THE PREMIER
ACROSS
1 Several 5 Utah town on the Colorado 9 Arafat's PLO successor 14 — Rica 19 A quarter of twenty 20 Oscar winner Bancroft 21 Unwilling 22 Recon info 23 Absence of muddled thoughts 25 Jazz fusion pianist Chick 26 Poker-faced 27 Capital of Turkey 28 Mail opening 30 “I — Rock” (1966 hit) 32 Hastens, oldstyle 33 Rescue squad VIP 34 2005 Donna Andrews mystery novel 38 Chicken chow — 40 Joe Biden's party: Abbr. 41 Bodily blinker 42 Top-shelf 43 Make repairs 48 MYOB part 49 Sound systems 50 Agnus — (prayer) 51 Spy spoof of old TV 55 Saddle-making tools 57 Campsite hookup users, in brief 60 “The L Word” actress Kirshner 61 Sirs' counterparts 65 “Sheesh, no need to be so critical!” 71 Boulevard 72 Town in eastcentral New York
73 Attack like a cat 74 Means of thwarting software piracy 76 Futilely 77 Amazement 78 Linda Ronstadt's “— Easy” 79 Grain holder 81 Alternative to People 85 Unvarnished 88 Remus' twin 93 Winners' signs 94 Digital entertainment periodical 97 Place for keeping bees 100 Used a rocker, e.g. 101 Call to a ewe 102 — dixit (claim with no evidence) 103 Discover via unpleasant personal experience 109 Guided 110 TV's Swenson 111 Lead-in to nuptial 112 — Field (Mets' home) 113 Language of Libya 115 Really militant sort 117 Claims 119 Option lists that might include the starts of seven answers in this puzzle 122 Plant stem 123 River to the Rio Grande 124 Many 4WD autos 125 “Quo Vadis” emperor 126 Weight allowances 127 Like white, wet weather 128 He and she, e.g. 129 Big dino
DOWN
1 Colts' and Broncos' gp. 2 Light bulb wire 3 Day's end, poetically 4 Not potent 5 Olympic skiing champ Phil 6 Actor Ryan 7 Ortiz of the screen 8 Mattress supporter 9 Metal-industry giant 10 Illegal booze 11 Tavern 12 Anxiety-free 13 SeaWorld whale, once 14 Counterpart to trans-, genderwise 15 At no cost, slangily 16 Emotion-hiding types 17 Group beliefs 18 Milano of “Mistresses” 24 “Cool, dude!” 29 “I wanna!” 31 Foppish scarf 33 Australian avians 35 Roush of baseball 36 Soap ingredient 37 Addition sign 39 Neither here — there 44 Join forces 45 TV doctor Doogie 46 Immigrant's course: Abbr. 47 Pneumatic engines 48 Huck Finn's polite assent 51 Reactions to corny puns 52 Refrigerator brand 53 Christina of “Cursed” 54 Stolen 56 Enterprise engineer
58 Caesar's “I came” 59 This, in Peru 61 East Asian gambling mecca 62 States openly 63 Old-time lawyer and senator Chauncey 64 At least one 66 Les — et les autres (both, in French) 67 Gumshoes 68 Literary finale 69 California wine county 70 Adore, on a candy heart 75 Lubricants 80 A Gershwin 82 Not too hard to get around 83 Designer Saarinen 84 Make excited 86 Ready to hit the baseball 87 Most tired 89 Israeli gun 90 Cosmetic accentuating the kisser 91 Not behind a firewall, say 92 Ovule, e.g. 94 Oom- — 95 Partook of humble pie 96 Miffed 97 It hasn't been seen before 98 Fiesta target 99 Bergman of film 100 Rocker Tyler 104 Snares 105 Type of fit 106 Forgo 107 — -craftsy 108 Holiday tuber 114 Bowed 116 Green-lights 118 — -friendly 120 “Obviously!” 121 Chicago White —