Premier Crossword | Swimmingly Good Era
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 67 minutes.
ACROSS
63 — profit 1 Good enough (lucratively) 9 Biblical talking 64 “Can — true?”
beast 65 Leaning Tower’s 12 Chimed city 16 Game show VIPs 69 Play for time 19 — acid (vitamin 70 Gym tops
C) 72 Vents vocally 20 At any place 73 Atoll part 22 Grain morsel 74 Sit next to 23 Start of a riddle 76 Stage design 25 Joanne of “Abie’s 77 Grows molars,
Irish Rose” e.g. 26 Hide-hair 79 Riddle, part 4
connection 82 Hold down 27 Tooth in a 86 Rural rest stop
machine 87 Exotic berry in 28 Professional fruit juices
wrestler Flair 88 Writer 29 Oater Deighton 31 Furtive action 89 Giant in foil 35 Movie-archiving 90 See 3-Down
gp. 92 Nov. lead-in 37 River in a Best 94 Very focused
Picture title 96 End of the 39 Shah’s land riddle 40 Riddle, part 2 101 Tennis legend 44 Tropical rodent Björn 47 Former Russ. 102 Election analyst
state Silver 48 Folk rocker 103 Gods, to Livy
DiFranco 104 Use one’s lungs 49 Exterior 108 Under control 50 Bremen loc. 110 Soft & — 51 Intuit 112 Classical 53 Camera for a pro introduction? 55 Tongs, e.g. 114 Au — (roast beef 58 Riddle, part 3 option) 62 Reference book’s 115 San Francisco’s
“Look here, too” — Valley 116 Riddle’s
answer 122 Taxing gp. 123 Playwright
McNally 124 Submarine 125 Cougar, e.g. 126 Mgr.’s helper 127 Salon colorer 128 Admiration taken
too far
DOWN
1 Expendable
chessmen 2 Take — at
(attempt) 3 With 90-Across,
frighten away 4 Drunk 5 Jackie’s hubby
#2 6 Small ammo 7 Brittle-shelled
Chinese fruit 8 Back talk? 9 Grain bristle 10 Actor Omar 11 Shipping rig 12 Match official 13 Declaration 14 Water nymph 15 Mardi — 16 Not extreme 17 Indy 500 entrant,
e.g. 18 Eye-catchers 21 S’pose 24 “Bejabbers!” 30 Keep busy 32 Clerk on “The
Simpsons” 33 Drop 34 Judges, e.g. 36 “The Day of the Jackal” novelist Frederick 38 Orville and Wilbur of aviation 41 Main port of
Norway 42 Give an alert 43 Luxurious 44 Tennis legend
Andre 45 Civets’ cousins 46 Long trial 52 Broody music
genre 54 Intermediary 56 BBQ piece 57 Flexible card 59 Fit as a fiddle 60 Vicious 61 Clever 65 Bikeway, say 66 Fill one’s
lungs 67 Tyler of rock 68 Green light 70 End up 71 Rudolph’s facial
feature 72 Joins again 74 “Selma” director
DuVernay 75 “— Mir Bist Du
Schön” 77 Quirk 78 “Evita” star
Paige 79 Part of QED 80 “Back to the
Future” bully 81 Bit of power 82 Of Jewish
scholars 83 Stage actress
Duse 84 Least abundant 85 Difficult 91 Bring up until able to fly, as a bird 93 Tianjin locale 95 Baking meas. 97 12 in a foot 98 Impostors 99 Sheer folly 100 In the area of 105 “— Called to Say I Love You” 106 Writer Godden or actress Willis 107 Analytic work 109 Comics’ Kett 111 Rip apart 113 Prefix meaning
“the same” 117 Tate displays 118 Agent’s take 119 Flurry 120 Minister’s field:
Abbr. 121 Levin or
Gershwin