Toronto Star

THE PREMIER

WEE BEINGS

- BY FRANK A. LONGO

ACROSS

1 Pre-Easter seasons 6 Confront boldly 12 Entrée accompanie­r 20 Into pieces 21 “— & Greg” (old sitcom) 22 Baseballer Roberto 23 Style for Twiggy or Halle Berry 25 Turned away from sin 26 Remove with a dustpan, say 27 Mate of Mom 28 Dead duck 29 Jesting sort 30 Kin of -ette 31 Prelude 33 Kitschy lawn decoration 36 Blasting inits. 37 Matador 39 Low mark 40 Diet Coke alternativ­e 44 Banjos’ cousins, in brief 47 Boxer Roberto 51 Duncan of dance 52 L.A. winter hrs. 54 Bit of web video gear 56 Burrito kin 57 “American Pie” actress Reid 58 Aesop’s language 61 Robert Louis Stevenson short story, with “The” 63 POW’s place 66 Difficult trial 68 Prize taker 69 Credits for currying favor 72 World Series month 76 Goal 77 Yard dividers 82 Grimm story 84 Born earlier 86 Roof edge 87 Took a plane 88 — Z (the works) 89 Part of 55-Down: Abbr. 90 One issuing a revision 93 Deer daddies 95 Filmdom’s Kazan 97 Cookie baker in a tree 100 Part of UNLV 102 Least confined 104 Horace’s “— Poetica” 105 Swimmer with a long, flattened snout 110 Singer — Marie 112 Destroy the inside of 115 Lacto- — diet 116 Like some perfect games 117 Wide shoe spec 119 With regard to pitch 121 New film’s initial showings 123 Spago restaurate­ur 125 Licorice-tasting liqueur 126 One way to serve café 127 — Lauder 128 Alcoves 129 Surgical inserts 130 Performers

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1 Little slip-up 2 Sweeping stories 3 Greek island 4 Duet + one 5 Enter by foot 6 Change to fit 7 Greek letter 8 One of four on a sedan 9 Kind of whale 10 Smear mark 11 Design on skin, in brief 12 Atlantic fish 13 Actress Graff 14 Rely 15 Appeared 16 Woodsy lair 17 Bisected 18 Iron output 19 Bush row 24 Stalking sort 28 Totally get 32 Artery: Abbr. 34 In — (mired) 35 Fix, as a dog 36 — wave 38 Lured 40 Is in session 41 Jr.’s exam 42 — avis (oddity) 43 Sharp turn 45 Green start? 46 The Devil 48 Police action 49 Crest 50 “Negative” 53 BBQ pest 55 Weekday letters 59 Propel a boat 60 Golfer Els 61 Tow-headed 62 Emit coherent light 64 Big name in advice 65 Garbo of film 67 Hulking and dumb, maybe 70 Elocute 71 Mineral suffix 72 Does in 73 City in Colombia 74 Arena area 75 “1984” writer 78 Gets closer 79 Blanchett of “Elizabeth” 80 Stunt puller Knievel 81 Toiler of yore 83 Online “Ha!” 85 Wipe 89 Jamie of TV 91 Intend to do 92 Crazy 94 Holy French ladies 96 “— all possible ...” 98 Singer Gloria 99 Summer, in Savoy 101 Hog noises 103 Just manage 105 Really succeed 106 Like lambs 107 Of the fifth element 108 Novelist Nevil 109 Tap-dancer Gregory 111 Les — -Unis 112 Thigh-rotating muscle, informally 113 Peptic disorder 114 Moppets 118 Her, to Henri 120 Lhasa — (small dog) 122 Wind dir. 123 Used to be 124 “Shoo!”

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