PREMIER CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 9
Is worthy of
Ice cream shop treats
15 Glaringly
sensational
20 Clear out of
21 Riga’s land
22 “Nadja” title role player Löwensohn
23 Start of a riddle
25 Fuzz-covered
26 Royal Middleton 27 Inflated head
28 Glimpse
29 Urge (on)
31 It may contain
coffee
32 — -cone (icy treat) 33 More of the riddle 38 Chess pieces, e.g. 39 Seating tier
40 Officer led by
Capt. Kirk
41 Equilibrium
45 Urge on
49 Novelist — Stanley
Gardner
51 More of the riddle 57 Pipe bend
58 Prefix with byte
59 Mardi — (Big Easy
bash)
60 Hi-tech special FX 61 — -rock (music
genre)
62 “— Blu Dipinto di
Blu” (1958 hit song) 63 Q-tips, e.g.
65 Jockeys’ garb
67 Like Mass
officiants
69 More of the riddle 73 Really hungry
76 Really high
77 Twangy, as a voice 81 Yes, to Sartre
82 US immigrants’
course 83 “Gross!”
84 Cookbook qtys.
87 Subdue with a
stun gun
88 And the rest: Abbr. 89 More of the riddle 93 Departs
95 “Ad — per aspera” 96 Wash and iron
97 Attempt to convey 101 Stephen of
“Ondine”
104 Hypothetical cases 105 End of the riddle 110 Cloaked
113 Inferior mag
114 Tiki bar necklace 115 Ending for pay
or plug
116 Response to
“Are you?”
117 Roseanne of
“Roseanne”
118 “— Gold” (1997
Peter Fonda film) 120 Riddle’s answer 125 Pasta variety
126 — Alex (2005 Belmont Stakes winner)
127 Pupil-dilating
alkaloid
128 Comic Johnson and Angels owner Moreno
129 Puts it forth as fact 130 Tailor
DOWN
1 Office fixtures
2 Aquafina rival
3 — Domingo
4 Nero’s “Lo!”
5 Regret
6 Jumbo tub
7 Early anesthetic
8 Pete of folk music 9 St. Pete loc.
10 Ranch rope
11 River romper 12 With — to (in
hopes of)
13 It may contain
coffee
14 Most wise
15 Running time
16 Ending with form 17 Undertow
18 Alongside each
other
19 “Tell It to My Heart” singer Taylor
24 Chanel of
perfumery
30 Wildebeest
33 Fender flaw
34 Disguised,
for short
35 Small branch
36 German for
“everyone”
37 Be litigious
38 Ghastly
41 Tiny pieces
42 Some
43 “The Practice” co-star — Flynn Boyle
44 Blunder
46 Dirt-digging
journalist
47 Hog haven
48 “— tu” (Verdi aria) 50 — May (one of TV’s
Clampetts)
52 Ship poles
53 “Dream on!”
54 Deform
55 Et — (and others) 56 Unyielding
64 Muscle power
66 Like plunging
necklines
67 Rival of Coke
68 Lipitor and
Zocor, e.g.
70 “Jiminy!”
71 Luau dance
72 Jabba the — 73 Filmmaker Nicolas 74 Salesperson in a
car lot
75 Deputy ruler
78 Anti-DUI gp.
79 Tennis great
Arthur
80 Look of lust
83 Mensa stats
85 D.C. VIP
86 Slowpoke
90 Jacques of
French film
91 Delhi dress
92 Beer on “The
Simpsons”
94 Test, as tea
98 Triple-time
dances, in Paris
99 Ending for Siam
or Milan
100 Big Japanese dogs 102 Kuwaiti ruler
103 Yoga poses
105 Big-band drummer
Gene
106 In a high-minded
manner
107 Singers’ clubs
108 19th US president 109 Overplay it
110 Custom
111 “Fame” singer Cara 112 Hair salon fixture 117 Conks
119 Ethyl ender
121 Out — job
122 Western tribe
123 Song syllable
124 “Splash” co-star
— Hanks