1 Becker or Karloff
6 Mexican moolah
11 Put off to a future time
16 Deliver lectures
17 Plentiful
18 Laughing gas, e.g.
19 Three words that follow
“short”
22 Reach the highest level
23 Jagged
24 Mild-mannered
25 Ship’s curved plank
26 C&W singer Collin
28 This ___ that
30 Dre and No
31 Desert “monster”
32 In the present state
35 Three words that follow
“sweet”
42 No friend
43 Card player’s stake
44 Sing the blues
45 Ending with journal or
Japan
46 Reg. version
47 Saw around?
49 RR terminus
50 Permits access to
53 Plenty mad
55 Rainbow-shaped
57 For more words that follow
“short”
60 Lose interest in
61 Actor Rob
62 Feed seed
65 ___ Peres, MO
66 Magdeburg’s river
67 Overzealous fan
70 Relaxed pace
72 Have ___ of nerves
75 Secretary of Labor Chao
77 Four more words that
follow “sweet”
80 Occur afterwards
81 Natural talent
82 Circumference
83 Like bonds or movies
84 Buffet patron
85 Filters through

1 Lightning zigzags
2 Neighbor of Taurus
3 Grating, as a voice
4 “Suffice ___ say…”
5 Type of blanket
6 Golf benchmark
7 Roast host

8 Short branch track
9 Mingle-mangle
10 Leave port
11 Homer Simpson
exclamation
12 Course finale
13 Assessed a monetary fee
14 Lawn-care equipment
15 Smells skunky
20 Cosmicomics author
Calvino
21 Football line positions
27 Bark towards
29 Backgammon equipment
31 Curvaceous leg
32 Step into character
33 Metal pin used for roasting
meat
34 Small taste
35 Exfoliates
36 Get-go
37 From ___ green
38 Musical “mood”
39 ’70s dance hotspot
40 Drive-through sign
41 “All-systems go!”
46 Fixate one’s eyes on
48 Never ___ moment
51 System Performance Test,
for short
52 Moistureless
54 Third man in the ring
55 ___ can be expected
56 Numbered hwy.
58 Instant coffee brand
59 Prize name since 1901
62 Significant person?
63 Gladiator’s venue
64 Banquet recitation
66 Almost too coincidental
67 Weeper of myth
68 Tear out a seam
69 Some sale settings
71 One way to ring
73 Teatro ___ Scala
74 32-card card game
76 Crowning point
78 Guitarist Nugent
79 Boston Bruin great Bobby