Wild in the City
By Merl Reagle
ACROSS
1Zenith
5Plots
12Darling
18 Old exclamation
21 Don, as galoshes
22 J.D. Salinger story
23Stoat
24 L.A. Law lady
25 Part of “snafu”
26 Upbeat tune
27 Rocket launcher or bubblegum
28Dwell
30 Louis, McCarthy, and Tex
31 Thomas Hood’s “___ and a Fairy
Boat”
33 Wee bit
34 Tank feature
36Normally
38 High range
41Inculcate
42 Belly-flopper sound
44 Emerald City princess
48 Nobelist in physics, 1933
50Uprising
52 Book by 22 Down, ___ Way
53 Class time devoted to
“creature features,” perhaps
55 “___ distressed” (I Sam. 28:15)
57Unabridged
58 La ___ Tar Pits
59 Amahl’s visitors
60Oolong
61 The study of wine
63 1960s folksinger and activist
66 Show ___
68 Bird genus that sounds like a word
meaning “crevices”
69 Common verb
70Outfits
73 The study of the ear
75 Edna Ferber’s birthplace
78 Manhattan Project product
79 Related to regulations
81 Old World tree (anagram of TAINT)
82 Part of TVA: abbr.
83 Fun house features
84 Diplomat’s place: abbr.
86 Actress Persson
87Former
89 Shopping places
91 Designer Taylor
94 Evidence of coffee grinding
95 Hits the road
97Access
101 Adjusts for a closeup
103 Fix holes
104 Place a stake
105Suitable
106 Cause of 50 Across
107 1950s puppet show
111 Seat for three
112 Birthplace of actress Stella Stevens
113 ___ as nails
114 Adjective for Rome
115Alliance
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DOWN
1 Have no dif­fer­enc­es
2 Seeks divine guidance
3 Glasgow night
4 Kane’s estate
5 Recyclable item
6 Commerce leftover
7 Harriet’s guy
8 Some cigarettes
9 Sweep’s target
10 Peewee guitar
11 Mind field: abbr.
12“Louder!”
13 Mangel-___ (big beet)
14 Patron saint of sailors
15 Prufrock’s creator
16 Toy truck company
17 Sam of golf
19 First family, 1841-45
20 Some square dancers
22 Yalta conferee’s inits.
27 Ostentatious, homewise
29“Perjurer!”
30 Hinged CD holder
31 Drivers may go for it
32 Composer Schifrin
35 Actor Calhoun
36 Singer Guthrie
37Ages
38 Cutting tool
39 43 Down, for one
40Animalcule
42 Creator of One Flew Over the
Cuck­oo’s Nest
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95 Burt Reynolds film
43 Born Free character
96 Hunter in the sky
45 Snazzy threads
98 Dustin in Midnight
46 Wall in
Cowboy
47 Yard, e.g.
99 Bishop-led church: abbr.
49 Pipe material
100 Hot time, to Hugo
51 Ice mass or composer
102 Prefix with “physics”
52 Pi preceder
103Snooze
54 Mr. Ohm
56 1960s nightclub-sign word 104Blink
107 Pumpernickel ingredient
59 Part of Riyadh’s skyline
108 Type of cake or meal
62Exaggerates
109 Metric distance measure:
63 Fuel blocks
abbr.
64 It means “blood”
110 Olive product
65 Most cozy
66 Gravy dish
67 Beatles song, “Let ___”
69 Spinning top, e.g.
71 “Pieces of the pie”: abbr.
72Carriage
74 Alphabet center
75Destiny
76 Stub ___
77 Prefix meaning “ferment”
80 In shape
83Earned
85Carefree
* PUZZLE FANS ! *
88 Sadat’s predecessor
For info on Merl's
89 Nero’s tutor
Sunday crossword
90Bury
anthologies, visit
91 California city heard in
gag train an­nounce­ments
www.sundaycrosswords.com
on The Jack Benny Show
92 Ninth day, before the ides Puzzle © 2017 by M. Reagle
93 One way to go