PREMIER CROSSWORD
INITIAL CONDITIONS DOWN
ACROSS
1 Nineveh’s
empire
8 Its capital is
Kampala 14 12-step affiliate
group
20 New Guinea
natives 21 Renovates 22 Ketchup ingredient
23 It’s used for outlining designs in embroidery 25 Internet newsgroup troublemaker 26 Alloy that’s
mostly tin 27 1990s Toyota
model
28 Grills in stoves 30 Take a stroll 32 Cheerful disposition 34 Carrying of a
boat
38 View anew 39 Nonsense song
syllable 40 American bird with all-white plumage
42 “So there!” 44 Feels unwell 48 Lawyers: Abbr. 49 Dental floss
coating 50 Difficult matter
to deal with 54 Saw or sickle 55 Implore 56 Olympic skater
Midori 57 Enumerating 58 Oman locale 60 One trapping 62 Shrink back 63 They may have
jingles 66 Passionate love
affair 69 Hairstyling
goop
70 “C’mon, help
me out” 72 “Finally finished!”
73 St. Louis’ —
Bridge 75 Artifacts of
Angola, e.g. 77 Ares or Eros 78 Greyhound
vehicle 79 Misfortunes 83 The U.S. State Department, informally 85 Sultry
86 Pilfer
87 Casual tops 88 Fancy playing
marble
89 Even break 91 “... — do say so
myself”
93 “In all probability ...” 96 Warned
97 Bird that flies near the ocean’s surface
102 Utter failure 103 Military base 104 “The best is —
come”
106 Ancient rival of
Athens
111 Became inseparable
112 Apt question for
this puzzle 115 Northern Spanish city
116 Actress de Ravin of “Roswell” and “Lost”
117 Pain greatly 118 Person ripping
things
119 Key in anew 120 Dwellers around
Peru’s peaks 47
Jason of “Bad Teacher” Celebrity status Doughnut or bagel’s shape New Mexican succulents Common way to mark losses Place to dissect a frog
56 Blue shade 59 Actor Keach of
“Mike Hammer” 60 Caesar of old
comedy
61 CPR pro
50 51
52
1 Per unit 53 2 Rescue
3 Spurt out 55 4 Circular tent 5 Speeding cars’
ovals
6 Boiling mad
7 Equine beast 8 Celestial bear 9 Gears up 10 Farewells 11 Zero 12 Yuletide mo. 13 “Harold and Maude” director Hal
14 When it’s 1600
hours
15 “Blaze” actress
Davidovich 16 “Scenes From —” (Bette Midler film)
17 “And Bingo was
his —”
18 New Mexico
county
19 From Oslo’s
country, to its natives
24 Toll rd.
29 “Number 10”
painter Mark 31 Stockings, say 33 Classic soda 34 Jr.-year exam 35 Savvy about
36 — -Rooter
37 Tharp of choreography
38 Dinosaur in
“Toy Story” 41 Dusting cloth 43 Capital of
Ghana
44 Fizzy wine, in
brief
45 Walt Whitman’s “— the Body Electric”
46 Fencer’s attack 63 Toward a ship’s
stern
64 Crusoe creator
Daniel
65 Platoon VIP 67 Rodeo lasso 68 Idling position 71 Oinkers
74 Indian lute 76 Gratuity-prohibiting policy 78 Young guy, in hiphop
80 Pre-Easter time 81 Shoe securer 82 Yukon vehicle 84 Tease in fun 85 Head cover 86 Mark of TV’s
“Supernatural” 89 Certain penpoint
feature
90 Seal, as a housebuying deal 91 Hinder
92 Novelist Dostoyevsky 94 Deadpan humor 95 “The Office” character Pam
97 Wood shoe 98 Treasure pile 99 “— vincit amor” 100 Winona of “Black
Swan”
101 Once-popular
anesthetic
102 Rival
105 You, of yore 107 “Stop staring —!” 108 Ostrich kin 109 Ky. neighbor 110 Part of B.A. 113 Kipling’s “Follow
Me —”
114 Org. founded by
Billie Jean King