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 Kendrick 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 52 Chi follower 53 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