THE PREMIER
POTENT POULTRY
ACROSS
1 Durable, lustrous fabric for table linen
7 Babysits, e.g.
12 Heavy burden
16 Machines connected to mice
19 Person expressing viewpoints
20 Do some
igniting
22 Syrup source
23 Beginning of a
riddle
25 Even a hint of
26 Not so bright
27 Old sporty
Pontiac
28 The Palm Treo
was one, in brief
29 Arctic home
31 Riddle, part 2
39 “— qué?” (“Why?,” to Juanita)
40 Tofu base
41 Contest involving balancing on a floating log
42 Lead-in to bad
news
45 “— girl!”
47 Fortunetellers
49 U.S. pres. during
the Gulf War
53 Riddle, part 3
57 Austrian “a”
58 Hidden valley
59 “— From
Muskogee”
60 “Incredible”
superhero
61 Bert's Muppet
pal
63 “— darn
tootin'!”
64 Broad smile
65 Foal's father
66 Mini-carpet
68 Riddle, part 4
72 Woman with
will power?
74 Deteriorates
75 Dahs' Morse
counterparts
76 Pet treater
79 “Tomorrow”
musical
80 — d'oeuvres
81 Peru's capital
82 “Gotta go!”
83 Muscle jerk
84 Riddle, part 5
89 Tree of Life's
garden
91 Boffo reviews
92 Funnywomen Schumer and Poehler
93 Has a go at
94 Have a loan
from
96 Lead-in to puncture or pressure
97 Class for U.S.
immigrants
98 End of the riddle
107 Put back to 0,
perhaps
108 NASA “yes”
109 Tolkien meanie
110 Rom- — (film
genre)
112 Aussie avian
113 Riddle's answer
121 Diana Ross musical, with “The”
122 Relaxes,
informally
123 Shoelace hole
124 Disco — (guy on “The Simpsons”)
125 “Yes, yes!,” in
Yucatán
126 Discontinues
127 Cookout
condiment
DOWN
1 Op-ed columnist Maureen
2 Green garden
pest
3 Marlins' city
4 House pest
5 Stitch up
6 Food chain
7 Letter-shaped opening in a machine shop 8 LAX abbr.
9 Certain caucus
reply
10 Visit briefly
11 Reading room
12 Two — kind
13 Not a one
14 Website ID
15 Frozen floating
brine
16 Church song
17 Tippy craft
18 Observe slyly
21 Put — on (limit)
24 Broadway's
Hagen
30 Mapmaker's sci.
32 Home to
Barcelona
33 Driver's alert
34 Lauder of
perfume
35 Chomsky of
linguistics
36 Vacuum cleaner
company
37 Actress Petty
38 Rick's love in
“Casablanca”
42 Azalea of rap
43 Manicurist's
tool
44 From the time
that
45 Guitarist Chet
46 Entity
47 Rejects with
disdain
48 Trapped morays
50 Much-married
English king
51 Nintendo console that debuted in 2012
52 Rare blood type,
in brief
54 Pierces
55 Japanese massage technique
56 Ogling
looks
62 Old washcloth
64 Say “hi” to
65 Cutoffs, e.g.
66 Hostility
67 Affix a new
label to
69 Hexa- halved 70 Recurrent
theme
71 Benefit
spiritually
72 Dislike a lot
73 “National Velvet” novelist Bagnold
77 Roof's edge
78 Feet have five
80 Widespread
destruction
81 Primate of
Madagascar
82 Keyboard command for “paste”
85 Rich rocks
86 Vatican's
denom.
87 Go quickly
88 Stilted-sounding reply to “Who's there?”
90 G flat, for one
95 — hat (BroomHilda costume part)
96 Beginning of a classic JFK quote
97 Artist working
on glass
98 Pub offerings
99 Send in, as
payment
100 Japanese truck
maker
101 “Mighty” trees
102 Yule songs
103 9-Down and 119-Down are opposite ones
104 Bit of a circle
105 GI tract
bacterium
106 Tender
spots
111 Fictitious tale
114 “Bali —”
115 Officeholders
116 Hi-tech film
effects
117 Dove's
noise
118 Cobra type
119 Certain caucus
reply
120 — Aviv-Yafo