PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

GREAT PARKING SPOTS

ACROSS

1 Fencing lunge

7 Large wine bottles 14 Derisive imitator 20 Theater area

21 U.S. soccer star Megan 22 Chimney flue, e.g. 23 Start of a riddle

26 Woes

27 Ketchup’s color

28 “The Great Gatsby” star 29 Running the show, for short

31 Illinois’ tree

33 Twisty letter

34 Riddle, part 2

44 Made gentle

45 Source of some milk 46 Source of some milk 47 Earthy color

48 Dark deli breads

49 Kind of internal-combustion engine

52 Bygone jet, for short 53 Just one sip

54 Riddle, part 3

58 Throw lightly

59 Shoe tip

60 Puzzle cube creator Rubik

61 Cousins of counties 63 Etchings, e.g.

64 Baseball hitter’s stat 65 Shows’ actors

67 With 83-Down, Idaho’s nickname

68 TV drama of 2000-15 71 10K or marathon

73 Con job

74 Fabled bird

75 Japanese wrestling 78 Riddle, part 4

82 Ionize, e.g.

84 Pioneered

85 Alternative to Roy Rogers

86 Slightly 87 Protruding belly button 88 Tax mo.

89 Tax pro

90 Ghana’s largest city 91 End of the riddle

97 — -Cat

98 Raw metal

99 Rip up

100 It fixes off-key singing 105 “I’d say,” to texters

107 Simple wind instruments

112 Riddle’s answer

115 Enkindle

116 Peanut, castor bean or canola

117 Long pastry

118 Earned after taxes

119 Cozies up

120 Taco exteriors

DOWN

1 Quick haircut

2 Old 45 player

3 Performs like Cardi B 4 Title beekeeper of a 1997 film

5 Raged violently

6 Subjects of discussion 7 City in central California 8 “— -di-dah!”

9 On — with (much like) 10 Distribute

11 At a future point in time 12 Trio before Q

13 Blood fluids

14 Simba’s father in “The Lion King”

15 Unfilled part of a schedule

16 PC key near Shift 17 2009-10 “American

Idol” judge DioGuardi 18 Scraped (out)

19 Funny Foxx

24 Viking Ericson 25 Funeral poem 30 Assemblage

32 Mouths or faces, slangily

34 Tiers

35 Singer Swift

36 Eggy entree 37 Remainder

38 Seaport on Italy’s “heel” 39 “That’s a lie!”

40 Future docs’ exams 41 Very, very

42 Match divisions

43 Very, in Paris 49 Long-winded

50 Limited

51 Gold, in Gijon 52 Edinburgh inhabitant 53 Patterned wool blankets 55 Long deli sandwich 56 “Barnaby Jones” star Buddy

57 Major protest

62 Kind of internal-combustion engine 65 Mollycoddle

66 Battery liquid

68 Thing relied on for support

69 Like a day in June, per a Lowell poem

70 Roofing problem in cold weather

71 In favor of the idea 72 Activist Nader

73 Long deli sandwich 75 Garbage boat

76 “Nothin’ doin’ ”

77 — Hari (spy)

79 Stare stupidly 80 Unravels

81 Envoy’s skill

83 See 67-Across

88 Woe

89 One who may study bonds

90 CIA spy Ames 92 Accustomed 93 Test runs

94 Triads, e.g.

95 Western U.S. gas brand 96 Things raked in autumn 100 Neat as —

101 Compulsion

102 Color slightly

103 Fail to include

104 Inflation subj.

106 Pitcher Hershiser

108 Inactive

109 Actress Patricia

110 Edible bit of a pomegranate or litchi

111 Estonia and Latvia, once: Abbr.

113 Go fast, quaintly

114 — Wee Reese