PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
EPICUREAN SPECIALTY
ACROSS
1 Salary limit
4 Reputation, on the street 8 Two-team wrestling competitions
13 Gave high praise to 19 Pesticide compound 21 The “A” of James A. Garfield
22 Aorta, for one
23 Study hard 24 Proportional relation 25 Supervise
26 Start of a riddle
29 Thing a doc prescribes 30 Yin and —
31 Suffix with hotel or cash 32 Riddle, part 2
43 Apple on a desk
44 Latin “that is”
45 “— So Fine”
46 French for “man”
47 Set into motion 50 Charles Chaplin’s title 51 Eileen of “Clue”
53 In the vicinity
54 Riddle, part 3 58 Old-time actress Irene 59 She was Mrs. Gorbachev 60 German word before “geist”
61 Donkey Kong and others
62 Riddle, part 4
65 Lacerate
69 Dove shelter
70 Use all of 71 Afro-Brazilian dance 72 Riddle, part 5 78 Scrupulous insistence on traditional rules
79 Disturbs
80 Source of some bran 81 Havana natives, to Havana natives
82 Novelist George 83 Braying beast 84 Shooter of small balls 87 Bard’s “before”
88 End of the riddle 94 Huge battle
95 Bereft, poetically 96 Khaki color
97 Riddle’s answer
107 Back-baring blouse
108 “— think so!”
109 Certain airport worker 111 “History repeats —”
112 Make a phony copy of 113 Moniker for Wilt Chamberlain
114 Shoulder garments
115 Deuce-beating cards 116 Admin. aide
117 Low grade
DOWN
1 Baby bear
2 In — (lined up)
3 Phnom —, Cambodia 4 Skydived, for short 5 Second-most populous place in South Dakota 6 Slaughter of the Cardinals 7 Chewing gum brand 8 Lack the courage to 9 700-mile-long African river
10 Intro studio course 11 Secular
12 Range of the Appalachians
13 Actress Hedy 14 Composer Khachaturian 15 — Reader (magazine) 16 Turn a — ear
17 Hence
18 Hair colorer
20 “I love you,” to Juanita 27 — Christian Andersen 28 Opposite of old, in Germany
32 Plummer of “Pulp Fiction” 33 How cards are sometimes dealt
34 Gasoline rating 35 Exalting verse
36 Lower leg part
37 Feudal toiler
38 Source of some bran 39 Goose sound
40 1980s Dodge 41 Supermodel from Somalia
42 Hong Kong’s Hang — Index
48 Catering coffeepots 49 Vigoda of “Fish”
50 Tries to hit, as an insect 51 Cat variety
52 Sluggers’ stats
54 DJ Casey
55 Fall chill
56 Bear, in Baja
57 Gas in an atmospheric layer
59 Hayworth and Moreno 62 Certain garden worker 63 “The Simpsons” storekeeper
64 Sleuth, in old slang 65 Lipinski on ice 66 Rapper aka “Slim Shady” 67 Sop up
68 19th-dynasty pharaoh 69 Greek island
71 Deli hero
72 “Oh, ri-i-ight”
73 — contendere (court plea)
74 “Take — from me ...” 75 Take an ax to
76 2010-19 Royals skipper Ned
77 Waist wear
78 Pokes a hole in
81 Chew the — 83 Helicopter rescue, say 84 Three 19th-century literary sisters
85 Arctic chunk 86 Subgenre of rap music 89 Friends of Snow White 90 Mart start
91 Like flashy jewelry, informally
92 Least frequent
93 Not fulfilled
97 — and that
98 Possesses, in Shakespeare
99 Bride of Lohengrin
100 Crockpot dish
101 Beehive unit
102 Scent
103 Sweat outlet
104 Singer Phil
105 Blyton of kids’ books 106 Prefix with marketing 110 Blvd., e.g.