San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
REPTILIAN EMPIRE by Frank A. Longo
ACROSS
1 Soft drink giant 9 Pappy 12 “Botch- —” (old hit song)
15 Masticate
19 Oval wind
instruments
20 Took too far
22 Put concrete on
23 Start of a riddle
25 Partially
26 Heir, often
27 Penta- plus one
28 Spitting beast
30 Everything
31 Unusual
34 “Our Gang”
novelist Roth
37 Actress Peet of
“Trust Me”
39 Riddle, part 2
44 Leonardo of
“Titanic”
45 Curvy letter
46 Given a permanent
post
47 Cereal grain
48 Computer menu
option
50 Prefix with
chemistry
53 Curiosity’s
planet
54 Riddle, part 3
60 Palatable
61 Computer menu
option 62 Revise, as a
manuscript
63 Yank’s home
66 Try to be like
69 A couple of
71 Mice, e.g.
73 House divs.
74 Kinda
77 And higher, as in
price
80 Perfect
81 Riddle, part 4
85 Dalai —
88 Contaminate
89 Big burden
90 Sports draw
91 Paper-folding craft
94 Part of BTW or OTC
96 “Allow me to assist”
99 End of the riddle
103 Allergy sufferer’s
device
104 White swan in
“Swan Lake”
105 Audit org.
106 Spy’s device
107 With 112-Across,
“Hold on!”
109 Sneak attack
112 See 107-Across
115 Akron’s state
117 Riddle’s answer
123 Painter Vincent
van—
124 Fastening feature of
many a face mask
125 Ultimate consumers
of products 126 With 83-Down,
Italian veal dish
127 ‘Zine staffers
128 Antis’ votes
129 Occupied, as an inn
DOWN
1 Female whales
2 Eight, in Peru
3 “Misery” actor
James
4 Prado display
5 102, to Nero
6 Walk- — (small
roles)
7 Plastering strip
8 Arthur of tennis
9 Troy of “A Summer
Place”
10 Gardner or
DuVernay of film
11 Biden’s party: Abbr.
12 Basketball coach
Rupp
13 Re-sol linkup
14 Boiled, salted
soybeans
15 1040 pro
16 Dance similar to the
tango
17 Unsaintly soul
18 Marshy habitats
21 Holy artifact
24 Trade show
29 “So true!”
31 Fertilizable cells
32 Chip go-with
33 Actress Bo 35 “The risks outweigh
the benefits”
36 Intense beam
38 Some reunion-goers
39 U.S. women’s soccer star at the Atlanta Olympics
40 Living ink squirter
41 Assistant
42 Idaho’s capital
43 Person doing
penance
44 One searching for water with a divining rod
49 Tariff
51 Sporty truck, in
brief
52 Daiquiri base
55 “Cool” cash amount
56 Very little, as of salt
57 Tantrum
58 Brian of electronica
59 Give as a bonus
63 Like wasted food
64 In a theatrical
manner
65 Snoozing
67 Shoe tip
68 Like Nin’s writings
70 “Mind Train” singer
Yoko
72 Baseball great Roush
75 Old Pan Am
competitor
76 “Shy” singer
DiFranco
78 ETs’ craft 79 Fail to keep one’s
cool
81 Return to base after
a fly ball
82 — nous
83 See 126-Across
84 “Likewise”
85 African capital on the Gulf of Guinea
86 Wyoming tribe
members
87 Small swine
breeds
92 Several
93 Plant-eating sea
mammal
95 Catches in a snare
97 “Planet Money”
airer
98 Includes
100People lugging
things
101 Politician Mo, Mark
or Tom
102 Ship’s rigging
108 “If only — known!”
110 — of March
111 Taboo thing
112 Litigated
113 Poet Pound
114 “— la vie!”
116 “Well well!”
118 Charged atom
119 Animal park
120 Rx watchdog
121 Dude
122 Suffix of enzymes