PREMIER CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Inc. article subjs. 4 Pharmacy chain 7 “— fair in love and war” 11 Luau guitar, informally 14 Actress Skye 18 Lure 20 Tournament sit-outs 21 Rebelled
23 * “High gravity” lager brand 25 Questioning intensely 26 Tattered 27 Sasha Obama’s sis
28 * Home to Nashville 29 Place in a row 32 Actor/singer Gordon 34 Prefix with hazard
35 * “The Good Body” playwright
37 * He played Uncle Leo on “Seinfeld” 42 Prefix with hazard 43 Deliberately disregarding 46 “That’s —!” (“Not true!”) 48 Source of some syrup
53 * Tense situations make them rise 57 Kitchen coverup
58 Not as hard 60 Noble’s crown 61 * Horizontal supporting piece on a ship’s lower mast 64 First-class 65 Leaves off 66 Be nuts over 68 Woman’s office outfit
73 * Actor who played Hercules in 1958
79 At odds with 80 Biology slide specimen 82 Accord
83 * Unease 85 Solidified 88 Asia’s — Sea 89 Think up 91 Part of TMI 92 * Fitted forearm cover
96 * Not even a single time 102 — populi 103 Pluses 106 Strauss one-act opera 107 * Short-pile cotton fabric 112 Instruments of angels
114 Left amazed 115 Push away
116 * The answers to the starred clues are all drawn from a certain set of them 119 Troubadour relative
120 Busy as — 121 Live through 122 Cooped (up) 123 Cen. parts 124 Part of BMI 125 ER staffers 126 Census stat
DOWN
1 King’s home 2 13th-century German king 3 “Tristram Shandy” novelist Laurence 4 “Silent” prez 5 Outdated TV hookup
6 Pipe part 7 Husband of Héloïse
8 Bit of a song’s words 9 Actor Burton 10 Dir. opposite NNW
11 Push along 12 Corn piece 13 Show plainly 14 Misfortunes 15 Redding of R&B 16 Hawaiian state bird
17 Outer limit 19 Zellweger of films 22 Butter substitutes 24 Identical 28 Wobble
30 Not crooked 31 Omegas’ preceders 33 Actress Woodard 36 Mauna — 38 Denials 39 Relish 40 Kagan of the court 41 Made angry 44 Snaky curves 45 End in — (finish evenly) 47 Punta del —, Uruguay 48 Gymnast’s landing pad 49 Fourth mo. 50 Nuptial lead-in 51 — Alamos 52 — four (little cake)
54 Get points 55 One running easily
56 Unit of work 59 Gallery work 62 Scoundrel 63 Gives off 64 Actress Feldshuh 66 Nuclear trial, in brief 67 Cotillion star 68 Legal aide, for short 69 Golden — (retirees)
70 Like “m” and “n” sounds 71 Duke, e.g. 72 NBC hit since ’75 73 Sammy of baseball
74 Author Welty 75 Suffix with phenyl
76 Actor Diesel 77 Summer, to the French
78 Pink Floyd’s Barrett
80 Like Peru’s peaks 81 Assembles 84 The “S” of RSVP 86 Off-road bike, in brief
87 Some deer 90 Filling dishes 93 Incident 94 Religious adherent 95 Phillips — Academy
97 U.S. Open airer 98 Bring joy to 99 Oath takers 100 Come forth 101 Boston ball team 104 “Come Back, Little —” 105 Roof overhangs 107 Improvise jazzstyle 108 Writer Wiesel 109 “Perfect Strangers” co-star Mark — -Baker 110 Waistcoat 111 Twisting fish 113 Squalid district 116 U.S. “Uncle” 117 Outer limit 118 NFL stats