Premier Crossword | Unthemed #3: Stacked Center
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 65 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Like photons and
gluons
9 Exercise machine with steps
21 Part of Turkey in
Asia
22 Money from
work
23 Getting wider 24 Three-under-par
scores
25 Actors Epps and
Sharif
26 Scrape (out) 28 Prefix with monthly or annual
29 Refrain bit 30 Distant
31 Gives voice to 34 Study of visual
imagery 39 Angler using
artificial bait 42 Suffix of sugar
names
44 Feels fretfully
discontented 45 Looking for 47 Dog pest 48 Geezer
51 Rival of Gmail 52 Gridiron player recruitment event
56 Pit- —
(heartbeat sound)
57 “Etc.” for “et
cetera,” e.g. 60 Kerfuffle 62 Vetoing vote 63 Start of a question in a Snow White story
71 Influence of a country in other countries 72 Explanation of a text based on its exact wording 73 Mauna —
74 After taxes 75 Letters after pis 76 Apple debut of
2005
77 Charming
82 “... boy — girl?” 84 Truck fuel 86 Prefix with monthly or annual
87 Some hairless
felines
91 Mafia initiate 94 China’s Mao —
-tung 95 Maestro’s group 99 Area with a pond and fountains, perhaps
101 Attack
103 Partakes of
104 Trot quickly
105 Conger, e.g.
107 “Listen up!”
108 Rises quickly
110 Vehicle tag
116 War prisoner
119 Not merely
figuratively 120 Quality of being
close
121 Like a certain branch of geometry
122 Schmoozing
sessions
DOWN
1 Financial scammer Bernard
2 Zoo resident 3 Wage
4 Polaris or Sirius 5 Oodles
6 Gin inventor
Whitney
7 Evil deed 8 Certain steeped
herbal drink 9 Passover meal 10 Chinese “way” 11 In — (stuck) 12 For short 13 Saintly artifact 14 B-F link
15 Recline
16 Pig — poke 17 Director of
2000’s “Charlie’s Angels”
18 Ballad singer
Michael 19 Materialize 20 States again 27 Deborah of “The
King and I” 31 Pre-’91 empire 32 With 66-Down,
Mr. or Mrs. Right 33 Arty NYC district 35 German
composer Carl 36 “Little” Dickens
girl
37 Pundit’s paper
piece
38 Fibster
40 Source of Adam
and Eve’s leaves 41 Suffix with Carol 43 Linked collection of photovoltaic panels 46 Redheads 48 Composer Saint
Saëns 49 Personal view 50 Once-popular Nerf game with blasters 52 Amateur player 53 38-Down in the
Bible
54 “Enough Said”
actor Ben 55 Aleve rival 57 Human rights
lawyer Clooney 58 Chomping down
on
59 Ocean water 61 Actor Lundgren 64 Hockey legend
Bobby 65 Stranded cell
stuff
66 See 32-Down 67 Very, to Yves 68 In a tizzy, with
“up”
69 That, in Chile 70 Liquid quality 78 On the ocean 79 Pricey stones 80 Apple debut of
1998
81 Ship of 1492 83 Ostrich kin 84 Writer Roald 85 Ending for
Bronx 87 Strengthened 88 Sniffing organ 89 Getting an inside
look at? 90 Roman 201 91 Florida major
leaguer 92 Mother-or-son president of the Philippines
93 Big name in
yo-yos 96 Macbeth and
Macduff
97 Most scarce 98 Take stock of
100 Coke rival
102 Glossy look
106 Alleyway
108 Feudal peon
109 Writer Sarah —
Jewett
111 Poetic “prior to” 112 Modern, in
Germany
113 Plant pouch
114 Building
addition
115 Airport
screening org. 117 Org. for
teachers
118 Indenting key