PREMIER CROSSWORD
SPECIAL LITERARY GENRE
ACROSS
1 Placed on a roster
7 Devoid of junk email
15 Zimbalist of “Wait Until Dark”
20 See 53-Across
21 Place for many piercings
22 Demi of the screen
23 Start of a riddle
25 Hair twist
26 Ripped
27 Work site welfare org.
28 Natural aptitude
30 Not divided
31 First-aid pro
33 Kilt wearers’ groups
38 Fish with a sucking disk
40 Riddle, part 2
45 Discuss anew 46 Radio word after “Roger”
47 Go furtively
48 “Oil!” author Sinclair
51 “Hee” or “yee” follower
53 With 20-Across, midsize car from Korea
55 Riddle, part 3
66 Apple CEO Cook
67 Rower’s need
68 Ducklike diving birds
69 Risk-taker’s challenge
70 Endanger
73 Jimmy of the Daily Planet
74 Rushes wildly
75 Soprano Maria
76 Three, to Gigi
77 — room (play place)
78 China’s Chou En- —
79 Riddle, part 4
84 — number on
85 Florida Panthers’ gp.
86 Really vex
87 Open courts
92 Cleaning tool
96 Choir stands 99 End of the riddle
105 Old cruise missile with a tribal name
106 Work of praise
107 It may get stubbed
108 Cleaving tool
109 More cunning
111 Battle 114 Curve parts
115 Officer over a sarge
116 Riddle’s answer
123 Whines, as a fretful child
124 “Aim High” military branch
125 Not too hard to accomplish
126 Be too frugal
127 Tidy quality
128 Carve in relief
DOWN
1 Not covering the ankles, as shoes
2 Device with Siri
3 More than mono
4 Fork prong
5 Former Brit. record giant
6 The Cowboys, on scoreboards
7 — -chef
8 Promote
9 Clip on, e.g.
10 Sea, in Paris
11 Pt. of TGIF
12 Old car inits.
13 Water, in Paris
14 Once, in old times
15 Symbolic logos
16 Work site overseer
17 Virginia city
18 Asmara’s country
19 Rx request
24 Plenty of, casually
29 Biceps’ place
31 Kate Nelligan title role
32 “I’m not impressed”
34 A criminal breaks it
35 “Do — say!”
36 Carolina Panthers’ gp.
37 Twisted individuals, informally
39 Big boat in Genesis
41 Seniors’ big night out
42 Arena staffer
43 Burn partly
44 T-bone source 48 Increase in business activity, e.g.
49 Original
50 Synagogue
52 Roll about in mud
54 Offer as evidence
56 Talked about, as a rumor
57 Missy
58 Soldier’s denial
59 Totally tires out
60 Jake Tapper’s channel
61 Former EgyptSyr. alliance
62 Old PC screen type
63 “Fess up!”
64 Golfer Mark who won the 1998 Masters
65 Withstand
71 State tree of North Dakota
72 LL Cool J’s music
73 Bobby the Bruin
74 Sewing edge
76 Start to cry 77 Shroud of Turin, e.g.
80 Movie prefix with Cop
81 “No — traffic”
82 Country singer Haggard 83 Brewery kiln
87 Bristlelike grain appendage 88 Unfreeze
89 Filled pasta envelopes
90 Rome resident, to a Paris resident
91 Most pallid
93 Ending for Motor
94 Work of praise
95 One-named “Fear of Flying” singer
97 Part-human, parthorse deity
98 “Evil Woman” rock gp.
100 Weeding tool
101 Ablaze
102 Big brand of gummy bears
103 Stands out
104 Jumbled states
110 Horse with a speckled coat
112 Huge birds of myth
113 Gets old
114 Pursuer of Moby Dick
115 Hi-fi discs
117 Game score like 1-1 or 2-2
118 La-la lead-in
119 Frequently, in poetry
120 — Jovi (rock group)
121 Fruit beverage 122 Toy dog breed, for short