The Crossword

XWORD

“Songs”

by Myles Mellor

Across:

1. Sight in the Seine 4. Tune player 8. Macaroni or manicotti 13. Swears 18. Foot bones 21. It’s a knockout 22. Knobby 23. LFMA song 25. Alicia Keys hit 26. Last word in the name of a WW I German warship 27. Mrs. sheep 28. Historic Scott 29. Emanations 34. Cherubini opera 38. Much ____ About Nothing 40. Art and poetry enthusiasts 44. Fall times, abbr. 45. Get cold drinks here 49. Baseball stat 50. Smooth 51. Careful review 53. Prior to, for a bard 54. Ball carriers 55. Software buyer, usually 57. County of Ireland 59. Kind of iron 61. Gabriel, for one 62. Message starter 64. Fountain drinks 65. Biblical mount 67. Eyepieces 71. High gymnastic score 72. Beatles song 76. Middle-eastern kingdom 77. Managed to get out 78. Nobelist Bohr 79. Guitar stroke 81. Cardinal number ending 82. Something to lend or bend 85. Put out the fi rst card 86. A stratum of earth 88. Plants with showy fl ower clusters 91. ‘’That’s what I think,’’ in e-mail 94. French summer 95. Incorrect 98. Rhythmic singing 100. Letter run 101. Ridges 103. Blistex or Carmex 104. Photographer retreats 106. “Deep Space Nine” character 107. Lift 109. Quickly, mailwise 110. “___ fair in love and war” 113. __-fangled 115. Curve 119. Pharrell Williams hit 121. Stevie B hit 129. Sharpened 130. Pickle preserver 131. Desperate Housewives’ action 132. Banquets 133. Raise trivial objections 134. “Dutch Interior” painter 135. Survive

Down:

1. Little devils 2. ___ of faith 3. Raison d’ ___ 4. Van or san followers 5. Stroke goal 6. Palmas de ___ (journalist award) 7. U.S. Army medal 8. Actress Cruz 9. Court fi g. 10. Movie theatre sound 11. Usually requires a driver 12. The law has a long one 13. __ Arbor, MI. 14. Kind of doll 15. Whiff 16. Draw to a close 17. Husky load

Look for this months answers at labyrinthgameshop.com

19. Corroded 20. Mamie’s man 24. Miracle response 30. Sounds of hesitation 31. Consign 32. “Got two fi ves for ___?” 33. Apples’ center components 35. Bakery artist 36. Magellan or Bering (Abbr.) 37. Tempe inst. 38. Healthy berry 39. Guys’ partners 40. Itinerary abbr. 41. Dwindle 42. Cheer starter 43. Gull-like bird 46. Openings 47. You run one 48. “Four Christmases” actress Witherspoon 52. Vail trail 56. Buttinsky 58. Disney character 59. Chopin and Alicia Keys’ instruments 60. Holiday, as one 62. Bug out 63. Former Rockets’ giant 65. Cleaned 66. Thing referred to 68. LeBron James’s team, on the sports ticker 69. Milk dispenser 70. Country in the Indian Ocean 72. Attribute 73. U.N. Day mo. 74. “Gotcha!” 75. Laugh syllable 76. White-collared thrush, var. 80. Pursued 83. Opening run 84. Kind of center 87. In that case 88. Farewell, to Caesar 89. A Boston and Cambridge college 90. ___ a one 91. Labor group, for short 92. “Delicious!” 93. Switch settings 96. Pellet gun ammo 97. Banquet 99. Three-fold 102. Aretha’s forte 105. Spherical 108. Article in France-Soir 110. Interruption 111. Stow, as cargo 112. Org. for Nancy Lopez 114. Like a bairn 116. Bronte’s Jane 117. Secluded corner 118. Hornswoggle 120. Drapers’ meas. 121. British media company 122. Victorian, for one 123. Early second-century date 124. DiFranco of folk rock 125. “I think, therefore __ __” Descartes 126. Year in Nero’s reign 127. “___ the ramparts ...” 128. Letters on a brandy bottle

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