THE PREMIER
REPTILIAN EMPIRE ACROSS
1 Soft drink giant
9 Pappy
12 “Botch- —” (old hit song)
15 Masticate
19 Oval wind instruments
20 Took too far
22 Put concrete on
23 Start of a riddle
25 Partially
26 Heir, often
27 Penta- plus one
28 Spitting beast
30 Everything
31 Unusual
34 “Our Gang” novelist Roth
37 Actress Peet of “Trust Me”
39 Riddle, part 2
44 Leonardo of “Titanic”
45 Curvy letter
46 Given a permanent post
47 Cereal grain
48 Computer menu option
50 Prefix with chemistry
53 Curiosity's planet
54 Riddle, part 3
60 Palatable
61 Computer menu option
62 Revise, as a manuscript
63 Yank's home
66 Try to be like
69 A couple of
71 Mice, e.g.
73 House divs.
74 Kinda
77 And higher, as in price
80 Perfect
81 Riddle, part 4
85 Dalai —
88 Contaminate
89 Big burden
90 Sports draw
91 Paper-folding craft
94 Part of BTW or OTC
96 “Allow me to assist”
99 End of the riddle
103 Allergy sufferer's device
104 White swan in “Swan Lake”
105 Audit org.
106 Spy's device
107 With 112-Across, “Hold on!”
109 Sneak attack
112 See 107-Across
115 Akron's state
117 Riddle's answer
123 Painter Vincent van —
124 Fastening feature of many a face mask
125 Ultimate consumers of products
126 With 83-Down, Italian veal dish
127 `Zine staffers
128 Antis' votes
129 Occupied, as an inn
DOWN
1 Female whales
2 Eight, in Peru
3 “Misery” actor James
4 Prado display
5 102, to Nero
6 Walk- — (small roles)
7 Plastering strip
8 Arthur of tennis
9 Troy of “A Summer Place”
10 Gardner or DuVernay of film
11 Biden's party: Abbr.
12 Basketball coach Rupp
13 Re-sol linkup
14 Boiled, salted soybeans
15 1040 pro
16 Dance similar to the tango
17 Unsaintly soul
18 Marshy habitats
21 Holy artifact
24 Trade show
29 “So true!”
31 Fertilizable cells
32 Chip go-with
33 Actress Bo
35 “The risks outweigh the benefits”
36 Intense beam
38 Some reuniongoers
39 U.S. women's soccer star at the Atlanta Olympics
40 Living ink squirter
41 Assistant
42 Idaho's capital
43 Person doing penance
44 One searching for water with a divining rod
49 Tariff
51 Sporty truck, in brief
52 Daiquiri base
55 “Cool” cash amount
56 Very little, as of salt
57 Tantrum
58 Brian of electronica
59 Give as a bonus
63 Like wasted food
64 In a theatrical manner
65 Snoozing
67 Shoe tip 68 Like Nin's writings 70 “Mind Train” singer Yoko 72 Baseball great Roush 75 Old Pan Am competitor 76 “Shy” singer DiFranco 78 ETs' craft 79 Fail to keep one's cool 81 Return to base after a fly ball 82 — nous 83 See 126Across 84 “Likewise” 85 African capital on the Gulf of Guinea 86 Wyoming tribe members 87 Small swine breeds 92 Several 93 Plant-eating sea mammal 95 Catches in a snare 97 “Planet Money” airer 98 Includes 100 People lugging things 101 Politician Mo, Mark or Tom 102 Ship's rigging 108 “If only — known!” 110 — of March 111 Taboo thing 112 Litigated 113 Poet Pound 114 “— la vie!” 116 “Well well!” 118 Charged atom 119 Animal park 120 Rx watchdog 121 Dude 122 Suffix of enzymes