THE PREMIER
ACROSS
1 Highest roll of a
single die
4 Peak in Thessaly
8 Freaks out
15 Subjective
paper piece
19 Never dying
21 Kind of cherry named for its shape
22 — sci. (coll.
major)
23 Scaled-down symphony group [1994]
25 Mallorca, por
ejemplo
26 “King” primate
27 Writer Ferber
28 Anti-bias job
agcy.
29 Gown fabric
30 Program interacting with a remote server [1993]
34 Bygone times
38 Nurtured
39 Kids' song with
French lyrics
40 — to go
(gung-ho)
41 “It's ch-chilly!”
42 Whimpered like
a baby
44 Place to disclose sins [2010]
48 Coinage for something with no name
53 Beginning on
54 “To — much is
given ...”
55 Nantes' river
57 Sets of points
on graphs
58 Shallowest
Great Lake
60 Waltz or tango
[1997]
63 Itinerant band
member, say
66 State after
wedlock
68 Having more
seepage 69 Panels that may reverse decisions [2008]
71 Melody
72 Jungle roarer
73 Ouzo flavorer
74 Exact lookalike
76 Brand of rodent
killer
80 Horse-man of
myth
83 Greeting act conveying confidence [1991]
86 First-rate
88 Flub it up
89 Actress Shire
90 Plant snugly
94 — -cone
95 Junk email
sender
97 Samoan peak famous for trapping clouds [1995]
101 Italian port
102 Exactly
103 Money won in a
game of dreidel
104 Claudius I's
successor
108 Getting the job
done
109 What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The”
113 Stun with a
charge
114 Canceled by
crossing off
115 Revising,
as text
116 Bishops'
jurisdictions
117 Prescription
amounts
118 Berlin article
119 Meadow
DOWN
1 Ailing
2 Texter's “If you ask me” 3 Mutant Marvel
superhero
4 Celestial ball
5 Like a cold, hard
gaze
6 Manhattan eatery since 1927
7 Isolated
8 Ad —
committee
9 Hatchet part
10 Ram or ewe
11 “The Fox and the Crow” storyteller
12 Tabby's
scratcher
13 Bobby of hockey
14 Venus Williams'
org.
15 Sedative drug
16 Sticky little
sheet
17 “Mama” Cass
18 Actress Wiest
20 Texter's “Yikes!”
24 Bolted to escape
29 Riyadh native
30 Sugar source
31 Shore flier
32 “Not yet sure what my answer is”
33 Director Joel or
Ethan
34 Killer whale
35 Neighbor of
Myanmar
36 Early James
Bond foe
37 Not similar
41 Dust jacket
write-up
42 Demi and
Dudley
43 Departs
45 Cupcake
flourish
46 That lady
47 Less spicy
49 Honey-coated
Easter entree
50 Anderson of “WKRP in Cincinnati”
51 Cicero's “Lo!”
52 Cake layer 56 ICU workers
59 Actor Stephen
60 Iran's former
name
61 Ball-shaped
62 Put on, as an
outfit
63 After-bath
powder
64 Andy Taylor's
boy
65 Sitting atop
66 Suffix with ball
67 Innocent types
70 President before
Donald
71 Shallow pan
74 Swarms
75 Huge conflict
77 Sedate
78 Steinbeck
migrant
79 Close
81 In — (more than
sleeping)
82 Arm bone
84 Eatery list
85 Baseballer
Musial
87 Is really mad
90 Grain fungi
91 “Watch Me (Whip/—)” (2015 hit)
92 “Apollo 13”
actor Gary
93 Bills worth 100
bucks
94 “You got that
right!”
95 Meat in a sub
96 Coal-mining
guys
98 MMA fighter
Rousey
99 Armageddon
nation
100 Little laugh
104 Silent “yes”
105 Like villains
106 Russo of film
107 Gymnast Korbut
109 Elly May
Clampett's pa
110 Good Grips
kitchen brand
111 “— a trap!”
112 Ark.-to-Ill. dir.