San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
ACROSS
1 Protestant denom.
6 Command
11 Duel weapon
16 Blind — bat
19 Fiji neighbor
20 Acai, for one
21 Peel remover
22 Scanned ID on a pkg.
23 “Is that something that ought to worry me?”
25 Rembrandt or
Rubens
27 Arafat’s gp.
28 Thurman of the
screen
29 With it, once
30 “I Got a Name”
singer Jim
31 Patient information
document
38 Be a thespian
39 Discount vouchers
40 ER “PDQ!”
41 Wanna- — (copycats)
43 Coll. dorm overseers
45 Spanish “a”
46 Young miss
48 “I’m stepping away
for just a sec”
52 Actress Bingham
55 “... boy — girl?”
58 Gut-punch response
59 On the whole
60 Embarrassed oneself while singing, in a way 63 Rubs clean
64 Spinning, archaically
65 Peru’s — Picchu
66 Suffix with 29-Down
67 Fifth-cen. pope
68 What “etc.” means
72 City sections
77 Oversee
79 Android, e.g.
80 Some steel girders
81 Wise up
85 Always the wrong
way to go about it
89 With 49-Down, miraculous biblical staff
90 Singer Yoko
91 Science advocate
Bill
92 Spa treats for feet,
for short
93 Felled
96 Tip of a boot
98 Org. for a
periodontist
100Pigs’ hangout
101 Female pig
102 Slithery fish
105 Left on one’s plate
108 In what way
110 More so
114 Grads
116 Lyricist Kahn
117 Slugger Maris, to pals
118 Actor Stephen
119 Psyching-out
activities 122 Time to sing the tune suggested by the starts of 10 long answers in this puzzle
127 Co. name abbr.
128 Lott of politics
129 Highly skilled
130 Sporty car roofs
131 Stretch (out)
132 Threescore
133 Harbors
134 Perception
DOWN
1 Twisty letter
2 Oom- — band
3 “I think,” to a texter
4 Add juice to, as an
engine
5 Peruvian city near
Lima
6 Honshu sash
7 Mow again
8 Serious plays
9 Straying
10 Bread type
11 Do a satire of
12 “Where’s —?”
13 Munic. law
14 Sleep-stage acronym
15 Storied vampire, for
short
16 Dictators
17 Striking thing to
behold
18 Unit of area
24 Carrying out the task 26 Span. lady
29 Falling star
31 Prefix with puncture
32 Bend out of shape
33 Bicker
34 Hush-hush govt. org.
35 Hailed ride
36 1993-2020 Supreme Court justice, for short
37 Dr. Oz’s first name
42 Over the entire shop,
as a sale
44 “The — the limit!”
47 Lindsay of “Get a
Clue”
49 See 89-Across
50 Stipulations
51 Youth org. with dens
53 “Permit Me Voyage”
author James
54 Food dyes
56 Shipping dept.
stamp
57 “Horton Hears —!”
60 Notes after mis
61 Tax evasion agt.
62 Very unusual
66 Analogy part
69 Tooted thing
70 Online auction site
71 Thesaurus compiler
73 Place — (participate
on 70-Down)
74 Glow with joy
75 German city
76 Org. issuing ninedigit IDs 78 Final result
81 Chatters idly
82 Alternative to AOL or
NetZero
83 Unit equal to about
31 grams
84 Astros, on
scoreboards
85 Tacit “yes”
86 Rocker Brian
87 People taking
oaths
88 From 1968 on, for
tennis
94 A pair of
95 Born, in Nice
97 “Days of — Lives”
99 Pantry pest
103 Texas city of song
104 One packing things
away
106 Puts forth
107 One little bite
109 Nuke, e.g.
111 Intermediary
112 Like hurricanes
113 Cairo’s land
114 Lady friend, in Le
Havre
115 Mil. bigwigs
120 Meyers of “Dark
Horse”
121 Tex- —
122 Brief sleep
123 Martians, e.g.
124 History unit
125 Corp. execs
126 Suffix with Siam