San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
ACROSS 1
Relatives of pistachios
8 Mail-related
14 Baio and Turow
20 Wife of Nero
21 Fingers-in-ears
syllables
22 Headwear for Mr.
Peanut
23 Golden State hoopster who lives for Saturdays and Sundays?
25 Existence
26 Days of yore,
archaically
27 Ruling group
28 Schlepped through
the entrance
30 Ballesteros of golf
33 Groom, e.g.
35 Exemplary Houston
hoopster?
38 San Antonio hoopster scaling a mountain?
42 Suffix with lion
43 Guy in the fam
44 High peak
45 Heavenly
46 Health club
48 Gyro bread
49 Semi fuel
51 Cowardly Denver
hoopster?
55 “Mom” actress Jaime
58 Start eating 59 Org. against
pollution
60 Redding of R&B
61 Event for stunt pilots
64 — -Z (total)
65 Foot part
68 Brooklyn hoopster
using a rod and reel?
71 Phoenix hoopster preparing a typeface for printing?
74 Frau’s “Oh!”
75 Girl in the fam
76 Name originally
proposed for Utah
78 Gas guzzler
79 Reindeer kin
80 Notion, to Fifi
81 Damsels
84 Los Angeles hoopster originally from New England?
90 Train in the pool
92 All excited
93 Mtn. stat
94 Tested for fit
97 “— culpa!”
98 “Stillmatic” rapper
99 Footed vase
101 Sacramento hoopster holding power?
103 Eco-conscious
Charlotte hoopster?
107 Livy’s lang.
108 Words in an analogy
109 Some nobles’
domains 110 Jamaican pop genre
112 Baby wolf
114 Justification
116 Chicago hoopster devoid of spontaneity and emotion?
122 Sock with diamond
patterns
123 “Seinfeld” character
124 Shrunken Asian lake
125 Some vowel sounds
126 Phrase structure
127 Lower than
DOWN
1 Mooing beast
2 High card
3 Fr. holy woman
4 Olajuwon of the
NBA
5 Daredevil Knievel
6 Power sources with
spinning sails
7 Tearful
8 Strategize
9 Rowers’ tools
10 35mm camera inits.
11 Alteration pro
12 Not silently
13 Huge
14 Directs
15 Buyable
apartments
16 Vision-related
17 Have high
aspirations
18 Bit of ink art 19 Pigpen
24 Flying needs
29 Collect bit by bit
30 Cousin of a jack
mackerel
31 Oval-shaped
32 Spiteful
34 Even one
35 Capital of Bavaria
36 One-named Deco
master
37 Exactly
39 Pollen eaters
40 “Get ‘em, Spot!”
41 Syllable after
“oom”
46 Broiling bar
47 Church seat
48 Club swingers’ gp.
50 Meeting period,
informally
52 Picked
53 — pot (sinus-cleaning
product)
54 “Once — a time ...”
56 Dillydallies
57 Dark half of a
Chinese circle
60 Birds — feather
62 News aggregation
website
63 Precipitous
64 “— girl!”
65 Giant waves
66 Paid more than
67 Musician Brian
69 Capri, e.g.
70 Adidas rival 72 Pro —
73 Celtic speaker
77 Piece for seven
79 Heart test, for short
80 Ailing
82 Apathetic response
83 Ding- —
84 Light half of a
Chinese circle
85 Lab gelatin
86 Horse feed holders
87 Body of rules
88 Verdi’s “— tu”
89 Fix illegally
91 Pudding starch
95 China’s Zhou
96 Day, in Peru
99 Open, as a new rug
100Some French
wines
101 Make a new digital
image of
102 Dry dog food
104 Class that’s a cinch
105 “Blue” singer
LeAnn
106 Hockey great Cam
110 Capital of Yemen
111 Lego alternative
113 — Bator
114 Jogged, e.g.
115 History unit
117 Smack
118 Taxi
119 D.C.’s nation
120 Tennis call
121 “— -di-dah!”