Premier Crossword | Nfl Mix-up
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 65 minutes.
ACROSS
1 Cheddar-like cheese
6 Pointy heel
14 Catching with a lariat
20 Love to bits
21 Decorative park shelter
22 Intro
23 NFL team whose logo is a red planet?
25 Canadian metropolis
26 Guitar ridge
27 Manning of the Giants
28 Co. kingpins
30 Cookout raiders
31 NFL team whose logo is a prairie?
38 President of Syria
41 Small-time
42 Actresses Longoria and Mendes
43 NFL team whose logo is a bracelet?
48 Poet Jonson
51 Estrada of “CHIPS”
52 D-day invasion river
53 Here-there link
54 Opposite of staccato 56 Headed up
57 Thurman of “Robin Hood”
58 NFL team whose logo is a steak?
61 “— Fideles” (yule carol)
63 Go by ship
65 Pre-takeoff abbr.
66 Biblical “arkitect”
67 NFL team whose logo is a Lipitor pill?
72 Gillette razor
75 Rhinoplasty doc
76 Nix from Nixon, say
77 Like most slasher films
81 NFL team whose logo is a sword?
85 Diving seabird
86 Wood chopper
87 Venus — (Louvre statue)
88 Brian of electronica
89 Super-close buds
91 Where a goatee grows
92 Just-ok mark
93 NFL team whose logo is a cheese curd?
98 Old film critic James
99 Justice Kagan
100 Oscar winner Witherspoon
101 NFL team whose logo is an amoeba?
108 Arkin of film
109 San —, Italy
110 L-P link 111 Final Four org.
115 “Honor Thy Father” author Gay
117 NFL team whose logo is a perfume bottle?
123 Lounging
124 Board, as a train
125 Slabs
126 Alleviate
127 Half a school year
128 Really vexed
DOWN
1 Baby cow
2 Smell
3 Be defeated
4 “St. Elmo’s Fire” bunch
5 Longing
6 Kind of wheat
7 Lucky charm
8 “— done it!”
9 Fleur-de- —
10 “A Nightmare on — Street”
11 Carrere of “True Lies”
12 Illuminator on a dime
13 Advent
14 President on a dime
15 Choose
16 Floral parts
17 Nonsensical
18 Pond wrigglers
19 Lawn stuff
24 Catch on to
29 Baseballer Hershiser
32 Tyrant Amin
33 Light meal
34 Prefix with cycle
35 Burglarize
36 Actor Hugh
37 Artist’s stand
38 Amtrak train
39 Fathered
40 Sarcastic
44 Ladies’ club policy
45 Target of the Million Mom March, for short
46 What the weary have, in a saying
47 Little cave
48 Chachi player Scott
49 Volcano in Sicily 50 Light meal
55 “Who ya — call?”
57 Colorado tribe
58 Affront, informally
59 Pupil, in Paris
60 Suffragist — B. Wells
62 “My Two Dads” actress Keanan
63 Karate teacher
64 Former name of Kazakhstan’s capital
68 Prefix with
101-Down
69 Ending for auction
70 Bridge beam
71 Rile
72 “Moneytalks” rock band
73 You, quaintly
74 “The — of the Ancient Mariner”
78 Western lake
79 Leaves
80 Concentrated
82 Put straight
83 Taken ecofriendly measures
84 Like fillets
85 Movie-archiving org.
89 U2 vocalist
90 Apartment sharer, to a Brit
91 Neat and wholesome
94 Nixing mark
95 High peak
96 For every
97 Old PC screen
98 Trojan hero
101 Birth-related
102 Thrill
103 Swansea locale
104 Stockpile
105 Opposite of day, in Italy
106 Soon to receive, as a treat
107 Fa follower
112 Traffic marker
113 Singer Paul
114 Office helper: Abbr.
116 Iceland-to-ireland dir.
118 NASA lander
119 Chimp, e.g.
120 Denials
121 Blast creator
122 “Eureka!”