PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE

ACROSS 1

Direct applause toward

8 Finder’s cry

11 April follower

14 Mimic a bird

19 Singer Patti

20 Take by force

22 Capital on the Red

River

23 Art studio

24 Phases

25 “Tiny Dancer” singer

John

26 Start of a riddle

29 Booming jet of old,

in brief

30 Inseparable

31 Spike of corn

32 Olive bugged by

Bluto

33 Prefix with light or

night

35 Part of AOL

39 Thing with rungs

44 Riddle, part 2

48 Zac of 2017’s

“Baywatch”

49 German linking word

50 Org. for teachers

51 “Sure, we should do

it!”

52 Desperate, as a

situation

54 Syrian president

58 Auto racer’s warmup circuit

61 Riddle, part 3 64 In-vogue thing

65 Brand of fuel

additives

66 Forearm bone

67 Crew tool

68 “You folks,” in the

South

70 West of “Diamond

Lil”

73 “General” of Chinese

cuisine

74 Riddle, part 4

78 Museum overseer

82 Golfer Sam

83 Eighth parts of circles

84 Redding of soul

85 Sly laugh sound

87 Gp. with merit

badges

89 On a cruise

90 End of the riddle

97 “Strut” singer Easton

98 Affirm strongly

99 Flying geese

formation

100High peak: Abbr.

102 “No more details!,”

in texts

103 Sushi tuna

105 Archer’s skill

108 Riddle’s answer

116 Really virile

117 Apollo 7 astronaut

Wally

118 Annuls, as a law

119 Resilient strength

120 Certain support

group for adolescents 121 Lay out for printing

122 Gather bit by bit

123 Ad- — (improvise)

124 Zig’s reverse

125 Rind-shaving tools

DOWN

1 Feline nails

2 Trellis strips

3 Skip — (flutter, as the

heart)

4 Bombard

5 French policeman,

informally

6 Butterlike product of

beef fat

7 Air again

8 Many a prep sch.

9 Star of the past

10 Shows up

11 Part of 102-Across

12 Johnson of old

comedy

13 Simple kind of

question

14 Place with beakers,

in brief

15 Disease-free

16 Engrossed by

17 Building top

18 Wrestling win

21 Game of falling

shapes

27 Find out

28 “The Clan of the Cave

Bear” heroine

33 Rosebush sticker

34 Hurricane hazard 36 Win gold, say

37 Rice of Bush’s

Cabinet, informally

38 Prop- or hex- ender

40 Meted

41 Mano-a-mano fight

42 “At Last” singer

James

43 Filing tool

44 In progress

45 Common baby

ailment

46 Scheduled to arrive

47 Interval

48 Ice cream brand

53 Inuit dwelling

55 Feel faint from

ecstasy

56 Divide up

57 Vital blood line

59 Insurer with a duck

icon

60 Sch. with a Fresno

branch

62 Univ. dorm

supervisors

63 Thesaurus word:

Abbr.

69 Score — (earn some

points)

70 Minister’s residence

71 Modify

72 Anna’s sister in

“Frozen”

73 Eat a bit of

75 “Poppycock!”

76 “Sounds likely to

me” 77 Unglossy photo

finish

78 Simple beds

79 Neighbor of Colorado

80 Initiation, e.g.

81 Pi-sigma link

86 Very bad grades

88 Scandinavian

“Salut!”

91 1986 #1 hit for 19-Across and Michael McDonald

92 Vow

93 Revel at a really

hoppin’ party

94 “Carlos” star Edgar

95 Neighbor of

Ethiopia

96 Sinister gaze

101 Like some

congestion

104 Rival of Avis

105 Demean

106 Lazybones

107 Ship spars

108 Postmarked pieces

109 Zapzyt target

110 Perlman of

“Cheers”

111 Roman 651

112 “Moby-Dick”

captain

113 Zingy flavor

114 Smartphone games,

often

115 Cross paths

116 Soup flavor

enhancer, for short