PREMIER CROSSWORD

SONG SPAN

ACROSS 1 Neighbor of Niger

5 Comical bits 9 Work group 14 PLO chairman Mahmoud 19 Europe’s “Eternal City” 20 Blind as — 21 Common

typeface

22 — Polo 23 App-based ride

option

24 — fide (real) 25 Grilled steak with thin, diagonal cuts 27 Neighbor of

Niger 28 Alternative to

toffee

30 County in New Mexico or Colorado 31 Aeneas’ lover,

in myth

32 Link two disparate things 35 Once — while 37 Gp. backing

firearms

38 Has the helm 39 Revered one 40 Terminated 42 “Wild Thing”

rapper Tone — 43 $20 dispenser 45 “Really?” 48 Natty scarf 52 Palmtops, e.g., for short 56 Internet ID 57 Goggles 58 Not breaking the rules 61 Fast glance 63 Lizard that may be a pet 64 Terrible fate 65 Refuses, as a chance 69 “Norma —” (Field film) 70 Initial amount required by a creditor 74 Suffix of sugars 75 Hold sacred 78 Verse writer 79 One dodging 82 Slovak coin 83 1969 Stevie Wonder hit 86 “Geez!” 89 — Paulo 90 Crooner Redding 91 Exaggerated and theatrical 92 Reasonable advance notice 96 Facial locale 98 Prefix with gender 99 Ringlike isle 100 Soda shop drink

104 Sells virtually 109 Surg. locales 110 Vote in favor 111 England’s “Nine Days’ Queen”

113 Tel. or elec. 115 Statesman Stevenson 118 High points 119 Advance 120 Watercourse associated with the starts of eight long answers in this puzzle 123 Rabbit’s kin 124 Part of A.D. 125 Attend 126 Greek vowel 127 Clear out of 128 Marsh plant 129 Elia piece 130 “The Balcony” playwright Jean

131 Old flames 132 Slips up DOWN 1 Cookie bits 2 Tasmania’s capital 3 2001 Audrey Tautou film 4 Sneer at 5 Rap session 6 See 76-Down 7 India’s Rajiv 8 Like plays 9 Mineo of movies 10 Outpost unit 11 “That — happenin’!” 12 Get dimmer 13 Ocala’s state 14 Envoy: Abbr. 15 Verse writer 16 Sib acquired via marriage 17 Late-’60s music genre 18 One-person bands, e.g. 26 Nine-person band, e.g. 29 Self-image 33 Potatoes au — 34 Frazier foe 36 Folk sayings 40 To be, to Fifi 41 Flames’ org. 44 Car ad abbr. 46 SPF part 47 Ersatz 48 Blazing 49 Astronomer Carl 50 Hints 51 Schnozz or boff ender 53 “Where — go wrong?” 54 Auth. unknown 55 Feed in a sty 59 Low point 60 Windows ad statement 61 Frying vessel 62 Perfumer Lauder 65 — dish (lab item) 66 City that Lot fled from 67 Deplete 68 Matthew of “Friends” 71 Tokyo-born Yoko 72 Pirate chant opener

73 Run across 76 With 6-Down, catch wind of 77 Airport strip 80 Clear out of 81 Dr.’s gp. 83 Postal stack 84 Over there 85 Mag. printing 86 “Naturally!” 87 Scrunchies 88 Long letters 89 TV inits. since 1975

93 Vexed a lot 94 Selfish driver of a sort

95 TV inits. since 1975 97 Multipiece gifts for calligraphers 101 Cavity-fighting org.

102 Fruit of a Chinese tree 103 Discount department store chain 105 Blazing 106 Clothes smoother 107 Less fatty 108 Church councils 111 Feudal lord 112 Eagle’s nest 114 “— hundred flowers bloom” 116 Half-baked 117 Prayer ender 121 “Hee Haw” cohost Clark 122 Used a chair