PREMIER CROSSWORD
POST-PRANDIAL
ACROSS
1 Male cats
5 “Unto the Sons” author Gay
11 Perp’s place
15 Overwhelm, as with humor
19 Getting the task done
20 Region next to Catalonia
21 Minnesota ex-governor Carlson
22 Something to belt out
23 “Save As,” “Print” or “Select All”
25 Name as a source
26 Liturgical act
27 “Alas, it wasn’t to be”
28 Africa’s Amin
29 Destitute
30 Sponsorship
31 Small telescope
34 Diner classic
37 Ancient Celtic priest
39 Join together in a labor group
40 Message on a protective book cover
45 Breastbone
49 Holds fast (to)
50 Makes sure the task gets done
54 Kong or Koko
55 6/6/1944
56 Extracts via udders
58 Small gift for shindig guests
61 Purported psychic skill
62 — job on (messed up)
63 They propel paramecia
65 Actress Dunne
66 Spot in a hotel to book a room
70 Happen next
73 South African grassland
74 — -edged pages
75 Positive vote
78 Certain fruit bar
81 Sheriff’s aides
83 U.S. fort holding gold
84 Scarfed down
85 More restless
87 Miserly sort
89 Stationery store product
92 Ping-Pong
94 Sweet snacks on sticks
98 Cry to an attack dog
99 Source of music to accompany silent films
103 Big name in concert pianos
108 Drizzles or sprinkles
109 Dog botherer
110 Cereal grain
112 Guileless
113 Verdi opera heroine
114 Fish’s respiratory structure
115 Where the starts of eight answers in this puzzle might appear
118 Street — (rep in the city)
119 War god
120 Senator Sanders
121 Low- — diet
122 Model Banks
123 Heredity unit
124 See 95-Down
125 Kett of old comics
DOWN
1 Burial sites
2 Barely ahead
3 Like many toothpastes
4 Attacked like a bee
5 Confucian “way”
6 Upper limb
7 Antifungal brand
8 “Good grief!”
9 Part of SST
10 Put a stop to
11 British actor Derek
12 Melodic passage
13 While being shipped
14 Filmdom’s Spike or Ang
15 Person scattering seeds, say
16 Brother of Nintendo’s Mario
17 Shenanigan
18 “Good grief!”
24 More chilly
29 Play on words
30 Wood-dressing tool
32 Twin of Apollo
33 Diminish
35 Engine oil, for short
36 — -gritty
38 Twilight time
40 Precious green stone
41 Tosses in
42 British fellow
43 Lock unlocker
44 Alters in size, as a photo
46 Church area with pews
47 Resting atop
48 Nothing more than
51 Cut and dried soup veggie
52 “Dynamite” singer Cruz
53 Chimps’ cousins
57 Future pupae
59 Clenched hand
60 Genesis boat
62 Low grades
64 “— be a shame if ...”
66 Really regret
67 Wang of dress design
68 Examine minutely
69 Person voted in to a seat
70 Cheese from Holland
71 Statistics expert Silver
72 Goblet part
75 Auth. unknown
76 Bear or Berra
77 Past partners
79 Seismic occurrence
80 Being harshly criticized
82 Balls
83 “— -Tiki”
86 “— deal!”
88 Actress Leah
90 Quebecois’ national anthem
91 Butter bits
93 Takes heed
95 With 124-Across, dreaded time of the year for many allergy sufferers
96 Last words of a threat
97 Links org.
99 Land parcel
100 Fur-covered
101 Duck variety
102 Charge-free
104 “Twin Peaks” actor Jack
105 Be the champion of
106 Ward off
107 — Buena Island
111 Gillette razor
114 Choke
115 Crunchable muscles
116 — de Janeiro
117 Lion locale