The Point of April 15th
It, it hurts
...Any way you look at
This puzzle is part of Merl's best-of series
ACROSS 118 Fox, in Italian
1 African nation or 121 Billy Joel hit,
preppy name “___ to Extremes” 5 Writers with cartridges 122 Sharp-angle turn 9 Melodious Horne 123 Both ___
13 Loos 127 Tokyo Rose’s real 16 Why TAX and name, ___ Toguri TACKS sound the 128 Both ___ same: Both ___ 129 For each
20 Library org. 130 Change for a five 21 Both ___ 131 German car make 22 Papa Playboy 132 Backtalk 23 Arm-over-arm swinger 24 Sib’s kid 25 Ralph of The Waltons 26 Knight time? 27 Director Riefenstahl 29 Tall bird 31 Student buys 34 Collar 37 Loose 40 Source of Asian butter 41 Both ___ 51 City law: abbr. 52 Opened 53 Like parking garages 54 Entomologist’s first
name? 56 Both ___ (continues
at 70 and 83 Across) 59 Annoy 60 Play section 62 Actress Moore 63 Org. that inspired this
puzzle 64 Hawaii, basically 67 A car, to a teen 68 Red river? 70 See 56 Across 71 Pill bottle 72 Word before deal
or meal 75 Kangaroo kids 76 Evergreen 77 Star Wars princess 81 Snatcher’s target 82 Wine vat 83 See 56 Across 86 Reinforcements, e.g. 87 General assemblies? 90 “Drop us a line!” 91 Fine 92 Both ___ 97 Erstwhile spy org. 98 Glop 99 San Fran time 100 ___ Cabin 106 Thoughtful 110 Dutch cheese 114 File this
115 Way to go
DOWN 1 Witches’ meeting
2 Mauve, e.g.
3 “Son of ___!”
4 Lucy’s guy
5 ___ out (outwit)
6 Lauder of cosmetics 7 Japanese theater
8 Type of duck
9 Stringed instrument,
to Luigi
10 Actor M. ___ Walsh 11 Cornhuskers’ home:
abbr.
12 Beast of burden
13 Cowboy’s shout
14 Record keeper
15 Secure places
16 Yawn
17 Above, in Zwickau 18 JFK or LAX datum 19 Skinny
21 2001 computer
26 Oxen linker
28 Imbibing parlor
30 “Rumble in the
jungle” victor, 1974 32 Looked over
33 Uniform sew-on
35 Singer Lane
36 1950s hairdo
38 Hill dweller
39 Caesar’s dozen
41 Canada Indian
42 Silly Sandler
43 Greek marketplace 44 Buddies
45 Oct or prop ending 46 “Not if my life
depended on it”
47 “Chic” adjective
48 Curse
49 Pot opener?
50 Part of Amtrak’s 800
number
51 Creaky
55 19-in. items,
sometimes 57 1977 U.S. Open
winner
58 Trig function
60 “So!”
61 Casals’ instrument 65 Protein-rich bean
66 Full of foliage
67 Bug
69 Common verb
70 Where Ephesus was 71 Drop in on
72 Refreshing place
73 Bon mot
74 Language of
Pakistan
75 Checkers move
76 PETA peeves
78 Israeli airline
79 Admired one
80 What to do if you don’t see what you want
82 Play about Capote 84 ___ up to (admit)
85 Adheres (to)
87 Secy., e.g. 88
Shampoo ingredient, perhaps
___ Paulo Bridge support? Purpose Charged particle Put on the feedbag Loosen, in a way Unsophisticated Certain Cuban Cleric’s garb (anagram of
A ROLE)
104 Fungus fuzzies
105 Star Trek character 107 Vine-covered, as
colleges
108 Spherical bacteria 109 Nevada city or
county
111 Christian fashions? 112 1943 Spencer Tracy
film, ___ Named Joe 113 “Timely” doz.
116 Ordinarily, in the dict. 117 “¿Como ___?”
89 93 94 95 96 100 101 102 103
119 Name of 12 Popes 125 Day of the wk. 120 Volcano near 126 Fax machine
Palermo ancestor: abbr. 123 Galley slave’s least
favorite Greek letter?
124 A million millennium
Fun Times
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