Now You’re
Talking!
By Merl Reagle
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ACROSS
1 1936 Hitchcock film
9 handstand
12 Favorites
16 Odessa-born
comedian
18 Odessa native
19 1973 Peace Nobelist
21 18 Down, for one
22 Some singers
23 List total, often
24 Olympic great
26 Beat pounder
27 Bridge
28 Partiality
31 Jethro’s uncle
33 This is true
35 Teen hangout
36 Label
37 Greeting from a
birthday-party clown
41 “Get lost!”
46 Highlanders
48 “That’s the want”
49 Martini option
50 Pen name?
51 ease
53 Boomer’s initials?
54 Tempura alternative,
perhaps
59 Japanese gangster
61 First name in
pharmaceuticals
62 First name in
cosmetics
64 Eatery
65 Elephant Boy star
69 Hanna-Barbera duck
74 TV diner
75 Ladd’s daughter
77 Gene Krupa portrayer
78 They, in Marseille
80 Washington city
82 He played Colonel
Saito in The Bridge
on the River Kwai
90 Compass pt.
91 Family Ties mom
93 Witness
94 Over-the-counter
drowsiness fighter
95 Gumbo ingredient
97 Important papers
99 Engage in some low-
rent music making
102 They’re self-propelled
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51
48
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54
55 56
61
57 58
62
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60
63
64
65 66 67 68 69
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70 71 72
73
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90
95
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82
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91
92
96
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98
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93
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94
100 101
102 103
107
114 115 116 117
104 105
108
118
106
109
119 120
110 111 112 113
121
122
129
131
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124
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132
125
126 127 128
133
104 Morale-boosting grp.
106 “Long live…”
107 Present
108 123 Down, for ex.
109 Warner Bros. skunk
110 Ocean algae
114 Predicament
117 Carne
119 “ was saying...”
121 Eyelashes
122 Words of
resignation?
124 Lay out loads of lucre
129 Simoleons
130 David McCallum’s
U. N.C.L. E. agent
131 Benefit
132 Monster’s home?
133 Twaddle
DOWN
1 December traveler
2 Rubber city
3 Some youngsters
4 Female gametes
5 Disapproving sound
6 Pal, to Pascal
7 Essential points
8 Language of
46 Across
9 Put on
10 “The Lamb ”
11 Some
12 Vitality
13 Office VIP
14 Poi source
15 Crack
16 Canine cry
17 Black-clad warrior
18 Puccini opus
19 Possesses
20 Pen insert
25 Deny
28 Ovine opinion
29 Type
30 Grafton’s A
32 Shell contents
34 Ring result, briefly
35 Skeptic’s
sentence ender
36 Pt. of MI T
37 Gave a hand
38 Pitched perfectly
39 John Q. star
40 Asian instruments
41 Received
42 Corrida cry
43 Cone producer
44 This clue, plus XII
45 McCourt book
47“We please”
52 Small amount
55 One of the Khans
56 Remington-shaver
fan who “bought the
company,” Victor
57 Makeovers
58 It means “equal”
60 Actress Basinger
63 Marlon’s On the
Waterfront director
65 Approves
66 Its area code is 907
67 Cake maker
68 Lateral opening
70 Shows of affection
71 Knock-
72 “Certainly!”
73 English cathedral city
76 Soul, in Rouen
79 Decaf order
81 Trees whose wood
resists water rot
83 Letters for letters?
84 River zapper
85 Hurl
86 National campsites
org.
87 Cutting tool
88 Try to win over
89 Dye type
92 “…so shall ”
96 “ , g’wan, beat it”
98 Some Like It Hot
bandleader
100 Canine cry
101 Intro to Maria
103 Endymion poet
105 Sinuous
108 Singing sister of
Loretta Lynn
109 Leftist, pejoratively
110 “Lola”singers
111 Commercial cow
112 Disney’s Scar, for one
113 Actress Dawber
114 Triangular sails
115 Towel shade
116 Mire
118 Speaker’s place
120 Welsh actress Phillips
(anagram of A SIN)
121 A Corleone portrayer
123 Two-term prez
125 Miss. neighbor
126 Race starter, often
127 Dads, perhaps: abbr.
128 Saloon order
Solution on page 72.
