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PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

POTENT POULTRY

ACROSS

1 Durable, lustrous fabric for table linen

7 Babysits, e.g.

12 Heavy burden

16 Machines connected to mice

19 Person expressing viewpoints

20 Do some igniting

22 Syrup source

23 Beginning of a riddle

25 Even a hint of

26 Not so bright

27 Old sporty Pontiac

28 The Palm Treo was one, in brief

29 Arctic home

31 Riddle, part 2

39 “— qué?” (“Why?,” to Juanita)

40 Tofu base

41 Contest involving balancing on a floating log 42 Lead-in to bad news

45 “— girl!”

47 Fortunetellers

49 U.S. pres. during the Gulf War

53 Riddle, part 3

57 Austrian “a”

58 Hidden valley

59 “— From Muskogee”

60 “Incredible” superhero

61 Bert’s Muppet pal

63 “— darn tootin’!”

64 Broad smile

65 Foal’s father

66 Mini-carpet

68 Riddle, part 4

72 Woman with will power?

74 Deteriorates

75 Dahs’ Morse counterparts

76 Pet treater

79 “Tomorrow” musical

80 — d’oeuvres

81 Peru’s capital

82 “Gotta go!”

83 Muscle jerk

84 Riddle, part 5

89 Tree of Life’s garden

91 Boffo reviews

92 Funny women Schumer and Poehler

93 Has a go at

94 Have a loan from 96 Lead-in to puncture or pressure

97 Class for U.S. immigrants

98 End of the riddle

107 Put back to 0, perhaps

108 NASA “yes”

109 Tolkien meanie

110 Rom- — (film genre)

112 Aussie avian

113 Riddle’s answer

121 Diana Ross musical, with “The”

122 Relaxes, informally

123 Shoelace hole

124 Disco — (guy on “The Simpsons”)

125 “Yes, yes!,” in Yucatán

126 Discontinues

127 Cookout condiment

DOWN

1 Op-ed columnist Maureen

2 Green garden pest

3 Marlins’ city

4 House pest

5 Stitch up

6 Food chain

7 Letter-shaped opening in a machine shop

8 LAX abbr.

9 Certain caucus reply

10 Visit briefly

11 Reading room

12 Two — kind

13 Not a one

14 Website ID

15 Frozen floating brine

16 Church song

17 Tippy craft

18 Observe slyly

21 Put — on (limit)

24 Broadway’s Hagen

30 Mapmaker’s sci.

32 Home to Barcelona

33 Driver’s alert

34 Lauder of perfume

35 Chomsky of linguistics

36 Vacuum cleaner company

37 Actress Petty

38 Rick’s love in “Casablanca”

42 Azalea of rap

43 Manicurist’s tool

44 From the time that

45 Guitarist Chet

46 Entity

47 Rejects with disdain

48 Trapped morays

50 Much-married English king

51 Nintendo console that debuted in 2012

52 Rare blood type, in brief 54 Pierces

55 Japanese massage technique

56 Ogling looks

62 Old washcloth

64 Say “hi” to

65 Cutoffs, e.g.

66 Hostility

67 Affix a new label to

69 Hexa- halved

70 Recurrent theme

71 Benefit spiritually

72 Dislike a lot

73 “National Velvet” novelist Bagnold

77 Roof’s edge

78 Feet have five

80 Widespread destruction

81 Primate of Madagascar

82 Keyboard command for “paste”

85 Rich rocks

86 Vatican’s denom.

87 Go quickly

88 Stilted-sounding reply to “Who’s there?”

90 G flat, for one

95 — hat (Broom-Hilda costume part)

96 Beginning of a classic JFK quote

97 Artist working on glass

98 Pub offerings

99 Send in, as payment

100 Japanese truck maker

101 “Mighty” trees

102 Yule songs

103 9-Down and

119-Down are opposite ones

104 Bit of a circle

105 GI tract bacterium

106 Tender spots

111 Fictitious tale

114 “Bali —”

115 Officeholders

116 Hi-tech film effects

117 Dove’s noise

118 Cobra type

119 Certain caucus reply

120 — Aviv-Yafo

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