PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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
100 People 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