PREMIER CROSSWORD / STOPPING STITCHING
ACROSS
1 “Still open,” on a sched. 4 Poppa
7 Some swords
12 Nero’s greatgrandfather
19 Wasn’t too rushed to
do something
21 Dance with people in a
line
22 One-dollar Canadian
coins
23 Of morals
24 In the vicinity
25 One of Capt. Kirk’s
officers
26 Start of a riddle
29 Like much folk medicine 30 Lubricates
31 Italian “a”
32 Winter hours in Minn. 35 Ancient recital halls
36 Riddle, part 2
41 Boxer Oscar — Hoya
44 — -mo replay
45 Kiev’s country
46 Riddle, part 3
52 X Games broadcaster 54 Playwright Chekhov
55 Cartoon canary
56 Burn with no flame
58 — Little (mouse of
kiddie lit)
59 Biden’s party: Abbr.
60 Los Angeles district
62 Part of OTOH
64 Riddle, part 4
71 Dress in fine duds
72 Pedro’s shawl
73 Caged bird, often
75 “Blue Ribbon” beers
78 Barely makes,
as a living
81 Andes beasts
84 Nudge rudely
85 “Meh” grades
86 Riddle, part 5
88 1960s art movement
90 — chi
92 Peak in the “Odyssey” 93 End of the riddle
98 Letters after upsilons 102 Sci-fi visitors
103 Prefix with plunk
104 Presque Isle’s lake
105 Celebrity chef Mario 107 Riddle’s answer
112 Not forsaking
115 Elliptical 116 Fragrant Chinese
flower
117 Word-of-mouth
precepts
118 Dig deep
119 Grappler,
rural-style
120 Gloucester’s
peninsula
121 Birch-family
tree
122 Ordinal number
suffix
123 — Plaines
DOWN
1 “I Can See for Miles” band Scrubbed in a tub
Get stuck (to) Formal rulings “— and the Night Visitors” 6 “Take this out”
mark
7 Custard-filled
pastry
8 Dog named Fifi,
maybe
9 Forms a bladderlike sac around 10 “My stars!” 11 Bargain event 12 Just for laughs 13 Gradually lost
light
14 Libertine guy
15 Very pixeldense, as a TV picture 16 More, to musicians 17 — capita 18 Simile center 20 Old-style sheriff’s
emblem 27 Lav in a pub 28 Pool hall stick 32 Tony winner Rivera 33 Sir of Seville 34 Former senator Lott 36 Roadwork goop
37 “— 3 Lives” (1952
memoir) 38 Ascended 39 Declaimed 40 Organic fertilizer 42 Prefix for “outer”
43 Fill a nest, in a way 2
3 4 5 46 Inc., to a Brit
47 Was behind financially 48 Pixar’s lost clown fish 49 Con at large
50 Kuwaiti VIP
51 Actor Moss who co-starred on “The Bold and the Beautiful” for 25 years
53 In proportion
57 Wind-deposited loam 58 Armor pieces
61 Sch. in Manhattan
63 With 101-Down, rubber-soled canvas shoes
65 “How curious”
66 Words after “Make
love” 67 Cat call
68 Dude, slangily
69 Engine speed stats 70 “You betcha!”
74 Mao — -tung
75 British coins
76 Forewarn
77 Hip-hop devotees, in
old slang
79 Etta of old comics
80 Morales of “La Linea” 82 Fleur-de- —
83 Power cord
attachments
85 Declined in status
87 Lap dog
89 Bismarck or Pierre
native
91 Freezing 94 Wall St. manipulator
95 Show up
96 German art songs
97 Actor Ayres
99 “Over the Rainbow”
composer Arlen
100 “Maybe ... ask me later” 101 See 63-Down
105 Sheep call
106 Flooded (in)
107 Windy blast
108 Cantina pot
109 Jedi guru
110 Daredevil Knievel
111 French “to be”
112 Tone — (“Wild Thing”
rapper)
113 Man-mouse linkup
114 Bark sharply