PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
FOURTH-ESTATE FANTASY
ACROSS
1 Not quite first-rate 7 “Patience — virtue”
10 Car tankful
13 Collie of TV
19 Cattle farm of the West 20 Trumpet blast
22 Singer and actor Frankie 23 When it’s 12:00 p.m. 24 Element #3
25 Japanese city that hosted the 1998 Olympics
26 Start of a riddle 29 Japanese buckwheat noodle
30 Dr. Seuss’ Sam- — 31 Amo, amas, — 32 “Addams Family” cousin 35 Riddle, part 2
43 Faint smell
45 Foldout bed 46 Co-workers of MDs 47 Stalactite site 48 Florence’s river
49 Total amount 51 “Scram!”
52 Minecraft and StarCraft, e.g.
55 Riddle, part 3
60 Brief promos
61 Triceps’ place
62 Pop’s Celine
63 See 58-Down 66 Bullfighter
67 Riddle, part 4
70 Put a new front on, as a building
72 Unbroken
73 Recognized
75 With 59-Down, brand of frozen potatoes 76 Famously feisty fish 77 Riddle, part 5
81 Oval shape
84 Dejected
85 “Who am — judge?” 86 Secret writing 87 Postal pieces 88 Detectives like TV’s Magnum, for short 89 Karachi’s nation: Abbr. 91 Very long time periods 92 End of the riddle 99 Disloyal type
100 Impulsive desire
101 Illusionist Geller
102 Like planted seeds
104 Riddle’s answer
113 Enter very quickly
114 Novelist Caldwell
115 Common gauge for toy trains
116 “Despite that ...”
117 Gets smaller
118 “Happy Days” actress Ross
119 Bunks on ships
120 Mil. ranker
121 Gym pad
122 Hole to receive a lace
DOWN
1 Bird’s crop
2 Trellis strip
3 “Noelle” star Kendrick 4 Glasgow natives 5 Grandstander 6 Chimpanzee variety
7 “— have to wait”
8 Got married
9 Lure for insect extermination
10 The earth as a goddess 11 Cut — (dance)
12 Pago Pago people 13 “Meteor” actor Martin
comedy 14 1972 Billy Wilder film
15 Long, involved story 16 Shut loudly
17 Actress Skye of “Stranded”
18 Grammy winner Brian 21 “— the breaks!”
alliance 27 Former Egypt-Syr. 28 Texter’s “Holy smokes!” 32 “Let me!”
33 Bases-loaded situation 34 Lightweight kitchen utensils
36 Peak
37 Chicago daily, in brief 38 Global: Abbr.
39 Mark for life
40 Easter meat
41 Adam’s mate
42 — Moines
44 Bob of choreography 49 Tahitian skirts 50 Package delivery co. 51 Carpentry material for some cabinets
52 Chi follower
sausage 53 Spicy Spanish pork
54 Taxonomic subdivisions 56 Become lively
57 Cheer yell
58 With 63-Across, for the time being
59 See 75-Across
63 Oven used to bake naan 64 Spiny anteater
65 Most unkind 67 Conservation org. with a panda logo
68 Pooch’s yap
69 Big blue body
71 Genre of many sitcoms 74 Wide shoe spec 76 Mining shaft
77 Higher ground?
78 “You wish!”
79 Condé —
80 User-edited website 81 Rescue squad VIP
82 “— -di-dah!”
83 False story
88 Projecting curves on saddles
89 By the day
90 Huffington of HuffPost 91 So to speak 93 Wise-acting 94 Thick-skinned critters 95 Day, in Chile
96 Studly guys
97 Abbr. on a bad check 98 End a vacation
103 Mother-of-pearl
104 Surfing need
105 Cake finisher
106 Holy Week’s time 107 Eldest of the Brady boys
108 Helper: Abbr.
109 For fear that
110 Half a train track
111 — gin fizz
112 Camp shelter
113 Yank’s rival