PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
TEEPEES
ACROSS
1 The United States’ landmass, with “the”
9 Rafter’s challenge
15 Shul scroll
20 Another similar thing
21 Barack and Michelle
22 Give the slip
23 Like babies who throw tantrums when you try to put diapers on them?
25 News outlets
26 RBI or ERA
27 Film lead-in to “Cop”
28 Photo —
29 More nimble
30 Trellis climber
32 Having a sore mouth from working long hours at a kissing booth?
36 Joint a sock often covers
39 Chipped in, in poker
40 Beckett title character
41 Intense fire used as an energy source?
46 Pie — mode
49 Abbr. on a road map
50 With
44-Down, decay of building timbers
51 Colon part
52 Communist Joseph
55 Egyptian god of the dead
57 Declaration while pointing at a group of workers on strike?
62 Scent sensor
63 George at Gettysburg
64 Airy melody
65 Statement when you’re nearly ready to complete a collage?
72 The “A” of “A-Rod”
73 Depart
74 Air out
77 Mesmerizing horse movement?
83 Limb-bending muscle
85 Is theatrical
86 Pod item
87 Color grade
88 Actress Gasteyer
89 Tangle of hair
90 Inherent hanging-down position?
96 SeaWorld whale, once
100 Fake identity
101 Fuels (up)
102 “It won’t hurt to snoop a little!”?
107 Body of eau
108 Kind of acid in vinegar
109 Debt note
110 Architect Saarinen
112 “Slung” food
116 St. — (Caribbean getaway)
117 Hassle of tracking down a missing retirement payment?
121 Vintage song
122 Stress
123 Spiritual self
124 Foundations
125 Peanut butter cup brand
126 Bread browners
DOWN
1 Cobra types
2 Castle ditch
3 Avenger Peel
4 Lizard, e.g.
5 British verb suffix
6 Indian dish
7 Height: Prefix
8 The whole —
9 King, in Caen
10 Belly muscles
11 Jean — (perfume brand)
12 Windows ad catchphrase
13 Language of Copenhagen, to locals
14 New jet in ’68
15 Worked as an office sub
16 Carry too far
17 Howard Stern’s area
18 “Bye, Brigitte”
19 Bodily pump
24 Conductor Georg
29 “Every seat sold” abbr.
31 “La Traviata” composer
33 Spy novelist Deighton
34 Shareable PC file 35 Vainglory
36 Chef’s tie-on
37 “Untrue!”
38 Maryland congressman — Mfume
39 Even a bit of
42 Taxing gp.
43 Mag bigwigs
44 See 50-Across
45 High degree 47 Falsification
48 Cookout pest
52 BBQ rod
53 Mosaic piece
54 On the go
56 Withdraw
57 — Aviv
58 Deli meat
59 Foofaraw
60 Model S car
61 Otherwise
63 Long skirt
66 Balm plant
67 Meshes
68 A fifth of fifty
69 D.C. donor
70 Abbr. on a road map
71 Dallasites or Houstonians
75 — word (single-occasion coinage)
76 Plate holders
77 Skirt edge
78 Diva Sumac
79 Broken bits of ceramic material
80 Tax doc. pro
81 House animal
82 Novelist Santha Rama —
83 Festivity
84 Pigeon perch
87 Males
90 Rapa — (Easter Island)
91 Solar beam
92 Frazier foe
93 Sheet fabric
94 Website visit unit
95 Pilot Amelia
97 Actress McDaniel of “Gone With the Wind”
98 Comes up
99 Nero’s 2,100
102 Bigwig
103 Florida city
104 “Uncle!” crier, perhaps
105 Explorer — de León
106 Stratagems
107 Disney film of 2016
111 Nevada city
113 Highest point
114 — -Pei
115 Mama birds
117 Golf average
118 Ending for opal
119 Extra NBA periods
120 — Plaines