PREMIER CROSSWORD Mechanics of Solving

ACROSS

1 Has a snooze

5 Workout unit

8 ANTI-DUI ad, maybe

11 “The Maltese Falcon” hero 19 Conical-bore woodwind 20 Log chopper

21 Possess

22 Former airline to Rome 23 Composer of the 1938 ballet “The Incredible Flutist”

26 Squirrel-sized monkeys 27 Super-cold

28 Podded plant

29 What a dieter may reduce 31 Pressure-reducing elastic

stockings

34 Mork’s home planet 35 German city

36 Ordinal suffix

37 Yvette’s “yes”

38 “Gremlins” actress Cates 44 Folk great Bob

47 Edison’s phonograph

medium

49 Writer Rand

52 Prefix with treat or trust 53 Bird bill

55 Booting out

56 Horn honk

58 Cleans up, as code

60 Hit PC game of the 1990s 62 Director Preminger 63 Heater along the bottom

of a wall

67 Houston ballplayer 68 Ending for Gator

69 CIO partner

70 Greek vowels

75 Bracing wear for a

bodybuilder

81 Dog in “The Thin Man” 85 “Little” actress Rae

86 Mrs. with a famous cow 87 “500” auto race

88 Hone

90 William of “Hopalong

Cassidy”

91 Its cap. is Buenos Aires 93 Levy

94 Video surveillance device,

briefly

97 Of — (somewhat)

99 Bit of skin art

100 Timid

101 Cable TV channel for

buying goods

103 Flee to wed

107 “I solved it!”

108 Type of needle-free

syringe

111 Thinkpad power source,

e.g.

118 Cl- or Na+

119 Gold, to Luisa

120 Zesty potato chip go-with 121 Where nine key words in

this puzzle can be found 124 Word after poet or Nobel 125 LA-TO-MI dir.

126 Tea vessel

127 Swing about

128 Evaluated

129 Lobed thing

130 Turndowns

131 Actress Harper

DOWN

1 Not at all, quaintly 2 Ancient calculator 3 Corals, e.g.

4 Workout unit

5 Less ordinary

6 Brit living in America, e.g. 7 Architect I.M. 8 Soil-enriching compound 9 Very muscular, in modern

lingo

10 Year, to Nero

11 Like “Weekend Update”

reports

12 “Alas and —”

13 “Bosch” actress Rogers 14 Lee of Marvel 15 Component

16 Et — (plus others) 17 Rinky- —

18 Relieve

24 Person for whom a thing

is named

25 Kilt wearer 30 Butter-and-flour mixture 32 Crosswalk user, for short 33 Coop female

37 Tree of Illinois

38 Largest dwarf planet 39 — and hers

40 Aware of

41 Revise text

42 Crooked

43 Therefore

45 Venice beach resort 46 Totally lost

47 “That — close call!” 48 Former Royals manager

Ned

49 “Mamma Mia” group 50 In-favor votes

51 Chick’s home

53 Indian religion founder 54 White heron

57 For each

59 Talks big

60 Ticked off

61 Crimean resort port 64 Curtsy, e.g.

65 How often the sun rises 66 Fix, as a fight

71 Osaka sash

72 Festival shelter

73 Actor Alan

74 River of myth

76 “Old Macdonald” letters 77 Lacks entity

78 Impend, as a deadline 79 Investments for later yrs. 80 Songwriter Laura 81 Helper: Abbr.

82 Old New York ballpark 83 Diplomacy

84 In — (mired)

89 Expert

90 Large inlet

92 Actor Lorne

95 Like a slingshot or a

wishbone

96 Schmooze

97 Singer Difranco 98 Pampering, for short 101 Cowboy doing a roundup,

say

102 Eye affliction

104 Peter of “Becket” 105 Spongelike

106 Wears away

107 Grab — (eat fast) 108 Actress Elfman

109 Hot rod fuel

110 Long — (winter undies) 111 Singer Falana

112 Santa — (hot winds) 113 Name of 12 popes

114 Ripped

115 Small bills

116 Sidewalk smooches, e.g.,

for short

117 Melody

122 Leg it

123 Prez after FDR