PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
FOURTH-ESTATE FANTASY
ACROSS
1 Not quite first-rate
7 “Patience — virtue”
10 Car tankful
13 Collie of TV
19 Cattle farm of the West
20 Trumpet blast
22 Singer and actor Frankie
23 When it’s 12:00 p.m.
24 Element #3
25 Japanese city that hosted the 1998 Olympics
26 Start of a riddle
29 Japanese buckwheat noodle
30 Dr. Seuss’ Sam- —
31 Amo, amas, —
32 “Addams Family” cousin 35 Riddle, part 2
43 Faint smell
45 Foldout bed
46 Co-workers of MDs
47 Stalactite site
48 Florence’s river
49 Total amount 51 “Scram!”
52 Minecraft and StarCraft, e.g.
55 Riddle, part 3
60 Brief promos
61 Triceps’ place
62 Pop’s Celine
63 See 58-Down
66 Bullfighter
67 Riddle, part 4
70 Put a new front on, as a building
72 Unbroken
73 Recognized
75 With 59-Down, brand of frozen potatoes
76 Famously feisty fish
77 Riddle, part 5
81 Oval shape
84 Dejected
85 “Who am — judge?”
86 Secret writing
87 Postal pieces
88 Detectives like TV’s Magnum, for short
89 Karachi’s nation: Abbr.
91 Very long time periods
92 End of the riddle
99 Disloyal type
100 Impulsive desire
101 Illusionist Geller
102 Like planted seeds
104 Riddle’s answer
113 Enter very quickly
114 Novelist Caldwell
115 Common gauge for toy trains
116 “Despite that ...”
117 Gets smaller
118 “Happy Days” actress Ross
119 Bunks on ships
120 Mil. ranker
121 Gym pad
122 Hole to receive a lace
DOWN
1 Bird’s crop
2 Trellis strip
3 “Noelle” star Kendrick
4 Glasgow natives
5 Grandstander
6 Chimpanzee variety
7 “— have to wait”
8 Got married
9 Lure for insect extermination
10 The earth as a goddess
11 Cut — (dance)
12 Pago Pago people
13 “Meteor” actor Martin
14 1972 Billy Wilder comedy film
15 Long, involved story
16 Shut loudly
17 Actress Skye of “Stranded”
18 Grammy winner Brian
21 “— the breaks!”
27 Former Egypt-Syr. alliance
28 Texter’s “Holy smokes!”
32 “Let me!”
33 Bases-loaded situation
34 Lightweight kitchen utensils
36 Peak
37 Chicago daily, in brief
38 Global: Abbr.
39 Mark for life
40 Easter meat
41 Adam’s mate
42 — Moines
44 Bob of choreography
49 Tahitian skirts
50 Package delivery co.
51 Carpentry material for some cabinets
52 Chi follower
53 Spicy Spanish pork sausage
54 Taxonomic subdivisions 56 Become lively
57 Cheer yell
58 With 63-Across, for the time being
59 See 75-Across
63 Oven used to bake naan
64 Spiny anteater
65 Most unkind
67 Conservation org. with a panda logo
68 Pooch’s yap
69 Big blue body
71 Genre of many sitcoms
74 Wide shoe spec 76 Mining shaft
77 Higher ground?
78 “You wish!”
79 Condé —
80 User-edited website
81 Rescue squad VIP
82 “— -di-dah!”
83 False story
88 Projecting curves on saddles
89 By the day
90 Huffington of HuffPost
91 So to speak
93 Wise-acting
94 Thick-skinned critters
95 Day, in Chile
96 Studly guys
97 Abbr. on a bad check
98 End a vacation
103 Mother-of-pearl
104 Surfing need
105 Cake finisher
106 Holy Week’s time
107 Eldest of the Brady boys
108 Helper: Abbr.
109 For fear that
110 Half a train track
111 — gin fizz
112 Camp shelter
113 Yank’s rival