PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Highest roll of a single die 4 Peak in Thessaly
8 Freaks out
15 Subjective paper piece 19 Never dying
21 Kind of cherry named for its shape
22 — sci. (coll. major) 23 Scaled-down symphony group [1994]
25 Mallorca, por ejemplo 26 “King” primate
27 Writer Ferber 28 Anti-bias job agcy. 29 Gown fabric
30 Program interacting with a remote server [1993] 34 Bygone times
38 Nurtured
39 Kids’ song with French lyrics
40 — to go (gung-ho)
41 “It’s ch-chilly!” 42 Whimpered like a baby 44 Place to disclose sins [2010]
48 Coinage for something with no name
53 Beginning on
54 “To — much is given ...” 55 Nantes’ river
57 Sets of points on graphs 58 Shallowest Great Lake 60 Waltz or tango [1997] 63 Itinerant band member, say
66 State after wedlock 68 Having more seepage 69 Panels that may reverse decisions [2008]
71 Melody
72 Jungle roarer
73 Ouzo flavorer
74 Exact lookalike
76 Brand of rodent killer 80 Horse-man of myth 83 Greeting act conveying confidence [1991] 86 First-rate
88 Flub it up
89 Actress Shire
90 Plant snugly
94 — -cone
95 Junk email sender 97 Samoan peak famous for trapping clouds [1995]
101 Italian port
102 Exactly
103 Money won in a game of dreidel
104 Claudius I’s successor 108 Getting the job done 109 What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The”
113 Stun with a charge
114 Canceled by crossing off 115 Revising, as text
116 Bishops’ jurisdictions 117 Prescription amounts 118 Berlin article
119 Meadow
DOWN
1 Ailing
2 Texter’s “If you ask me” 3 Mutant Marvel superhero 4 Celestial ball
5 Like a cold, hard gaze 6 Manhattan eatery since 1927
7 Isolated
8 Ad — committee
9 Hatchet part
10 Ram or ewe
11 “The Fox and the Crow” storyteller
12 Tabby’s scratcher 13 Bobby of hockey 14 Venus Williams’ org. 15 Sedative drug
16 Sticky little sheet 17 “Mama” Cass
18 Actress Wiest
20 Texter’s “Yikes!” 24 Bolted to escape 29 Riyadh native
30 Sugar source
31 Shore flier
32 “Not yet sure what my answer is”
33 Director Joel or Ethan
34 Killer whale
35 Neighbor of Myanmar
36 Early James Bond foe
37 Not similar
41 Dust jacket write-up
42 Demi and Dudley
43 Departs
45 Cupcake flourish
46 That lady
47 Less spicy
49 Honey-coated Easter entree
50 Anderson of “WKRP in Cincinnati”
51 Cicero’s “Lo!”
52 Cake layer
56 ICU workers
59 Actor Stephen
60 Iran’s former name
61 Ball-shaped
62 Put on, as an outfit
63 After-bath powder
64 Andy Taylor’s boy 65 Sitting atop
66 Suffix with ball
67 Innocent types
70 President before Donald
71 Shallow pan
74 Swarms
75 Huge conflict
77 Sedate
78 Steinbeck migrant 79 Close
81 In — (more than sleeping)
82 Arm bone
84 Eatery list
85 Baseballer Musial
87 Is really mad
90 Grain fungi 91 “Watch Me (Whip/—)” (2015 hit)
92 “Apollo 13” actor Gary
93 Bills worth 100 bucks
94 “You got that right!”
95 Meat in a sub
96 Coal-mining guys
98 MMA fighter Rousey
99 Armageddon nation
100 Little laugh
104 Silent “yes”
105 Like villains
106 Russo of film
107 Gymnast Korbut
109 Elly May Clampett’s pa
110 Good Grips kitchen brand
111 “— a trap!”
112 Ark.-to-Ill. dir.