PREMIER CROSSWORD

WHERE IN THE WORD?

ACROSS

1 NFL standout 7 Treat kindly 15 Costumes 20 Like forests 21 Tangles 22 Be nuts over 23 RED 25 Entertainer Zsa Zsa 26 — -Caps (candy) 27 Great Lakes’ — Locks 28 First full mo. of autumn 29 Spurring (on) 30 ELLE 36 Russian ruler of yore 39 German car make 40 “— to say this, but ...” 41 SAGE 46 — -Z (thoroughly) 47 Low-value wallet wad 51 Pop lover 52 Want badly 53 RAN 56 Luau bowlful 57 In the secondbest category 59 Insect-catching tool 60 Having some benefit 61 Filmmaker Preminger 63 Critical hosp. area 64 Empire until ’91 66 Places of learning, in French 67 PORT 72 Frosh’s cap 74 Plane feature 75 “Not a word!” 76 Watch sound 79 Lou Grant portrayer Ed 80 Agent’s take 81 Malia and Sasha 84 Cap for a bagpiper 85 ACRE 89 Allan- — (“Robin Hood” narrator) 90 “— Little Teapot” 91 Chop — 92 Nimble deer 93 SEA 96 Fuzzy fabrics 98 One who has regrets 99 Sonny & Cher’s “— You Babe” 100 SLAT 108 Illusory 109 “... bug — feature?” 110 Biceps’ place 111 Actress Charlotte 114 Lab vial 115 HUM 121 Like a prebirth body position 122 One who quarantines 123 Señor’s nap 124 Account 125 “Cagney & Lacey” co-star 126 Peddled

DOWN

1 Shoemaking tools 2 Money to be paid back 3 Wacky 4 Chop-chop 5 Get more mileage from 6 “— a Grecian Urn” 7 Honey maker 8 Objective 9 Abbr. stamped on a bad check 10 Suffix in some pasta names 11 Camp craft 12 Swedish king between John I and Canute II 13 Hang-up for an optometrist? 14 —Kosh B’Gosh 15 Flock of geese 16 Old saw 17 Redbreast 18 Horse to be busted 19 Suit fabric 24 Turn bad 29 “Daniel” singer John 30 — -Magnon 31 Relaxes 32 Corrodes, in a way 33 — Mae Brown (psychic in “Ghost”) 34 Pear-shaped fruits 35 “... could — horse!” 36 Musical rate 37 Stuck-up type 38 Entry 42 U.S. media watchdog 43 Illinois city on the Mississippi 44 Some rescue ops 45 A long time in the past 47 Decide not to join in 48 Super-suspenseful 49 Author — Stanley Gardner 50 Beatified Mlles. 54 Smart-alecky 55 “Yowie!” 58 Interring individuals 62 Very testy 65 Amtrak stop: Abbr. 66 Surround with a saintly light 68 Suffix with zillion 69 “I — lot to you” 70 Dancer Duncan 71 “Holy cow!” 72 Low voice 73 Favorite son of Isaac 77 Wee role 78 Rival of Target 80 Have bad flu symptoms, say 82 Swiss city on the Rhine 83 Mo. in which autumn starts 86 What hungry wolves do 87 Ungulate feature 88 Actress Hatcher 94 Neighbor of Hung. 95 One, in Ulm 96 Feeble 97 Pulpit speech 100 Bits of wind 101 Coastal arm 102 Poetic Muse 103 Hotelier Ritz 104 Actor Clark 105 Present label 106 Like Dublin denizens 107 “— vincit amor” (“Love conquers all”) 111 Hazard 112 Poker post 113 “Holy cow!” 115 Collide with 116 Young fellow 117 LGA datum 118 Ty-D- — 119 Suffix with witch or trick 120 Unlike reruns