THE PREMIER

ACROSS

1 Deal with mercifully 9 Smoothtongued 13 Inlaid tile designs 20 Shady protagonist, perhaps 21 Inner Hebrides island 22 Female graduates 23 Famed pool hustler 25 Reverberate 26 Recap no. 27 Neither go-with 28 Mined rocks 30 Actress Ekberg 31 Founder of Tuskegee University 36 “Don’t put it off!” 40 “Yes” vote 41 Sports guard 42 “Sideways” actress 47 Many 53 Just right 54 Window above a door 55 Interstellar dust clouds 56 Arnaz of TV 57 Interim workers 58 Mystery novelist who created Anna Pigeon 60 Tree of Iowa 62 Some iPods 63 Authority 64 Home: Abbr. 67 “LOVE” stamp artist 73 They work on mags 74 Aleve targets 76 Dueling tools 77 Cleo’s biter 79 NFL MVP of 1989 and 1990 81 Pleasantly warm outside 85 Norwegian city 89 Many pink-eyed animals 90 Ban on trade 92 Kilt design 93 Publisher of Elle Decor 94 Painter called “The Mother of American Modernism” 96 Theta lead-in 98 Big foot spec 99 Map blowups 100 “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” playwright 109 “Full of beans,” e.g. 110 “Frozen” queen 111 Acid rock’s “acid” 112 Writer Dinesen 116 Place-to-place worker 118 Bailiff’s directive that’s apt to this puzzle’s theme? 123 Opponents 124 Reverberate 125 Diagnostic list for a techie 126 Brand of frozen desserts 127 Phony 128 Decade’s span

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1 Alluring legs, informally 2 Attending to the task 3 Big volcano in Sicily 4 Isn’t incorrect? 5 That girl 6 “Assuredly” 7 Maine city 8 Uncool 9 Alternative to a JPEG 10 Mauna — 11 Tagging along behind 12 Port in Iraq 13 Actress Mason 14 Seville cheer 15 Singer Boyle 16 In a group of 17 Arctic native 18 Poem division 19 Car variety 24 GPS display 29 “NFL Live” channel 31 Be really hot 32 BYOB part 33 “— Hope” (old soap) 34 “Bill & — Excellent Adventure” 35 Ran in place 36 Full of zeal 37 Funny — (2003 Kentucky Derby winner) 38 Very, to Fifi 39 Mystery writer Marsh 43 Ending for Manhattan 44 Branch 45 —-law (acquired relative) 46 Revise 48 First family until 2017 49 Big brass 50 Really work 51 Rowed 52 Plants with fronds 55 Viking org. 57 Certain bout result, briefly 59 7, to Caesar 61 Fire felonies 62 Prefix with fire 64 Hindu royal 65 French place of learning 66 Cat food brand 68 Reno actions 69 Air quality gp. 70 Zellweger of “Case 39” 71 “I love you,” to Juan 72 “No” vote 75 Arabian chief 78 Flag holders 80 Re, fa and la 81 Deli staple 82 Actress Dombasle 83 NYC airport code 84 Pasture call 86 Not in peril 87 Raise up 88 Extolling poems 91 Matzo — (Jewish fried dish) 92 Writing tools 94 Scottish Celt 95 One of the Kardashians 97 African fly 100 Durations 101 Patsy’s sidekick on “Absolutely Fabulous” 102 Neighbor of Mali 103 Shearer of old films 104 Inbox filler 105 Curvy letters 106 Stare at 107 “The best — to come!” 108 Venerate 112 Regarding 113 Spanish for “room” 114 Winged god 115 Beer holders 117 Born 119 “That’s it!” 120 Singer Jones 121 Sizable vase 122 Actor/singer Rogers