SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD
| WRITING SWEET NOTES
ACROSS
1 Sailing guy
8 Dump vermin 12 Increased, as security 20 Singer with the 2018 hit “Let You Love Me” 21 Morales of “Bad Boys” 22 Still growing
23 Charms strongly 24 Pottery flaw
25 Cereal with a Honey Clusters variety
26 Start of a riddle 29 Reluctant
30 Suffix with ranch
31 Sty dweller
32 _ Lankan
33 Reggae forerunner 36 Overhead railways 37 Riddle, part 2
41 Sell directly to consumers
44 Very secretive org. 45 Mysore dress 46 Completely
47 Old Palm smartphone 49 _ -de-sac
52 Blasting stuff 54 Riddle, part 3
60 Old Pontiacs
61 Parks of civil rights 62 _ monster
63 Flight check-in stand 66 Mob group
69 Likely
70 Riddle, part 4 73 “Monsters, _”
74 City known for its Heat 76 Clan emblem
77 _ -mutuel betting 78 PC whiz
79 Watch over
81 Riddle, part 5
84 Frat party containers 88 Road no.
89 Emphatic assent in Acapulco
90 First play part
91 Horse pace
93 Saints’ and Cardinals’ gp.
96 Twangy vowel sounds 100 End of the riddle 105 “Prob’ly not”
106 Bagel fish
107 Britain’s Lord Sebastian _
108 Patterned after 109 Issa of “Insecure” 110 Neopagan practice 112 Riddle’s answer 116 Liqueur in some biscotti recipes 119 Nile goddess 120 Most lofty
121 Guys with pitches 122 Faxed, e.g.
123 Tempo faster than larghetto
124 Singer Julio or Enrique
125 Picnic intruders 126 Dawn crower
DOWN
1 Free-for-all fighter 2 Opening for a lubricant, as in a drill
3 No less than
4 Razz
5 Change form little by little
6 Zone
7 Sadat’s predecessor 8 Intersect again
9 Wan
10 Slow-movement martial art
11 Suck out with a tube 12 Bully in “Back to the Future”
13 Go-between
14 Going aboard 15 Spenser’s “The _ Queene”
16 Gigi’s “to be”
17 Band of two
18 Fancy vase 19 Baseball’s _ Wee Reese 27 Video game or sci-fi film
28 Food items with shells 33 Fully content 34 Shoelace snarl 35 Carpenter’s curved tool
37 Grow feathers large enough for flight
38 Food item with a shell 39 Ill-bred guy
40 It’s ENE of Fiji
42 “Right back _!” 43 Gershwin or Levin 48 Poet like Keats 50 Disheveled
51 San _ Obispo 53 Dispensers filled with bills
54 Disney World conveyance
55 Pueblo tribe
56 Legacy levy 57 Additionally
58 Old Iraqi political party 59 Like thick fog
64 Strike defier 65 Davis who was the 2018 major league home run leader
67 Atahualpa, e.g. 68 Sore, as a muscle 70 Weasel’s kin 71 Equipment 72 Ventilating
75 Be worthy of
78 The thing here 80 Neighbor of Windsor, Ont.
82 Remain unsettled 83 Luggage inspection org.
84 Weep noisily 85 Cavern effect
86 Drink like Sencha or matcha
87 Hard drinker
92 The thing there 94 Timberlands
95 Bella’s “Bye!” 97 Really old
98 Maker of crocodilelogo shirts
99 Tam-o’- _ (Scottish cap)
101 Gain entry to
102 Alexander Pope’s “_ to Abelard”
103 Chinese revolutionary Sun _
104 Bee juice
110 Ralph _ Emerson 111 Bits of land in el agua 112 “So it is!”
113 USMC VIPs
114 Pointer
115 Baseball’s Robinson _ 116 “_ always say ...” 117 Badger
118 Indisposed