PREMIER CROSSWORD SIGN LANGUAGE ANSWERS PREMIER CROSSWORD

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 finish

ing 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 invad

ers

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 lan

guage

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 prob

lem

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