PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
NBA PLAY
ACROSS
1 Relatives of pistachios 8 Mail-related
14 Baio and Turow
20 Wife of Nero 21 Fingers-in-ears syllables 22 Headwear for Mr. Peanut 23 Golden State hoopster who lives for Saturdays and Sundays?
25 Existence
26 Days of yore, archaically 27 Ruling group
28 Schlepped through the entrance
30 Ballesteros of golf 33 Groom, e.g.
35 Exemplary Houston hoopster?
38 San Antonio hoopster scaling a mountain?
42 Suffix with lion 43 Guy in the fam
44 High peak
45 Heavenly
46 Health club
48 Gyro bread
49 Semi fuel
51 Cowardly Denver hoopster?
55 “Mom” actress Jaime 58 Start eating
59 Org. against pollution 60 Redding of R&B
61 Event for stunt pilots
64 -- -Z (total)
65 Foot part
68 Brooklyn hoopster using a rod and reel?
71 Phoenix hoopster preparing a typeface for printing? 74 Frau’s “Oh!”
75 Girl in the fam
76 Name originally proposed for Utah
78 Gas guzzler
79 Reindeer kin
80 Notion, to Fifi
81 Damsels
84 Los Angeles hoopster originally from New England?
90 Train in the pool
92 All excited
93 Mtn. stat
94 Tested for fit
97 “-- culpa!”
98 “Stillmatic” rapper 99 Footed vase
101 Sacramento hoopster holding power?
103 Eco-conscious Charlotte hoopster?
107 Livy’s lang.
108 Words in an analogy
109 Some nobles’ domains 110 Jamaican pop genre
112 Baby wolf
114 Justification
116 Chicago hoopster devoid of spontaneity and emotion? 122 Sock with diamond patterns
123 “Seinfeld” character
124 Shrunken Asian lake
125 Some vowel sounds
126 Phrase structure
127 Lower than
DOWN
1 Mooing beast
2 High card
3 Fr. holy woman 4 Olajuwon of the NBA 5 Daredevil Knievel 6 Power sources with spinning sails
7 Tearful
8 Strategize
9 Rowers’ tools
10 35mm camera inits. 11 Alteration pro
12 Not silently
13 Huge
14 Directs
15 Buyable apartments 16 Vision-related
17 Have high aspirations 18 Bit of ink art
19 Pigpen 24 Flying needs
29 Collect bit by bit
30 Cousin of a jack mackerel 31 Oval-shaped
32 Spiteful
34 Even one
35 Capital of Bavaria 36 One-named Deco master 37 Exactly
39 Pollen eaters
40 “Get ‘em, Spot!”
41 Syllable after “oom” 46 Broiling bar
47 Church seat
48 Club swingers’ gp. 50 Meeting period, informally
52 Picked
53 -- pot (sinus-cleaning product)
54 “Once -- a time ...” 56 Dillydallies
57 Dark half of a Chinese circle
60 Birds -- feather
62 News aggregation website 63 Precipitous
64 “-- girl!”
65 Giant waves
66 Paid more than 67 Musician Brian
69 Capri, e.g.
70 Adidas rival
72 Pro -73 Celtic speaker
77 Piece for seven
79 Heart test, for short 80 Ailing
82 Apathetic response 83 Ding- -84 Light half of a Chinese circle
85 Lab gelatin
86 Horse feed holders 87 Body of rules
88 Verdi’s “-- tu”
89 Fix illegally
91 Pudding starch
95 China’s Zhou
96 Day, in Peru
99 Open, as a new rug
100 Some French wines
101 Make a new digital image of
102 Dry dog food
104 Class that’s a cinch
105 “Blue” singer LeAnn
106 Hockey great Cam
110 Capital of Yemen
111 Lego alternative
113 -- Bator
114 Jogged, e.g.
115 History unit
117 Smack
118 Taxi
119 D.C.’s nation
120 Tennis call
121 “-- -di-dah!”