PREMIER CROSSWORD / SIGN LANGUAGE
ACROSS
1 Work force
6 Swallowed up
14 Beautiful
20 Popular type option
21 Wedlock
22 Idolize
23 Organ knob imparting a
striking sound
25 Napoli’s country
26 Quarterback Manning 27 Boundless
28 Suffix with 12-Down
30 Jungle lairs
31 Age, as cheese
33 Hidden way out in a
haunted house
36 Orlando locale
40 Singer Reba
42 Ratio of a stock share’s
return to its price
45 Shell games
50 Persona
51 Studio stand
52 Hold in check
55 Animation frames
56 Neophytes
58 Blackish wood
60 Pisa’s river
61 Actor Wilson
62 Illinois town west of
Chicago
64 Worker finishing
furniture
68 Savage sort
70 Deeply felt
71 Popularity boost after appearing on satirist Stephen’s old show
73 Iris’ layer
74 Is in debt
75 Fallback strategy
76 Singer Mariah
78 UPS deliveries: Abbr. 82 Did a 180
84 Willy Wonka creator
Dahl
86 Capital of Egypt
87 Kagan of the Supreme
Court
88 At a snail’s pace
91 Quark or pion
95 “The Newlywed Game”
host Bob
96 PC program tool for automating batches of invitations, say
100 Actress Irene
102 Streamlined, in brief 103 Africa’s Amin 104 “Canvas” for a
tattoo
106 Artificial cave 111 Zoned (out) 113 Like people heeding seven key words in this puzzle 117 Mongol
invaders
118 Brazilian rain
forest region 119 Make — for
oneself
120 Lace-receiving
hole
121 Crescentlike
objects
122 Plays spiritedly
DOWN
1 Defensive tackle Warren Willow or oak Ethereal Almanac item Drinking water additive
Long dashes Innocent Reaction to an awful pun 9 Big vases 10 Enumerate 11 Chubby 12 Inflated sense
of self 13 Portray 14 First coat of
paint 15 Like many a
sr. citizen 16 Sidestep 17 Old-style messager 18 Pop singer Lopez 19 Brewer’s fungus 24 Snarky 29 Lanka lead-in 32 Lousy review 33 Vendors 34 Finale 35 Final, e.g. 36 Savings acct. protector 37 Tart pie fruit 38 Track shape 39 Road semis 40 Fail to catch 41 Passing mark 43 “Wilson” actress Laura 44 Basketballer Ming 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 46 Shipping box
47 Hitter Hank
48 Negative
49 Sleep sound
52 “Backdraft” director
Howard
53 Salad green
54 Biggest city in Australia 56 Nudniks
57 Turtle in a Dr. Seuss
title
59 Belfry dweller
61 Small bill
62 Hiatus
63 Homer’s H
64 Win a point
65 Sauna wrap
66 Tylenol rival
67 “Peer Gynt” dramatist 68 Sloppy Joe holder 69 Hug
72 Defective
73 Pakistani
language
76 Walking stick
77 ’80s sitcom
78 “Qué —?”
79 Brick-baking oven 80 Totally understand,
informally
81 Plants seeds
83 Absorbed
85 OPEC liquid
86 Big hack attack
88 Sty dweller
89 Mystery writer
Deighton
90 Sudden forward thrust
In the thick of 92 93 Cardinal, e.g.
94 Clan-related
96 Sticky stuff
97 Reimburse
98 Hopping mad
99 Like ultra-lite food 100 Failed to
101 Remove, as a
105-Down
104 Medium, e.g.
105 Shoelace
problem
107 “How awful!”
108 Cardinals, e.g. 109 Office fill-in
110 Corrida calls
112 Sooner than
114 Big bush bird
115 Flying Solo
116 — -been