PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CLEAR COMMUNICATION
ACROSS
1 NATO has a special one for spelling out words over the radio
9 Architectural wings 13 Provo people
20 In a lying, faceup position 21 Sticky stuff
22 Kind of energy 23 Moniker for novelist Ernest
25 Dig up
26 Apt. overseer
27 Yoko of music and art 28 Singer Waters
30 Puente of mambo
31 Road coater
34 Weed B- —
36 Marriott, e.g.
39 Doesn’t lack 42 Often-dried fruit 44 Diarist Anaïs 46 “Caveman diet”
47 Messy roommate on
“The Odd Couple”
51 Dune locale
56 Chicago hub
57 Dot on some transit maps 59 Gave a coif
60 Suffer ruin
62 Admonish
65 “Hello” singer
66 Cast off skin
68 1992 Guns N’ Roses hit 70 Extermination target 73 Civil rights icon Parks 76 Hoagies
77 Extermination targets 78 Method of measuring ocean depth
83 Boy actor in 1937’s “Elephant Boy”
85 Raccoon kin
86 Alluring attributes
89 “No doubt!”
93 Trig topics
95 Dependent
97 — -ground missile 98 Barely beats 101 Doing certain ballroom moves
103 Spanish bar appetizers 105 Born, to Luc
106 Plant pouch
107 — Zedong
108 Very thin material for book pages
113 Steelers’ gp.
115 Mu — pork
117 Normandy city
118 Doctrine
120 Internet ID
122 Symbol of innocence 126 One revising something 129 Portrayer of Jax Teller on “Sons of Anarchy”
133 Act as arbiter
134 Symbol of innocence 135 Brazil’s largest city
136 Soul
137 Amply skilled
138 Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle
DOWN
1 Deadly vipers
2 Island feast
3 Musical mark for “extremely softly”
4 “Drive South” singer John 5 Le Duc — (1992-97 president of Vietnam)
6 Nectar lover
7 Sailors’ saint
8 Knotting up
9 Ovum
10 Actor Rob
11 Averse (to)
12 Whale’s half-rise out of the water
13 Island guitar
14 “Sn” element
15 Suffix with prop16 Shrubland
17 Sunny lobbies
18 Mafia’s Frank
19 “Danke —”
24 Around 12 p.m. 29 Greek H’s
32 In a new way 33 Backboard attachment 35 Sentra maker 37 Grasslands
38 Actor sharing top billing 39 Backboard attachment 40 Tennis’ Arthur
41 Injury vestige
43 Yak it up
45 “That’s false!”
48 Pupil of Plato
49 French noble
50 Rule for homework time, perhaps
52 Operated by water under pressure
53 Brand of fat substitute 54 Ignited anew
55 Blissful sites
58 Bakery buys
61 Hoagie
63 Coll. in Dallas
64 Wanes
67 Football’s Flutie 69 Hollywood’s Morales 70 Praline bit
71 Cut-rate, in adspeak 72 Thick carpets
74 Show filmed at 30 Rock 75 Hebrew month 79 Daytime nap
80 “How — Your Mother” 81 Pitcher Ryan
82 African nation whose capital is Conakry
84 Boil briefly
87 Very angry
88 — -Caps
90 Hat edge
91 Italian peak
92 African nation whose capital is Lomé
94 Lava or Dial
96 NFL scores
99 Stymied
100 Sticky stuff
102 Some small batteries
104 Japanese green tea 108 “Veni,” translated
109 Monikers
110 Skillful feats
111 Navel type
112 Fixed-up building
114 Brittle
116 Arm bones
119 Like giraffes
121 Emmy winner Remini 123 “Sometimes you feel like —”
124 African nation whose capital is Bamako
125 Coll. hotshot
127 Football’s Marino
128 Lister’s abbr.
130 Caviar source
131 “Yoo- —!”
132 1995-2006 TV channel