Premier Sunday Crossword August 16 2026 Answers (8/16/26)

Here are all of the answers to today's Premier Sunday Crossword puzzle for August 16 2026 to help you finish it up!

Our Premier Sunday Crossword August 16, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Premier Sunday Crossword August 16, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Premier Sunday Crossword on 8/16/26, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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# Clue
1A Indian royals
6A Atop browned bread
13A Final achievement
20A “The L Word” co-creator Chaiken
21A Direct course
22A Augment
23A Legislative body in France until 1789
25A Having been expatriated
26A Years on end
27A Reserved
28A Arafat’s gp.
30A Tracey with many Emmys
31A Note after fa
32A “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” Pulitzer winner
38A “E pluribus --”
40A Nasty
41A Sci-fi dark warrior Kylo
42A Catch sight of
43A Monterey Bay locale
48A Like wood that’s been cut up
51A Puzzle cube creator Erno
52A Soul queen Franklin
55A Org. OK’ing meds
58A As easy as --
61A Food regimen that includes lots of vegetables and olive oil
66A Tight-fitting undergarment
68A Retrovirus molecule
69A Helpful hints
70A “QED” part
71A Feline nails
72A Fliers in “Over the Rainbow”
75A Film segment
76A Designer Mode of “The Incredibles”
77A Counterpart of “sir”
78A Counterpart of “sis”
79A Oak nuts
80A Language of the Amish
85A Used a couch
86A Go for it
87A Singer Grande
88A Actress Watts
90A Bo-o-oring
91A Imperial stout that’s popular in Poland
98A 91-Across, for one
101A Org. giving tows
104A Actor Robert De --
105A Equivalent
106A Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, e.g.
113A Tach abbr.
114A Gardener, e.g.
115A Sly chuckle
116A Suffix with schnozz
117A In addition
118A Send via a post office
120A Where to find the avenues that start seven long answers in this puzzle
126A Google program for targeted marketing
127A Enlightened
128A Kind of navel
129A Must
130A Rambles on
131A Pertaining to the schnozz
1D Is rebellious
2D City in the Allegheny Mountains
3D Enterprise captain Picard
4D Pantry pest
5D Catch sight of, biblically
6D Maternity ward doc
7D Once named
8D A fifth of fifty
9D Bullring holler
10D Part of ATC
11D Professor for Harry Potter
12D Part of ATM
13D Luau souvenir
14D Declare void
15D Egg coverer
16D Certain claim on property
17D Inner selves, to Jung
18D Letter-shaped carpentry vise
19D Itsy-bitsy
24D That woman
29D Have a debt
33D Rapper Minaj
34D -- -friendly
35D Kin of reggae
36D Method: Abbr.
37D Foot arches
39D Old Russian space station
44D Vile vapors
45D “Yeah, sure!”
46D El -- (hero of Spain)
47D Road goop
49D Cries of discovery
50D Pallid
53D Custom car tricked out to look junky
54D Oklahoma city
55D Bosses axing people, say
56D Enterprise counselor Troi
57D Bear witness
58D Say “OK” to
59D More fearless
60D Nook and --
62D Marshall Plan president
63D Butyl ending
64D Torah expert
65D Like Erté’s art
67D Goose’s kin
72D Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune about an island
73D Molten rock
74D Svgs. plan for the golden years
75D Average joe
77D Gore Vidal’s “-- Breckinridge”
79D Rent- -- (hired security guard)
81D “Tonka” star Mineo
82D Seize
83D Alliance
84D Tic- -- -toe
89D Auditing gp.
90D Fought noisily in a bar, say
92D Year, in Brazil
93D Actress Tyler of “Onegin”
94D Bi- plus one
95D Plaid cloths
96D Big retail outlets
97D Change the look of
98D Guy who collects illegal payoff money
99D Investment dot-com
100D “Cross” actress Mumford
102D Herr’s “Alas!”
103D Sci-fi primates
107D Superbright colors
108D Depend on
109D Old Valerie Harper sitcom
110D Viral illnesses
111D Tarzan player Ron
112D Polio vaccine creator Albert
119D Macero of jazz sax
121D Petty peeve
122D Frequently, to poets
123D As easy as --
124D Atop, to poets
125D Words before rant or roll

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