PREMIER CROSSWORD / UNTHEMED #4: FRONT-TO-BACK NINE
ACROSS 1 Upside-down-sleeping
mammal
8 Economizes to a fault 14 Untrustworthy sort
20 One way to serve apple
pie
21 Very solitary sort
22 Monkey (with)
23 Frigid-weather
readings
26 Military missions, in
brief
27 Old Ford div.
28 Tennis great Chris
29 Classic Coca-cola
slogan
39 “Son of,” in Arabic
names
40 Thurman of “Kill Bill”
films
41 Volcanic flow
42 Watershed draining
dozens of U.S. states 53 Busy crawler
54 Make sport of
55 Cocktail party spread 56 School in England’s
East Midlands
61 The Emerald Isle
62 Play — in (contribute
to)
63 Heap
64 Graduate student’s position that might include conducting experiments
74 “Give — ring”
75 Plantain lily, familiarly 76 Actress Ward of
“Sisters”
77 Polite cut-in words
86 Drains of color
87 Heaps
88 Tulsa-to-topeka dir.
89 Metropolises, e.g.
94 Climb
95 — pro nobis
96 Flight guess, in brief
97 “In time the reason
shall be made clear” 109 Furnish with new
weapons
110 Mean Roman emperor 111 Kung — chicken
112 “The Magic Flute”
composer
121 Stylish filmmaker
122 Made giggle
123 Active, as a law
124 Out of sight
125 San Fran football team
126 Music scorer
DOWN
1 Explorer John
or Sebastian 2 Letter before
beth 3 Triple-time
dance, in France
4 Broody rock
subgenre 5 Bend at a
curtain call 6 Woodworking
tool 7 Swarms (with) 8 Not at all tall 9 Mustard
alternative 10 Choler 11 “Delicious!” 12 One of 11 in a
Christmas song
13 Carell of “The
Office”
14 Knighted Ringo
15 Cappuccino
alternative 16 Ostrich relative 17 Mo. in spring 18 Final letter 19 Hosp. triage
sites 24 Riddle-me- — 25 KO counter 30 Some sorority
letters
31 Grab — (eat
quickly)
32 Al who won four
Indy 500s
33 French buddy
34 Driveway-topping goo 35 Stinging hits
36 Lays into
37 Something to RSVP to
online
38 More stable
42 Longtime Twins catcher
Joe 43 Navel type 44 Swizzles 45 Airline to Oslo 46 Basketballer — Thomas 47 2014 Wimbledon
winner Kvitova 48 Sickly 49 Compete (for) 50 “Don’t Cry for Me
Argentina” musical
51 Military mission,
in brief 52 Spiner of “Star Trek”
films
57 Neckline shape
58 Dinosaur in Nintendo
games
59 Actress Kaitlin
60 Singer with the 2007
hit “1234”
65 Whac- — (reflex-testing
game)
66 Of kidneys
67 Slyly spiteful
68 Engraved stone pillar 69 Divining card
70 Old JFK jet
71 “Die Lorelei” poet
Heinrich
72 Actress Massey
73 Window segments
77 Baseballer Martinez 78 Stayed home
for a meal
79 Washer cycle
80 Gave two pills to,
say
81 Cool, in jive talk
82 That, in Peru
83 Singer Carly
— Jepsen
84 A cow milker
tugs on it
85 H.S. juniors’ exams 90 Campaigning pro 91 Net address
92 Wash clothes
93 Untrustworthy sort 98 Have a spat
99 Pine (for)
100 “— Can Cook”
(old culinary show) 101 Brain, for one
102 Food taste associated
with MSG
103 Must have
104 Actress Joanne
105 Red lab dye
106 Divided
107 Drug dealer
108 Overly fond sort
112 Baby’s cry
113 Yes, to Gigi
114 British “Inc.”
115 Govt. agent
116 Of city govt.
117 Enzyme suffix
118 L-P center
119 Frequently,
to poets
120 Suffix meaning
“animals”