THE PREMIER

SOUNDS LIKE A SEASONAL SONG

ACROSS 1 Plans 7 Form of trapshooting 12 2001-09 U.S. pres. 15 BLT condiment 19 Creature on a slide 20 1923 Nobel-win

ning poet 21 Jump to clear 23 Start of a riddle 25 Making changes

to 26 Preceder of tee 27 Pack animal 28 Pro-bono TV ad 29 Slanting 30 Riddle, part 2 37 “Now it’s clear” 39 Big coffee con

tainer 40 Look lewdly 41 Gets dirty 42 Riddle, part 3 48 Rollaway bed 49 Turndowns 50 “O Sole —” 51 “— -hoo!” 52 Fit for consump

tion 55 “Thwack!” 57 On the — (escap

ing) 60 Juneau locale 63 Bullfight bull 66 Riddle, part 4 71 Quite heavy 73 “The rest — to

you” 74 Cole Porter’s “Well, Did You —?” 75 Mobile, e.g. 76 Riddle, part 5 80 Princely school 81 At peace 82 “Gloria in Excelsis

—” 83 Cleans up copy 85 Tabriz residents 88 To the rear 91 Masters peg 92 Awful 95 Eggs 97 Riddle, part 6 102 Actress Palmer or

Soprano Lehmann 105 Send out 106 “Alley —!” 107 Look lewdly 108 End of the riddle 114 Mojave, e.g. 115 IRS datum 116 Sculling need 117 Lofty poem 120 Sellers with cellars 123 Riddle’s answer 126 Meet at a point 127 Inundate 128 Use mouthwash audibly 129 Really regrets 130 Ballpark amt. 131 Plants of the lily family 132 Prize greatly

DOWN 1 Postpaid enc. 2 Ratite birds 3 #1-ranked tourna

ment entrant 4 Summer mo. 5 Ship sinker 6 Outdated 7 Wd. of like mean

ing 8 Frat house beer

bash 9 Depletes little by

little 10 Hawke of “Ham

let” 11 Philosopher

Lao- — 12 Fake peeper 13 Having good manners 14 Ulan —, Mongolia 15 Rita of “West Side Story” 16 Lead-in to fauna 17 Longing 18 Pt. of NOW 22 Diarist Samuel 24 Neighbor of Leb. 29 Realm 31 Neighbor of Kan. 32 Mon.-Wed. linkup 33 Architectural wing 34 Cry after a three

pointer 35 “Hold On Tight”

rock gp. 36 Q-U linkup 37 Knighted actor

Holm 38 — -cone 43 Thurman of the

screen 44 Kelly of morning

TV 45 Teasing knuckle

rub 46 Silent film vamp

Negri 47 Gorilla observer

Fossey 53 Radar signal 54 Flogs 55 Suitable for a

Seder table 56 “What — think

ing?” 58 Work without —

(act riskily) 59 Ovid’s 1,506 61 Cousin of lotto 62 Yemeni port 63 T-bars, e.g. 64 Tony relative 65 Court do-overs 67 Newsman Roger 68 Duel sword 69 Clock part 70 “It was forced on

me” 72 Sicilian peak 77 Egg sources 78 Wyle of “ER” 79 In — of 84 — Aviv-Yafo 86 Potential ship

sinkers 87 Writer W. —

Maugham 89 Trudge 90 Like four-person

basketball 92 “I say!” 93 WWW giant 94 As yet unpaid 95 Dated 96 Compete 98 “Sounder” director

Martin 99 Ending for ordinals 100 PC “brain” 101 DeLuise or

DiMaggio 103 Many flat-screens 104 Cara of “Fame” 109 French river 110 “It’s — bet” 111 Body digit 112 Sponge 113 Killer whales 118 Mete 119 K-6: Abbr. 120 TiVo precursor 121 Debt memo 122 Vane dir. 123 Punting figs. 124 — and outs 125 Technique