Premier Crossword | Torchbearers
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 66 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Bell sounds 6 Headwear for
the slopes 12 Dinner, e.g. 16 Truckload 19 Politico Palin 20 14th-century sculptor
Andrea 21 Impala, e.g. 23 Pairs figure skater who won 10 consecutive world titles [2014]
25 Frozen cube
producer 26 Figure skater
Michelle 27 “Hack My Life”
channel
29 Pooh creator 30 Stimulus for a
reaction
34 “The
Greatest” boxer [1996] 36 Spanish gold 37 Alley Oop’s
girlfriend 40 “Please reply”
abbr.
41 Barrett of Pink
Floyd 42 Australian sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters [2000]
46 Fabled man? 50 Confounded 51 Tiny division
of a min. 52 First female figure skater to land a triple axel in competition [1998] 56 Sportscaster Bob 59 Nearly dried-up
sea
61 Shot glass 62 Uninteresting 65 Prefix with
athlete 66 Imitator 67 Opponent 68 Peace activist
Yoko
69 What this puzzle’s featured athletes did in the years indicated
74 “As I see it,” to
texters
75 O’er and o’er 76 Stared at 77 NHLER Bobby 78 “It comes —
surprise ...”
79 It’s hit in a fiesta 81 Lavish dance 82 “Up in Smoke”
persona 84 Phoenix Suns point guard who was the 2005 and 2006 NBA MVP [2010]
86 Not on time 88 Pope’s crown 92 Trial excuse 93 1950s-’60s champion decathlete
[1984]
96 Here, in Paris 99 Icelandic literary
saga
101 Some jazz
combos
102 Solder metal
103 Alpine skier voted Canada’s female athlete of the 20th century [2010]
108 Salad endive
111 Go places
112 Monte —
115 Physically fit
116 All by oneself
118 Hockey player voted Canada’s male athlete of the 20th century [2010]
123 Windshield condensation clearer
124 Major South
Korean airline 125 Twinkie filling 126 Suffix with Japan 127 Award for Mel
Brooks
128 Hankered
129 Braga of film
DOWN
1 Sorority letter 2 Musical gift 3 Meyers of TV 4 Sri —
5 Wrap over the
shoulders 6 Financial backer 7 Joke around 8 Lacks entity 9 What fur is 10 Per — (by the
year) 11 Flawlessly
12 — tai
13 Slept in tents 14 Top players 15 Helping
theorem 16 Writer Alice
B. —
17 Not in private 18 Water nymph 22 Placed
24 Like a —
sunshine
28 VCR format
30 — -Cola
31 “I smell —!” 32 Little children 33 Thing at the end
of a foot
35 To no — (in vain) 38 Reduced by 39 “Botch- —” (1952
hit) 43 “Notorious” screenwriter
Ben
44 Ex-rocket Ming 45 Without instrumental backup
47 Stay a while 48 Large bay
window
49 Porker
52 Artist Chagall 53 Some horror film
helpers 54 Mortise insert 55 Maine city 57 Singer Gwen 58 Jogging gait 60 Actress Tara 62 Radar spots 63 Ceiling
64 Make up for 66 — nitrite
(vasodilator) 67 Game similar to
baccarat
70 Ritz or Hilton 71 “You bet!” 72 Social circle 73 Singer Bobby 80 Director
Duvernay
81 Back of a 45 82 Suffix with prank
or mob
83 Ordinal suffix 85 Scottish port on
the North Sea 87 Sternward 89 Concerning 90 Muddy up 91 Diarist Frank 93 Skedaddled 94 Voicer of Olaf in
“Frozen” 95 Award for Mel
Brooks
96 Not outdoors 97 Brings about 98 Wages
100 Nov. follower
104 251, to Ovid
105 Matzo’s lack
106 Arrive at
107 Wipe clean
109 Baldwin and
Waugh
110 Back in style
113 “You ain’t —!”
(“Amen!”)
114 Put — act
117 Uninteresting
119 Arizona-tokansas dir.
120 Buddhist sect 121 Chiang — -shek 122 Singing Sumac