PREMIER CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1
Didn’t move any closer
11 Swedish retail
giant
15 Frets
20 Book you can’t
stop reading
21 Pupil’s book
22 Palmer of golf,
to fans
23 Additional person called on to peruse something
25 Ebbed and flowed,
as water
26 Premaritally
named
27 Rarity in golf
28 Curative stuff
30 Fills with a
crayon, say
35 Feel hopeless
about
38 — Grande
39 Bring to ruin
42 Authorise to
43 Tony winner
Bernadette
44 Long-time Masterpiece Theatre host
49 Increases
50 Corporation
combination
51 Malicious
52 Start for historic
53 “I’m outie!”
57 Practice exam,
maybe
59 Legendary title figure of a 1999 horror film
63 Granola bit
65 Invalidate
66 Bards’ Muse
67 Some schoolkids’ judged constructions
75 Startle
76 D.C. VIPs
77 Outback bird 78 Bit of jewellery with a single diamond
83 English class
concern
89 Skirt borders
90 Hagen of the stage 91 Egg, in Paris
93 Lawrence of
Arabia star
94 ‘60s hallucinogen 95 Main Street
novelist
98 How silverware is
often sold
102 Hip-hop producer
Gotti
103 String after J
104 O’Hare abbr.
105 Times of trouble
with tresses
108 Has a helping of
humble pie
112 Explosion
fragments
113 Qty.
116 Pi-sigma link
117 I — Say No (song
from Oklahoma!) 118 State flower
of Iowa
126 Sporting site
127 — about (circa)
128 Foldaway bed or
table, e.g.
129 — -arms (old
soldier)
130 Gps. such as
Oxfam and CARE 131 Ducted cooling system (and what nine answers in this puzzle have)
DOWN
1 UV ray-blocking
stat
2 Sticky sealant
3 Cake candle count 4 Like some simple
questions
5 Old anesthetic 6 Swindles
7 Lingerie top
8 Darth Vader, as
a boy
9 Juno actor Michael 10 McDonald’s
honcho Ray
11 Suffix with
Gotham
12 Essential
13 Off the hook
14 Really baffled
15 Lampoons
16 Ribbed cloth
for dresses
17 Option for
bitter greens
18 Frankfurter
19 Jewish feasts
24 Nourished
29 Ladle
30 Runner’s pain
31 OPEC vessel
32 Tours’ river
33 Dictator Amin
34 Average
36 Wapiti
37 Witness
40 Rhyme Pays
rapper
41 Ark “captain”
45 Mil. bigwig
46 Masters peg
47 Fiery felony
48 A unified goal for
the future
49 Mentalist Geller
52 GI’s chaplain
53 Mag. sales stat
54 “Leave — that”
55 Doesn’t delay
56 “Well now!”
58 Tic-toe link
60 Div. of NYC
61 Cup’s edge
62 Minuscule
64 — cotta
67 Gin flavourer
68 Not flustered
69 Camera part
70 CPR teacher,
maybe 71 Service cost
72 Rainy mo.
73 “U can’t b serious!” 74 Hearer of court
evidence
75 Fire residue
79 Texas capital
80 “— be a pleasure” 81 Guitar part
82 Aquatic bird
84 Ocean off Fla.
85 A Stooge
86 It cuts grass
87 Samuel of justice 88 Cut again,
as lumber
92 Star status
94 Pounced on
95 Lady of Sp.
96 Climbing vine
97 — funk (sad)
98 1978–80 FBI sting 99 African desert
100 Best Actor winner
Brody
101 Pacific Blue
actress Moakler 102 Like engines
in neutral
106 Took back, as
one’s title
107 Sticky stuff
109 Hearer of court
evidence
110 Tom Jones’ — Lady 111 Reef material
114 Richie’s mum,
to Fonzie
115 Sticky stuff
119 John, across
the pond
120 OR workers
121 John, across
the pond
122 Sales check: Abbr. 123 Female cells
124 Six, in Italy
125 Go astray