PREMIER CROSSWORD

No Threes or Fours

ACROSS

1 Wild animals

7 Place for wedding vows 12 Quack medicines

20 Vehicle pulled by yoked

animals

21 Zora — Hurston

22 Like a fleeing fugitive

23 Of speech sounds

24 Away from the office, say 25 Modus — (method)

26 Soft hue

27 Legislate

28 Front section

29 Tequila brand with a bull

logo

30 Stingy sort

31 Handles deftly

32 Set at ease

34 Uncaps, e.g.

36 Totally quiet

40 Bandleader Louis

45 Chops up

50 Sounds like a bonfire 51 Capital of Lebanon 52 Kagan of the court

53 Like consumed food 54 Audio equipment

technician

56 I and everyone else present 58 One end of a battery 60 Adept public performer 61 Some weight-watchers 62 Sounded like a kitten 63 2017-21 Treasury

Secretary Steven

64 Loss due to carelessness 65 14th-century Russian ruler 66 Looked over carefully 67 Typed, as a PIN

69 Knife in old infomercials 71 Sanctified, old-style 72 Afraid

73 Puts in place

75 Def. pact of 1954-77 76 Actress Thompson of

“Selma”

77 Avaricious sort

79 Protrude

80 Shrouded in mystery 86 Longtime brand of toasted

cereal

91 Engender

95 To a greater degree 96 Most vigorous

97 Like sticky weather 98 Prefix with indicate or

bassoon

99 Almondy Italian liqueur 100 Figure skater Slutskaya 101 Like some telemarketing

headsets

102 Seller of goods to

customers

103 Singer Helen 104 Fails to see

105 People with unhappy

faces

106 Deuce-beating cards 107 Resolve

DOWN

1 Fan of ’40s jazz

2 Breathe out

3 CNN journalist Jim 4 Angola’s Isabel dos — 5 Judges, during cases

6 City in central Minnesota 7 Jerry Stiller’s partner 8 Actress Téa

9 British bye-byes

10 Girl in Wonderland 11 Landlord’s log

12 Comment after a potential

insult

13 Not going off topic 14 Boats’ backs

15 A pair plus one

16 Harvests

17 Lower arm bones 18 Mother, in Mexico 19 Jimmy of “NYPD Blue” 33 Set back, as an alcove 35 Looked through narrowly 37 Computer-aided extraction

of information

38 Last part of some play acts 39 “There’s this fellow who might be able to help you”

40 Makes agitated

41 Make fun of

42 Body of water east of

Dublin

43 Most stale-smelling 44 Handle, as a matter 45 Travel from Kansas to

Utah, e.g.

46 Coalition

47 Relatives of pianos 48 Macramé workers, e.g. 49 Sanctuary

51 Carried, as a burden 55 University locales 57 Impelled 59 Renunciation 68 Soundproof chambers in

TV studios, e.g. 70 What a week consists of 74 Casual top

77 Herman or Lily of old TV 78 Flicks like “Moonstruck”

and “Pretty Woman” 79 Firefly, e.g.

81 Canadian $2 coin 82 Writer Hemingway 83 Exam do-over

84 Tel Aviv locale 85 Rough-textured

86 Dock

87 “Make Room for Daddy”

actor Rusty

88 Poetry Muse

89 End in — (finish even) 90 Have a link (with) 92 Less sinful

93 Ammonia derivative 94 Breeze-filled