PREMIER CROSSWORD

BEASTLY SNACK

ACROSS

1 Tea and ale 6 Brunch menu items 13 Difficult to pin down 20 Newswoman Shriver 21 Ancient Italian region

22 Like adoptees and swindle victims 23 Start of a riddle 25 French scholar Peter 26 Buddy 27 Sly-fox link 28 Passengerscreening org. 29 Shallowest Great Lake 30 Crocheted coverlet 33 Mess up 36 Retina spot that might degenerate

38 Chou En- — 39 Riddle, part 2 42 Running herd 45 Marked with stripes 46 “Alfie” actress Long 47 Ghana’s capital 51 Whiz 52 Printing proof, informally 56 Riddle, part 3 61 Jinx 62 Whim

63 A single time 64 Eastern “way” 65 Shirt tag information 66 Andre of tennis 67 Application to thinning hair 69 Give a job to

71 Zip

72 Abbr. on military mail

74 Lip 75 Almond confection 76 Food fish 77 Riddle, part 4 80 Very little, in recipes

82 — -mo 83 Syrian president since 2000 84 Scottish seaport 85 Skin art 88 Carts away 92 End of the riddle 98 Prefix with lingual 99 Novelist or dramatist 100 Professors’ privileges 101 Provo or Orem native 104 Doily material 105 Belly muscles 107 Old Russian space station 108 “Trinity” novelist Leon 109 Barge in 111 Riddle’s answer 117 Cleaned thoroughly 118 Runs in 119 Gads about 120 Draft horse’s gear 121 Person icing a cake 122 Fashion flair

DOWN

1 X6 carmaker 2 “Go, team!” 3 Distinctive time 4 Coven member

5 Comic — Baron Cohen 6 Female gamete 7 Gibson of “Gallipoli” 8 Ultimate goal 9 Eases 10 Natural gas component 11 Knotted neckwear 12 Declare 13 Approx. airport stats 14 Ritchie Valens hit

15 Small guitar, for short 16 One drafted for service 17 Trapped by habit 18 Manly

19 Win the affection of 24 Pound fraction 28 Shorten 30 Capone and Pacino 31 Pudgy

32 Big black-andwhite mammal 33 “Yuck!” 34 Football’s Cowboys, on scoreboards 35 Big 1940s computer 37 Crooning cowboy Gene 40 Set — (start wedding plans) 41 R&B singer — Marie 43 Operate wrongly 44 Ratchet wheel engagers 48 When doubled, tot’s train

49 Versatile stoves 50 Peaceful, simple place 53 “Goodbye, Columbus” author 54 Divide into different districts 55 Some daisies 56 Activist Jagger 57 “No more for me, thanks” 58 NBA Hall of Famer Thomas 59 Stoops (to) 60 Go-getters 65 Spreads apart

67 Public unveilings of products 68 Fishing tools 70 Agra’s Taj — 73 Basil-based green sauce 75 Propel a bike 77 Allowance 78 Unconfined 79 Big laughs 81 Like some lotteries and liquor stores 86 Diatribes

87 Part of SFPD 89 Take forcibly

90 Monkly title 91 Fish part 92 Like a wise bird 93 Lingua — 94 One who triumphs

95 Uno or dos 96 Spring blooms 97 Most minimal 102 Wedding cake layers 103 Knotted neckwear 106 Mattresses’ places

108 Pre-’91 superpower 110 Suffix with script 111 U.K. military fliers

112 Mess up 113 Beatified Fr. woman 114 Wall-climbing plant

115 Food fish

116 Dir. from Fresno to L.A.