PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Conga cousin

6 “Ho-hum” feeling

13 Old Toyota coupes

20 “Tosca” tunes, e.g.

21 Dodgy

22 Hat with the brim turned up on three sides

23 The choosing of cosmonaut Gagarin?

25 Its capital is Tallinn

26 Border of Utah and

Idaho, e.g.

27 Primo pitcher

29 Of higher rank

30 Cooks in fat

31 Sign that an egg may

have gone bad?

35 Listed from memory

38 Felt sorry for

39 King-size tub

40 Santa — (hot desert

winds)

41 Distributed, with

“out”

42 Pamper

46 That guy over there with the famous signature?

50 Indian dress

51 Round figure

52 High trains

53 Real stunner

54 Writer known for

twist endings

57 Chimney duct

58 Possible result of a

computer crash

60 Key with no sharps

or flats

61 Side street

62 Given “four years at a New Haven university” as punishment for a crime?

65 Painter Max

68 Frigid epoch

69 University near Fort

Worth

73 Water, in Cuba

74 “Ars — artis” (MGM

motto)

75 “I’ll do it,” in

radiospeak

76 ’16 Olympics city

77 Major conflict

78 Dirt in a 57-Across

79 Lemon-hued growth

on old bread?

81 Suspend, as a

meeting

83 Certain British

noble’s domain

86 Kind of sword

87 “Notorious”

Supreme Court inits.

88 Vintage Ford

89 People using

swearwords

92 A typical casual

greeting? 96 Bagel centers

97 Lena of song

98 Angry feeling

99 Food-packing plants

103 “Tail cone,” for

“Lance Ito”

105 Shaggy ox that’s a

baseball mascot?

109 Floral decoration

110 Satan, with “the”

111 Philosopher

Kierkegaard

112 Printing machines

113 Loathes

114 Telling signs

DOWN

1 Articulates

2 In — (mired)

3 Hollywood’s

Sorvino

4 Angler’s chum

5 Put forward

6 Proved false

7 Kilns, e.g.

8 Go really fast

9 Winter hrs. in Fla.

10 Twice CCLI

11 Lacto- — diet

12 Threatened hostilely

13 Sword metal

14 Surgery sites, in

brief

15 Scholarly group

16 Devoted attendant

17 Many a sonata finale

18 Disney mermaid

19 Sarcasm, informally

24 Writer Wiesel

28 North Atlantic catch

31 Pig’s grunt

32 Bouquets-to-order

co.

33 “Pshaw!”

34 Egg producer

35 Having light beams

36 — Gay (WWII plane)

37 Have the capacity to,

to Shakespeare

38 Treaty

41 Indoor tabby

42 Tote bag

43 See 93-Down

44 Correct

45 Comply with

47 More skilled

48 Gas in lights

49 Strong alloy

50 In a snobbish way

54 Psi follower

55 Camouflage

56 Doc treating apnea

57 Hightail it away

59 Perplexed

60 Certain palm berry

61 Give the OK

63 Take-home

64 Former BP gas

brand

65 H2O, to a tot

66 “Yipes!”

67 — Khalifa (Dubai

skyscraper)

70 Overused theme

71 OPEC ship

72 Center points

74 Big ravine

75 Traveled

78 Undermines the

power of

79 “Seize the day”

acronym

80 Ship dining place

82 “Navel” fruits

83 Just missed parring

84 Suffix with fruit

names

85 California’s Marina

del —

88 Do injury to

89 Rabbits

90 Elbow-to-wrist bone

91 Appear to be the

case

92 Twyla of

choreography

93 With 43-Down, list

of superb students

94 Expunge

95 Singer LeAnn

96 “In case you —

noticed ...”

99 Corp. money

honchos

100As to

101 Idyllic garden

102 IRS form IDs

104 Enjoyed food

106 St. crosser

107 First-aid —

108 Bullring cry