The Crossword Gift boxes, Bizarro-style by Merl reagle | www.sundaycrosswords.coM


NOTE: In this puzzle, instead of gifts being inside boxes, the boxes are inside the gifts. In other words, each gift “strad dles” a single black square, like so: RAG ¢ DOLL. Can you find all eight hidden presents? Answers next week.


ACRoSS


1 Half an African capital 6 MC 2?


12 Hay job 18 Family that Harriet married into, the ___


19 Insight 20 2009 film set in 2154 21 Holy day 22 Peary of the Arctic 23 Leslie Nielsen’s Canadian birthplace


24 “The Last Frontier” 25 Part of A.D. 26 Available room 27 “Understand?” 28 Ruckus 29 “The Mouth That Roared” 31 Advises 32 “Made ___” 34 “Avoid ___ like the plague”


37 Police-jacket inits. 40 “Dido and Aeneas” composer


44 Speech unit 47 Kanye’s thing 49 Promoter of green eggs 51 Hoo preceder 52 Doc’s org. 54 Adder’s cousin 55 First word of “Nowhere Man”


57 Frank 59 It has 150 chapters 61 London airport 64 Tough 66 Big name in chips 67 ___ suit 69 Dosage, often 72 Sure target 74 Kirk’s successor 78 Dramatic scenes 81 Bakery emanations 84 Conservative Brits 86 Org. that got Dillinger 87 Space aliens, humorously: abbr.


88 Music notes 89 Narrator of 90 Down


91 Water-dwelling rodent 93 Let it out 95 Greek dessert 98 Eel-like fish


100 “Heaven, ___ heaven ...”


101 Loud enough 103 ___ nova 105 Petri dish stuff 108 ___ chi 109 With Martin, a car 112 Ghana’s first president, ___ Nkrumah


116 Pygmalion’s “statuesque” maiden


119 Commotion 121 Undercoating 122 Actress Silverstone 123 Overload 124 Homesteader 125 Interlocks 126 Labored 127 Potpourri bag 128 Total 129 Honks off 130 See 113 Down


DoWn


1 Shrewd 1 Diamond opportunity 2 Howdy Doody’s pal or Wolfman Jack’s real name


3 Rouse 4 Loser to VHS 5 Fire proof? 6 Yule song 7 Yule song’s start 8 Mouse pals in Warner Bros. cartoons, ___ and Bertie


9 Harbinger


10 Installment program? 11 Wrecking-ball alternative


12 Theda of the silents 13 Sans opposite 14 Celebrity chef 15 Singer Turner’s autobiography


16 Reagan or Wilson 17 Suit shades 18 12/26 event 21 Sofa problem 25 Darlings 26 Home of occupied France


28 E. Lansing sch. 30 Backtalk 33 Some teeth


1 18 21 24 27 32 37 38 39 47 54 61 67 72 73 81 88 95 96 101 105 106 107 116 122 125 128


34 Trolley sound 35 Shaq target 36 Baseball’s Slaughter 37 He ran from Iran 38 Like the Magi 39 Spotted horse 41 Rookery sound 42 Sheik’s guest 43 In ___ of 45 Palindromic language related to Tamil


46 Grammer award 48 Surprised greeting 50 “Never Let ___” 53 Silly one 56 Introductory course? 58 Pay for a pad 60 Wings, in Latin 62 Expression 63 Judge’s order 65 Refusing to listen 68 Nobel Prize subj. 70 Monasteries 71 555 + IV 72 Clumsy one


117 118 123 126 129


73 Lackluster 75 As ___ (usually) 76 Novelist ___ Mae Brown


77 It means “skin” 79 “Unattractive” fruit 80 Marvel superheroes 82 Due process defender: abbr.


83 Roe source 85 Teeny taste 90 1996 Madonna film 92 Ann ___ MI 94 Longfellow fellow 96 Pakistan’s largest city 97 Atty.’s org. 99 Eternity’s cousin


102 Tea man Thomas 104 Be quick on the draw? 105 “It’s only ___” 106 Greek physician 107 VIP roster 109 Start of a Dickens title 110 Less outgoing 111 Is inclined (to)


108 119 120 124 127 130


113 A Green Mountain Boy 114 See 115 Miss a turnoff, for example


117 Level


Solution to: Crunch time (Dec. 19)


A D A M S F O R E O N S WO E


E P A S O U P S C A R L E S A N S A


T H E L O R E O F T H E W E S T B E T A S T A R T R E S T O R E O R D E R I T O


T O N


WO R E O X F O R D S WH A T L L S E O U L


P O R E O V E R A G U A


T E A D E E R


R O D N O D O A S A Z O O


N E I L M O R E O F T H E S A M E N A T T E R S J O S L A G


L E A E A T S O S


E T C R E C H U L K


D I E H O M E O C F O


H O Y A M E R R I L L


C H O R E O G R A P H E R N E V E D O C S


P F C


C L I N K H Y D R O X I D E O P R A H T E N


O F F S H O R E O I L S OW


T O R E O P E N D E B A T E K L M


F O R E O R D A I N E D L A U R A L U R E B O R E O N E S E N S E L E S S U S E R I D O L D E E B E D S S O L D S P A


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G O T M I L K E S S A Y


A R N O


118 Get (into) carefully 120 Copy’s opp. 121 Pants part 123 RR stop 124 Helmsman’s dir.


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