The Throwback Crossword: April 8

“Super Crossword” from January 21, 2000

ACROSS 

1. A lot

6. Bungle

10. Makes a touchdown

16. Hen’s hubby

19. Deck type

20. Ford or Grey

21. Frolic

22. Poster abbr.

26. Distant

27. Expensive appetizer

28. Common contraction

29. Charon’s river

30. Wallach or Whitney

31. Moore of “G.I. Jane”

34 Writer Paretsky

37. Actor Tremayne

40. Hangs tinsel

43. Command to Fido

45. Cries like a baby

48. Part 2 of remark

53. React to a pun

54. Enthusiast

55. “Dallas” matriarch

56. Lummoxlike

58. Had a hankering

60. Mister, in Munich

62. Architect’s add-on

63. Harness part

64. Radio and TV

65. Duncan’s denial

66. “— a Song Go Out of My Heart” (’38 tune)

69. — Bank, NJ

70. Part 3 of remark

75. HST’s successor

78, On the briny

79. Service charge

80. Disconcert

84. Cubist Rubik?

86. Business abbr.

88. Starchy tuber

90. Moved like a mouse

92. — del Sol

94. Teatime treat

96. Tachometer meas. 

98. Lawn Ornament

99. Part 4 of remark

103. Lots of laughter

104. JFK lander

105. Intense

106. Vane letters

107. Tend the garden

109. Pipe part

110. Cry of discovery

113. Spanish dance

116. Allen’s partner

120. Passed into law

124. — Baba

125. End of remark

130. — Buddhism

131. Lunar spacecraft

132. Skater Heiden

133. Kovacs or Pyle

134. Actress Caldwell

135. Scrimshaw material

136. Mr. Walesa

137. Cassandra and Merlin

DOWN 

1. Fountain order

2. Nursery furniture

3. Alan of “California Suite”

4. Holmes’ creator

5. Reel

6. Take off

7. Tyler or Ullmann

8. Colorado native

9. Saloon

10. Injury aftermath

11. Spelunker’s spot

12. It bakes the cake

13. Alex Haley book

14. Directional suffix

15. Sault — Marie, MI

16. 27th president

17. All right

18. Chico or Karl

24. Textbook headings

25. “Bali —”

29. Finn’s friend

31. See 91 Down

32. Distinguished

33. Flavor enhancer: abbr.

35. Honest name

36. Durban dough

37. Word form for “study”

38. — Zimbalist, Jr.

41. Ring official 

42. Missouri apriport abbr.

43. Presque —, ME

44. Dimly illuminated

46. Solitary sort

47. “Wake Up Little —” (’57 hit)

49. Card collection

50. Silverare city

51. From now on

52. Opening remark?

57. Wrap up

59. Place to pontificate

61. Unrefined

67. “Gracious me!”

68. Trinidad’s neighbor

71. Voltaire, for one

72. Reagan and Wilson

74. Techers’ org.

75. Cal. page

76. Sag

77. Follow

81. “New Yorker” cartoonist

82. Tend a faire

83. Macho types

85. Canada’s capital

87. Dovecote sounds

89. Soporific substance

91. With 31 Down, ’58 Frankie Avalon hit

93. Qualified

95. Squirrel’s snack

97. “The A-Team” actor

100. Manipulate

101. Toque or tarn

102. Hotelier Helmsley

108. Salivate

109. Silly Caesar

111. Basketball’s Elvin

112. Paint pigment

113. “All That —” (’79 film)

114. Toast topper

115. Prong

117. Eye lecherously

118. Flatfish

119. Before long

120. Engrave

121. Mood

122. Kuwaiti ruler

123.Poor grades

125. Zipper part

126. — -Looka, FL

127. Form of comm.

128. Mine find

129. Incite Rover

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