Puzzles
Premier Crossword
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PREMIER CROSSWORD / By Frank A. Longo
LIQUIDATION
ACROSS
1 Suffix with Vietnam
4 Its cap. is Tallahassee
7 "Hee —"
10 Degree for a corp. exec
13 In — (sulking angrily)
18 Retired "Simpsons" character
19 Internet access inits.
20 Salt put on wintry roads
22 Mundane
23 Cover again, as a den wall
25 Its capital is Beirut
26 Opening bit
27 Start of a riddle
30 "... man — mouse?"
31 Memphis-to-Mobile dir.
32 Briny bodies
33 Riddle, part 2
Cryptoquip
41 Captured
43 "Do — say!"
44 Debtor's note
45 Copied a cow
46 Make fuzzy
47 Riddle, part 3
54 Extra NFL periods
55 Class for U.S. immigrants
56 Its capital is Niamey
57 Sugar cubes
60 Skilled crafter
64 Sheets and blankets
68 Divisions of history
69 Riddle, part 4
71 With 92-Across, easily donned shoes
72 One way to track aircraft
74 Lays new concrete on
75 Gent
76 Rejoinder to "It ain't so!"
78 Make illegal
79 Untruth
80 Riddle, part 5
Scrabblegrams
90 Roadhouses
91 Wall-climbing vines
93 By way of
94 Public health agcy.
95 Riddle, part 6
101 Pre-euro Spanish money
103 Mined matter
104 Bruins' Bobby
105 Riddle's answer
113 Model Kate
114 Wrestle (with)
115 Pathetic
117 Chutzpah
118 Oven-fresh dinner, e.g.
119 Poem type
120 Celtics' org.
121 Clothes may tumble in it
122 Memphis-to-Milwaukee dir.
123 Couple in "Emma"
124 Born, in bridal bios
125 Paranormal gift, for short
Sudoku
DOWN
1 Musical gift
2 Gush violently
3 Extreme bliss
4 Creators of dreamworlds
5 Theater magnate Marcus
6 Dino of the late Jurassic period
7 Jewish campus group
8 Did superbly on, as a test
9 "Dragnet" star Jack
10 Actress Suvari
11 Online journal
12 When it's 12:00 p.m.
13 Resides
14 — -Barbera cartoons
15 Remove the kinks from
16 Subcontracts
17 Arctic chunk
21 Fannie —
24 Longest Swiss river
28 Kind of port on a PC
29 Fall mo.
Scrabblegrams yesterday's answer
30 Corpulent
34 —Kosh B'gosh
35 Foot's five
36 Survivor's elated shout
37 Plant in a field
38 — polloi
39 Rx order
40 Biblical utopia
42 Give it a shot
46 Mixture for avians to peck at
48 Certain mast attachments
49 Action word
50 Perfumery compound
51 Picked-up feelings
52 Grows old
53 Zodiac sign
54 Footed vase
55 Ruby, e.g.
58 Deface
60 Hairstyles seen in "Hair"
61 Mo. before 29-Down
62 Expert on the Middle East
63 Ship-related
Sudoku yesterday's answer
65 Fluish, e.g.
66 Zilch
67 Student transcript stat
69 Like the taste of Cheerios
70 Folks born in the '80s are part of it
73 Internet access inits.
75 Is perfectly suitable
77 — and Anthony (longtime radio duo)
79 It's close to the heart
80 Ocasek of rock
81 Heavy sheet inside a book's cover
82 Family line
83 Actress LaRue
84 A, in Munich
85 Susan of "L.A. Law"
86 Study intensively
87 Subtle implication
88 Vardalos of Hollywood
89 Tit for —
95 Noted "Mansion" dweller Hugh
96 Part of NATO Abbr.
97 "Wedding Crashers" actor Vince
Friday's Word Sleuth Answers
98 Bellhops' workplaces
99 Author Levin
100 Author Sarah — Jewett
102 Skillet locale
105 Finance
106 Press clothes
107 Prom partner
108 Engine stat
109 Sort of sword
110 Shut noisily
111 Cab it, e.g.
112 Deli heroes
116 Syrup source
Average time of solution 67 minutes
CRYPTOQUIP
HB KNJX ZPOQN NT P KRHM HK KN THZX YRPY CNF'OX XTYHZXV YN KYXPI HY, DRPY DNFIV CNF ZPII HY? YXJMYHTQ BOXHQRY.
Today's Cryptoquip clue: Q equals G
KING FEATURES SYNDICATE
SCRABBLEGRAMS
PAR SCORE 155-165. BEST SCORE 220. FOUR RACK TOTAL TIME LIMIT: 20 MIN
DIRECTIONS: Make a 2- to 7-letter word from the letters in each row. Add points of each word, using scoring directions at right. Finally, 7-letter words get 50-point bonus. "Blanks" used as any letter have no point value. All the words are in the Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, 5th Edition.
Yesterday's answer
PAR SCORE 150-160. SOLUTION: RACK 1 = 9, RACK 2 = 70, RACK 3 = 61, RACK 4 = 70. TOTAL 210
Crypto Fun
SUDOKU / DEREK BOWMAN
RATING: MEDIUM
HOW TO PLAY — Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9 in any order. There is only one solution to each puzzle.
ANSWER APPEARS WITH TODAY'S HARD SUDOKU ON G7
Yesterday's answer
Friday's Word Sleuth Answers
TH "ERS" WORKFORCE
Friday's unlisted clue: LAWYERS
CRYPTO FUN
Solve the code to discover words related to prescriptions. Each number corresponds to a letter. (Hint: 21 = A)
A. 19 5 14 15 2 21 1 15 13 6 — Clue: Treatment
B. 14 13 2 1 13 7 — Clue: Physician
C. 10 3 21 7 19 21 2 22 — Clue: Fills prescriptions
D. 7 5 24 15 8 8 — Clue: Renew a prescription
Answers: A. medication B. doctor C. pharmacy D. refill