Four -Letter
Words
By Merl Reagle
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ACROSS
1 Kosovo folks
6 Assigned to peeling,
in the Army
10 Proverbs pronoun
14 Ship direction
17 Sinatra film
20 “When” preceder
21 Site of Temple
Square
22 Snapple sample
23 Sample
24 Color on a driver’s
license: abbr.
25 A whole new set
of problems?
26 Type of machete
27 Comfy
30 Word after stand
or step
33 Volunteers
36 CSI setting
38 Rich tapestry
41 Major blood vessels
43 Road sign
49 Made in the USA:
abbr.
50 Bottom line?
51 Surface protector
52 Ocean’s motions
53 “You must !”
(horror-film line)
55 “Sorry, your way?”
59“This sudden!”
61 Wipes out
63 With 71 and 77 Across,
a tearful fact of life
66 Greek letter
70 Like a Capp character
71 See 63 Across
74 Trawling need
75 Whole bunch
77 See 63 Across
78 Oman’s capital
80 Cairo cobras
82 Hot-oil cooker
84 Yon items
85 Step on it?
88 W WII VIP
91 Get sleepy
93 Ex-pitcher Hershiser
94 Shakespeare play
100 Duchamp’s Mona
Lisa has one
101 New Zealand native
102 Pro
103 Looks down on
105 Phone-menu
imperative
28 29 30
36 37
31 32
38
33 34 35
39 40 41
42
43 44 45
49
53
61
70
46 47
48
50
51
52
54
55
56 57 58
59 60
62
63
64 65
71
72
66 67
73 74
68 69
75
76 77
80 81
78
79
82
83
84
85 86 87
94
100
88 89 90
91
92
93
95
96 97 98
101
99
102
103
111
119
126
128
104 105
112 113 114
120 121
127
129 130
106 107 108 109 110
115 116 117 118
122 123 124 125
131
108 Back-of-the-dictionary beast
111 Noggin
112 Agreement
115 Secretary of Energy
and Nobelist
Steven
117 Dancer Miller
119 Gang
120 Reassuring words,
sort of
126 Quick, as a pupil
127 “We shall see what
we shall see”
128 Compass pt.
129 Capri, for one
130 Funny Fey
131 Intimidate
DOWN
1 Flies high
2 The Corn Is Green
author Williams
3 On Soc. Sec.
4 OPEC unit of meas.
5 Humongous piece
6 1936 Olympics
champ
7 On the Town
setting: abbr.
8 Japanese carp
9 Golf-bag items
10 So
11 trot
12 60 minutes, in Siena
13 Durham sch.
14 Various
15 Doomsday film
of 1964
16 Spell checker’s find
17 K.C. hrs.
18 Gumbo ingredient
19 Saloon order
26 Harold in Italy
composer
28 Extremists
29 Barn dance attendee
31 Descartes’s
conclusion
32 Actress Joanne
34 A cry
35 Magazine design
choices
37 Scrooge reaction
39 It accesses your acct.
40 7 Down’s Penn, for ex.
42 MA and PA, e.g.
43 Name brands
44 There’s a Chef in
My Soup author
45 Cow or sow
46 Teachers’ org.
47 Girls’ names that
sound like awards
48 City east of Syracuse
54 It has only three
counties: abbr.
56 The Smithsonian,
for ex.
57 “Knock !”
58 Baseball’s
Garciaparra
60 Leveling wedge
62 Birdbrain
64 Slippery
65 Dahl or Francis
67 “More!”
68 Thistlelike plant
69 Comedy Central
show Insomniac
With Dave
72 Light flintlock
musket
73 Aficionado
76 He played the Devil
in Damn Yankees
79 Missouri slogan
81 Rat’s home
83 ESPN analyst
Jaworski
85 Droop
86 Pore shots?
87 Individually, on menus
89 Airline to Amsterdam
90 Airport abbr.
92 Outlawed spray
95 Velvet finish?
96 “Hurry up!”
97 Part of 90 Down
98 Leave no loose ends?
99 Advises, in the comix
104 Tanker disaster
106 Inverted e
107 Feng
109 Mantle teammate
Hank
110 Sam, for one
111 Feathery accessories
113 “ sow, so shall ...”
114 100 pounds: abbr.
116 Web addresses
118 Orr’s org.
120 French pronoun
121 Orch. instruments
122 Abbr. for having just a
first and last name
123 Sawbuck
124 Mom’s forte, for short
125 Kingston Trio song
Solution on page 90.
