PREMIER CROSSWORD

ELEMENTAL RECOMPOSITION

ACROSS

1 Like Pisa’s famed tower 8 On the mark 16 Dangle 20 Adequate for

the job

21 1974 Billy Joel

hit

22 Pastiche 23 Phone alert sound whose waves travel best through element #7? 25 Refuse to 26 Expert 27 Submission encl. 28 Disney sci-fi film of 1982 29 Ukulele’s kin 30 Exams 33 Skyscraping 36 Instrument whose pipes are filled with element #18? 39 Opening bits 41 Classic Fords, briefly 43 Peddle 44 Mistake while trying to mine element #55? 46 Bargain on the export of element #82? 50 What some cuts do

51 Make cherished 53 City on the Alabama 54 With 32-Down, nobody 57 Home of the philosopher Zeno

59 Oven knob 61 Swiss peaks 62 — Gay 64 Sideshow barkers peddling element #33? 69 Munich loc. 70 I-75, e.g. 73 Heavy winds 74 Binary base 75 Expert 76 Cigar holder made from element #45? 80 It may follow “Long time” 82 Chaplin of “Game of Thrones” 83 Sort of sword 84 Zero

87 Not as much 88 — -Grain cereal bars 90 Harangue 94 Peyotes, e.g. 96 Dark film about people who forge element #26? 98 Internal body parts that have absorbed too much of element #47? 103 Floor cover 104 Tilting type 105 Crooked 106 Clog-clearing stuff found to have element #86?

110 Reach over 112 Poets’ Muse 113 Old Apple laptop 114 Impact noise 116 Floor cover 118 Mean dog 119 A.J. of Indy 120 Half-moonshaped deposit of element #34? 126 Deanna on the USS Enterprise 127 Collectors of lots of stuff 128 Dutch painter Jan 129 Flabbergast 130 Rates 131 Unity

DOWN

1 Really absurd 2 Not gendered, as a noun 3 Vouches for 4 “... — a lender be”

5 Bit of NYSE news 6 Pesters a lot 7 Wonderful 8 IRS filing mo. 9 Nero’s 102 10 Is unable 11 Not marked, as an exam 12 Turbine parts 13 In a crowd of 14 Earthy shade 15 Austin-to-Atlanta dir. 16 1991-2003 Vermont governor 17 See 42-Down 18 Masked warrior in black 19 Boarded 24 “How clever” 29 Links

31 Like clans 32 See 54-Across 34 16-oz. units 35 Pet pests 37 Be hammy 38 Pro-learning org. 40 “Hook” pirate 42 With 17-Down, scram

45 Actor Gibson 46 Secular 47 Orbital curve 48 Current units 49 Rodeo ropes 52 Vitascope inventor 54 Cocktail of gin, vermouth and Campari 55 Sixty minutes 56 Ontario’s capital 58 Person quarreling 60 Enactment 63 Meyers of “Think Big”

65 Raimi of film 66 Yale alum 67 Actor Sparks 68 Politico Paul 71 Voting day, often: Abbr.

72 More devoid 77 “Heck yeah!” 78 Prince, e.g. 79 500 vehicles 81 Literary Twist 85 Women’s patriotic gp.

86 Org. for free speech 89 Using a pen 91 Flabbergasts 92 Jorge’s “day” 93 Some annexes 95 Part of a fork 97 Obsolete 99 Bigwig

100 One fleeing a flood, maybe 101 Adjusts the pitch of again 102 Noisy sleepers 104 Cry after “Psst!,” perhaps 106 Fissures

107 Call off, as a mission 108 “What — mean?” 109 Rand McNally reference 111 Jorge’s “new” 115 Goes kaput 117 Fed. agents 120 “Na Na” preceder 121 Canon camera line

122 Suffix with strict 123 Orig. copies 124 State of fury 125 K-O center