Rockford Register Star

SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD

- | BY FRANK A. LONGO

ACROSS

1 Outermost layers 9 Most current

15 Tips, as one’s hat 20 “Yes, it’s obvious” 21 Artemis’ twin

22 Bow missile 23 TNIOPWEIV

25 Gaze

26 Web selling

27 Joking sort

28 Stew globule

30 2021 U.S. Open champion Raducanu

31 Bern’s river

33 “Auld Lang _” 35 TNEMPIUQE

39 Rely on

42 1998 Masters champion Mark

44 Beach sites 45 HTWORG

50 Eases

51 “Ex’s & _” (2014 Elle King hit)

52 Toronto loc.

53 Ruby and garnet 57 Large crucifix

58 PDQ cousin

60 Scale amts.

61 Creepy

62 Stew or coffee holder 64 DOIREP

69 Sweet bun

73 Minor error

74 Was a threat to 75 POLFPILF

78 “My Gal _” (classic song)

79 S-shaped moldings 80 Fizzle out

81 Not at all firm

83 Has no entity 87 Belgian river

88 Part of SPF

89 Grayish hue

92 Ebb

94 ECNADIUG

97 _ Harum (“A Whiter Shade of Pale” band) 101 Truly loves

102 Filmmaker Jonathan or Ted

103 LAISUM

106 Gab

109 Old Russian space station

110 Shoemakers’ tools 111 _ chi

112 China’s Long March leader

114 Authoritat­ive declaratio­ns 117 One of the singing Braxtons

119 TIUCRIC

125 Bother badly

126 Affected sort

127 Small naval vessel group

128 Shell out

129 Suddenly regain focus 130 Kind of bicycle

DOWN

1 [not my error]

2 GI tour gp.

3 She played Frigga in 2011’s “Thor”

4 Sci-fi bounty hunter Boba

5 Razor brand

6 Spiced teas 7 Prematurel­y

8 Pigs’ place

9 California wine area 10 Monument inscriptio­n 11 Finished first

12 NFLer Apple

13 Skiing locale

14 Printer ink

15 Wagner’s “_ Rheingold” 16 Big name in taco shells 17 Encloses in a border 18 Layout

19 Vows

24 “You _ one!”

29 Sporty scarf

31 Doing battle

32 Retort to “Am not!” 34 Says “OK” to nonverball­y

36 Long stretches 37 U-Haul unit

38 Long stretch 40 “Five-card” or “sevencard” game

41 Erstwhile flight inits. 43 Prefix with skeleton 46 Christie of mysteries 47 Dwelling place: Abbr. 48 “Licence to Kill” actress Talisa

49 “To recap ...”

53 Take revenge 54 Stonestree­t of “Modern Family”

55 Light coin

56 Bird feed bit

59 Throb

60 Brown songbirds 61 Poet _ St. Vincent Millay

63 “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” singer Phil

65 J. Cole’s music 66 “Consider This” network

67 “_ recall ...”

68 Curl up cozily

69 Guy into hip-hop, in old slang

70 Tattered garb

71 Slush Puppie alternativ­e

72 Finish

76 Prehistori­c beast, in brief

77 Simple card game 82 Not at all near

84 Safe to take a dip in, say

85 Tennis player Osaka 86 Jazz pianist McCoy 88 Break up

89 Page or gofer

90 Exit angrily

91 _ Majesty

93 Kind of PC screen 94 Comic punch response 95 Devoid of joy

96 Indoor design

97 China pieces

98 Cover again, as a gift 99 In recent days

100 Diagnostic med. image

104 Lawmen Wyatt and Virgil

105 Use as a bed

107 Confuse

108 Attach with string, e.g.

113 Farm-related prefix 115 Army beds

116 Voyage

118 “_ be a pleasure” 120 Airport uniform abbr. 121 Sales agt.

122 To the rear

123 Land in eau

124 Itty-bitty bit

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