San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
ACROSS
1 Biblical boat of refuge
9 1971 Best Actor
winner Gene
16 Sewing line
20 Classroom instructor,
in Aussie lingo
21 Long South American
river
22 Toothpaste container
23 Start of a riddle
25 Said aloud
26 Sleekly designed
27 Muscles to crunch
28 Persona non —
29 Riddle, part 2
37 Special multi-book
packages
38 Cyberauction site
39 Botching, with “up”
40 Travis of country
music
41 Thick slice
43 Stare
44 Go gray, say
45 Riddle, part 3
51 Hall-of-Fame Giant
Mel
52 Debt slips
53 “Exodus” novelist
Leon
54 Toe the line
58 Actress Liu
60 Angelina of
Hollywood
62 Spiny lizard
64 Riddle, part 4 70 Third-place medal
metal
71 24 in a day
72 Vid shooters
73 Ship out, e.g.
74 Menageries
75 Eerie sign
77 Celtics’ org.
80 Riddle, part 5
87 Innuendo queen
West
90 Not common
91 Sgt. and cpl.
92 “Serpico” director
Sidney
93 Herb in pasta
sauce
95 Cruising
97 Egg hunt holidays
99 End of the riddle
103 Oscar-winning
Berry
104 Prefix with angle or
color
105 Compel
106 “— and the Detectives” (old Disney film)
107 Riddle’s answer
116 Fall lawn tool
117 Interweaves
118 St. Patrick’s Day bar
order
119 Went quickly
120 Store full of
playthings
121 One of the men
waiting for Godot
DOWN
1 Australian state whose capital is Sydney: Abbr.
2 Scottish interjection
of surprise
3 “Eureka!”
4 Scorching
5 Lawn turf
6 Red Sox and Orioles’
div.
7 Construction bolts
8 Actress Knightley
9 Tilling tool
10 “— longa, vita brevis”
11 Buzzy insect
12 Having rounded
protrusions
13 Timid
14 Often-injured knee
part, for short
15 Start to doze
16 Birds bringing
bundles of joy
17 Russia locale
18 Easing off
19 Hodgepodge
24 Sanders’ title: Abbr.
28 Sticks with pasty stuff
29 “— Subsequent Moviefilm” (2020 sequel)
30 Have life
31 Narrow land strip:
Abbr.
32 — pot (sinus-clearing
apparatus)
33 Not fatty 34 Eases off
35 Union Jack and Old
Glory
36 Exude slowly
37 Vitamin also called
riboflavin
41 “Disco” guy on “The
Simpsons”
42 — Angeles
43 “Peer Gynt”
composer Edvard
46 Particular specialty
47 Maja painter
Francisco
48 Quiet spells
49 Moistureless
50 Track tipsters
55 Crotchety cry
56 Dir. opposite WSW
57 Turkey Day tuber
58 Wonder Woman
player Carter
59 Brand of potato chips
60 Knightly fight
61 Word of joint
ownership
62 14th-century Russian ruler called “the Moneybag”
63 Tiara stone
64 “NCIS” airer
65 State of rage
66 Whole bunch
67 “— were the days!”
68 Seeks the love of
69 Cake froster
74 Goose eggs
75 Egg: Prefix 76 Partners of pas
77 Big Apple baseballer,
for short
78 Some Afrikaners
79 Early P.M. times, in
classifieds
81 Want badly
82 Pleading tyke’s query
83 First-class aisle seat
on many planes
84 Rent- — (temporary
wheels)
85 “Frozen” queen
86 Reproving syllables
87 Partners of fathers
88 Tourist office
handout
89 Long, twisty and
slippery
94 Coagulated
95 Main arteries
96 Tattletale
97 Lawn tools
98 Nailed the exam
100 Turin’s land
101 Yes, to Fifi
102 Shaw of jazz
107 Ready to go
108 Rock’s Brian
109 Zodiac sign
110 Sci-fi gift
111 It’s S. of Leb.
112 “— Na Na”
113 Evil woman in fairy
tales
114 “Evil Woman” rock
gp.
115 Sanders’ title: Abbr.