Happy Haunting Ground

1 Happy Haunting 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19. Ground 20 21 22. By Merl Reagle 23 24 25. 26 27 28. ACROSS. 1 Poets, old-style 29 30 31 32 33 34. 7 Happy refrain 12 Harry of the SFPD 35 36 37 38. 20 Specialized groups 39 40 41 42 43. 21 Trap in the garment district? 22 Study of Mars 44 45 46 47 48. 23 With 45 Across, a query put to Bob Hope in 1939's The Cat and the 49 50 51. Canary 52 53 54 55 56 57 58. 25 Medicinal solution 26 Wall climbers 59 60 61 62 63 64. 27 Keen and lively 28 Witch doctor whammies 65 66 67 68 69 70. 29 Where to trawl the line 71 72 73 74. 30 Act shamelessly? 31 Math pioneer Karl 75 76 77 78 79. 32 Disease fighters 35 Two-hulled vessel, for short 80 81 82 83. 36 Je, in the objective case 84 85 86 87 88. 37 Vergil guided him down 38 Tries on the set 89 90 91 92 93 94. 39 Luxury 42 Rock legend Hendrix 95 96 97 98 99. 43 $500-a-plate attire 100 101 102 103. 44 Fluctuates 45 See 23 Across 104 105 106. 49 Upright 50 Ways and ___ Committee 107 108 109.

2 51 Hitman of boxing 52 Torture chamber or pool hall gizmo 100 Balcony scene? 31 Tag, for one 78 Bible verb 53 Co-star of The Bodyguard 102 See 75 Across 33 Overhaul 79 Like sconce troughs 55 Queue after Q 104 50 below and 120 above, 34 Not care ___ 83 Zoomed for example 36 Contact in person 85 Baseball pitch or skidding 56 Monogram of one of the 3 Bs . 105 Gropes 37 Severs relations player 59 He played Mary's boss 106 Wine sampler 38 Find or be found 86 John of Monty Python 61 Munchies from Ma uel 107 Mecca for kids with cash 40 Has at a lollipop 90 San Antonio fort 63 Pudding type 108 ESP, for example 41 Irish exclamation 91 One-thirteenth of this clue 65 German article 109 Marriage sites 42 Post-coup regimes number 66 Game show icon Trebek 43 Seafood sauce 92 Rings out 68 Accommodates, as a portraitist DOWN 46 Tobacco-drying kiln 93 Lighten the mood of 70 Wooley of Purple People 1 Found by a whole new 47 Pulpit talk: abbr. 96 Perform without ___. Eater fame generation 48 Part on a dolly 97 Snick-and-___ (machete).

3 71 Damage 98 Pertaining to grandparents 73 Dudgeon 2 Harold Arlen song of 1931 50 Actress Jeanne 3 Matchbox vehicle, 53 1956 Jayne Mansfield film, 99 Nucleus 74 Cartoon oldie, ___ Quest 100 Word after get or jet 75 With 102 Across, Bob Hope's reply 4 Kitchen or luncheon ending The Girl Can't ___. 5 Lee's legions 54 Later 101 Prefix meaning outside . 79 Christmas time 102 Possibilities 80 One of the if-I-only-hads from 6 Govt. funds for the disabled 56 Actor from Englewood, 7 On ___ (busy) 103 Landing time, approx. The Wizard of Oz 81 Big name in theaters 8 Pay 57 Cute kid or dog, 82 Goes across, in Italian 9 Abundant cinematically speaking 84 Bottlenecks 10 Dieting buzzword 58 Future terrors of the desert 85 Queen Mary's subjects 11 Word before how or hoo 60 Informants, sometimes 87 Chopper 12 Let the ___ (spill the beans) 62 Len Deighton novel 88 Effort: abbr. 13 Melodic 64 This ___ of those songs .. 89 Arizona Indian 14 Gives for a time 67 Greek letters 15 Touched in the cabeza 69 Podiatry concern * PUZZLE FANS !

4 *. 90 ___ be praised . 91 Out of touch 16 Bluesy instruments 71 Fantasts For info on Merl's 94 Mutt's medic 17 Welcome mat's secret 72 Give temporary money to Sunday crossword 95 1988 Dan Aykroyd film, 18 Farming: abbr. a third party anthologies, visit My Stepmother Is ___ 19 Scientific Bill 74 Baloney 97 ___ after the show 24 Requiring fertilization 75 Poet Ogden 98 Set ___ (have something 28 Go poof! 76 You're kidding! Puzzle 2022 by M. Reagle to work toward) 30 Loads of lifetimes 77 Revel of 1773.