- PRIME
- Of fine quality
- 2 or 3, but not 4
- With 66-Across, peak evening hours ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues
- Grade A
- Beef designation
- Like 17
- Meat rating
- Number like 3 or 13
- Like 7 or 17
- High-quality
- ___ lending rate (Bank of Canada concern)
- Prepare the engine
- Apply a basecoat to
- Top quality, as beef
- Word before cut or time
- Highest grade?
- Most important
- Best rate
- Like 2 or 7, but not 27
- Choice
- Cut or time
- Kind of rib or minister
- Ready
- Time of your life
- __ minister
- Heyday
- Fed concern
- Get ready to paint
- Rate in the news
- Rate in the financial pages
- First-rate
- Much-watched interest rate
- Like top-quality beef
- Steak rating, and word that can precede the first words of the answers to starred clues
- With 70-Across, prized programming slot ... or a hint to the first two parts of the answers to starred clues
- Resident at Ottawa's 24 Sussex Drive
- Kind of minister or suspect
- Amazon option
- Prepare for painting
- Word before rate or time
- Beef rating
- Steak grade
- Beef grade
- Word before number or rate
- Highest-quality
- Principal
- Best-quality
- Steak designation
- First-quality
- Most fundamental
- Top-quality
- Peak years
- Top-rated
- High beef rating
- __ minister (British leader)
- Preceder of rate and time
- Best of all
- Of the highest quality
- Superior beef rating
- Highest grade of steak
- Period of greatest activity.
- The period of greatest vigor.
- Plus 41 Down, head of a cabinet.
- Youth.
- Spring of life.
- Chief.
- Of first quality.
- The best of anything.
- Springtime of life.
- First.
- Certain TV time.
- Some TV time
- Do a pump job
- Type of TV time
- Best part of life
- Kind of minister
- Kind of time or rib
- Prepare a cannon for firing
- Kind of time
- Coach
- Kind of rib or time
- Leading
- Word with ribs or time
- Cream of the crop
- Time preceder
- Kind of minister or mover
- Second to none
- Two, for one
- Like 2017 and 2027
- Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
- In the ___ of life
- 7 or 11, e.g.
- Get ready
- Amazon offering
- Superior beef grade
- Like some numbers and rib
- What you're in at height of your career
- Like 2 and 5 but not 25
- Top-notch
- Two or three, e.g.
- Of superior grade
- Certain minister
- Word with time or suspect
- Cut of beef
- Word with rate or suspect
- Peak
- Grade of beef
- Type of minister
- Like 11 and 17
- Like 3, 5, and 7, but not 1
- Like the number 19
- Like three and seven
- Amazon ___ Video
- Two, but not four
- Highest quality grade for beef
- Like 12,345,678,910,987,654,321
- Kind of rate or suspect
- TV time
- Meat grade
- Like one and three
- A rate or a meridian
- Type of time or minister
- Of the highest grade
- High-quality, as beef
- Like 3 and 5, but not 35
- Like the number 17
- Like the numbers 11, 13 and 17
- Like 2, 3 and 23
- 2 or 3, e.g.
- Interest rate benchmark
- USDA designation
- Peak period
- Amazon offering, and a hint to a replacement in the starred clues
- 2 or 3, say
- First-class
- Like 2017 but not 2018
- Of the best quality
- Like some steaks and some numbers
