SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD
Across
1 17-year locusts, e.g.
8 Intercede
14 Errant
20 Lovingly, on music scores
21 Daintily small
22 Planet shape
23 Big baboon, Andean spitter, showy parrot 25 Jewel units
26 Nov. lead-in
27 “Gloria in Excelsis _” 28 Lapel inserts
29 Begin a losing streak 30 Serengeti grazer, long-billed bird, sticky-tongued predator 36 Houston coll.
38 Singer Sumac 39 Singer Irene
40 Part of NYSE
41 “Love Me or Leave Me” singer Ruth
43 Great anger
46 _ loss
48 Kanga’s son 49 Mountain cat, plated burrower, marine crustacean 56 Comic Daniel
57 “La Cage _ Folles” 58 Grizzlies, e.g. 59 Overjoys
63 “Funny Girl” director William
65 Contend (for) 66 Aggressive shorebirds 67 Arctic cetacean, swamp snapper, arboreal ape
73 Not alfresco
74 Tea holder
75 Like dunes
76 City of south India 77 Founder of Bolshevism 79 Suffix with hotel 80 Writers Tan and Lowell 84 Pink wader, forest anthropoid, aquatic sucker
88 Hasty escape
91 Riser at dawn
92 Pester
93 Singer Willie
94 Tuba material 97 Lunch, e.g.
100 Tree of Iowa
103 Milk, in Mexico 104 Scavenging dog, woolly Peruvian, leafmunching crawler 109 Onion relatives 110 Low cards
111 “Botch- _” (old hit
song)
112 High card
115 “Monster” star
Charlize
116 Prairie canine, destructive insect, colorful fish
120 Successively 121 Fought one-on-one 122 “Agreed”
123 Wee
124 Accent
125 Made of clay
Down
1 Hunter’s garb, in brief 2 Apple desktop 3 Website notice to get customer service
4 Ending for dull
5 Palme _ (Cannes film award)
6 Digression
7 Exclusively
8 Health facility
9 Arizona city
10 Online sales
11 Lunch on the grass, e.g. 12 Lake feeding the
Mississippi
13 Part of NYSE
14 Chichi scarf 15 Interstices
16 Larynx locale
17 One showing houses 18 Erté’s genre 19 “Agreed”
24 Weaver’s frame 29 Biting pests
31 Equine sound 32 Yellowfin, say 33 Remunerated 34 Kuwaitis, e.g. 35 “Notorious” film studio 36 Four-sided geom. shape
37 Langston Hughes poem
42 Ill-defined situations 44 BBQ meat bit 45 Altitude
47 Exited right after chowing
50 Ruminates
51 Skating leap
52 Milk, in France 53 Treats often dipped in milk
54 Somber song
55 Sauce brand 60 Hanoi holiday
61 Noted time
62 IRS datum
63 Ridge on a fingerprint 64 Grow mature 66 Actress Parrish of “Pretty Little Liars” 67 Pick-up-sticks logic game
68 One or more
69 Aves.
70 Kin of “Arf!” 71 Hammered musical disk
72 Stair support
77 First form fill-in, often 78 Gp. backing arms 80 Cop _ (haggle in court) 81 Nickname for the Devil 82 Michelle of “Tomorrow Never Dies”
83 Auld lang _
85 Ailment causing swelling
86 Horror film assistant 87 Pell- _ (chaotic)
88 JFK follower 89 Weaver of Greek myth 90 Heavy knife
95 Vail trail
96 Revels in
98 Illustrate via pantomime
99 Trial figure
101 On _ with
102 2006 world figure skating champion Meissner
105 Singer Kravitz
106 Actor Peter O’_ 107 “Rufus M.” author
Eleanor
108 Camera brand
113 Mštley _
114 Make at work
115 Little bird
116 LP replacers
117 Mag staff
118 Blue Jays, on sports
tickers
119 Doc treating tonsillitis