Chicago Sun-Times

PREMIER CROSSWORD

- By Frank A. Longo

ACROSS 1 Completed 4 Tea leaf readers, e.g. 9 Title for Macbeth 14 Places to pitch tents 19 Transgress 20 Bow go-with 21 Dignity 22 Largest city in Nebraska 23 Arthur of TV 24 White of TV 25 Writer Dillard 26 Prohibited acts 27 Gougers charge them 30 Warrants 31 Sioux division 32 Just OK 33 Papa Docʼs country 35 First-aid flora 36 No-see-ums 38 Symptom of mumps 41 Tumult 44 Air safety gp. 45 1492, e.g. 46 Pesto ingredient 51 Portable enplaning bridge 56 — Banos, California 57 All tangled up 58 Friable soil 61 — degree or another 62 Arthur of tennis 64 Home of Iowa State 65 Organisms of a region 66 Chew the scenery 67 Hand-softened “superfood” dish 71 “1492” director Ridley 73 Pierces 74 Condé — 75 Cyberjunk 78 More ticked 79 A Great Lake 80 Turns back to 000 82 Sci-fi hoverer 83 Like paradise 85 Result of dropping a bushel, maybe 88 Plant “pet” 91 45sʼ relatives 92 Flimsy pancakes 93 What a great ad campaign leads to 99 Plant pest 101 Grimm nasty 102 Pan-fry 103 Lane of song 105 Gymnast Comaneci 109 Encoreelic­iting cries 111 What many shards are 114 Handle the party food 115 Lake — Vista, Florida 116 George who played Sulu 117 Suffix with neat 118 Love to bits 119 Scourges 120 Sister of Fred Astaire 121 Blasting aid 122 Car rollers, in London 123 Actor Gable 124 Jewish ritual meal 125 Something associated with the first words of this puzzleʼs seven longest answers DOWN 1 Creditʼs opposite 2 2011 hurricane 3 Air current 4 Safari sites 5 Part of QED 6 “Marty” star Borgnine 7 Sonata parts 8 Exchanges 9 Hot cuisine 10 Bigwig 11 Heat to prevent stress 12 In a racket-filled way 13 Prior to, in poems 14 Pylon shape 15 Indifferen­t to ethics 16 Capital of the Philippine­s 17 Light particle 18 Wised off to 28 Corporate symbols 29 Nunʼs beads 30 Rapper Nicki 34 Driving range peg 37 Concert sites 39 — -Mart 40 Sister of Hansel 41 Sch. near Beverly Hills 42 Experts 43 Mount with presidents­ʼ heads 44 Bone of the lower chest 47 Bring harm to 48 Mendel of genetics 49 Skater Kulik 50 Fonzʼs quality 52 “Traffic” actor Milian 53 Fiber for newsprint 54 54 Wee colonist 55 55 “— -haw!” 59 59 “Relax, GI!” 60 60 Assembled as one body 63 63 All gone, as dinner 65 65 Bible divs. 68 68 Not lax at all 69 69 Elkʼs kin 70 70 Fasten 71 71 Reno-toRiversid­e dir. 72 72 Chowder fish 76 76 For — (not gratis) 77 77 Peat source 80 Tries to shred 81 More elastic 84 Fischerʼs skill 86 Suffix with glob or duct 87 Apt rhyme for “treadle” 89 Lupino of film 90 Like always 93 Lynx variety 94 “Hellcats” actress Gail 95 Expert talker 96 Intense 97 Goddess with an owl 98 Less fat 99 Chafe 100 Snuck a look 104 Test models 106 “Purgatorio” poet 107 “Of Thee —” 108 Invite to join at 110 Mined finds 112 Duty 113 Editorʼs strike-out 115 Telly giant

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