The Columbus Dispatch

SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD

- | SOLVING DA PUZZLE BY FRANK A. LONGO

ACROSS

1 Theater district

7 Butcher's cleaver 14 Winter melon variety 20 Replacing, with “of” 21 Privy person 22 Ill-willed sorts 23 Arranged cheddar brands in order of sharpness?

25 Arctic jacket

26 Capitol fig. 27 Collectibl­e toon frame 28 Per each unit

29 Set to move forward, as a car

30 Boldly courageous after Jan. 1?

34 Second shoot of a scene

37 Neverthele­ss

38 “_ -daisy!” 39 Paleolithi­c period 41 Letter-shaped track in metalworki­ng

43 Attach, as to a lapel 48 Pre-tivo machine

49 _ Lanka

50 Comparable in humility to one particular sorority member?

53 Quick glance

55 Not durable

57 Groups of four 58 Underscore

61 Law school beginner 62 Think up

64 Big Steinway played by your father's father? 69 Condo policy about animals

70 Dime, e.g.

71 Passover feasts 73 Canonized seventhcen. pope

76 Hotel bar

78 Tug sharply 79 Wrapping a wound on the noggin?

82 Sit-up targets

85 Chou En- _

86 2003 #1 hit for Outkast

87 Artist's stand 88 Raconteur's offering 90 “... and _ it all over again!”

91 Young boy 93 Complained petulantly 94 Lion's hunting recollecti­ons?

102 River in central Jersey 103 Certain shade provider

104 Certain shade provider

105 Chinese chairman 108 More asinine

109 Reversible fabric

used during operations? 113 Rich, filled pastry 114 Daughter on “Bewitched”

115 And others, to Caesar 116 Rages

117 _ & Gamble

118 Confirm officially

DOWN

1 Large trucks

2 Apropos of

3 Ladd or Alda

4 Pot cover

5 Petit four and Sally Lunn

6 Piercing spot, often 7 Prefix with air

8 Coop up

9 Fireplace receptacle 10 Secure with string, say 11 Skilled

12 Ballot marks

13 Afore

14 Lon of old horror films 15 Classic root beer

brand

16 Raconteur's offering 17 Eagle's nest

18 Cry to a prima donna 19 Interrogat­or

24 Part of REO

29 Put into office 30 Ex-veep Quayle 31 “Science Guy” Bill 32 Island dance

33 Heroic poetry 34 Answers an evite, e.g. 35 “And so on and so on”: Abbr.

36 Bullfight hero

40 PC image file 41 High-voltage transforme­r

42 Cloudland 43 Peppermint _ (York treat)

44 “Bring it on!” 45 Nuggets' org. 46 Unusual

47 “Stillmatic” rapper 50 Prized Chinese vases 51 The “E” of FEMA: Abbr. 52 Big jumps 54 Eisenhower's successor 56 Politico Trent 59 Floor-scrubbing robot brand

60 Old photo tint 62 Carding at a club, e.g. 63 “Well, shoot!”

65 Held back

66 Adjective follower, often

67 Comedian Kevin 68 Very fancy

72 Did the slopes

73 “Quit talking!” 74 No-frills shirt

75 Set (down)

76 Bigger than med. 77 Suffix with Ecuador 80 Groove for receiving the end of a board

81 Not worth _ (valueless)

83 Perplex

84 Structured frameworks 88 Big fuss

89 Belittle, informally 90 Ill-fated flier of myth 91 Actor Joseph Gordon_

92 “Cocoon” co-star Don 94 Bluenoses

95 Charged toward 96 Poet's Muse

97 Casual eatery

98 Best players

99 _ -Croatian

100 Sorcery

101 Family mem.

105 African nation 106 “Not likely!”

107 Thumbs-up

109 Motor oil additive

brand

110 Nasser's fed.

111 River of Bern

112 Yoga surface

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