Premier Crossword | Following Conception
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 68 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Vocalist Vaughan 6 Falsely present
as genuine 12 Wizards-magic
matchups, e.g. 20 Brand of
spaghetti sauce 21 Illicit
moneylender 22 Legendary lost
city of gold 23 Carjacking or
kidnapping 25 Guys playing in central positions in team sports 26 Whirling, oldstyle
27 Vase variety 28 Disgrace
30 Major Dutch
banking corp. 31 “I believe,” on
the internet 32 Metabolism or
reproduction 37 Places for petri
dishes
39 Old Delta rival 40 Actress
Anderson
41 Haul to court 42 Attempt to give a bias to news coverage 46 Bottom-line
deficit
50 Ed of “Up” 51 With 98-Down, have a meal around noon 52 Bend in ballet 55 Playwright Jean 56 Burns’ “— Lang
Syne”
59 Market condition that eventually “bursts” 62 Mammal with secretions used in perfumery 66 Vessel spar 67 Marked down 68 Billfold bill 69 Geometric design used to calibrate a video display
73 Imbibe slowly 74 “Sakes alive!” 77 “Va-va- —!” 78 Boxes of toy
building blocks 81 They patrol on
horseback 85 Historic NYC
club, with “the” 86 Wolf in “The
Jungle Book” 87 About
88 Genre for Cardi B 90 Blown away 94 Made calm 96 President or
prime minister 99 Billfold bill
100 Hawaiian isle
103 Neighbor of Arg. 104 Actor Brody
105 Chemistry trial,
perhaps
112 Former NPR host
Flatow
113 Slangy sleuth
114 Zapped with
intense light
115 Social insect 116 Monastery
musical piece
118 Pub vessel
121 “P.S.” comment ... or where the ends of eight answers in this puzzle might appear?
125 Mention quickly
so as to minimize 126 A Chinese capital 127 Loosen, as a boot 128 Irremediable
129 Hams it up
130 Pit of a fruit
DOWN
1 Tanning lotion
stat
2 Aids for walking
tours
3 Scarlet tanager 4 Old film critic
James
5 Biblical peak identified with Sinai
6 Ending for eye or
mouth
7 Fancy word for
“kiss”
8 Little donkey 9 Round rubber
gasket
10 Masc. opposite 11 Plaster painting 12 Kathmandu
native 13 Zeppelin, e.g. 14 Not favorable 15 Gunky stuff 16 Still lifes, e.g. 17 Ike’s first lady 18 Utopias 19 Jukebox
selections 24 Supreme Court’s
Samuel
29 Solo of “Solo” 31 “Casablanca”
heroine 33 Embrace fully 34 Not healthy 35 Surpass in
firepower 36 Tabloid VIPS 38 Move furtively 43 Gunky stuff
44 Cry of cheer 45 Siouan tribe 46 Pos. opposite 47 Safe, in hardball 48 Give a convincing
argument 49 Brews, as tea 52 Pre-coll. exam 53 Itemize, e.g. 54 Recon data 57 River of
forgetfulness 58 Subpar grade 60 Savory taste of
MSG
61 A beatnik may
beat it
62 Partners of
poppas
63 Disjoin, as a pair
of oxen 64 Transitioned
smoothly 65 Answers an
invite
70 Honk
71 Casual shirt 72 Fun activities, for
short 75 Airing past
midnight, say 76 — Island (Big Apple borough) 79 Mayberry boy 80 Yemeni capital 82 Poppa
83 — -Magnon 84 Unit of corn 89 Source of a
purple fruit 91 Augmenting 92 Start to get
tiresome 93 Witty
Bombeck 95 Nation within a
nation
96 Golfer
Michelle 97 Hip-hop “Dr.” 98 See 51-Across 100 Mmes.’
counterparts 101 Wood cutter
102 Software
revision, e.g. 105 Pack away
106 Violin cousin 107 Get frosty
108 Facilitates
109 Proportion
110 Lacking skill
111 Thees and — 117 Em, to
Dorothy
119 Hurdle for some
college srs.
120 “2 funny!!!”
122 Relatives,
casually
123 “— a pity!”
124 Casual shirt