THE PREMIER

ACROSS 1 Creole cooking pod 5 Early Andeans 10 Concert stage

items 14 Disgrace 19 Cover thickly 20 Declines 21 Wrongful act,

legally 22 Of the ear 23 Grabs hold of a

fish? 25 Give a fish medi

cation? 27 Choose (to) 28 Baseball stat 29 Like spoiled cook

ing oil 30 Clamor 31 Fish smeared with

black gunk? 34 Cheeky 37 Have bills 38 Mineo of “Giant” 39 Suffix for an

enzyme 40 Not as cruel 41 Turn liquid 44 Old horse 47 Fish drifting about

aimlessly? 50 Actor Stiller 51 Baseball stat 53 Hoppy quaff 54 Wash. bigwig 55 Fish covered with

more grit? 59 Modifies 64 Conceal 65 Fake ID 66 1,051, in old Rome 68 Larch, e.g. 69 Makes a fish more softhearted? 71 Honey-colored fish? 74 Score — with

(impress) 75 It’s south of Can. 76 Eye parts with

irises 77 Splits 78 Triplets of adja

cent nucleotides 80 Cures a fish by salting and drying? 85 Western treaty

inits. 87 Hide — hair 88 Actress Davis of “The Matrix Reloaded” 89 Ending for Bronx 90 Fish that’s a saint

ed guardian? 96 O’er there 97 For fear that 98 Runner Bolt 99 “Botch- —” (Rosemary Clooney hit) 100 It precedes Sept. 102 Barely obtain, with

“out” 104 Gratify, as a base instinct 106 Accept a Facebook request from a fish? 112 Boat in Genesis 113 Twilled fabrics 115 Old’s opposite, in

German 116 Yellow tropical fruit 117 Teach a fish privately? 120 Catches a fish in a net? 122 Flee to get hitched 123 Lance cpl.’s org. 124 Free-for-all 125 Fair shelter 126 Philly’s train sys

tem 127 Light meal 128 French river to the Rhone 129 Singer Anita or Aubrey DOWN 1 Eightsome 2 Aussie critter 3 Leaf-gathering

tool user 4 Had to admit an

error 5 Theoretical things 6 Unclothed 7 Bow of “It” 8 Holy tables 9 Atlanta-to-Miami dir. 10 Perfumery oil 11 Bards’ A.M. 12 On-the-nose 13 Furniture finishers 14 Went unused 15 Palette part 16 Erté’s style 17 Seafarer 18 Hyundai compact 24 Crock-Pot meal 26 Grid stats 29 Puts more ammo

in 32 Al — (pasta pref

erence) 33 Seafarer 35 Long side up 36 Max. or min. 39 “I’ll second that” 41 Samantha Bee’s

station 42 Expulsion 43 Earthworm, e.g. 45 2009 “Star Trek”

director J.J. 46 Seepage of meth

ane, e.g. 48 Heavyweight

great 49 Put on TV again 51 Suffers 52 Dog part 56 “I’ll second that” 57 Informer 58 Envoy’s building 60 Just clear of the bottom, as an anchor 61 Boarding school student, informally 62 Some china

ensembles 63 Divinity sch. 67 Not as much 69 Bud 70 Actress Sarandon 71 Rd.’s cousin 72 No more than 73 Cheese type 76 Hubbubs 79 Not a soul 81 As to 82 Old man 83 Baseball Hall of

Famer Ralph 84 On Soc. Sec.,

often 86 Operated on smaller than a national level 90 Transforms, as

larvae 91 In general 92 Sleeveless casual

shirt 93 Free (of) 94 Lovingly, in music 95 Rapa — 97 Ushered in 101 Music styles 103 53-Across con

tainers 105 Q-U queue 106 Sell for 107 Writer Zora —

Hurston 108 Super- — 109 Got along 110 A Trump ex 111 Spruced up 114 They support teeth roots 118 Choose (to) 119 Stephen of “Utopia” 120 Texter’s “Didn’t need to hear that!” 121 Notice