The Crossword Totally Q-less by Merl reagle | www.sundaycrosswords.coM


NOTE: I made a puzzle in January that was chock-full of Q’s, so here’s one in which they’re “conspicuously absent.”


ACRoSS


1 King’s place 7 Goya subject


11 “Think of it!” 18 “Carefree” star 20 Ad of a sort 22 Roustabout, e.g. 23 Caption on a publicity photo from the film “Tombstone”?


25 Disperse 26 Shorter mo. 27 Outdo 28 Yale students 30 Pressure preceder 31 Basket? 40 Solidarity guy 41 Okinawan port 42 Burly Burl 43 Nabokov novel 44 Do a mining job 47 D.C. fundraiser 48 Strap 49 Whirled 50 With 82 Across, one way to describe a home run derby?


56 Arabia’s Gulf of ___ 57 Injured 58 Criticizes, slangily 59 Questionnaire answers 60 Roast holder 61 Ex-Laker outlined on the NBA logo


62 Window feature 63 What he is 65 Warning on a Tim the Tool Man drill?


71 Like Cheerios 72 Competes 73 Nurse Jackie portrayer 74 Make the effort 76 Deep sleep 79 VMI program 80 It rests on the violin 81 Citi Field replaced it 82 See 50 Across 87 Red inside 88 1985 U.S. Open winner Mandlikova


89 Joke


90 “Toy Story 3” voice 91 “___ your dime” 92 D.A. in “The Dark Knight” who becomes Two-Face, Harvey ___


93 Come (from) 95 Raced 97 Reacting to your first jog in 10 years?


103 St. crosser 104 Wood strip 105 ___ Paulo 106 Dead battery ... who ya gonna call?


108 In party mode 112 What they called Shakespeare after that really bad haircut?


117 Shunned 118 Nosy one 119 “___ be seen again” 120 Signs you unfurl 121 Decreases 122 Do an usher’s job


DoWn


1 Gag answer to “Why are birds so noisy”?


2 So far 3 Infection type 4 Make lace 5 English ___ 6 Provocative, in a way 7 Speed abbr. 8 Everyday verb 9 Mr. Pulitzer


10 Flyer’s first name 11 They, in Paris 12 1990s dance craze 13 Early cal cu la tor 14 Rose 15 NYC subway 16 Born 17 Speak out of turn, e.g. 19 Tennyson’s Arden 21 Connected to the ear 24 Toll rd. 29 They schuss to be happy


32 Actress Page of “Juno” 33 D.C. PBS station that produces Jim Lehrer’s “NewsHour”


34 Pass (a law) 35 Pool hall device 36 “Stop the World — I Want To Get Off” girl


1 18 23 26 31 32 33 40 44 45 46 50 56 60 65 66 71 76 77 78 82 87 91 97 98 103 108 109 110 117 120


37 Half a 1960s foursome 38 Draw out 39 Admiral and general, e.g.


44 Buy things 45 Staff notes 46 Muse with a lyre 47 Hairlines? 48 E-mail button 49 Fine 51 Major U.S. farm export 52 Bold, saucy girl 53 Neighbor of SoHo 54 Corridors 55 “Generation of Vipers” author Philip


61 Pooped 62 Bash, biblically 63 Battlefield shout 64 Quick as ___ 66 Bond before Dalton 67 City in central Portugal 68 Drew Barrymore went through it at 13


111 104 112 118 121


69 Historical Allen 70 Rubbish 75 Tibetans own them 76 Font flourish 77 Egg-shaped 78 Intrinsically 79 Car for the duration 80 Icy sen sa tion 81 Hue 83 Sometime or another 84 Loiter, nowadays 85 Legal document 86 Kid’s sliding board cry 92 Cause to disagree 93 ___ out of the park 94 Pulsating 95 Lover boy 96 One initiating a call 98 “Amo, amas” class 99 Cat resting places


100 Medium ability? 101 The Congo, pre vi ous ly 102 Conference site of 1945


107 Oodles For answers, call 1-900-226-5802. The cost is 95 cents per minute. The average call is two minutes. September 26, 2010 | The WashingTon PosT Magazine 31 113 114 119 122


108 Terrif 109 Sister of Zsa Zsa 110 Part of the Holy Trinity 111 Redundancy removers: abbr.


113 It has corn all over it 114 Word with lock or mock 115 The day before 116 “Scream” director Craven


Solution to: The short form (Sept. 19)


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T H R O B H O S S S T U N A C T I


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G L O A T A S C H K E N S C O O P S R E F M A T E R I A L S G Y R O S A S I A G O A N N A M S T


N I T S K O A L O A T F A N


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A G A I N C I T Y T E N G A L T A N K B U S D E C I S I O N D E R M I S L I T A R E E N I D


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A N O N D O N O R N O C R U N C H I N G Z E R O O D O R E V I A N H E N C E E A S T


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