PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS 1 Temporarily trendy things 5 Huge chasm 10 Nile serpents 14 Navajo neighbors 19 “Oh, gotcha” 20 Flip (out) 21 Mets’ old home 22 Blue color of the clear 9-Down 23 Eau de vie applied to a head injury to reduce swelling? 25 Having the same figure as Sheriff Wyatt? 27 Verb suffix in London 28 Vast age 29 Average golf scores 30 Kindhearted 31 Clutch, e.g. 33 Sets of two 37 Gyro holder 39 “Fish Magic” painter Paul 40 Drink you can only get by contacting someone by beeper? 43 See 8-Down 45 Her cow was notorious 46 Bite slightly 47 Q-V linkup 49 Designer Schiaparelli and others 54 Jethro — (rock band) 56 Strong Dutch gin that’s inexpensive? 59 “The gloves are off!” 62 Like alfresco events 64 Obedient dogs, maybe 65 Rival of HBO 66 Male bud 67 Bert’s bud 69 14th-century Russian ruler 70 Golf club for extremely long shots? 74 Unit for measuring the force of some PC picture files? 77 “I pass,” in cards 78 Cantina cooking pots 82 Chast of cartoons 83 The sun, e.g. 84 Negatively charged, as an atom 86 Banned diet-drug combo 88 Major alarm 90 Pie topping that originated in Edison’s lab? 92 Base for poi 94 Lung, for one 95 Mail, e.g. 96 Lacerate 98 Taking the middle out of 102 Santa — (some hot winds) 104 Surrounded by a spicy Indian condiment? 107 Grungy sort 111 Fierce whale 113 Tatum with an Oscar 114 Post office gizmo 115 Sushi condiment 117 Like hand-medowns 119 Altar vow 121 Vitamin no. 122 Gusto shown by a wild Asian ass? 124 Apt alternate title for this puzzle 128 Did a fall yard chore 129 “I concur!” 130 Circus site 131 Concept, in Soissons 132 Clock parts 133 Org. against dogfights 134 Shindig 135 Unhip type
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1 Painter Fra — Lippi 2 Predictably 3 Split up, as a corporation 4 Summer and fall mo. 5 “Hair” hairdo 6 Marlon of movies 7 Appetite 8 With 43-Across, tear-jerking tune 9 Pilot’s milieu 10 Far offshore 11 On the ball 12 Soldiers on 13 Undermine 14 Taunting cry 15 County in Missouri 16 Iris part 17 Dunne of old Hollywood 18 Bog plant 24 Trip during a kegger, say 26 Eye carefully 29 Chi-omega link 32 1954-77 treaty gp. 34 Over there, old-style 35 Wonderland visitor 36 Wife of Niles on “Frasier” 38 Feel 41 1995-2013 Arizona senator Jon 42 Free of fluid 44 Capital of Suisse 48 Bit of parsley 50 Onetime TV legal drama 51 Shelled out for 52 Deduced, not observed 53 Mil. draft inits. 55 British noble 57 Stirrup site 58 Big name in ketchup 59 Suffix with capital 60 Paint diluter 61 Going it alone 63 — stick 66 Obfuscate 68 St. Pat’s isle 71 Virus in 2014 news 72 Ryder of “Black Swan” 73 Puckish 75 Courier, e.g. 76 “Grimm” network 79 — helping hand 80 Film director Lee 81 Goad 84 “Ti —” (Italian “I love you”) 85 French film award 87 Poet Heinrich 88 Bragging about 89 Vena cava neighbor 91 Cry for help 93 Wilhelm’s “Woe is me!” 97 Links org. since 1916 99 Trespass 100 Less well-off 101 Whirled 103 Film genre 105 In vogue, in the ’60s 106 Customer 107 Fencing tool 108 Oahu porch 109 Port in Japan 110 Deli nosh 112 Good thing 116 Nap spots 118 Peak in Sicily 120 Attack time in WWII 123 Tase, e.g. 124 Road guide 125 Nest egg inits. 126 Reagan-era teen, e.g. 127 — Tin Tin