PREMIER CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Dubya or JFK
5 Horse riders
12 Bandleader
Lawrence
16 NBA’s Erving,
familiarly
19 Totally alter
20 Visibly sulky
21 Pack of yaks
22 Coastal inlet
23 Monumental
24 Of very hilly regions 25 Liveliness
27 Betray by snitching 29 Possible answer
to “Who is?”
30 Scottish refusals
32 Lupe of Mexican
Spitfire
33 With 73- and 117-across, notable fact about this puzzle’s solution
37 Antigen-attacking
lymphocyte
39 Abbr. ending a
math proof
40 Suffix with form
41 Deer relative
42 Surgical tool
44 Put a levy on
47 Smidge
49 Des Moines native 51 Cry to a lifesaver
53 Move in spasms
56 American Pie actor
— William Scott
58 Visibly awed
60 Tailless cat
61 Pop’s Grande
63 The Beatles’
Eleanor —
65 Gibson liquor
66 1847 Herman
Melville novel
67 Big name in utility
knives
68 Atty.’s title
69 18-wheeler
71 Div. of a hoops
game 73 See 33-across
80 Mine, in Italy
81 ROY G. —
82 Albuquerque-toDenver dir.
83 Chef’s hat
85 Travel by foot
89 Cable inits. for old
films
91 Reverend Jackson 93 Tweak
94 Ending for buck
95 “El —” (nickname of
a drug lord)
97 Drink heartily
99 Acorn trees
100 “Incredible!”
102 D-Max pickup
maker
104 Tips, as a hat
106 Wd. often ending
in “-ly”
107 Rho-tau link
109 Western treaty
inits.
111 U.S. spy gp.
112 Former Pan Am
rival
115 Decide you will
117 See 33-across
121 Part of a ship’s hull 123 Cartoon hits
125 Cool, man
126 Some Native
Americans
127 Getting a laugh
of out
129 Cool guy on
Happy Days
133 Years, in Italy
134 Traffic snarl
135 Lawn digger
136 Popular place for
a piercing
137 Give a test to
138 Log splitter
139 — Out of My League 140 Basic nature
141 “That’s clear”
DOWN
1 Trig, for calc, e.g.
2 Put new concrete on 3 Revised copy
4 Cholesterollowering drug
5 Funny Carrey
6 Artist Yoko
7 “Be quiet!”
8 Univ. about 50 miles west of Topeka
9 Coating with glossy
varnish
10 Yang partner
11 Office scribe
12 Interlaced
13 Is
14 Third bk. of
the Bible
15 Roguish behavior
16 Group of precision
marchers
17 Ceremony
18 Run This Town
rapper
26 Toon frame
28 Laugh syllable from
a Stooge
31 Plant — (claim some
territory, maybe)
34 Writer Mario
Vargas —
35 Mitigate
36 “King Kong” studio 38 Solidifies
43 “Seminar,” for “Marines,” e.g.: Abbr.
45 River in Italy
46 “Kisses and hugs”
symbol
47 Glide in a rink
48 Glaring
50 “That’s the — goes” 52 Med. insurer
53 NFL’s Jaguars, on
scoreboards
54 The “E” of
39-across
55 Well-off
57 Muslim face veil 59 Arouse
62 Linguist Chomsky 64 Mark over a short
vowel
68 Pliocene, e.g.
70 Big name in
infomercial knives 72 Eligible for Soc. Sec. 74 Class for an Eng.
major
75 Little jewel
76 Sam of golf
77 Judo halls
78 Blue hue
79 Walrus tooth
84 Aliens, briefly
85 Tot’s glassful
86 Yank who wore #13 87 Small amount, as
of sales
88 Jazz saxophonist
Dave
90 Injure greatly
92 People crushing
things
93 Stick on
96 Biblical song
98 Points of
convergence
101 Prizes highly
103 Animals: Suffix
105 Kismet
108 Wolf down
110 Suppress
112 Pre-liftoff
expression
113 Hot dog
114 Judicial inquest
116 Book divs.
118 Lauder of
cosmetics
119 Cereal utensil
120 Basra citizen
121 Mexico’s
— California
122 Huge-screen film
format
124 In-favor votes
128 “Stupid me!”
130 Partakes of
131 Grimm airer
132 Wye follower