San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)

PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE

- RINGING-IN TUNE by Frank A. Longo

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

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