Day: October 5, 2014

Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across
14. Prefix with sexual METRO-
I think it’s generally accepted that the term “metrosexual”, from “metropolitan heterosexual”, refers to a man who lives in an urban environment and puts a fair amount of money and energy into his appearance. That wouldn’t be me, then …

19. 1944 invasion city ST LO
Saint-Lô is a town in Normandy that was occupied by Germany in 1940. Saint-Lo stood at a strategic crossroads and so there was intense fighting there during the Normandy invasion of 1944. After a prolonged bombardment, very little of the town was left standing.

20. Eye part containing the iris UVEA
The uvea is the middle of the three layers that make up the eyeball.

21. Salk vaccine target POLIO
Jonas Salk was an American medical researcher, famous for developing the first safe polio vaccine. In the fifties, especially after the 1952 epidemic, polio was the biggest health fear in the US because it killed thousands, left even more with disabilities and most of the victims were children. The situation was dire and the authorities immediately quarantined the family of any polio victim, and that quarantine was so strict that in many cases the families were not even permitted to attend the funeral of a family member who died from the disease.

22. “… O, be some __ name”: Juliet OTHER
William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is all about the love between the two title characters, which is forbidden as the pair come from two families who are sworn enemies. Early in the play, Romeo (a Montague) sneaks into a masquerade ball being held by the Capulets in the hope of meeting a Capulet girl named Rosaline. Instead, he meets and falls for Juliet, also a Capulet. Tragedy ensues …

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.

26. Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, e.g. MAORI
The Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. The Māori are eastern Polynesian in origin and began arriving in New Zealand relatively recently, starting sometime in the late 13th century. The word “māori” simply means “normal”, distinguishing the mortal human being from spiritual entities.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is an outstanding soprano from New Zealand who was in great demand for operatic performances in the seventies and eighties.

28. Crunch’s rank CAP’N
The first Cap’n Crunch commercials aired in 1963, at the time the product line was launched. The Cap’n’s full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch, would you believe? Crunch’s voice was provided for many years by Daws Butler, the same voice actor who gave us Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound.

32. MGM motto word ARS
It seems that the phrase “art for art’s sake” has its origins in France in the nineteenth century, where the slogan is expressed as “l’art pour l’art”. The Latin version “Ars gratia artis” came much later, in 1924 when MGM’s publicist chose it for the studio’s logo, sitting under Leo the lion. Who’d a thunk it?

37. Last word of Kipling’s “If—” SON
Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous poem “If—” in 1895 as a tribute to British colonial military leader Leander Starr Jameson. Kipling writes in the first person, as if he is giving advice to his son. Here’s the final verse:

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

38. Big picture?: Abbr. ENL
Enlargement (enl.)

39. Rapper __ Jon LIL
Lil Jon is a rapper, with the real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith. That’s all I know …

44. Bluesy James ETTA
Etta James was best known for her beautiful rendition of the song “At Last”. Sadly, as she disclosed in her autobiography, James lived a life that was ravaged by drug addiction leading to numerous legal and health problems. Ms. James passed away in January 2012 having suffered from leukemia.

58. Capital near Casablanca RABAT
Rabat is the capital city of the Kingdom of Morocco. After WWII, the United States maintained a major Air Force Base in Rabat, part of Strategic Air Command (SAC). Responding to pressure from the Moroccan government of King Mohammed V, the USAF pulled out in 1963.

61. Easy-to-make breakfast brand EGGOS
Eggo is the brand name of a line of frozen waffles made by Kellogg’s. When they were introduced in the 1930s, the name “Eggo” was chosen to promote the “egginess” of the batter. “Eggo” replaced the original name chosen, which was “Froffles”, created by melding “frozen” and “waffles”.

64. Ding Dong relative HO HO
Ho Hos snack cakes were first produced in San Francisco in 1967; not the best thing to come out of the sixties I’d say …

A Ding Dong is a chocolate cake made by Hostess Brands. The Ding Dong was introduced in 1967.

66. Cairo’s river NILE
Depending on definition, the Nile is generally regarded as the longest river on the planet. The Nile forms from two major tributaries, the White Nile and the Blue Nile, which join together near Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. From Khartoum the Nile flows north, traveling almost entirely through desert making it central to life for the peoples living along its length.

Cairo is the capital city of Egypt. It is the largest city on the continent of Africa and is nicknamed “The City of a Thousand Minarets” because of its impressive skyline replete with Islamic architecture. The name “Cairo” is a European corruption of the city’s original name in Arabic, “Al-Qahira”, which translates as “the Vanquisher” or “the Conqueror”.

81. 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.

82. Capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province LAHORE
Lahore is a large city in Pakistan, second in size only to Karachi. It is known as the Garden of the Mughals (or in English, Moguls) because of its association with the Mughal Empire. The Mughals ruled much of India from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

84. North __ STAR
Because the direction of the Earth’s axis moves, albeit very slowly, the position of north relative to the stars changes over time. The bright star that is closest to true north is Polaris, and so we call Polaris the North Star or Pole Star. 14,000 years ago, the nearest bright star to true north was Vega, and it will be so again in about 12,000 years time.

88. Goolagong rival EVERT
Chris Evert is a former professional tennis player from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Evert has the best winning percentage in professional tennis, man or woman worldwide, losing less than 10% of all her matches.

Evonne Goolagong is a former Australian tennis player who was at the pinnacle of her success in seventies and early eighties. Her colorful family name, Goolagong, came from her Aboriginal father who worked for much of his life as an itinerant sheep shearer. I remember seeing Goolagong play back then, and I always thought that she was so elegant and such a lady on the court …

92. Kindle competitor NOOK
The Barnes & Noble electronic-book reader is called the Nook. The Nook accounts for 10-15% of electronic book readers in the world.

I bought myself a Kindle Fire HD a couple of years ago. I’ve started reading e-books for the first time in my life, as well as enjoying other computing options available with the tablet device. I love it …

106. Alpine Austrian state TYROL
The Austrian state of Tyrol has to be one of the most beautiful places in the world, especially if you love the mountains. It is in the very west of the country, just south of Bavaria in Germany. The capital city is the famous Innsbruck.

109. Item on a Billboard list HIT
The record for the most number-one “Billboard” hits is held by the Beatles (20), however, the record for the most cumulative weeks at number one in the charts is shared by Elvis Presley and Mariah Carey (79 weeks).

110. Certain camera, for short SLR
SLR stands for “single lens reflex”. Usually cameras with changeable lenses are the SLR type. The main feature of an SLR is that a mirror reflects the image seen through the lens out through the viewfinder, so that the photographer sees exactly what the lens sees. The mirror moves out of the way as the picture is taken, and the image that comes through the lens falls onto unexposed film, or nowadays onto a digital sensor.

112. Hamm of soccer MIA
Mia Hamm is a retired American soccer player, a forward who played on the US national team that won the FIFA women’s World Cup in 1991. Hamm has scored 158 international goals, more than other player in the world, male or female. Amazingly, Hamm was born with a clubfoot, and so had to wear corrective shoes when she was growing up.

114. Medicare section PART B
Medicare is divided into four parts:

A: Hospital Insurance
B: Medical Insurance
C: Medicare Advantage Plans
D: Prescription Drug Plans

117. Physician’s org. AMA
American Medical Association (AMA)

121. Fictional plantation TARA
Rhett Butler hung out with Scarlett O’Hara at the Tara plantation in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind”. Tara was founded not far from the Georgia city of Jonesboro by Scarlett’s father, Irish immigrant Gerald O’Hara. Gerald named his new abode after the Hill of Tara back in his home country, the ancient seat of the High King of Ireland.

126. Post-Renaissance gal pals? TWO BAROQUE GIRLS (from “Two Broke Girls”)
“2 Broke Girls” is a sitcom about two poor young ladies sharing an apartment in Brooklyn, and their attempts to launch a cupcake business. The title characters are played by Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs.

130. “Zoom-Zoom” sloganeer MAZDA
“Zoom-zoom” is a catchphrase use by the automaker Mazda. Mazda is based in the Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. The ballpark where the Hiroshima baseball team play was for many years known as the MAZDA Zoom-Zoom Stadium.

131. Artist’s aid EASEL
The word “easel” comes from an old Dutch word meaning “donkey” would you believe? The idea is that an easel carries its load (an oil painting, say) just as a donkey would carry its load.

133. Durable wood TEAK
Teak is a hardwood tree in the mint family, commonly found in monsoon forests of Asia.

135. Fries-to-be SPUDS
The word “spud” is used as a slang term for a potato and was first recorded in the mid-1800s, in New Zealand would you believe?

136. Movie critic Pauline KAEL
Pauline Kael was a film critic who wrote for “The New Yorker” magazine from 1968 to 1991.

Down
1. Road crew supply ASPHALT
It turns out that the asphalt surface on roads (or basketball courts) is more properly called asphaltic concrete, because asphalt itself is just a sticky black liquid that comes from crude petroleum. Asphalt is used as a binder with aggregate to form asphaltic concrete.

2. Info provider STOOLIE
Stoolies, also called canaries, will sing to the cops given the right incentive. “Stoolie” is short for “stool pigeon”. A stool pigeon was a decoy bird tied to a stool so as to lure other pigeons. “Stoolies” were originally decoys for the police, rather than informers, hence the name.

3. Like many barbershop quartets ALL-MALE
Barbershop music is played in the a cappella style, meaning that it is unaccompanied vocal music. Barbershop music originated in the African American communities in the South, as gospel quartets often gathered in neighborhood barber shops to sing together.

4. Barbershop symbol POLE
Barbers originally offered a wide range of services, including surgery. Back in the Middle Ages, one of the primary services offered was bloodletting. The red and white sign outside a barber’s place of business represented bloody bandages wrapped around a pole. Henry VIII restricted barbers to just haircutting … and dentistry. Our term “barber” comes to us via Anglo-French from the Latin “barba” meaning “beard”.

6. Sch. founded by Jefferson UVA
The University of Virginia (UVA) was founded by Thomas Jefferson, who sat on the original Board of Visitors alongside former US Presidents James Madison and James Monroe. In fact, the original UVA campus was built on land that was once a farm belonging to President Monroe.

7. Grand Marquis, for short MERC
The Mercury Grand Marquis was the premium model produced by Ford using the Mercury label. The first Grand Marquis rolled off the production line in 1983, and the last in January 2011, when the Mercury brand was retired.

8. Certain polytheist PAGAN
A pagan is someone who holds religious beliefs that are different from the main religions of the world. In classical Latin “paganus” was a villager, a rustic.

A polytheist is a person who believes in many deities, with the opposite being a monotheist, someone who believes in one god. The ancient Greeks and Romans were polytheists.

9. PR specialist SPIN DOC
Public relations (PR)

11. Connecticut Ivy Leaguer ELI
Eli is the nickname for a graduate of Yale University, a term used in honor of the Yale benefactor Elihu Yale.

12. Omar’s “Mod Squad” role LINC
The 1999 movie “The Mod Squad” was an adaptation of the seventies television show of the same name. The part of Lincoln “Linc” Hayes was played by Omar Epps, Claire Danes played Julie Barnes and Giovanni Ribisi played Peter Cochran.

15. State, to Jacques ETAT
In French, Louisiana (Louisiane) for example (par exemple), is a state (état).

16. Walden Pond headrest? THOREAU PILLOW (from “throw pillow”)
Henry David Thoreau is a personal hero of mine. Thoreau is best known for his book called “Walden” published in 1854. The book outlines his philosophy of life and details his experiences living in a cabin near Walden Pond just outside Concord, Massachusetts.

17. “Breaking Bad” marathon component, e.g. RERUN
I hadn’t seen the AMC drama “Breaking Bad” until relatively recently when my wife borrowed the first and second seasons from our local library. It is a well-written show about a high school teacher stricken by lung cancer who turns to a life of crime to make money.

18. Cantilevered window ORIEL
An oriel window is a bay window that projects from a wall, but does not reach all the way to the ground.

24. Word repeated after “She loves you,” in a ’60s hit YEAH
The Beatles song “She Loves You” was released in 1963. It was one of five songs that together achieved an amazing feat in the US charts. At one point that year, those five songs were in the top five positions. The top five songs were:

“Can’t Buy Me Love”
“Twist and Shout”
“She Loves You”
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”
“Please Please Me”

Amazingly, further down the charts, still in the top 100, were seven more Beatles songs.

25. “It’s __ sort of memory that only works backward”: Carroll A POOR
There’s a line in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” in which the White Queen says to Alice, “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”.

Lewis Carroll wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” in 1865, and the sequel called “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There” in 1871. Because in the second adventure Alice went through a looking glass, the themes were deliberately chosen to be mirror images of the themes in “Wonderland”. Whereas “Wonderland” begins indoors, is set in summer, and uses playing card imagery, “Looking Glass” begins out of doors, is set in winter and uses images from the game of chess.

30. Homer’s watering hole MOE’S
Moe Szyslak is the surly bartender and owner of Moe’s Tavern in “The Simpsons” animated TV show. I don’t really care for “The Simpsons”, but Hank Azaria who supplies the voice for the Moe character … him I like …

33. Low area SWALE
A swale is a narrow tract of low-lying land that is usually wet or marshy. A swale can be naturally occurring or man-made. One might create a swale to help manage drainage of adjacent land.

35. IRS employee T-MAN
A T-man is a law-enforcement agent of the US Treasury (the “T” stands for Treasury).

36. Long-running talk show OPRAH
What can you say about Oprah Winfrey? Born into poverty to a single mother and with a harrowing childhood, Oprah is now the greatest African American philanthropist the world has ever known. Oprah’s name was originally meant to be “Orpah” after the Biblical character in the Book of Ruth, and that’s how it appears on her birth certificate. Apparently folks had trouble pronouncing “Orpah”, so she’s now “Oprah”.

43. Sub in a bag HERO
“Hero” is another name for a submarine sandwich. The hero originated in New York City in the 1800s among Italian immigrants who wanted an Italian sandwich that reminded them of home. The name “hero” was coined in the 1930s, supposedly by a food critic in the “New York Herald Tribune” when he wrote that “one had to be a hero” to finish the gigantic sandwich. Hero is a prevalent term to this day in New York City, reserved for a submarine sandwich with an Italian flavor.

45. Macbeth, vis-à-vis Glamis THANE
Thanes were Scottish aristocrats. The most famous thanes have to be the Shakespearean characters Macbeth (the Thane of Glamis, later Thane of Cawdor) and MacDuff (the Thane of Fife). Other thanes in “Macbeth” are Ross, Lennox and Angus, as well as Menteith and Caithness.

47. Grad school degs. MBAS
The world’s first MBA degree was offered by Harvard’s Graduate School of Business Administration, in 1908.

49. Award named for a mystery writer EDGAR
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars) are presented annually by the Mystery Writers of America.

50. Chilled soup SCHAV
“Schav” is a sorrel soup that originated in Eastern Europe. It can be served hot or cold, and is usually garnished with sour cream. The name “schav” is a Slavic word meaning “sorrel”.

52. “Le Misanthrope” playwright MOLIERE
Molière was the stage name of French actor and playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. It is amazing how well the comedies of Molière, written in the 1600s, entertain us on stage today. Among his best-known plays are “The Misanthrope”, “The School for Wives” and “Tartuffe or the Hypocrite”.

55. ’50s nuclear trial A-TEST
There are two classes of nuclear weapons, both of which get the energy for the explosion from nuclear reactions. The first nuclear bombs developed, called atomic bombs (A-bombs), use fission reactions. In an atomic bomb, uranium nuclei are split into smaller nuclei with the release of an awful lot of energy in the process. The second class of nuclear weapons are fusion bombs. Fusion devices are also called thermonuclear weapons or hydrogen bombs (H-bombs). In a fusion reaction, the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes are fused together to form bigger nuclei, with the release of even greater amounts of energy than a fission reaction.

58. Puzzles in the game show “Concentration” REBUSES
The game show “Concentration” features a rebus puzzle i.e. a puzzle that uses pictures to represent letters and groups of letters. For example, a picture of a “ewe” might represent the letter “U” or the pronoun “you”.

59. Three-time French Open champ __ Sánchez Vicario ARANTXA
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Barcelona, Spain. Vicario earned about 60 million dollars over her career, and yet in 2012 she found herself struggling and is in debt. Reportedly her parents “lost” all of their daughter’s money.

60. Cold spell in Manama? BAHRAIN FREEZE (from “brain freeze”)
Bahrain is an island nation located off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. Bahrain is connected to Saudi Arabia by a series of causeways and bridges constructed in the eighties.

Manama is the capital of Bahrain.

65. Scott Turow work ONE L
Scott Turow is an author and lawyer from Chicago. Turow has had several bestselling novels including “Presumed Innocent”, “The Burden of Proof” and “Reversible Errors”, all three of which were made into films. He also wrote the autobiographical book “One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School”.

71. Pinot, for one GRAPE
Pinot gris is a wine grape used to make white wine called Pinot gris, which is also known as Pinot grigio. DNA analysis has shown that the Pinot gris grape mutated from the Pinot noir variety.

The Pinot noir wine grape variety takes its name from the French for “pine” and “black”. The grapes grow in tight clusters shaped like pine cones, and are very dark in color. The Pinot noir grape is most closely associated with Burgundy wines in France, although in recent years the popularity (and price) of California Pinot noir wine has soared after it featured so prominently in the wonderful, wonderful 2004 movie “Sideways”. Grab a bottle of Pinot, and go rent the DVD…

74. Fictional bell town ADANO
“A Bell for Adano” is a novel written by John Hersey. Hersey’s story is about an Italian-American US Army officer, Major Joppolo, who found a replacement for a town’s bell stolen by fascists. “A Bell for Adano” was made into a film in 1945, the same year the novel won a Pulitzer.

75. Mate GUV
“Guv” is an informal word replacing “governor”, used in the UK. It is usually a friendly address to a man, sort of like our “Mac” or “Dad”.

76. Baseball card brand FLEER
The Fleer Corporation was founded in 1885 and was the first company to successfully manufacture bubblegum (how I wish they hadn’t!).

77. “I have it!” EUREKA!
Eureka translates from Greek as “I have found it”. The word is usually associated with Archimedes, uttered as he stepped into his bath one day. His discovery was that the volume of water that was displaced was equal to that of the object (presumably his foot) that had been submerged. He used this fact to determine the volume of a crown, something he needed in order to determine if it was made of pure gold or was a forgery.

80. Soviet cooperative ARTEL
The Russian cooperative associations known as artels were often pretty informal affairs. Basically any group could get together and form an artel for any specific commercial purpose … anything from gold-mining and fishing, to stealing and begging.

83. Circle dance HORA
The hora is a circle dance that originated in the Balkans. It was brought to Israel by Romanian settlers, and is often performed to traditional, Israeli folk songs. The hora (also horah) is a regular sight at Jewish weddings.

87. Coral component POLYP
Polyps are tiny sea creatures that are found attached to underwater structures or to other polyps. Polyps have a mouth at one end of a cylindrical “body” that is surrounded by tentacles. Some polyps cluster into groups called stony corals, with stony corals being the building blocks of coral reefs. The structure of the reef is provided by calcium carbonate exoskeletons secreted by the coral polyps.

93. Sedgwick of “The Closer” KYRA
“The Closer” is a crime drama aired on TNT, with Kyra Sedgwick in the lead role. Sedgwick is married to actor Kevin Bacon.

97. Text message qualifier FWIW
For what it’s worth (FWIW)

98. Fools, to Puck MORTALS
Puck (aka Robin Goodfellow) is a character in William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, one of the Fairies in the tale. One of Puck’s tasks in the storyline is to use love juice that is made from a flower that has been hit by cupid’s arrow. The magical juice is applied to the eyelids of someone sleeping, so that the person wakes and falls in love with the first living things he or she sees. Of course, Puck drops the love juice on the wrong character …

103. TV partner of Hutch STARSKY
“Starsky & Hutch” is a fun cop show that ran for four seasons on television in the seventies. The lead roles were played by David Soul (Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson) and Paul Michael Glaser (David Starsky). It was Glaser who really brought the show to a close. He tried to get out of his contract during filming of the third season (even suing to do so). He tried again during the fourth season, and then plans to film a fifth season were just dropped.

119. Arp genre DADA
Dadaism thrived during and just after WWI, and was an anti-war, anti-bourgeois and anti-art culture. The movement began in Zurich, Switzerland started by a group of artists and writers who met to discuss art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire, frequently expressing disgust at the war that was raging across Europe.

Hans Arp was a French artist renowned for his work with torn and pasted paper, although that wasn’t the only medium he used. Arp was the son of a French mother and German father and spoke both languages fluently. When he was speaking German he gave his name as Hans Arp, but when speaking French he called himself Jean Arp. Both “Hans” and “Jean” translate into English as “John”. In WWI Arp moved to Switzerland to avoid being called up to fight, taking advantage of Swiss neutrality. Eventually he was told to report to the German Consulate and fill out paperwork for the draft. In order to get out of fighting, Arp messed up the paperwork by writing the date in every blank space on the forms. Then he took off all of his clothes and walked with his papers over to the officials in charge. He was sent home …

122. Cyan shade AQUA
“Cyan” is short for “cyan blue”. The term comes from the Greek word “kyanos” meaning “dark blue, the color of lapis lazuli”.

127. The Beavers of the Pac-12 OSU
The athletic teams of Oregon State University are known as the Beavers. The big rivals to the Beavers are the Ducks of the University of Oregon, a rivalry that has been dubbed “the Civil War”. The two schools’ football teams play a game every year for the Platypus Trophy.

129. Colorado native UTE
The Ute are a group of Native American tribes that now reside in Utah and Colorado. The Ute were not a unified people as such, but rather a loose association of nomadic groups.

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Rush order shorthand ASAP
5. Heart, basically PUMP
9. Expand SWELL
14. Prefix with sexual METRO-
19. 1944 invasion city ST LO
20. Eye part containing the iris UVEA
21. Salk vaccine target POLIO
22. “… O, be some __ name”: Juliet OTHER
23. Haggling over a parrot purchase? POLLY BARGAINING (from “plea bargaining”)
26. Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, e.g. MAORI
27. Domestic sci. HOME-EC
28. Crunch’s rank CAP’N
29. Get real? COME TRUE
31. In the style of A LA
32. MGM motto word ARS
34. Acknowledge quietly NOD TO
37. Last word of Kipling’s “If—” SON
38. Big picture?: Abbr. ENL
39. Rapper __ Jon LIL
40. Sounds of uncertainty HAWS
42. Pizazz OOMPH
44. Bluesy James ETTA
46. Overflow TEEM
48. Hug in the pool? WATER CARESS (from “watercress”)
51. Forgets the words, maybe HUMS
54. Story set to music BALLAD
56. One may be wired NARC
57. Each A POP
58. Capital near Casablanca RABAT
61. Easy-to-make breakfast brand EGGOS
64. Ding Dong relative HO HO
66. Cairo’s river NILE
67. Does a classroom chore ERASES
69. Gutter locale EAVE
70. Saintly ANGELIC
72. “Phooey!” BAH!
73. Excitement about boxing practice? SPARRING FEVER (from “spring fever”)
78. Tennis do-over LET
79. DVD box caution UNRATED
81. Takei role SULU
82. Capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province LAHORE
84. North __ STAR
85. Something you break when you leave it CAMP
88. Goolagong rival EVERT
90. World __ POWER
91. Leave EXIT
92. Kindle competitor NOOK
94. More spine-tingling EERIER
96. Level-headed SANE
97. Venue for unwise investments? FOLLY MARKET (from “flea market”)
100. Makes a move ACTS
104. Diamond irregularity FLAW
106. Alpine Austrian state TYROL
107. Entry level pos. ASST
109. Item on a Billboard list HIT
110. Certain camera, for short SLR
112. Hamm of soccer MIA
114. Medicare section PART B
116. Spotted SAW
117. Physician’s org. AMA
118. Lively folk dances HOEDOWNS
121. Fictional plantation TARA
123. More risky DICIER
125. “It’s my concern …” I FEAR …
126. Post-Renaissance gal pals? TWO BAROQUE GIRLS (from “Two Broke Girls”)
130. “Zoom-Zoom” sloganeer MAZDA
131. Artist’s aid EASEL
132. “I’m __ here!” OUTA
133. Durable wood TEAK
134. Great buy STEAL
135. Fries-to-be SPUDS
136. Movie critic Pauline KAEL
137. Pacing, perhaps EDGY

Down
1. Road crew supply ASPHALT
2. Info provider STOOLIE
3. Like many barbershop quartets ALL-MALE
4. Barbershop symbol POLE
5. Barhopping tour PUB CRAWL
6. Sch. founded by Jefferson UVA
7. Grand Marquis, for short MERC
8. Certain polytheist PAGAN
9. PR specialist SPIN DOC
10. Acquired WON
11. Connecticut Ivy Leaguer ELI
12. Omar’s “Mod Squad” role LINC
13. Firm symbols LOGOS
14. Point in time MOMENT
15. State, to Jacques ETAT
16. Walden Pond headrest? THOREAU PILLOW (from “throw pillow”)
17. “Breaking Bad” marathon component, e.g. RERUN
18. Cantilevered window ORIEL
24. Word repeated after “She loves you,” in a ’60s hit YEAH
25. “It’s __ sort of memory that only works backward”: Carroll A POOR
30. Homer’s watering hole MOE’S
33. Low area SWALE
35. IRS employee T-MAN
36. Long-running talk show OPRAH
41. Play producer STAGER
43. Sub in a bag HERO
45. Macbeth, vis-à-vis Glamis THANE
47. Grad school degs. MBAS
49. Award named for a mystery writer EDGAR
50. Chilled soup SCHAV
52. “Le Misanthrope” playwright MOLIERE
53. Ghost SPECTER
55. ’50s nuclear trial A-TEST
58. Puzzles in the game show “Concentration” REBUSES
59. Three-time French Open champ __ Sánchez Vicario ARANTXA
60. Cold spell in Manama? BAHRAIN FREEZE (from “brain freeze”)
62. Prefix with sac OVI-
63. Sixth __ SENSE
65. Scott Turow work ONE L
68. Job detail SPEC
71. Pinot, for one GRAPE
74. Fictional bell town ADANO
75. Mate GUV
76. Baseball card brand FLEER
77. “I have it!” EUREKA!
80. Soviet cooperative ARTEL
83. Circle dance HORA
86. Jump out of one’s skin? MOLT
87. Coral component POLYP
89. Head lock TRESS
93. Sedgwick of “The Closer” KYRA
95. “I’m ready to sign” IT’S A DEAL
97. Text message qualifier FWIW
98. Fools, to Puck MORTALS
99. Wedding site ALTAR
101. Led CHAIRED
102. Interval between related events TIME LAG
103. TV partner of Hutch STARSKY
105. Unconcerned with right and wrong AMORAL
108. Branch branch TWIG
110. Leveling wedges SHIMS
111. Dieter’s catchword LO-FAT
113. Pot starters ANTES
115. Runner in the woods BROOK
119. Arp genre DADA
120. Switch SWAP
122. Cyan shade AQUA
124. Use as a reference CITE
127. The Beavers of the Pac-12 OSU
128. Breakfast companion? BED
129. Colorado native UTE

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