PREMIER CROSSWORD
OFF THE GRID
ACROSS
1 Imperfection 7 1970 Simon &
Garfunkel hit 14 “— Lot” (Stephen King novel) 20 Geronimo’s
tribe
21 Scenting compound
22 Push forward 23 Footballer from a major Kansas city?
25 Dwell (in) 26 Corp. VIPs 27 Pimples
28 “The — of the Ancient Mariner”
30 Fashion designer
Tahari
31 Actor Brynner 32 Strong urge 33 Footballer ejected from a nightclub?
36 She helped
Theseus 39 Imparted fizz to 41 Critical
42 Not on a footballer’s right? 44 For the most
part 46 Aristocrat’s
home 47 Formerly 48 Liberal —
50 Mai — (rum
drinks) 52 Salvador the
surrealist
54 Hard hitter,
biblically
60 Ship shelters 64 Footballer with
a rod and reel? 67 PC-sent greeting 68 Hearing things 70 Fast shark 71 Bamboozles 72 Footballer working as a sound technician? 75 Matching pullover and cardigan
77 Old Chrysler 78 Think meditatively
79 “Uh, pardon me
...”
80 Like Goodwill
goods
82 Apple variety 85 Humiliated 90 Expand, as a
house 95 Footballer on a
plane trip? 97 Thin pancake 98 Envious composer in “Amadeus” 101 Iterate
102 Visit a footballer?
104 Labor
106 Young fellow 107 Flush (with) 108 Sony Bravia or
Sharp Aquos 109 Pool hall item 110 Piece of office
furniture
112 Plaything for
Fido or Fluffy 114 Declaration when a footballer arrives? 119 Angry speech 120 One casting a
ballot
121 Urge on
122 Makes a sly
verbal attack 123 Ecstasy
124 Feds, e.g.
DOWN
1 “See-saw, Margery —” 2 Fanciers of fine
dining 3 Wrinkle-removing procedure 4 Iterate
5 Greek consonants 6 Vietnamese
festival 7 Common infant
illness
8 Girl played by
Lily Tomlin 9 Bamboozles 10 Anger
11 Quick escape 12 Stuck going
nowhere 13 When typical
workdays start 14 Self-indulgent
binge
15 Have existence 16 Experience a
huge failure 17 Remove hair from, as one’s legs
18 Like doctors’
practices
19 In an aerodynamic way 24 Early Mexican 29 ’80s Golden
Arches burger 31 Bulldogs’ school 32 Scared (of) 33 Kennel club
classifications 34 Rowing need 35 TiVo device 37 — minimum 38 Connect-thepoints puzzle 40 Abbr. limiting a
list
43 Canon — Rebel 45 Exec. helper 48 Make — out of
(rebut) 49 Skating place 51 “It’s finally
clear”
53 Woeful cry 55 Relatives of xylophones 56 Clickable screen
image
57 Some ring wins,
for short 58 Sommer of “A
Shot in the Dark” 59 Take it easy
60 A helmet protects
it
61 Take — from (do
as suggested by) 62 Units of absorbed
energy
63 Vigor, in music
scores 64 “Oedipus complex” coiner 65 Egyptian goddess
of fertility 66 Black-clad teen,
maybe
69 High point 73 Blowout win 74 Enshrouded 76 Mink’s cousin 79 “Mein Gott!” 81 “Such a pity!” 83 Erstwhile space
station 84 Troublemaker 86 Rear, at sea 87 Marine animal’s
pelt
88 Title girl of old
comics
89 Like green or
purple hair 90 Doesn’t reject 91 Embedded, as a
nail
92 “Taking Woodstock” star — Martin
93 Source of flowing
water
94 Tennis divider 95 Shark feature 96 Tot’s wheels 99 Pollen bearer 100 Lowest parking garage tier, perhaps
103 “Absolutely!” 105 Earthy hue, to a
Brit
109 Post-Q string 110 Fender flaw 111 Latin “Lo!” 113 Lyrical verse 115 Sales staffer 116 Outer: Prefix 117 Rio carmaker 118 Hi- — image