SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pleased

5 Rocker Townshend 9 Helper for Frankenstein 13 Jumped ship 19 Member of a canine unit

21 Nada

22 Remove adhesive strips from

23 Start of a riddle 25 Nonstudent resident of a college city 26 Microsoft Word creations, informally 27 Regret a lot 28 First-time fathers 30 Riddle, part 2

36 Prego competitor 37 _-mo

38 Tiny, informally 39 Manner

40 Tavern spigot

43 In addition

47 Largest known asteroid

48 Riddle, part 3

53 Sch. near Harvard 54 Disposed (of)

55 Actor Sharif

56 Nero’s 2,001

57 Fearful

58 Bro relative

59 _ orange (inedible fruit)

61 Smidgen

63 “POV” network

65 Huck Finn’s floater 67 Bandleader Arnaz 68 Riddle, part 4 71 Broiling bar

75 Lane of the Daily Planet

77 Nintendo console 78 Tyrant Amin

79 Tree of the pine family 80 “_ a deal!”

83 _ -chic fashion

85 Old horror star Chaney 87 Prefix with Chinese 89 Island guitar, for short 90 Pro-firearm org. 91 Riddle, part 5

95 Joust weapon

97 Pencil add-on 98 Martial arts teacher 99 Italian wine city 100 Delhi dress

102 Org. for the Ravens, but not the Falcons 105 Lock lips with

106 End of the riddle 113 Conditionally free prisoner

114 Letters before gees 115 Maui feast

116 Not endless

117 Riddle’s answer 124 12-step support group

125 Chocolate-and-caramel candy

126 Talus

127 Arid expanse

128 Plumlike fruit

129 Hit with a stun gun 130 Brainstorm

DOWN

1 Vehicle navig. aid 2 Baseball great Gehrig 3 Lofty peak

4 Salsa, e.g.

5 Mexican coins

6 Decrees

7 Lump in the throat 8 Yolked thing

9 Rack up

10 Thick and sticky 11 Yoko from Tokyo 12 Mended, as a sweater 13 “How come, though?” 14 Battery end

15 “I’m the culprit” 16 Valleys, plateaus and canyons

17 “Attack of the Clones,” vis-ˆ-vis “Star Wars” 18 Actress Ruby

20 Part of UPC

24 Pooch’s bark

29 D.C. hrs.

30 General discomfort 31 Schedules 32 Responsibility

33 “Our Gang” novelist Philip

34 God, in Madrid 35 Relaxes 36 Musket-loading tool 41 Healing plant

42 Pug or peke alternative

44 _ -pah-pah 45 Offensively self-assertive

46 African antelope 47 Kitchen VIP

49 “Rocky and Bullwinkle” villainess

50 Slate-colored

51 Delta, for one

52 Big name in big computers

60 Street poet Scottheron 62 Dawn drops

64 Lanka lead-in

66 Gp. often flagging bags

68 Celine of pop

69 _ Wafers

70 Actress Falco

72 Old German kingdom 73 Most disgusting 74 Student’s PH.D. paper 76 Certain wind instrument

79 Ear part

80 Wife’s sibling, e.g. 81 Rubbish heap

82 Hot California winds 84 Listens to by chance 86 LA-TO-IN dir.

88 Hosp. figures

92 “Pics _ didn’t happen!” 93 _ II (Gillette razor) 94 Egyptian cross 96 Topaz quartz

100 Unspoken

101 Get riper

103 Entertainer Lola 104 Makes heavy, dull sounds

107 Auto engine

108 Mello _ (soft drink) 109 Tale _ (sob story) 110 Troop support gp. 111 Soup scoop

112 Ditty

116 Craze

118 Cyber-guffaw 119 Kit _ (candy bar) 120 Kyoto sash

121 Pea holder

122 Suffix with meth- or prop123 In-favor vote