The Fayetteville Observer

SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD

| WRITING SWEET NOTES

- BY FRANK A. LONGO KING FEATURES

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

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