PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Broken stone for paving
8 Big petroleum company of the past
15 Actress Talia
20 Erstwhile empress of Russia
21 Very narrow, as a road
22 Got the lead out?
23 Decision to award Eris’ apple to Aphrodite
25 Blah feeling
26 NHLer Bobby
27 Upset infant’s sound
28 “Look, mice!”
29 Least severe
31 Stein drinks
34 Original lion-logo film studio
38 Arriver’s declaration
40 — buco
41 A Nixon daughter
44 City northeast of Toronto
48 To wit
54 Cascara and red ash are members of it
58 Deem worthy
59 Poet Rich or actress Barbeau
60 “Yang Yang” singer Yoko
61 Painting in the Louvre
63 San Luis —
64 Doc bloc
66 Shoveled
68 Boots out
69 Hardware pieces for attaching shelves to walls
74 Wrinkly-faced dog
77 Wallach or Manning
78 Outlaw
79 Similar to
82 Diner offering
84 Ancient
86 Sits to appear on the cover of, say
90 Pest control company
91 Hovel
94 Shredded, as Parmesan
96 Takes care of
97 1980s game consoles
98 Honolulu site
100 Snazzily dressed
103 2011 Steve Carell romcom
111 Sphere
115 Port near Buenos Aires
116 “Louisville Lip” of boxing
117 Jeff Lynne’s rock gp.
119 “Is that true about me?”
120 Scope of influence
121 The “AA” and “BB” of an AABB scheme
127 Din
128 “Hamilton” composer Lin-Manuel
129 City grid parts
130 Lace snarls
131 Ends of sonnets
132 Phrase with no repeated letters (like each of this puzzle’s seven longest answers)
DOWN
1 Dead-end work position
2 Sky-blue hue
3 Corps core
4 Uru. neighbor
5 Not well lit
6 Over again
7 Take care of
8 Oozy gunk
9 Lacking in nourishment
10 Skunk Pepé of cartoons
11 Like crumbly piecrusts
12 Rowing blade
13 Reggae’s — Kamoze
14 Best Musical before “Phantom”
15 Silvery fish
16 Dharma follower
17 Private
18 Recycle
19 Fixes up text
24 Son of Odin
30 Holy relic
32 Lake of TV talk
33 Hit hard, biblical-style
35 Novelist Uris
36 “— get it!” (“Oh, makes sense!”)
37 Sacred song
39 Violinist Hilary
41 Kind of ski lift
42 Very impolite
43 2012 hit for Flo Rida
45 Calif. air hub
46 Advertising leaflets
47 Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie —”
49 “Stop!,” asea
50 Stags, e.g.
51 Film director Kazan
52 Intense desire
53 “For” votes
55 Doing Atkins, say
56 Do-fa linkup
57 “Get what I’m saying?”
62 Atlanta-to-Akron dir.
65 Suffix with pent
67 Chitchat
69 Apple or pear
70 Offer a view
71 Permit
72 Sphere
73 Mafia bigwig
74 Hazy air stuff
75 Mister, in Münster
76 “Lonely Boy” singer Paul
79 At a distance
80 Sets of points, in math
81 Torah holders
83 — pork (Chinese entree)
85 Sleuth: Abbr.
87 Purse part
88 Nitrate, e.g.
89 Ration
92 Pick- — (refresher)
93 Bygone bird
95 Verb before “thou,” perhaps
99 Words after man or sergeant
101 With, to Luc
102 House speaker after Ryan
103 Metallic sound
104 Novarro of silent films
105 H.S. science class for college credit
106 Roster of least-soughtafter celebs
107 “Eleni” director Peter
108 “— your disposal”
109 Group trying to sack a QB
110 Swiss chocolatier
112 Like — in headlights
113 Ton of, informally
114 Bette Midler’s “Divine” stage persona
118 Alibis, e.g.
122 Go quickly
123 Divs. of eras
124 Propane, e.g.
125 In favor of
126 Knee’s place