towels and espressos
79Sticks
81 Bird herd
82 Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?
83“Ta-ta”
84 Use a peeler on
85 ___ wrap (kitchen aid)
87 Emulate Ross
88Enmity
89 Insulation material
92 Fanged one
94 Scand. airline
95 Garden pest
96 Word stamped on an invoice
100 Basic service provider
104 Beatles song, “___ to You”
106 A real Dahl
107 Shorten a sentence, for example
108 Any one of a Catholic eightsome
111 Have no ___ (dislike)
112 Plead not guilty to
113 Vacant, as an apartment
114 “Why am I always the ___ know?”
115 Barbie shop
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DOWN
1 M. Olsen was one
2 Chew the scenery
3Expert
4 Scoreless tie
5 Nine, in Nice
6 King in a Steve Martin tune
7Age
8 Areas under grates
9 Norwegian king
10 Closer to extinction
11 Draft board, e.g.
12Galoshes
13 Type of cod
14 Grafted, in heraldry
16 Where Brooke hit the books
17 Highland headwear
18 Cast-iron cooker
19 Long way around, perhaps
21 In favor of
26 Henri was one
27 “___ My Party”
29 Store events
30 Half of D
33 Australian racehorse that
was the subject of a 1983
film, ___ Lap
34 Big name in spaghetti sauce
35 Tel ___
36 Everlasting, to Ettore
38 ___ many words
39 New Jersey team
40 Indy car sponsor
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114
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32
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27
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100
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34
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70
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40
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41 Like a VISA balance
42 ___ to snuff
46 African language
48 Jury folks
49 Up the ___
50Smear
52 Ryan’s daughter
53 Spillane’s ___ Jury
54 Tourist through Hell
58Sundown
59 Raincoat closures
61 Hermosillo hill
62Fabricated
63 Greek letters
64 H. Kissinger was one
65 Get ready to go out
69 Where cats can go that
dogs usually can’t
70 Get ready to go out
71 Invention, initially
72 Turn ___ on
74 Callao’s country
75Bucolic
76 ___ Bator, Mongolia
77 Christie sleuth Parker
78 Compass pt.
80 Drill sergeant’s order
81 Fisherman’s Wharf locale,
for example
84 Coated, as with metal
85 Don’t move
86 Hawaiian tuna
90 Columbus sch.
91 Respond ending
93 Wine grape
96 Benin’s capital, ___ Novo
97 Slow-down light
98 “Look what ___ in school
today, Mommy!”
99 Cozy room
100 Either Simon
101 Sky bear
102 Atlantic game fish
103 Piao of China
104Charges
105 Litter’s littlest
109 Lennon’s adopted middle
name
110 Inquire impertinently
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