PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Symphony, e.g. 5 Sing like Bing 10 Pampers product 16 Mensa stats 19 Scheme 20 Big artery 21 Flowery 22 Almond, e.g. 23 31-day period honor-ing TV’s Joy? [actor] 25 Greek letters 26 With 47-Down, Christmas evergreen 27 Fall back into illness 28 Place with a lot of refuse-disposal chambers? [swimmer] 30 Old space station 31 Slash 32 Ovine noise 34 And others, in a list 35 Brutes of fantasy 36 Smears gunk on rugged mountain ranges? [hockey player] 40 Shows up 41 Sequence in heredity 42 Robber, e.g. 43 Bat hangout 46 Finals, e.g. 48 Seven-figure income earned in a Nebraska city? [actor] 54 Scheme 57 DVD- — 59 Little barks 60 “The King —” 61 Guilty feeling 64 One doing penance 68 Olympic speed skater Eric 70 Ethyl ender 71 Prohibition of quick insights? [investor] 74 Suffix with journal 75 Item in a file cabinet 77 Ideal conditions 78 Imply 80 Field of study 81 Sikorsky of aviation 83 Dir. from N.D. to La. 85 “Not — goes by ...” 86 Promise to marry a cute marsupial? [painter] 91 Novelist Hermann 94 Waikiki necklaces 95 Rene of “Get Shorty” 97 Poland’s Lech 101 Sounded like a kitten 105 Pale-colored wall paneling for a room? [writer] 107 Final, e.g. 108 2004 Chevy debut 111 Storm center 112 Demolition stuff 113 — -cone (icy treat) 114 Products applied to back-of-the-neck sunburns? [actor] 117 City in north-central California 119 Adding result 120 “Finally!” 121 “C” grade ... or what eight answers in this puzzle have? 124 Draw upon 125 Fix, as Fido 126 Less-played half of a45 127 Morales of movies 128 As stated in 129 Lorne of “Bonanza” 130 A bit off 131 Old-time comic Ed
DOWN
1 Sphere 2 Childishly silly 3 Herald, as a new era 4 Shut tightly 5 College locales 6 Perches 7 Sarah — Jewett 8 Hitter Mel 9 “I’ll pass” 10 One capful, perhaps 11 Often-purple flowers 12 Major worry 13 Argentine plain 14 Web biz 15 Relax 16 Apprise 17 Apple or pear relative 18 Emphasis 24 Flower cluster 28 Ricochet 29 Animal park 30 Soup enhancer 32 Apiary insect 33 Guthrie with a guitar 37 Saying 38 In that case 39 “Mr. St. Nick” actress Ortiz 40 Animator’s frame 43 — terrier 44 Roadie’s tote 45 Hindu trinity member 47 See 26-Across 49 Wolflike carnivores 50 China’s Chou En- — 51 “And how!” 52 Ukrainian port city 53 Fifteen times six 54 Quick-to-build home 55 Poe maiden 56 Brunch fare 58 Line of Apple computers 62 Actress — Dawn Chong 63 Elfish sort 65 “Tsk tsk!” 66 Kabuki sash 67 “Platoon” site, in brief 69 Ovum 72 Black crows 73 “Point taken” 76 Patriotic women’s gp. 79 Some Scots 82 F followers 84 Program 87 Unoriginal 88 Actress Meyers 89 Swift sleds 90 Pale-faced 92 Hoodwinks 93 South Carolina river 96 Holy Mlle. 98 Euphoria 99 Desert of the southwest U.S. 100 — -Z (total) 101 Botch the job 102 Pretext 103 Not as cold 104 Big bird 105 Relax 106 Disagreeing 108 Following 109 Think a lot of 110 Tickle pink 115 Snake tooth 116 To be, to Voltaire 117 1,502, in old Rome 118 Duck variety 121 Exec’s deg. 122 Suffix with journal 123 Cousin