The Ongoing
Investigation
By Merl Reagle
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ACROSS
1 Flatten on impact
6 Aussie hatchlings
10 Assigns numbers to
15 “___ , go jump
in the lake!”
18 Hordes on horses
20 Bay window
21 Staff sgt., e.g.
22 Like a forgotten
library book?
23 Actor who played
Steve McQueen’s
right-hand man
in Bullitt
25 Hard march
26 Shoe-size letters
27 Japanese menu item
28 Singer-actress Kazan
29 1950s studio
cofounder
30 Banned spray
31 Film with two Fondas
34 Carol word
36 She can sing in Gaelic
37 Eastender’s toast,
“___ to you, mate”
38 Independent, as
some agencies
44 Sweetheart
48 Asian river,
the ___ Darya
49 Processions
50 French harp player?
52 Somewhat, in music
53 Injure severely
55 Retired flier
56 Golf events
58 Louisiana-born slugger
59 Oust
62 The parent dogs in
101 Dalmatians
66 Pianist Claudio
68 Cruet filler
69 Chemist Hahn et al.
70 Delegate
76 New Haven students
79 Kubrick’s 2001
coauthor: init.
80 Greek marketplaces
81 Briskness (in the air)
83 Nehemiah preceder
84 Big bird
86 Mud-bath meccas
87 Wealthy contributors
91 Little one
92 Attention-getting
sound
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94 Out of sequence
97 Certain solo
99 Give it ___
100 Chow down uptown
101 1970 movie musical
about Edvard Grieg
106 Dialing letters
107 Fall abbr.
111 Fly
112 Perfect grade
113 Cone bearer
114 They’re surrounded
by eau
115 Literary giant
Johann Wolfgang ___
117 1990s ticket
121 Compete
122 Soot sites
123 King Leonardo’s realm,
in old cartoons
124 Fabric meas.
125 Ex-Packer passer
126 Panasonic rival
127 Remote target?
DOWN
1 Pilfered
2 Directory listings: abbr.
3 ___ it (walking)
4 Latin 101 verb
5 “Mazel ___”
6 Boca Raton bird
7 Manner
8 Inuit knife
9 One way to turn: abbr.
10 Roping show
11 On ___ (hot)
12 French-born diarist
13 Bowler
14 Actor Everett et al.
15 “Yes ___”
16 Flip ___
17 Sharpened
19 Hecklers
22 Timothy’s drug
24 Tears to pieces
27 New York archbishop
30 Hindu god
31 Free, in a way
32 Funny Louis et al.
33 Emilio of
Sesame Street
35 Alley ___
36 Put an ___ (halt)
38 Killer whale of films
39 Nation on a gulf
40 Pesky things
41 Grating tone
42 O’Hara’s place
43 By and by
45 Not small
46 Opera opening
47 Learning method
51 Deserted
54 Game show legend
56 Asia crosser
57 ___ precedent
60 Part of town
61 Strong tastes
63 Zero
64 Jazz job
65 Function
67 Perfect
70 Complain
71 Adolph of publishing
72 Nation on a gulf
73 Drying oven
74 Admittance
75 Robinson’s Little
Caesar
77 Author Gardner
78 Where Durban is: abbr.
82 Provide easy
gratification for
85 For laughs
87 Greek salad crumbles
88 Haywire
89 End-of-the-wk. party
90 Wally or Beaver
93 Depart hastily
95 A Banger Sisters star
96 Quits
98 “___ Song Coming On”
101 Shrewd
102 Humpty-esque
103 Baseball teams
104 Different
105 Joaquin’s costar in
Walk the Line
106 Shabby
108 Praise, in Marseille
109 117 Across opponent
110 Prufrock’s creator:
init.
113 Twain kid
116 Dialing letters
117 Survivor network
118 W.C.
119 Fall abbr.
120 Fall abbr.
Solution on page 72.
