PREMIER CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Downhiller’s headwear 8 Mexican beach resort 14 Island home of Odysseus 20 University of Wyoming’s city 21 Moon-landing program
22 Had to have 23 They appear before a film’s first scene 25 Viewed to be 26 Cakes of cornbread
27 Indy units 28 Bichon — (white dog) 30 Stitch’s cartoon friend 31 Bleating females 32 Speedy plane 33 It turns a computer on 35 Always, to bards 36 Vintage auto 38 Active Sicilian volcano 39 Holders of emergency supplies
43 Women with babies on the way 47 Puccini work 51 Gala after a presidential oath 54 Cutting noise 55 Quadrillionth: Prefix
56 — epic scale 57 Musical insensitivity
59 Sets for viewing 60 Perfume by Dana 61 Lured
63 “You Gotta Be” singer of 1994 65 Graduation address deliverer 71 Keyless, musically
72 Many a Netflix show
73 “— Dinka Doo” (Jimmy Durante tune) 75 Candy in collectible dispensers 76 “Mice” or “lice,” but not “rice” 81 Blowout, e.g. 82 Look for prey, as a lion 83 Cyber-addresses 85 Membership ceremony 88 Phony: Prefix 90 Camera item for a long or short view 91 Down Under dweller 92 “Me? Never!” 94 — Cruces 95 Says “yes” to 96 Celebratory event for a rollout 102 Swung tool 103 Green gem 107 Prefix with directional 108 Cosmetician Lauder 109 Saintly 111 Birds-and-bees class
112 Stick together 114 Bible’s first words (apt for this puzzle’s theme) 117 Actress McNichol or Swanson
118 Quarterback great Dan 119 Flow out 120 Smallish sofa 121 Slip away 122 City in Arizona or Mexico
DOWN
1 Inclined land 2 “Bam!” 3 Singer Cara 4 Lion features 5 French buds 6 Moral failure 7 Bowler, informally
8 Koi, e.g. 9 Clumsy sorts 10 Signal “yes” 11 Actor Montgomery 12 Radical sort 13 GI’s “Uh-uh!” 14 Owing money 15 PGA peg 16 Shoe lifts 17 Grant entry to 18 Singer/rapper Green 19 Attach 24 Purring pet 29 “Remington —” 32 Bach’s “—, Joy of Man’s Desiring” 33 Mediocre 34 108-card game 35 Frozen waffle brand 36 Move in circles 37 “Lose Yourself” rapper 39 Natural ability 40 Many short plays 41 Hoodwink 42 One of the four seasons 43 Wildly excited 44 Blast stuff 45 Sapporo sash
46 Prohibit
48 Just between us 49 Stream in the title of 1957’s Best Picture 50 Church area 52 Horse color pattern
53 Fills with freight 58 Irish actor Stephen 61 Lawyer Melvin called “The King of Torts” 62 — Moines 64 Minis, midis and maxis
66 GPS display 67 Tetley competitor 68 Bridal gown features 69 Grain towers 70 Hammer’s striking end
71 Since Hector was — 74 Everybody, in Essen
77 Starts to remove a jacket, say
78 — de Janeiro
79 — -Z (total) 80 Fashion designer Phillip —
82 Name shared by 12 popes 84 Least cloudy 86 Join forces 87 Fall lawn tool 89 Rx writer 93 A flirtatious look 95 Element #8 96 Safe securers 97 Love, in Italy 98 Not stricken
99 — or two (on occasion) 100 Kidney-related 101 “Neon” fish 102 Schooner fill
103 One of the Bush twins 104 Around a line of symmetry
105 Al — (a bit firm) 106 Knife features 109 Birds sitting on clutches 110 Conical-bore woodwind 111 Hosiery flaw 113 GPS display: Abbr. 115 Trendy
116 “It seems to me,” online