PREMIER CROSSWORD
APPLICATION PROCESS
ACROSS
1 Big trucks
5 “Serial” podcast host Koenig
10 Brothers Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan
15 Like GI garb, often
19 Woeful things
20 Bingham of “Baywatch”
21 Slobber
22 Nivea rival
23 Outfit
26 Lasses
27 All upset, with “up”
28 “... flaw — feature?”
29 Actor Knotts
30 Wrung (out)
32 Deli classic
33 Bother a lot
35 Frank of rock
38 Outward display of courage
40 Attachable with a click
42 Hits, as a fly
44 Fill with love
45 “The X Factor,” e.g.
47 Congeal
49 Short sleeps
50 Diane once of NPR
51 Gentlemen
53 Breather
56 Apple option
59 Cow sound
62 Primer for a wall, e.g.
67 Names anew
70 Outdoor enclosure for a tabby
72 Abundant
73 Cow sound
74 Despot Amin
75 It’s often played during a massage
78 “Let us spray,” e.g.
79 Recognize
80 Central Asia’s — Sea
81 Honking birds
82 Old Jewish ascetic
84 Snootiness
87 Cur’s warning
89 Snake’s warning
90 Not bogus
91 Small plateau
93 Give relief to
96 Choir female
99 Responses to massages
101 Something revealed by a scale
107 Fly without a co-pilot, e.g.
110 Like a famed Vatican chapel
112 Roll around in mud or dust
113 Mascara, e.g.
115 Writer Calvino
117 Ethiopia’s — Selassie
118 Ovid’s lang.
119 Tubers often candied
120 Engine speed meas.
121 By way of
123 Tattooist’s supply
124 Otherwise
126 What eight answers in this puzzle might say if they could talk?
131 Increase, with “up”
132 Internet sales
133 Increase, with “up”
134 Villain in “The Avengers”
135 609-homer Sammy
136 AC— (big name in auto parts)
137 Promotes heavily
138 Leg joint
DOWN
1 Most wealthy
2 Actress Douglas who starred in “Grace of My Heart”
3 Pertaining to an opening of the larynx
4 Former jet to JFK
5 Mix, as batter
6 Desi of Desilu Studios
7 Sleazy paper
8 King topper
9 Furry feet in back
10 Biblical utopia
11 Shirt part
12 Clemente of baseball
13 Oompah band genre
14 Shirt part
15 Tooth on a gearwheel
16 A Gulf state
17 Patroller around a food court
18 Bivalve mollusks
24 Sweltering summer day
25 Ivory, e.g.
31 Lion’s hideout
34 Fast glance
36 Burnt residue
37 Gp. once led by Arafat
38 Raft wood
39 Soda brand
41 Utmost
43 Dickens’ miser
46 Opposite of lge.
48 Three, to Fifi
52 Slippery road condition
54 “The Hunger Games” escort
55 Blueprint data, in brief
56 From Dublin or Cork
57 Jason’s wife, in myth
58 “Ta-ta!,” in Tours
60 Central Florida city
61 Crayon stuff
63 Less of a lie
64 Louvre Pyramid architect
65 Adjectives modify them
66 Message-leavers’ cues
68 Astronomer Tycho —
69 Mattress brand
71 Fierce female feline
76 1972 Eric Clapton hit
77 Chinese menu letters
83 Aussie girl
85 Newlywed man
86 “Got it, man”
88 San Luis —
92 Slightly excessive
94 “How cute!”
95 Ugly foe of Popeye
96 Never-ending
97 Not deserting
98 Frightful flies
100 Like always
102 “Ode — Grecian Urn”
103 Costa — Sol 104 Use as a skating surface
105 Mount — College (Elaine Chao’s alma mater)
106 12-year-old kid, say
108 Set in place
109 Gave the nod
111 — City (Ohio town named for William Henry Harrison’s moniker)
114 Theatricalize
116 Like sheep
120 Move, to a Realtor
122 Tattooist’s supplies
125 Green org.
127 Ocasek of The Cars
128 Endeavor
129 Spying setup
130 Big name in civ. rights