SUNDAY CROSSWORD

BY THE DOZEN: A very varied group

ACROSS

1 Show approval 5 Jazz riffs 10 Cirrus cloud's shape 14 Number on a letter

17 Gopher's creation 18 Video game pioneer

19 BeetleBailey dog 20 Act too broadly 22 New Testament

dozen 25 Tired out fully 26 Insignificant

27 Ballet costume 28 Believer in anarchy 30 German auto

33 Some PCs 36 Small drum of India 37 Household winter

warmer 40 City near Santa

Barbara 42 Very funny folks 44 Smooth-talking 46 Sound asleep

47 Solid geometry dozen 50 Glanced at

52 Distinctive scent 54 Thicken, as cream

55 Wipe clean 56 Dalí contemporary

57 Water conduit 58 Place on a leash

61 Part of a grove 62 Food thickener 63 Script writers, for

short 65 Done in mosaic

67 Officially designates 69 Cowell of reality TV 72 Bridge deck dozen

75 Closeup map 76 Fairly divided 78 Small part for a big

star 79 Emulating 80 Aussie leapers

81 Poker ritual 84 Rind remover

86 Make small talk 90 Rice of vampire

fiction 91 Instructional

sequence 93 Steel mill residue 94 Made a rip in 95 Wood for archery

bows 96 Cannes coin dozen 99 Recycling container 100 Italy's “Supreme

Poet” 102 Gourmet mushroom 103 Irksome one 105 Offbeat 106 Impolite looks 108 Whimpers 110 A new shade now 112 Hot Springs' state 115 Helped oneself to 117 Dry Italian wine 121 Mislead 122 December song

dozen 127 Oversize hair 128 Surveyor's measure 129 Ryder truck-rental

rival 130 Give forth 131 GPS lines 132 Sharp flavor 133 Burn slightly 134 Vended

DOWN

1 British fellow 2 Leisurely gait 3 Very often 4 Green sauce 5 Actor Kilmer 6 Filled up on 7 Sailboat pole 8 Pleased with oneself 9 Bakers' gadgets 10 Adversity 11 Part of TGIF 12 Leave speechless 13 Assume true 14 Astrology dozen 15 Medical suffix 16 Cooped (up) 20 OK to ingest 21 Reciprocal of kilo23 Keyboarding error 24 Month after junio 29 Was previously 31 Retrieves a DVD 32 Punch server 34 Unaccompanied 35 Go first 37 Gunk 38 Rival of 30 Across 39 Go no further 41 “Can't help myself!” 43 Lingering mark 45 Martial art 48 Moral code 49 “__ directed” (prescription phrase) 51 Least satisfactory 53 Regretful feeling 56 Concert headliner 59 DC or AC 60 Postgame rundown 64 Modern crime clue 66 British noble title 68 Product from olives 69 A shore thing 70 Resolved, with “out” 71 NASA dozen 72 Fruity soft-drink brand 73 Oscar winner Witherspoon 74 Dress elegantly 77 Winery workers

79 Large merchant ship 82 Contract period 83 British racetrack

town 85 Golden-__ corn

87 Traveler in boxcars 88 Rarely rained on 89 Watch over

92 Not at all pleased 96 Court reporters

97 Still learning about 98 The whole gang 101 Retro “Sweet!” 104 Novelist Gerritsen 107 Egyptian Peace Prize

recipient 109 2014 Winter

Olympics city 111 Showers affection

(on) 112 “A pity” 113 Difference of opinion 114 Pop singer Bareilles 116 Genghis __ 118 Snowballs, at times 119 Rockies ski resort 120 Founded: Abbr. 123 Craving 124 Become droopy 125 Hallway covering 126 Suffix for percent