Sunday Puzzler

ACROSS

1 — lazuli 6 Leveret 10 Blinding light 15 Coastal bird 20 Radiant 21 Former student, for short 22 Whirlybird part 23 Tropical fruit 24 Beldam 25 City in Georgia 26 Domed house 27 Sharp to the taste 28 Have a bite 29 Ancient instrument 31 Persian poet of note 33 High-ranking NCO

35 “My Fair —” 36 Collar insert 37 Side 39 Letter after pi 41 National song 44 Paid athletes 45 State near New Mex. 48 Soft thread 53 One with promise 54 Primary 55 Resembling a monkey 57 Broad comedy 58 Copied 59 Animal group 60 Variety of wine

61 Stroke in golf 63 Read hastily 64 Lair

65 A type of cornbread 66 Send, as payment 68 Expensive 70 Skill

71 Tiny amount 72 Goldenagers 74 Fencing weapon 76 Island greeting 79 Upward 81 Venus de — 83 Join a certain way 87 Flaxen fabric 88 Humdinger 89 Hurtful remark 91 Kind of wave 92 Uneven in quality 94 Bhagavad — 96 Extremely 97 EU nation 98 Lampblack 100 Trounces 102 Ait

104 Plant bristle 107 Something

essential 109 Sidestep 110 Cruel fellow 111 Dandy

114 Farm animal 116 Destroy 118 A pronoun 119 London

district 120 Small distance 121 “Tempest” sprite 123 Cloud of gas and dust in space 125 Held

126 Balance

127 Kind of race 128 First man 129 Seven — 130 Salvo

131 Shade tree 133 Easily flexed 136 Heap

137 Reputation 141 Opera by Verdi 144 Before very long 145 Magnitude 146 Dir. letters 149 Swamp 151 Skilled 153 School in England 155 Budges 157 Hebrew prophet 158 — macabre 159 — de suite 160 That is to say (Lat.)

161 Brits’ TV 162 Sequence 163 Big sandwich 164 Perfume

ceremonially

DOWN

1 Tatting

2 Taj Mahal site 3 Conspire 4 Charged particle 5 Suffer from the heat 6 Houdini or Potter

7 — vera 8 Fermented molasses drink 9 Ralph Waldo — 10 Dirt 11 Sound thinking 12 HartsfieldJackson code 13 Space

14 Desire personified 15 WWII military gp.

16 Indigo

17 Art movement 18 Lover of Geraint 19 Risqué

23 Tub washing 30 Sweet potato 32 — and downs 34 Gift recipient 36 Molt

37 Like the Sahara 38 Male animal 40 Not quite right 41 School (Abbr.) 42 Slangy denial 43 Agents (Hyph.) 44 Reduce 46 English nap 47 Praise

49 — Vegas 50 Killer whale 51 Wound mark 52 Dispatched 54 Existing in one’s mind 55 Partly (Prefix) 56 Expression 59 — polloi 60 Landlord’s due 62 Spigots 65 “The — of the Opera” 66 Proved wrong 67 Testimonial 69 Lizard, e.g. 71 Sharpens 72 Dense

73 Hits

75 The upper crust

76 Hirt and Pacino

77 Cup edge 78 Yoko — 80 Carry 82 Mine’s yield 84 Crete’s Mount —

85 Mr. Ripken 86 Town near Cambridge 90 Sunny 93 “Not on — life!” 95 “— — and his money ...” 96 Wise

99 Big wave

101 Best or Ferber 103 Marquee

notice

104 Kanten

105 Had on

106 Brad

108 Fastened

110 “My mistake!” 111 Flunk

112 River in France 113 Victim

115 Brewed beverage 117 Sports org. 119 Do an usher’s job

120 Perforation 122 Something caustic 124 Ref’s cousin 125 Cole or Branagh 126 Argument 129 — Paulo

130 To wit (Abbr.) 132 Whip 134 Slight error 135 Bury 136 Spotted horse 137 Leave unmentioned 138 Prescribed amount

139 Spoken

140 Track

142 Pedestal part 143 Jewish month 145 Like a lemon 146 Regular

147 Promontory 148 Punta del — 150 State

152 Cease

154 Shoe part 156 Work by Pindar