PREMIER CROSSWORD / FOLLOWING CONCEPTION
ACROSS
1 Vocalist Vaughan
6 Falsely present as
genuine
12 Wizards-magic
matchups, e.g.
20 Brand of spaghetti
sauce
21 Illicit moneylender
22 Legendary lost city of
gold
23 Carjacking or
kidnapping
25 Guys playing in central positions in team sports
26 Whirling, old-style
27 Vase variety
28 Disgrace
30 Major Dutch banking
corp.
31 “I believe,” on the
internet
32 Metabolism or
reproduction
37 Places for petri dishes 39 Old Delta rival
40 Actress Anderson
41 Haul to court
42 Attempt to give a bias
to news coverage
46 Bottom-line deficit
50 Ed of “Up”
51 With 98-Down, have a
meal around noon
52 Bend in ballet
55 Playwright Jean
56 Burns’ “— Lang Syne” 59 Market condition that
eventually “bursts”
62 Mammal with secretions used in perfumery
66 Vessel spar
67 Marked down
68 Billfold bill
69 Geometric design used to calibrate a video display
73 Imbibe slowly
74 “Sakes alive!”
77 “Va-va- —!”
78 Boxes of toy building
blocks
81 They patrol on
horseback
85 Historic NYC club, with
“the”
86 Wolf in “The Jungle
Book”
87 About
88 Genre for Cardi B
90 Blown away
94 Made calm
96 President or prime
minister 99 Billfold bill
100 Hawaiian isle 103 Neighbor of
Arg.
104 Actor Brody 105 Chemistry trial,
perhaps
112 Former NPR
host Flatow 113 Slangy sleuth 114 Zapped with
intense light 115 Social insect 116 Monastery
musical piece 118 Pub vessel
121 “P.S.” comment ... or where the ends of eight answers in this puzzle might appear?
125 Mention quickly so as to minimize
126 A Chinese
capital
127 Loosen, as a
boot
128 Irremediable 129 Hams it up
130 Pit of a fruit
DOWN
1 Tanning lotion
stat
2 Aids for walking
tours
3 Scarlet tanager
4 Old film critic
James
5 Biblical peak identified with Sinai
6 Ending for eye
or mouth
7 Fancy word for “kiss” 8 Little donkey
9 Round rubber gasket 10 Masc. opposite
11 Plaster painting
12 Kathmandu native 13 Zeppelin, e.g. 14 Not favorable 15 Gunky stuff 16 Still lifes, e.g. 17 Ike’s first lady 18 Utopias 19 Jukebox selections 24 Supreme Court’s
Samuel
29 Solo of “Solo”
31 “Casablanca”
heroine
33 Embrace fully
34 Not healthy 35 Surpass in
firepower
36 Tabloid VIPS
38 Move furtively
43 Gunky stuff
44 Cry of cheer
45 Siouan tribe
46 Pos. opposite
47 Safe, in hardball
48 Give a convincing
argument
49 Brews, as tea
52 Pre-coll. exam
53 Itemize, e.g.
54 Recon data
57 River of forgetfulness 58 Subpar grade
60 Savory taste of MSG 61 A beatnik may beat it 62 Partners of poppas 63 Disjoin, as a pair of
oxen 64 Transitioned
smoothly
65 Answers an invite
70 Honk
71 Casual shirt
72 Fun activities,
for short
75 Airing past midnight,
say
76 — Island (Big Apple
borough)
79 Mayberry boy
80 Yemeni capital
82 Poppa
83 — -Magnon
84 Unit of corn
89 Source of a purple
fruit
91 Augmenting
92 Start to get tiresome 93 Witty Bombeck
95 Nation within a nation 96 Golfer Michelle
97 Hip-hop “Dr.”
98 See 51-Across 100 Mmes.’
counterparts
101 Wood cutter
102 Software revision,
e.g.
105 Pack away
106 Violin cousin
107 Get frosty
108 Facilitates
109 Proportion
110 Lacking skill
111 Thees and —
117 Em, to Dorothy 119 Hurdle for some
college srs.
120 “2 funny!!!”
122 Relatives, casually 123 “— a pity!”
124 Casual shirt