SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD
SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2024
ACROSS
1 Diving equipment 6 Theater actor’s place 11 Ray of light
15 Agts. like Eliot Ness 19 Babies, in Barcelona 20 Like meat that’s OK to eat per Muslim law 21 Hamburg’s river 22 Humorist Bombeck 23 __ citato (in the work already mentioned) 24 Colonel North, in brief 25 “So right!”
26 Notice
27 Start of a riddle 31 Suffix with cash 32 Dollar divs.
33 Mil. roadside hazards 34 Busy Chicago airport 36 Small seed
39 Web, for a fly
41 ROY G. __
43 Moral wrong
44 Riddle, part 2 49 Source of a scratch from a tabby
50 Russian empress 51 Ark builder in Genesis 54 Oklahoma city 56 Saturated
57 Splits
61 Appraise
64 Cash, slangily 67 Motorists’ org. 69 Meadowland 70 Riddle, part 3
74 Just get (by)
75 Be a suitor of 76 Nissan model 77 Seville’s land, to its natives
78 Hip-hop bro 80 Himalayas, e.g.: Abbr. 82 Garbo of the silver screen
84 Garden in Genesis 85 Raised, flat land 89 Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to admit women
92 End of the riddle 98 Luau paste
99 That lady
100 Full of curves
101 Calf catcher
103 “It’s just one of __ things”
105 Saturate
106 __ Aviv
108 First year of the 10th century 109 Riddle’s answer
116 Hair removal brand 117 Falafel bread
118 Defrosts
119 Dazzling success
120 Pakistani’s language 121 Ever and __
122 Loosen, as laces
123 Dishonor
124 Apple discard
125 Camera eye
126 Verse writers
127 “__ With Love” (1967 #1 hit song)
DOWN
1 Trap by a winter storm 2 Constellation between Cassiopeia and Draco 3 Dredge up
4 Ernie’s buddy
5 “Wait just __”
6 “Dang it!”
7 Converses
8 “For __ know …” 9 Increase
10 Like a song of lament 11 Lairs for grizzlies, e.g. 12 “St. __ Fire”
13 Lying on a king or queen
14 Eatery list
15 Comb parts
16 Brand of food seasoning
17 Large markets 18 Vetoer’s vote
28 Piece for eight 29 Reform Party founder Ross
30 Assembly of witches 35 Rhinoplasty doc 37 Red-shelled Chinese fruit
38 Green gp.
39 Skiing races 40 Football Hall of Famer Ozzie
41 Part of FBI
42 Mimic
45 Mo. in fall
46 Big feather
47 Logging tool 48 Pothole filler 51 Christened 52 Japanese metropolis 53 Crooked
55 Together (with) 58 Homeric epic
59 Pasta tubes 60 “Cosmos” host Carl 62 Akron-to-Atlanta dir. 63 Belly
65 Genre for Yes and Genesis
66 “Come, Fido”
68 DOJ heads
71 Babe or fox
72 Like Cheerios
73 Key or corkscrew 79 Family MDs
81 Deep blue
83 Fido’s sound
86 One of the 87-Down 87 Competitors who didn’t win
88 Pinkie-side arm bones 90 “But Not for Me” actress Palmer
91 Home to Boise: Abbr. 92 Fitting
93 A total lack of compassion
94 Carbon __ (exhaled gas)
DIRECTIONS: Make a 2- to 7-letter word from the letters in each row. Add points of each word, using scoring directions at right. Finally, 7-letter words get 50-point bonus. “Blanks” used as any letter have no point value. All the words are in the Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, 5th Edition.
LAST SUNDAY’S ANSWER 95 Have a gabfest 96 Actor Cage
97 __ Trail (Everglades highway)
102 Jousting knight
104 Play a guitar
105 Determined to achieve
106 Specifically
107 “That’s someone __ problem”
110 White gem
111 Climbing plant
112 “Don’t say it!”
113 Statistician Silver 114 Waistcoat
115 Reverberate
116 Letters before xis