PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
SIGN LANGUAGE
ACROSS
1 Work force
6 Swallowed up
14 Beautiful
20 Popular type option 21 Wedlock
22 Idolize
23 Organ knob imparting a striking sound
25 Napoli’s country 26 Quarterback Manning 27 Boundless
28 Suffix with 12-Down 30 Jungle lairs
31 Age, as cheese
33 Hidden way out in a haunted house
36 Orlando locale
40 Singer Reba
42 Ratio of a stock share’s return to its price
45 Shell games
50 Persona
51 Studio stand
52 Hold in check 55 Animation frames 56 Neophytes
58 Blackish wood
60 Pisa’s river
61 Actor Wilson
62 Illinois town west of Chicago
64 Worker finishing furniture
68 Savage sort
70 Deeply felt
71 Popularity boost after appearing on satirist Stephen’s old show
73 Iris’ layer
74 Is in debt
75 Fallback strategy 76 Singer Mariah
78 UPS deliveries: Abbr. 82 Did a 180
84 Willy Wonka creator Dahl
86 Capital of Egypt
87 Kagan of the Supreme
Court
88 At a snail’s pace
91 Quark or pion
95 “The Newlywed Game” host Bob
96 PC program tool for automating batches of invitations, say
100 Actress Irene
102 Streamlined, in brief 103 Africa’s Amin
104 “Canvas” for a tattoo 106 Artificial cave
111 Zoned (out)
113 Like people heeding seven key words in this puzzle
117 Mongol invaders
118 Brazilian rain forest region
119 Make — for oneself 120 Lace-receiving hole 121 Crescentlike objects 122 Plays spiritedly
DOWN
1 Defensive tackle Warren 2 Willow or oak
3 Ethereal
4 Almanac item
5 Drinking water additive 6 Long dashes
7 Innocent
8 Reaction to an awful pun 9 Big vases
10 Enumerate
11 Chubby
12 Inflated sense of self 13 Portray
14 First coat of paint 15 Like many a sr. citizen 16 Sidestep
17 Old-style messager 18 Pop singer Lopez 19 Brewer’s fungus 24 Snarky
29 Lanka lead-in
32 Lousy review 33 Vendors
34 Finale
35 Final, e.g.
36 Savings acct. protector 37 Tart pie fruit
38 Track shape
39 Road semis
40 Fail to catch
41 Passing mark
43 “Wilson” actress Laura 44 Basketballer Ming 46 Shipping box
47 Hitter Hank
48 Negative
49 Sleep sound 52 “Backdraft” director Howard
53 Salad green
54 Biggest city in Australia 56 Nudniks
57 Turtle in a Dr. Seuss title 59 Belfry dweller
61 Small bill
62 Hiatus
63 Homer’s H
64 Win a point
65 Sauna wrap
66 Tylenol rival
67 “Peer Gynt” dramatist 68 Sloppy Joe holder
69 Hug
72 Defective
73 Pakistani language 76 Walking stick
77 ’80s sitcom
78 “Qué —?”
79 Brick-baking oven 80 Totally understand, informally
81 Plants seeds
83 Absorbed
85 OPEC liquid
86 Big hack attack
88 Sty dweller
89 Mystery writer Deighton 90 Sudden forward thrust 92 In the thick of 93 Cardinal, e.g. 94 Clan-related
96 Sticky stuff
97 Reimburse
98 Hopping mad
99 Like ultra-lite food 100 Failed to
101 Remove, as a 105-Down 104 Medium, e.g.
105 Shoelace problem 107 “How awful!”
108 Cardinals, e.g.
109 Office fill-in
110 Corrida calls
112 Sooner than
114 Big bush bird
115 Flying Solo
116 — -been