SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD
| BREEDS ON THE DECLINE BY FRANK A. LONGO
Across
1 Lagoons
6 Jaunty greeting 10 Basics
14 Aid in crime
18 Full of vitality 19 Purim’s month
20 Patio cooker
22 Sage guide
23 Pope after Sergius II 24 Acting Ward
25 “Same here”
26 Arab country
27 Player hitting to prepare for a spike 30 Energetic journalist 32 Chicago-to-tampa dir. 33 Suffix with leopard 34 Caroling song 35 Journalist covering a particular sector
38 To be, to Bardot 39 Lock of hair
40 Dubai’s country, for short
41 “Kung Fu Hustle” director and star 45 Canonized Mlle. 46 Campers under canvas 50 Field unit
51 Jarred
55 Having no commercials 56 High-scoring hoops shot
59 Met or La Scala frequenter
61 “That didn’t escape my notice”
62 Prior to, to bards 63 Pooch’s cry
65 Country singer Blake 67 Andrea _ (ill-fated ship)
69 Swimming sensation at the 1972 Olympics 71 Nine-sided shape 75 Comic buffoon 78 Entertainer Zadora 81 Deli salad
84 Injury rehab professional
86 Scattering in the field 88 Baja blanket 90 Vandals, e.g.
92 Gillette brand 93 Genghis Khan followers 95 Silvery gray 96 Deliverer of a fine spray
99 Text-scanning device, briefly
100 Revises text 103 First letter of the Arabic alphabet
104 130-to-135-pound bout competitor
108 “_ Well That Ends Well”
109 Cavity fillers’ org.
112 According to
113 Sheriff’s star
114 Popular yoga pose … or something found seven times in this puzzle 117 Color shade
119 Research facility
121 TV “Warrior Princess” 122 Duck with soft feathers
123 Tortilla treat
124 One of the singing Braxton sisters
125 Eternally
126 Love, to Lucia
127 Place of bliss
128 Stuck-up type
129 Relaxation
130 Crowded
Down
1 Give birth, as a whale 2 Margarines 3 Forerunners of cellos 4 Pernicious
5 Like July, order-wise 6 Dinosaurs, so to speak 7 Exemplar
8 Passageway
9 Brand of toothbrushes 10 DOJ heads
11 She wrote “Jane Eyre” 12 Apple quaffs
13 Most sluggish
14 Past time
15 Lousy pieces of advice 16 Rub out
17 Piano fixer
21 Talk like Daffy Duck 28 Past time
29 See 27-Across
31 See 30-Across 36 Sports sites 37 Snitching sort
38 Sort of sword
41 Fill totally
42 Sch. worker
43 Went wrong
44 See 41-Across
45 Give a bias to 47 Wildlife-tracking aids 48 Lulu Hogg player Peggy
49 Stitch up
52 GI address
53 “Blecch!” 54 “The Raven” poet 57 Spanish river
58 See 56-Across
60 Red Muppet
64 Infant’s cry
66 Nabisco treat
68 Doing sentry duty 70 See 69-Across 72 H.s.-level exam
73 “… bug _ feature?” 74 Quarterback great Joe 75 Relief sound
76 Mao _ -tung
77 Other, to Gabriela 79 About
80 Petri dish gel
81 Old JFK jet
82 Meadow 83 Haughtiness 85 Gridiron score after a throw, in brief
87 Street urchin 89 Alternative to “Section 2” 91 Steadfast
94 Spring farm machines 97 Earthen pot 98 Interpret wrongly
101 Starts eating, informally
102 “_ kick from champagne” (Cole Porter lyric)
104 Milk, in Italy
105 Homer epic
106 Bulb unit
107 See 104-Across
108 Two of Henry VIII’S wives
109 Append
110 Active sorts
111 Match up
115 “_ Only Just Begun” 116 Very thin coin
118 2,000 pounds
120 See 119-Across