THE PREMIER
CALCULATING CHARACTERS
ACROSS
1 Pet doc
4 “Come again?”
8 Treats maliciously
14 Tennis player Borg
19 Narcissist's problem
21 Actress Andress
22 Ate, as prey
23 Football Hall of Famer Bronko
24 Arrive on wheels
25 Frankie or Cleo of song
26 Start of a riddle
29 Noise in a comic book gunfight
30 Exotica singer Sumac
31 “The Human Stain” novelist Philip
32 Cure-all
37 Race of people in an H.G. Wells novella
39 Some sorority letters
40 Donations to the destitute
44 Riddle, part 2
48 Like much greasy food
49 See 83-Across
50 Corp. leader
51 Skip over, as a vowel
52 World War II film, when tripled
53 Charged bit
55 Place — (be active on eBay, say)
57 Cheap cigar
58 Riddle, part 3
63 Simile middle
66 Chaney of film
67 Song-belting Merman
68 On a pension, maybe: Abbr.
69 Military draft gp.
70 Riddle, part 4
75 ZZ Top album whose name is Spanish for “The Crazy One”
76 Hamm and Farrow
77 Neither's partner
78 Tingly feeling
82 Totally tired
83 With 49-Across, touter of green eggs and ham
84 “Yes” vote
86 Early arcade giant
87 End of the riddle
93 — -Flush (bathroom brand)
94 Architect I.M. —
95 Made angry
96 Florida fruits
97 R&B great Marvin
99 Not at all new
100 Golf club
102 Riddle's answer
111 Stalin-era labor camp
112 Polecat's kin
113 Urge against
114 Muscat native
115 Do over
116 Office squawker
117 Fender dings
118 Mimics a mad mutt
119 Helper of Frankenstein
120 Inventor Whitney
DOWN
1 “—, vidi, vici”
2 “The Keep” novelist Jennifer
3 Forum wear
4 Angel's instrument
5 Drunk
6 Writer Gogol
7 Third-largest city in Israel
8 Ride a wave
9 Eighth-brightest star in the sky
10 Like a hajji's religion
11 Secondlargest city in
12 Oklahoma Charles Lamb's alias
13 Bay Area California city
14 Equivalent of A sharp
15 Lee Tracy's “Bombshell” co-star
16 Like praiseful poetry
17 Gossipy Barrett
18 Bakersfield-toBoise dir.
20 Letters before 39-Across
27 Swiss watch brand
28 Clueless
32 Fizzle sound
33 Sleek, informally
34 Hair removal brand
35 Top squad
36 Mooer's mouthful
38 On the — (fleeing)
39 “— say more?”
41 Actresses Vivien and Janet
42 In — res (midplot)
43 Clay pigeons to be shot, informally
45 Three x three
46 Frozen spear
47 Eats away at
53 “Were — it all over again ...”
54 “It can't be!”
55 One of the Three Musketeers
56 Nickname for singer Justin, with “the”
57 Derisive smile
59 One of the three Furies
60 R&R alone
61 “— boy!”
62 Pisa's river
63 Nuclear trials, for short
64 Class of antimicrobial drugs, in the British spelling
65 Actress Sorkin who once hosted “America's Funniest People”
71 Like animals that don't roam
72 So-called “fifth taste”
73 Apartment near the super's, perhaps
74 Mesh well
79 Piquancy
80 Ontario tribe
81 Cat's warning
83 Pittsburgh footballers
84 “Chances —”
85 “Catch my drift, bro?”
86 Pie-mode link
88 1974 CIA parody film
89 More lacteal
90 Not cardinal, as a number
91 Plundering
92 Writer Sábato
98 Patronage
99 “— Loompa”
101 Half-diameters
102 Journalist Brit
103 Zing
104 Lucy Liu's “Kill Bill” role
105 Insect traps
106 Exploiter
107 Mongrel mutt
108 Frilly material
109 Shrine figure
110 Moore of “G.I. Jane”
111 Shrine figure