THE PREMIER

JOKE TIME JUMBLES

ACROSS

1 Joe of “Raging Bull” 6 Boss woman 13 Gabs with flirtatiously 20 Routinely 21 Explorer Leif 22 Carolina of fashion 23 Bought brass and bronze? 25 Swallow greedily 26 Selected passages 27 Mediocre grades 29 Field marshal Erwin 30 Took a chair 31 Where a beautiful woman swims? 34 Jay-z hit, e.g. 37 Moon of Jupiter 40 Restroom, for short 41 City in central Sicily 42 “Alas, it’s true, Ms. Bergen”? 47 Autumn chill 49 Dolled (up) 50 Library of Congress ID 52 “Hawaiian Favorites” singer 57 “Yer darn —!” 58 Show off parquet work? 62 Ocean Spray flavor prefix 63 Take — (chance it) 65 Oil qty. 66 “... some kind of —?” 67 Ruminant’s chew 68 Guthrie launches a Jedi master into a somersault? 73 Addenda to ltrs. 74 Blind as — 76 Hesiod’s H 77 Like Carroll’s “borogoves” 78 Part of TLC 80 Tinkerbell’s ancient milky gem? 84 “The Raven” maiden 86 Blasé feeling 87 Yemen port 88 Sugar quantity 90 During each 92 Maneuver to avoid a traffic jam doesn’t work? 96 Hot tub locales 100 Succor 102 Beaverlike rodent 103 Driver’s peg 104 Inundate Liotta’s bucket? 108 Size up from medium: Abbr. 111 Actor Brando 112 Big drink 113 Recurring melodic fragment 118 Scale ranges 120 What each of this puzzle’s eight longest answers is a 93-Down of 123 Least nice 124 Hit from behind 125 Rainer of film 126 Classifies 127 Myopic cartoon guy 128 Rocker Bob

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1 Pontiff 2 Pc-sent page 3 Glue — (adhesive brand) 4 Gives up 5 Prefix with red 6 Pal of Ernie 7 Savings plans, briefly 8 Jazz poet ScottHeron 9 Cato’s 1,150 10 Withdrawn from people 11 “True Blood” costar Stephen 12 Adams of photography 13 “Evita” role 14 Title king for the Bard 15 Strong rival of Sparta 16 — l’oeil 17 Homily 18 Spur 19 Simmered Spanish dish 24 Decided to enter 28 “My Gal —” 31 Dandy fellow 32 GI’S address 33 Popular Irish ballad 34 Spellbound 35 Like the conga drum, ethnically 36 Destine 38 Manipulate 39 Fishing stick 43 “— girl!” 44 1986 book by rocker Turner 45 Sassy talk 46 Big inits. in fashion 48 Many a sharable PC file 51 Soft as a — bottom 53 Ending for Rock 54 Like the United Way and NPR 55 Locale-specific regulation 56 Meal bits 58 “What’s the —?” 59 Molokai or Maui: Abbr. 60 Penny-pinch 61 Municipal pol. 63 Certain female opera solo 64 Writer Dahl 67 Snug eatery 69 Not a bus. 70 Ms. Zadora 71 Size that’s the opp. of 108-Across 72 — clubs (certain card) 75 Capote, to his buddies 79 Kournikova of the court 81 Quick bark 82 Berlin article 83 Yoko — 84 Sticking by 85 In addition 88 35mm camera type 89 Maui paste 91 Impassioned 93 Letter shuffle 94 Hwy. crime 95 Old religious scandal inits. 96 Gallery in western CA 97 Sites 98 Big arteries 99 California county 101 Bad: Prefix 105 Capital of Delaware 106 Bee cluster 107 Pied — 109 Fish parts 110 Come after 113 — concern 114 “— I” (“Me too”) 115 Take — at (insult) 116 Hit with a zapping gun 117 — and terminer 119 Aves. 121 Lyric-penning Gershwin 122 Tripod piece