PREMIER CROSSWORD
HAVING FLITTING THOUGHTS
ACROSS
1 One of Chrysler’s K-cars
11 Imaginary
21 Lack of refinement 22 Open to discussion 23 * Golf format not based on the number of holes won
24 * Part of an internalcombustion engine
25 Take an axe to 26 Ornate wardrobe 28 Nice ‘n Easy product
29 Shin locale 30 Stumblebum 33 Austrian cake 34 Up on the latest 37 Binary singer DiFranco
39 S. Amer. country 40 Much like
41 Calculus pioneer Leonhard
42 Hot temper 43 Scanned ID in a market 44 Cartoon pic
45 Twist, as in a hose 47 Dark deli loaf
48 City haze
49 The Browns, on sports tickers 50 Volunteer’s response
52 Star pitchers
54 Getz of jazz 55 List-curtailing abbr.
56 Brief letter
57 Roofing material 59 Like an old apple’s consistency
60 Bit of a script
61 Fear greatly 63 Longtime operating system 64 Spanish pot
65 Blackthorn fruits 66 Supplement
67 Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the five starred clues
69 Trousers
70 Car navig. aid 72 Owner of WordPerfect 73 Cato’s “I love” 75 Brainteaser
79 Sacred spots 81 Soviet spacecraft series
86 Lord Jim novelist Joseph
87 * Buyer’s final figure
88 Membrane covering a lung 89 Creole cooking pods
90 Temporarily stylish thing
91 Take to court 93 Leash, e.g.
94 Tony winner Schreiber
95 Roofing material 96 “It’s so-so”
99 Winter illness 101 Director Preminger
102 Roof part
103 Mine car load
104 Yoko of art
105 Shark part
106 Sped
107 Genesis twin
109 Small stream 111 Smooth Operator singer
113 * Vessel for crustacean fishing 117 * Removes tenderly, as a lover’s tears
122 City in central Illinois
123 Hawaii’s nickname
124 Super-corny 125 Occupancy levies
DOWN
1 Talk smack to
2 Like official public statements
3 Freed from federal restrictions
4 Give off light 5 “Look, mice!” 6 Ripen
7 Lil Jon’s genre 8 Around
H’wood, e.g. 9 French card game 10 Actress Jane
11 One asked to attend a party
12 Less remote
13 Eye creepily 14 Thanksgiving mo. 15 Summer, to Jeanne
16 Form a lap
17 Tough
18 Many a virtual bidding event
19 Ork, Krypton or Melmac
20 Lion’s home
27 Paris airport 29 Righteously singer Williams
30 Desk wood 31 Pseudonym 32 Groups for devotees
34 Vast Asian mountain system 35 Satirical device 36 Tent securer 38 Straight up, in a bar
46 Reeves of
The Matrix
48 Fair booth
51 Straight up, in a bar
53 Sutured
54 Like altruists 55 Singer Fitzgerald
58 Obtain by threatening
59 Singer Rita
62 Church teachings 65 Film holders 68 Rock’s Clapton 71 Launching platform
74 Star athlete, for short
75 Place to learn, in Lyon 76 Smartphone company
77 The opposite way 78 Cemetery plot 79 Animal trap
80 Pack full 82 Information group for analysis
83 Big name in car cleaning products 84 Speechify 85 “Thwack!”
90 Remote
92 Moniker for a
Yale student 95 Coverer of a bald spot
96 Unlike gods
97 Brian of Roxy Music
98 Pipe with a flexible tube 100 Open, as a
Ziploc bag
108 Band blasters 109 Renege (on)
110 Drug bust unit 112 Mgr.’s helper
113 “Wait a —!”
114 “In your face!” 115 Actor Saget
116 Singer Rita
118 Toping sort
119 That girl
120 Supped 121 “Definitely!”