THE PREMIER
ACROSS
1 “Everwood” actor Wolf 6 Pigs’ home 9 Dutch brew 15 — of Mexico 19 * Ship’s load 20 Lead-in to historic 21 Durango dish 22 Baseball’s Hershiser 23 * Subject to interpretation 25 * Old Greek squares 26 “Stretch” car 27 Steak, e.g. 28 Prefix with lethal 29 * Second U.S. first lady 31 At a distance 33 Tattles 34 * Chum 38 Give slack to 42 Son of Eliel Saarinen 43 * Dr. Evil’s cat in Austin Powers films 47 1801-05 veep Burr 51 Beatles song on “Let It Be” 52 Observe 55 Song for one 56 Linguist Chomsky 57 Political plot 61 Knight’s glove 63 “Serpico” actor M. — Walsh 65 * Jumping up and down on a bouncy stick 69 Comb buzzer 70 Native suffix 71 See 8-Down 73 * Pairs of consecutive letters 75 Spying setup 77 Likely (to) 80 Meadow 82 Birds building homes 84 Poster pins 88 Buzzing home pest 91 Large 1940s computer 93 “Huh?” 94 Female kin 95 Artist’s base 99 * Suffer a lot 101 Dog variety 103 * She directed “The Hurt Locker” 107 — Sea (salt lake in Asia) 110 Coy 111 Revisions 112 * Too much selfesteem 116 Beloved of Tristan 119 * Bay off Nigeria and Togo’s coast 123 — de plume 124 Brit’s “Bye!” 128 Ye — Shoppe 129 Rendezvous 130 Really succeed (or what literally appears six times in this puzzle) 132 Old Greek concert halls 133 Shahs, e.g. 134 Shoot (for) 135 Sermon text 136 Philosopher Immanuel 137 Grand home 138 Hosp. staff 139 Sea vessels
DOWN
1 Union enemy 2 Arrived 3 “Eat — eaten” (survival adage) 4 9-to-5er’s cry of relief 5 Dress (up) 6 Flatware item 7 Move as if on wheels 8 With 71-Across, boot camp affirmative 9 Run up — (defer payment) 10 Wise men 11 Air pollution 12 Reid and Lipinski 13 “Seinfeld” gal 14 Nielsen of “Mr. Magoo” 15 Ghana’s former name 16 Dickens’ — Heep 17 “— tell ya!” 18 Dental string 24 It uses 108 cards 29 In — (singlefile) 30 Gillette razor brand 31 Toon bear 32 Canon camera 34 Compound with nitrogen 35 ’83 Keaton-Garr film 36 Letter-shaped girder 37 Easy putts, informally 39 Weep loudly 40 Sooner than, in poetry 41 Ultimate degree 44 Health supplement store, familiarly 45 Jump 46 Pig 48 Part to play 49 Bullring cries 50 Observe 53 R&D center 54 Song for two 58 Singer Dylan 59 Opposed to, in dialect 60 Theater box 62 Orderly 64 Floor piece 66 Tax org. 67 Election analyst Silver 68 FBI guys 72 Umps’ kin 74 — Lanka 76 Oklahoma tribe 77 “Moby-Dick” captain 78 Flow out 79 Fix a flat? 81 Height: Abbr. 83 Former Swedish car 85 Toddler, e.g. 86 Buzzing musical toy 87 Is in a huff 89 Source of warmth on some trains and ships 90 Belly laugh 92 Special FX technology 96 Poppa 97 Native suffix 98 Unit of resistance 100 Mean beast 102 “Doggone!” 104 Totally spoil 105 Century divs. 106 Dark modern film genre 108 Breakdown of social norms 109 Long-term inmates 112 Download on a Kindle 113 Radner of comedy 114 Nash of comedy 115 “My heart skipped —” 117 Weaving frames 118 Driver’s lic. issuer 120 Sicilian volcano 121 Night, in Nice 122 — dixit (assertion with no proof) 124 Song for three 125 “Waterloo” quartet 126 Lean 127 Gets mature 130 Rove (about) 131 Flow out