PREMIER CROSSWORD
POETIC LICENSE
ACROSS
1 3.26 light- years
7 Smithies’ blocks
13 Mark with surface ridges
20 Wise goddess
21 Baby sock
22 Garden State capital
23 Money made by the poet who wrote “In a Station of the Metro”?
25 Lessees
26 Port on the Danube
27 “Just playin’ with ya”
28 Singer DiFranco
29 Bad- mouth
30 Fuel brand in Canada
31 Tirana is its cap.
32 Hound doc
33 Switchboard worker reached by the poet who wrote “The Bridge”?
36 Grid of fine lines in an optical instrument’s focus
38 Boxer Johansson
39 Aged, once
42 According to
43 Concerning
44 High- priority task
48 Holiday tree decoration hung by the poet who wrote “The Song of the Shirt”? 52 German car make
54 Cool, 1940sstyle
55 Mix up
56 “No it —!”
57 450, in old Rome
58 Co. division
59 Caesar of old TV
60 Horror film lab helper
62 Puente of mambo
64 Promises
67 Business run by the poet who wrote “The Shooting of Dan McGrew”?
71 Most ventilated
72 Lovett of country rock
73 Give a title to
74 Pindar verse
76 FBI action
77 Koko, e. g.
79 Vigoda and Fortas
81 Having a bill 83 Novelist Packer
84 Soccer star
86 Caution given by the poet who wrote “The Road Not Taken”?
88 Amount of groceries, say 90 Busy as —
92 Adriatic, e. g.
93 Henri’s head
94 Off the mark
96 Compound with two or more amino acids 99 Food energy used by the poet who wrote “To a Mouse”? 103 Toronto- to- D. C. dir.
104 — Cruces 107 Irish Rose’s lover
108 Pats’ goals
109 Drink suffix
110 Enter
111 Noah’s boat
112 Tennis hitting technique
114 Marinara cooked by the poet who wrote “Aurora Leigh”?
117 Shifty
118 Fisher of fashion
119 Israel’s language
120 One of the 12 apostles
121 See 115- Down
122 Tromps ( on)
DOWN
1 — New Guinea
2 Reef ring
3 Any point of the compass
4 D. C. figure
5 Curly- leaved salad green
6 Funeral box
7 Sacked out
8 Hide- hair link
9 Old Plymouth
10 1986 memoir by singer Turner
11 Bolshevik, e. g.
12 Line div.
13 Skunk mark
14 Hair- care brand
15 Kylo — (“Star Wars” villain)
16 Weeping
17 Trial blast
18 Bodily trunk
19 Painter James 24 Venetian painter
29 Carry out kind acts
33 Simoleons
34 M. D. type
35 Cuba’s Castro
36 Actor Foxx
37 Eau —
39 Resistance units
40 Mardi Gras locale
41 Moving shakily
43 Like sun visors
45 2002 baseball
themed film
46 Reliant ( on)
47 Decides
49 Drab shade 50 Denver university
51 Contest form
53 Town square
57 Bamboozle
58 Hwy. felony
61 In base eight
63 1990s cardio fad
65 Conga’s kin
66 Guide
68 Purge
69 Jai- alai cry
70 Shoe part
71 UAR part
75 Threshold
78 June gems
80 Twisty paths
82 Cards’ cost 84 Witty bits
85 Optional course
86 Alternatives to Maseratis
87 Sherlock Holmes’ pal
89 Tactfulness
91 Scarer’s cry
95 Comedian Gilda
96 Runt
97 Apple computer webcam
98 More obtuse
99 Norman in “Psycho”
100 Curved fastening bar 101 Rend
102 Pop heroes
104 Singer Branigan
105 Curved
106 Distorts
110 Cotton seed removers
113 Fruit seed
114 TV’s Arthur
115 With
121- Across, company’s worth after liabilities
116 Japanese prime minister Shinzo