THOUGHT-PROVOCATIVE

ACROSS 1Charger

6Talent: sl.

9Worms, e.g.

13Kind of remark

19``The Velvet Fog''

20King's superior

21Wagner's earth goddess

22Tiny cavity

23Start of an epigram

27Point of law

28Surf noise

29Melodic

30Like certain Franks of yore

31Nose-bag unit

32Othello's wife

35___-majest'e

36Europeans, e.g.

40Err

41Tooth dr.

43But, to Brutus

44Novarro

45Top

47Tainted dough

50Napoleon's legions

51Indian tiger

52Rule

53Panfish species

56Dist. Attys. Assn.

57RBI, for one

58Tow-away area, e.g.

59Philippic

61Cook, on occasion

64Quarrel

65Indian mangrove

66Epigram continued

72___ to go (impatient)

73Large tubs

74One who holds forth

75``We ___ amused''

77Refuse

78Competed

79Ending for part or den

82Places of paradise

83Printing need

84Kind of pool

85___ the teeth (sated)

87Poet Thomas, singer Bob

89Ginger

90Inflexibility

91California's Big ___

94Hair

95Window

97Kind of inventory, e.g.

99Chi. newspaper

101Yield or humor

105Ascot

106French clerics

108Help

109Actual

111Tokyo of old

114Epigram concluded

118Lizards

119London gallery

120``___ was saying . . .''

121Quiet

122Beliefs

123Summer quaffs

124Caress

125Briton's boob tube

DOWN

1Be outstanding

2Soliloquy start

3Love god

4Rhea's relative

5Leaves Amtrak

6Money of Thailand

7Having lands

8Word to a horse

9Vandykes, e.g.

10Large groups

11Local speech

12Italian poet

13Humbug's predecessor

14Metric measures

15Kidney-shaped

16Kay, Robert, and Tony

17Kay Thompson girl

18Confounded

24Moppets

25More simple

26Actress Hiller

31Western Indian

33Ant

34Take as one's own

36Nail

37___ avis

38Not developed

39Shake a leg

42Kind of hand

46Vegetable

47Gift from China

48Stun

49Dry gully

52Rustics

54Ammo

55Mother of Jubal and Jabal

57Comedian Erwin

58Piquant

60Chemical suffix

62Arrayed

63Antonym's opposite

64Open

66Singing syllable

67Uncommon

68Levels off

69Clamor

70Ostentatious

71Roll of bills

76Kind of opening

77Racket

78Actress Lupe

80Like ___ of bricks

81``___ Jim'': Conrad

84Steve Canyon's creator

85Most feeble

86European nation

88Mimics

91``___ Mater'' (Latin hymn)

92Suave

93Decoration

95Grosse ___, Mich.

96Rugged crests

98Greenland community

100Stendhal

102Hostess Perle

103Beg

104Uneven, as a leaf edge

107Loretta of ``M*A*S*H''

110Issue

111Sin

112Farmer's place

113___-begotten

115Goofball

116Knock

117Consumed