PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
PREPARING FOR NOTHING
ACROSS
1 Pleased
5 Rocker Townshend
9 Helper for Frankenstein
13 Jumped ship
19 Member of a canine unit
21 Nada
22 Remove adhesive strips from
23 Start of a riddle
25 Nonstudent resident of a college city
26 Microsoft Word creations, informally
27 Regret a lot
28 First-time fathers
30 Riddle, part 2
36 Prego competitor
37 — -mo
38 Tiny, informally
39 Manner
40 Tavern spigot
43 In addition
47 Largest known asteroid
48 Riddle, part 3
53 Sch. near Harvard
54 Disposed (of)
55 Actor Sharif
56 Nero’s 2,001
57 Fearful
58 Bro relative
59 — orange (inedible fruit)
61 Smidgen
63 “POV” network
65 Huck Finn’s floater
67 Bandleader Arnaz
68 Riddle, part 4
71 Broiling bar
75 Lane of the Daily Planet
77 Nintendo console
78 Tyrant Amin
79 Tree of the pine family
80 “— a deal!”
83 — -chic fashion
85 Old horror star Chaney
87 Prefix with Chinese
89 Island guitar, for short
90 Pro-firearm org.
91 Riddle, part 5
95 Joust weapon
97 Pencil add-on
98 Martial arts teacher
99 Italian wine city
100 Delhi dress
102 Org. for the Ravens, but not the Falcons
105 Lock lips with
106 End of the riddle
113 Conditionally free prisoner
114 Letters before gees
115 Maui feast
116 Not endless
117 Riddle’s answer
124 12-step support group
125 Chocolate-and-caramel candy
126 Talus
127 Arid expanse
128 Plumlike fruit
129 Hit with a stun gun
130 Brainstorm
DOWN
1 Vehicle navig. aid
2 Baseball great Gehrig
3 Lofty peak
4 Salsa, e.g.
5 Mexican coins
6 Decrees
7 Lump in the throat
8 Yolked thing
9 Rack up
10 Thick and sticky
11 Yoko from Tokyo
12 Mended, as a sweater
13 “How come, though?”
14 Battery end
15 “I’m the culprit”
16 Valleys, plateaus and canyons
17 “Attack of the Clones,” vis-à-vis “Star Wars”
18 Actress Ruby
20 Part of UPC
24 Pooch’s bark
29 D.C. hrs.
30 General discomfort
31 Schedules
32 Responsibility
33 “Our Gang” novelist Philip
34 God, in Madrid
35 Relaxes
36 Musket-loading tool
41 Healing plant
42 Pug or peke alternative
44 — -pah-pah
45 Offensively self-assertive
46 African antelope
47 Kitchen VIP
49 “Rocky and Bullwinkle” villainess
50 Slate-colored
51 Delta, for one
52 Big name in big computers
60 Street poet Scott-Heron
62 Dawn drops
64 Lanka lead-in
66 Gp. often flagging bags
68 Celine of pop
69 — Wafers
70 Actress Falco
72 Old German kingdom
73 Most disgusting
74 Student’s Ph.D. paper
76 Certain wind instrument
79 Ear part
80 Wife’s sibling, e.g.
81 Rubbish heap
82 Hot California winds
84 Listens to by chance 86 LA-to-IN dir.
88 Hosp. figures
92 “Pics — didn’t happen!”
93 — II (Gillette razor)
94 Egyptian cross
96 Topaz quartz
100 Unspoken
101 Get riper
103 Entertainer Lola
104 Makes heavy, dull sounds
107 Auto engine
108 Mello — (soft drink)
109 Tale — (sob story)
110 Troop support gp.
111 Soup scoop
112 Ditty
116 Craze
118 Cyber-guffaw
119 Kit — (candy bar)
120 Kyoto sash
121 Pea holder
122 Suffix with meth- or prop
123 In-favor vote