Premier Crossword: Scrambling To Get Things Done

ACROSS

1 “Just a moment!” 7 Crusade 14 Changes gears 20 Debonair 21 Spiritedly, in

music

22 Bull battler 23 Clinton drains material away by percolation? 25 Celebrity chef

Lagasse 26 Deborah of “Separate Tables”

27 Coach Parseghian 28 Competent 30 “Red Book” chairman 31 Presley wears a disguise? 35 Rathbone jumps

ship?

38 RSVP encl. 39 Ideologies

40 Kylo — (Darth

Vader’s grandson) 41 British peer 42 Prefix with angle 43 Liquidy lump 44 Keaton argues

back in a debate? 49 Longhorn’s

gridiron rival 51 Anticipated 53 Downy quilt 54 Locke adds

decorations? 57 Carders’

demands 60 Nothing more

than

61 Work for

62 “ER” roles

63 Up — (cornered) 65 Cobra variety 66 Romero competes in a relay?

70 Ford marks a word for omission? 72 “7 Faces of Dr. —” (Tony Randall film)

73 Matt of “Good Will Hunting” 74 Links org.

75 FBI guy, e.g. 76 Words clarifying a spelling 78 Osaka money 79 Heaney makes people smile? 84 Fiber for hose 86 Kept safe 88 Submit taxes paperlessly 89 Leroux does a ballroom dance? 92 Santa — (desert winds)

95 Zero 96 Engrave

97 Singer Janis 98 Baseball’s Felipe or Moises 99 Scottish Celt 100 Thompson works as an usher? 104 Deane goes on a cruise? 106 Bush press secretary Fleischer

107 Old British gun 108 Alternative to

Yahoo

109 Russia’s — -Tass 110 One of Janet Jackson’s sisters 112 Wiig mends a sweater? 119 Precursor to web forums 120 Tartish brew 121 Peanut butter cup brand 122 Composed 123 Transition zone between plant communities 124 Will subject

DOWN

1 Ogre of myth 2 “Uh-uh” 3 Scratch (out)

4 Chicken with long, soft plumage 5 Curvy letters 6 Herb of the parsley family 7 Actor Linden 8 Ryan and Tatum of film

9 Fib tellers 10 Family rec facility 11 Infant cry 12 Lunched, e.g. 13 Lovers’ flowers, in Spain 14 Superb 15 Native 16 Wrath 17 Physicist Enrico 18 Case hearing 19 Goes it alone 24 “Am not!” comeback 29 Funeral stand 31 These, in Mexico 32 Slowly, musically 33 Winner’s hand gesture 34 Tough dude’s selfassertion 35 Surpasses 36 Cost of cards 37 Picture book

40 Devastates 43 Actor Depardieu 44 Poet-singers 45 Tweaks text

46 Of the middle eye layer 47 Concise 48 Footfalls 50 Mental flash 52 Part of NOW 55 Matrix

56 Jim Croce’s “I Got —”

58 Wine barrel residue 59 Actress Blair 63 “There Is Nothin’ Like —” 64 “Daniel Boone” actor 66 Trolley sound 67 Cushy course 68 Stains 69 Winding-line dance 70 “Yipes!” 71 Adequate, to Li’l Abner 74 Argentina’s Juan or Eva 77 Lecture jottings 79 Long stories 80 Politico Mo

81 Exodus peak 82 Architect Saarinen 83 Peddles

85 “So far, no” 87 Army group 90 Univ. in Raleigh 91 Fare-well link 93 Condition in outer space 94 Morally strict 98 Actress Quinn 99 Precious red stone 100 Bone of the 103-Down 101 Scratch out 102 Located

103 Foot-leg joint 104 — voce (softly) 105 “— alive!” 108 At — time (prearranged) 111 Words before dare or diet 113 Rocker Ocasek 114 “I believe,” to a texter 115 Scot’s denial 116 “There — god!” 117 New Year in Vietnam 118 MI-TO-SC dir.