PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
“TAKE THAT!”
ACROSS
1 Printed news sources
7 Rival of Nike
13 More potent, as liquor
20 Supposed evil repeller
21 Stephen King’s “— Lot”
22 Grow bigger
23 “The Client List” actress Shepherd
24 Result of vandalism
26 Match draw
27 “Them’s fightin’ words!”
28 Suffix with Canton
29 Right fielder Slaughter
30 Officials at first or third
34 Inner self, to Jung
36 Quarterback Manning
37 Eight minus two
38 Nav. officer
40 Sweater with a pattern of raised bands
45 Ripens
47 Auto exhaust and such
52 River craft
54 Nav. officer
55 Rainbow, e.g.
56 Incentive
57 Cardiologist
62 Return to 000
63 Digital holiday greeting
64 Shipping box: Abbr.
65 Digital color inits.
67 Suffix with host
68 Kuwaiti royal
71 Peck upon parting
75 Italy’s Villa d’—
76 Prefix with partisan
77 Singer Des’—
78 English lav
79 Have an — mystery
81 Peter out
83 Belief that people are noticing you more than they really are
90 Total up wrongly
92 Source of 24/7 $20 bills
93 Hot tub site
94 More subtle, as a point
95 Presidential hopeful’s bid
100 Old Icelandic literary work
101 Dais stand
102 Suffix with cannon
103 “Oh, gross!”
105 President pro —
106 Fighting it out
108 Thor and Indra
113 Spanish for “hand”
117 Forbid
118 “Symposium” philosopher
119 Peter out
120 Personal psychosocial conflict
123 Subsides
127 Pop flop of 1985
128 Catalog again
129 Manorial home
130 Whole number
131 Unlocked
132 What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be
DOWN
1 Lobby gp.
2 Comedian Poehler
3 Saloon
4 Upper crust
5 Holy artifacts
6 Canonized ninth-century pope
7 Savory jelly
8 — Vader
9 “You beat me this game”
10 Removal from office
11 Prayer ender
12 Russ. or Ukr., formerly
13 Prompt for the iPhone’s personal assistant
14 Nativeness to a certain region only
15 In the style of
16 Agatha Christie’s title
17 Tehran locale
18 Kellogg’s waffle
19 “Cheers” actor Roger
25 Eight plus two
30 Ocean liner?
31 Pond slime
32 Tuscan city
33 Wood splitter
34 Oto or Hopi
35 Sponge up
39 Give a poker hand, e.g.
41 Toy with a tail
42 Sounds
43 Build a financial portfolio
44 Fly of Africa
46 More miffed
48 Gives ear to
49 “Ltd.” cousin
50 15-season CBS series
51 They often work with DJs
53 List-limiting abbr.
58 “For heaven’s —!”
59 Snoops
60 Keep — head (stay calm)
61 “Have a bite”
66 Richard of “Primal Fear”
68 Nail coating
69 Item hanging above a crib
70 “Be there shortly”
72 Small racer in a groove
73 Grew irate
74 Religion in 17-Down
75 Escort in “The Hunger Games”
77 Brew colored from oxidation
80 Slightly amiss
82 Social skill
84 Pot’s partner
85 EarthLink or MSN 86 High no. for a valedictorian
87 “Is there no — this?!”
88 Handed over
89 Trolleys
91 All-terrain motorcycle
96 How Jesus walked, miraculously
97 Aetna alternative
98 What a H.S. dropout
may earn
99 Syringe parts
104 Most crooked
107 At least one
109 Welcomes to one’s home
110 Of service
111 Snooped (around)
112 Arrive at
113 Skirt style
114 Yemen city
115 Pond wriggler
116 Previously
118 Job of some cooks
121 Dress fancily, with “out”
122 — -Magnon
124 Maglie of the old Giants
125 Adaptable truck, in brief
126 Corral