PREMIER CROSSWORD
NATIONAL DATA
ACROSS
1 Bumper-car carnival ride
7 TV title alien
10 Garden pond fish
13 Cause to blunder 19 Cook too long
20 Ned of NASCAR
22 Ned of The D.A.
23 Appear gradually, as a scene
24 “No, seriously!”
25 Surrounded by
26 Mountain laurel
29 Clumsy type
30 Stocking stuffer
31 It’s charged
32 Alternative to ChapStick
37 Old Folks at Home 44 Vital artery
45 Spellbound
47 1989–2007 senator Trent
48 Stein fillers
49 Blue spruce
53 Propose a date to 55 Author Ferber
56 Pro — (in proportion)
57 “— a customer”
59 Joe of GoodFellas
60 Clinton aide Myers
62 Susan of Goldengirl
64 Eurasian animal with antlers
66 “North to the Future”
70 Used up
74 118-across was one
75 Printing goofs
80 Humdinger
81 Reformer Ralph
84 “OK” from Tom Sawyer to Aunt Polly
86 Workplace welfare org.
87 Fuddy-duddies
89 Topaz
92 Relative of a lutz
93 Bullfight yells
95 Israeli airline
96 Right wrongs
97 Cactus wren
101 Went in
103 To the — power
104 Savings acct. accrual
105 Hail, basically
106 Some legislators (or the theme of this puzzle?)
117 Arrived by plane
118 Opera legend Pavarotti
119 Make a comment
120 Response to “You’d never do that!”
121 Ill-fated NASA mission of 1967 122 And others, to Ovid
123 Dwelt
124 Grandmother
125 Subj. for some
immigrants
126 Passable
DOWN
1 Tip politely, as one’s hat
2 Human face’s shape
3 Whoop- — (extravagant fanfare)
4 Expanded
5 Sedgwick of Warhol films
6 Marilyn of Niagara
7 In — (pronto)
8 Desktop illuminator
9 No longer being detained
10 Sax celebrity
11 Soulful Redding
12 Really tiny
13 Saturday Night Fever star
14 Hard Italian cheese
15 “Sure, put me down”
16 Toenail treatment, informally
17 Astral bear
18 Coffee holder
21 Rambled
27 Mexican city due south of Dallas
28 Elevate
32 Waiting with — breath
33 2013 Grammy winner for Royals
34 Dunne of classic films
35 Lieu
36 Chinese ideal
37 California county whose seat is Fairfield
38 Sign word after “Ye”
39 Stocking stuffer 40 Worked on a leaf collection?
41 “You beat me”
42 Tennis tie
43 Up and about
46 Gained access to
50 Refrigeration fluid
51 Workers with shingles, maybe
52 Kofi, once of the U.N.
54 Caveman’s weapon
58 Scrub nurses’ sites, in brief
61 Be hammy
63 Tribalpole emblem
65 — Mountain (Vermont ski resort)
67 Two fives
68 — Marymount University
69 Stadium’s kin
70 Britcom of the ‘90s
71 Pope before Paul V
72 Coors offering
73 Trade group
76 GPS calculation
77 1941 Oscar winner Mary
78 Scottish title
79 Emitted a contented sigh
82 Ending for golden or New
83 Arnaz of TV
85 Decide on
88 Toned down
90 Outside clearance event, of a sort
91 Quite chubby
94 Bert with lion lines
98 Not delayed
99 Diamond substitute
100 Baseball pioneer Buck
102 Came closer
105 One way to fry food
106 Chunky slice
107 Garr of films
108 Spellbound
109 Flair
110 Cocooned insect
111 Son of Seth
112 Head, in Haiti
113 Classroom Apple, often
114 Glen
115 Bard’s Ireland
116 Revue sketch
117 Pill-OK’ing agcy.