PREMIER CROSSWORD

BEST OF BREED ACROSS

1 Agents, informally 5 Wombs 10 Soccer great Mia

14 Warms up

19 Fix up copy 20 Condor claw 21 Emollient plant

juice 22 Incandescent 23 Good occasion to buy securities 25 After-hours 26 Youngest of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” 27 Davenport, e.g. 28 Dish of melted cheese on toast 31 Small marsupial with long hind limbs 35 Doubters 36 Dutch painter Jan 37 Actress Thurman 38 Depot: Abbr. 41 Financier Onassis 42 Rocker Nugent 43 Tiny flash of light

45 Light classical orchestra 51 Flips out 53 Met again, as a legislature 55 Painful spots 56 Mendelssohn orchestral piece in A minor 62 Merlot, e.g. 63 “Yentl” actress Feldshuh 64 Paranormal gift, for short

65 Prankster’s messy missile 66 Prankster’s messy missile 67 Hunt quarry 68 Pack animals around Lhasa 73 Actor Julia 75 “Dr.” of rap 76 Lean red meat source 77 —Bo 78 Eisenhower’s wife

79 On Soc. Security, say 80 Popover served with roast beef 86 Thin as — 88 Gorbachev’s wife 89 “Count” of jazz 90 “The Simpsons” airer 93 “Lorna —” 95 — -cone 98 U.S. spy org. 99 Part of OTC 101 Platform for iDevices 102 Entr’— (interludes) 104 Dispute gobetweens 109 Very sleek 112 Maine and Montana, to Canada 115 Fact fudgers 116 Firefighter Red 117 Residence 118 Crossbreed apropos to this puzzle (hint: see the starts of 10 long answers) 123 Resolved to accomplish 124 Fairway club 125 At the zenith

126 Org. looking for aliens 127 Party givers 128 Annoyer 129 Playwright Clifford

130 Eve’s garden

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1 Yank’s rival 2 Instruct 3 Flew, as a plane 4 Patron of physicians 5 Ogden native 6 Pothole filler 7 Lean red meat source

8 Fish spawn 9 Bisected 10 Corridor

11 “’Tis so sad” 12 Fliers drawn to flames 13 African mongoose

14 Very sharp road curves 15 Heron variety 16 Cover story 17 Pick-me-up 18 Hits hard 24 Thom — shoes 29 Canon camera 30 Prefix with space

31 Q-U link 32 Big swallows 33 Mennonite subgroup 34 Oversaw 39 Recipe amt. 40 Ark builder 43 Moo goo — pan 44 Lovers’ gettogether 46 “You can’t — train” 47 Sports drink brand

48 Art of paper folding 49 Waddling bird 50 Opposite of NNW 51 Didn’t leave the house

52 To the — degree 54 Ones who can sense others’ feelings, in sci-fi 56 Engine additive 57 Jockey Angel or baseballer Wil 58 Burden too heavily

59 Lay eyes on

60 Suffix with neat 61 “Absolutely!” 68 Novelist Josephine

69 “I believe ...,” in texts

70 Small donkey 71 Water nymph 72 “— darn tootin’!” 74 Chair piece 78 Roman 1,501 79 Brit. mil. fliers 81 Go- — (kid’s racer) 82 Certain Indian believer 83 Kindle buy

84 Violet variety 85 Purpose 87 Podiums 91 Stadium part 92 Frigate, e.g. 94 Engine additive 95 Really raged 96 Web location 97 —Kosh B’gosh 100 Suffix with Vietnam

102 Luc’s gal pal 103 Vulgar 104 Embarrass 105 Calf-roping competition 106 Little imps

107 — -proof 108 Place to shop 110 Retort to “It ain’t so!”

111 Ice mishaps 113 “Famous” cookie guy

114 Tepee 119 Purpose

120 No. on a road sign

121 Decay 122 Mark, as a ballot square