Premier Crossword | Potent Poultry
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 65 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Durable, lustrous fabric for table linen
7 Babysits, e.g. 12 Heavy burden 16 Machines connected to mice
19 Person expressing viewpoints
20 Do some igniting 22 Syrup source 23 Beginning of a
riddle
25 Even a hint of 26 Not so bright 27 Old sporty
Pontiac
28 The Palm Treo
was one, in brief 29 Arctic home 31 Riddle, part 2 39 “— qué?” (“Why?,” to Juanita)
40 Tofu base 41 Contest involving balancing on a floating log 42 Lead-in to bad
news
45 “— girl!” 47 Fortunetellers 49 U.S. pres. during
the Gulf War 53 Riddle, part 3 57 Austrian “a” 58 Hidden valley 59 “— From
Muskogee” 60 “Incredible”
superhero 61 Bert’s Muppet
pal
63 “— darn tootin’!” 64 Broad smile 65 Foal’s father 66 Mini-carpet 68 Riddle, part 4 72 Woman with will
power? 74 Deteriorates 75 Dahs’ Morse
counterparts 76 Pet treater 79 “Tomorrow”
musical
80 — d’oeuvres 81 Peru’s capital 82 “Gotta go!” 83 Muscle jerk 84 Riddle, part 5 89 Tree of Life’s
garden
91 Boffo reviews 92 Funnywomen Schumer and Poehler
93 Has a go at 94 Have a loan from 96 Lead-in to puncture or pressure
97 Class for U.S.
immigrants 98 End of the riddle 107 Put back to 0,
perhaps
108 NASA “yes”
109 Tolkien meanie 110 Rom- — (film
genre)
112 Aussie avian
113 Riddle’s answer 121 Diana Ross musical, with “The” 57M 122 Relaxes,
informally
123 Shoelace hole 124 Disco — (guy on
“The Simpsons”) 125 “Yes, yes!,” in
Yucatán
126 Discontinues
127 Cookout
condiment
DOWN
1 Op-ed columnist
Maureen
2 Green garden
pest
3 Marlins’ city 4 House pest 5 Stitch up
6 Food chain 7 Letter-shaped opening in a machine shop 8 LAX abbr. 9 Certain caucus
reply
10 Visit briefly 11 Reading room 12 Two — kind 13 Not a one 14 Website ID 15 Frozen floating
brine
16 Church song 17 Tippy craft 18 Observe slyly 21 Put — on (limit) 24 Broadway’s
Hagen 30 Mapmaker’s sci. 32 Home to
Barcelona 33 Driver’s alert 34 Lauder of
perfume 35 Chomsky of
linguistics 36 Vacuum cleaner
company 37 Actress Petty 38 Rick’s love in
“Casablanca” 42 Azalea of rap 43 Manicurist’s tool 44 From the time
that
45 Guitarist Chet 46 Entity
47 Rejects with
disdain 48 Trapped morays 50 Much-married
English king 51 Nintendo console that debuted in 2012 52 Rare blood type,
in brief
54 Pierces 55 Japanese massage technique 56 Ogling looks 62 Old washcloth 64 Say “hi” to 65 Cutoffs, e.g. 66 Hostility
67 Affix a new label
to
69 Hexa- halved 70 Recurrent theme 71 Benefit
spiritually 72 Dislike a lot 73 “National Velvet”
novelist Bagnold 77 Roof’s edge 78 Feet have five 80 Widespread
destruction 81 Primate of
Madagascar 82 Keyboard command for “paste”
85 Rich rocks 86 Vatican’s
denom.
87 Go quickly 88 Stilted-sounding reply to “Who’s there?”
90 G flat, for one 95 — hat (Broomhilda costume part) 96 Beginning of a classic JFK quote
97 Artist working
on glass
98 Pub offerings 99 Send in, as
payment
100 Japanese truck
maker
101 “Mighty” trees 102 Yule songs
103 9-Down and 119-Down are opposite ones 104 Bit of a circle 105 GI tract
bacterium
106 Tender spots
111 Fictitious tale 114 “Bali —”
115 Officeholders 116 Hi-tech film
effects
117 Dove’s noise
118 Cobra type
119 Certain caucus
reply
120 — Aviv-yafo