PREMIER PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Kitchen head
5 Sail holders
10 Belt locale
15 Swedish auto
19 Verdi slave
20 Greek market of old
21 Act announcer
22 Big, wild cat
23 Start of a riddle
26 See 129-Across
27 In a way, informally
28 Tour crew member 29 Awaiting
31 Sit-up muscles
33 Below zero: Abbr.
34 Cozy retreat
36 Ear-related
37 Cheering words
40 Riddle, part 2
45 Et — (and others, in Latin)
46 Like — of sunshine
47 Like half the integers
48 “— culpa”
49 Nation south of Kenya
51 — tai (cocktail)
53 Feline zodiac sign
55 Titanic call
58 Riddle, part 3
63 “The Good Fight” airer
65 Bucks and bulls
66 Attach
67 Lt.’s underling
68 Bandit-hunting band
69 Keys hitting piano keys
71 Heckling
73 Giggle sound
74 Scoundrel
75 Sharp left or right in a ring
76 Carry- — (plane totes)
77 Shearable male
78 Little kitchen raider
79 Riddle, part 4
84 Well-suited
85 Special time span
86 Hurly-burly
87 Masses near tonsils
90 Big tippler
92 Ring king Muhammad
94 Students at Yale
95 Small cut
96 End of the riddle
102 Like quiche
103 “No men” palace area
104 Longtime delivery co.
105 Wrestler’s win
106 Alley- — pass
108 Cuts into the surface of
110 Juárez wife
113 “The Lorax” author
117 Concealed obstacle
118 Riddle’s answer
122 “Citizen” of film
123 Pass on
124 Slip away from
125 Gillette brand name
126 — -Pei (kind of dog)
127 ISP customers
128 Fix, as a bow
129 With 26-Across, skills of the past
DOWN
1 Raven calls
2 Old Ritz rival
3 German river to the Fulda
4 Daydream
5 — -jongg
6 Stress or sun, to some
7 Big Apple district
8 Hooky-playing
9 Smoothing machine
10 Existed
11 Grant with six Grammys
12 I, to Hans
13 Perceiving
14 Memphis loc.
15 Patty flipper
16 Northern lights, e.g.
17 Acela offerer
18 In a low way
24 Diner’s bill
25 Prefix with byte or watt
30 In no peril
32 Welsh city and county
34 Pulled off
35 Opposite of crosswise, archaically
37 Traitor type
38 Menu phrase
39 Retrospect
41 Ovine zodiac sign
42 Coal-rich German region
43 Make null
44 With frenzy
50 More wan
51 Fashioned
52 Rival of IOS
54 Canon shooter line
55 Gliding like a supermodel
56 Gridiron great Merlin
57 Clay target sport
59 Judo-like cardio fad
60 Anxious
61 Hypothetical missing links
62 Trouble
63 Magna — (document of 1215)
64 Weakly hit fly ball
70 Give a line to
71 Many a Net game
72 Grooving on
73 Likes at once
75 Rattle
77 Base of a number system
80 Crumbly cheese
81 Drizzle, e.g.
82 Barn bundle
83 Sachet bit
88 Cutting barb
89 KGB figure
90 Actor Rod
91 Resistance measures
93 “— Misérables”
94 Make heroic
96 Scrambling kitchen tools
97 ESPN’S Storm
98 Mysteries
99 Shoves
100 Duel blade
101 Evening meal
107 —Kosh B’gosh (clothing brand)
109 Pale tan
110 “The — the limit!”
111 Lick soundly
112 German auto
114 Until
115 Quaint letter starter
116 See
120-Down
119 — -de-france
120 With
116-Down, a tot travels in it
121 “Well, I’ll be!”