PREMIER CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Grappler, backwoods-style
8 Skylit courts
13 Astronaut Wally 20 “The Stranger Beside Me” true-crime writer 21 Flowers in the
iris family
22 Some sweatshirts 23 Swift warship for
law enforcement? 25 Finales
26 Makes mother’s
milk
27 Comic Radner
29 “How about that!” 30 Lugosi of “The Raven”
33 Hefty books 34 Defectively built flat-bottomed boat?
36 Pumpkin’s colour 38 Resident of Tehran 40 Makes a choice
41 Light, speedy boat transporting Oreos?
45 Just barely
48 Indian state known for silk 49 United
50 In a smoothly elegant way
53 Neon, e.g.
56 French mime
master
59 High-sterned ship orbiting Earth? 61 “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Andy
65 Central Canadian tribe members 67 Upscale hotel quarters
68 Small combo 69 Discovering a sharp-bowed rowboat?
74 Safe, at sea
75 Do a tally of 77 “Get what I’m sayin’, man?”
78 Zealous
80 Paint a passenger
ship?
83 Soapmaking
solution
86 Auditing org.
87 Message on a
tombstone
89 Kabuki sash
90 Enthusiasm
95 Prison, in London 96 Very fast ship decorated with shrubbery?
99 Coll. reunion
attendee
102 Father Sarducci of
old 3-down
104 Quick-witted
105 Racing boat with lots of mollusks attached?
109 Fill with joy
113 Lyric verses
114 Billiards stick
115 They make up
molecules
116 Abstruse
118 Reproductive
organs
120 Sub-sinking ship
full of aquariums? 125 Lay aside
126 Bert’s pal
127 Introductions
128 In clothes
129 Actors O’Neal
and Reynolds
130 Says “OK” DOWN 1 Jay-Z’s music
2 Year, in Portugal
3 NBC skit show,
in brief
4 Indian Ocean
island nation
5 — Brasi (role in The
Godfather)
6 One voted in
7 Book page
opposite a verso 8 Severe
9 Samples
something
10 Singer Diana
11 With 13-down, thick glacial mass along a polar shore 12 BB shooter
13 See 11-down
14 Magazine
publisher Nast
15 Wannabe surfer
16 Exiled Amin
17 Key into a cash
register
18 Acting king
19 Good traits
24 He-sheep
28 “— may be so
bold ...”
30 — Raton
31 Lovers’ deity
32 Neighbour of
Thailand
34 Clayey fertiliser
35 Herd of seals
37 “— a break!”
39 Gave a new
interior design to 42 Welsh canine
43 Mom’s bro
44 Ball supporter
45 Org. for cavity
fillers
46 Doc’s warm
treatment
47 “For” votes
51 Like thrift store
goods
52 — facto
53 Sly deception
54 Prices to play
55 Variety of
trapshooting
57 Spot’s noise
58 Etching liquid
60 Husband of
Eva Perón
61 Actress Keanan
62 Enthusiasm
63 Gold-fancying king 64 Boxers’ event
66 Waffle brand
70 No, to Nikita 71 Torres with 12 Olympic swimming medals 72 Antique item
73 “Hooray!”
76 “Guilty” or
“not guilty”
79 Onetime TV
host Philbin
81 Debut on Wall St. 82 Zippo
84 Woofing pet
85 Actor Vigoda
88 Olympic skier
Mahre
91 Meeting building
regulations
92 Tater
93 Head, in Metz
94 Mining strikes
95 Big inits. in SUVs 97 Certain deer
leather
98 Hamlet’s duel
opponent
99 Peace treaty
100 Shutter piece
101 Fidgetiness
102 Valuable rock
103 Long, loose
outerwear
106 Nitpickers split
them
107 Olympic skier
Mahre
108 Sprayed, with
“down”
110 Mining strikes
111 Downed
112 Electric car
producer
116 Sicilian resort city 117 Investments for
later yrs.
119 Home: Abbr.
121 Suffix with budget 122 — and yang
123 Doc for head colds 124 Blog feed
format inits.