PREMIER CROSSWORD / STORYBOOK SENTIMENT
ACROSS
1 Auxiliary professor
8 Nickname for baseball
great Ruth
15 Cultural value system 20 High-fashion clothing 21 Knows someone at the
company, say
22 Reluctant (to)
23 “Wait, my rant isn’t
finished ...”
25 Private, as desires
26 Agnus — (lamb figure) 27 “Cool beans!”
28 Down dinner
30 Look lewdly
31 2018 war documentary directed by Peter Jackson
38 Composer — Sebastian
Bach
40 Hamilton/burr
confrontation
41 Era upon era
42 Turndowns
43 Stati — (America, in
Italian)
44 Stage design
47 La — Tar Pits
49 Gp. opposed to
leather
51 Made a habit of taking
risks
54 Actress Cuthbert
57 French for “summers” 58 Bible book after Micah 59 Dwell at
61 —Ops (CIA mind
games)
62 Coffee holder
63 In love
67 Big name in candy
wafers
68 2011-13 Fran Drescher
sitcom
71 Give it — (try)
74 Paris’ Champs- —
75 Certain scanning
device: Abbr.
76 St. crossers
79 First book section
81 Former U.N. chief
Boutros Boutros- —
83 Stool or pew
84 Milk container
85 Just a tiny bit
90 Op-ed writer Maureen 91 Art of Erté
92 Once existed
93 Eldritch
94 Links gp.
96 Canon camera brand 98 — part (role-play) 100 1996-2002 sports
sitcom
101 Song phrase following “See you later, alligator”
107 Amazes
108 Daddy’s boy
109 Prague citizen 110 Victor’s hand
gesture
113 Prefix with type
or plasm
115 What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle
121 Lot units
122 Countering an attack by missile, e.g.
123 Pundit
Huffington
124 Hockey feints 125 Fill with more
inventory
126 Like soon-tobe-unveiled tech
DOWN 1 Mil. school 2 Finished 3 She won a Tony
for “Hurlyburly”
4 Stage actress
Hagen
5 Pious sister
6 Actor Hume of
“Cocoon”
7 Heads, to
Henriette 8 Iota preceder 9 Novelist Robbins 10 N.Y. hours 11 Cranky cry 12 Singer Difranco 13 Stanford- — test 14 Occupy 15 — Lilly & Co. 16 Until this time 17 “Just one moment” 18 Verdi opera 19 Tears to bits 24 “Told ya so!” 29 Recurring themes 32 Detests 33 Author Blyton 34 Oil, informally 35 Dweeb’s kin 36 Cassini of 20-Across 37 Quick quip 38
Minty Kentucky Derby drink
39 — last legs (about to
collapse)
44 Biting turtle
45 Ordinal suffix
46 Like so, informally
48 Correo — (Spanish
airmail)
50 — over (satisfied for
the moment)
52 “Movin’ —” (sitcom
theme song)
53 Tube prizes
55 Brand of fruit drinks 56 Year, in Brazil
60 Signs up
62 Multilevel structure for
Fluffy
64 Suffix with chlor- or
fluor65 Model Cheryl
66 “ER” or “CSI”
68 Get a move on
69 Lead-in to “So sue me!”
Caesar’s 202
N.C. State’s NCAA div.
“— Na Na” Toiling away Fetching Certain surrealist paintings
Eye maladies Funds
Sly — fox Tortoise’s top Calf product Caesar’s “Behold!” Campus mil. program Singer Halliwell 70 71
72 73 76 77
78 80 82 83 86 87 88 89 94 Underside of a dog’s
foot
95 Liftoff stress
97 Hebrew horn
99 With 106-Down, North
Pole surrounder
100 Cling (to)
102 Perfumer Lauder
103 Absurd
104 Missouri’s —
Mountains
105 Toon pic
106 See 99-Down
111 Kin of -ette
112 Novelist Jennifer
114 PRE-CIA gp.
116 “— a girl!”
117 Fabric dye brand
118 Retired NBAER Ming 119 Vote down
120 “True —” (“Indeedy”)