PREMIER CROSSWORD
FOURTH-ESTATE FANTASY
ACROSS
1 Not quite firstrate
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 52
Kendrick 53 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
14 1972 Billy Wilder comedy film
15 Long, involved
story
16 Shut loudly 17 Actress Skye of
“Stranded” 18 Grammy winner Brian
21 “— the
breaks!”
27 Former EgyptSyr. alliance 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
Chi follower Spicy Spanish pork sausage 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