Toronto Star

THE PREMIER

- BY FRANK A. LONGO CITY SCRAMBLE

ACROSS

1 Wash with vigor 6 Not there 12 Melancholy 15 Aspirin, e.g. 19 “Petunia” star Birch 20 Many a Giotto work 21 “Woo- —!” 22 Wee amount 23 Suit fitter in a California city? 25 Holding the attention of 27 Seat winners 28 “Breezy” co-star Kay 29 Boys and men from an Oregon city? 31 Michigan city whose residents are a bit more eccentric? 36 Jacuzzi sigh 37 Swirly letters 38 Popular cookie 39 Hamm on a soccer field 41 Actor Hill of “Moneyball” 45 Denounce 48 Plundered an Ohio city? 51 Big lug 54 Judd of song 57 L-P middle 58 “Renegade” star Lamas 59 Hay bundle 61 Setting of “Anne of Green Gables” 63 Yang partner 64 Mouse-spotting cry 65 Painting exhibitor on wheels in a Maryland city? 70 Sphere 71 Sphere 72 Debt memo 73 Green shade 77 Pennsyl-vania city with a big population of forefather­s? 83 Sussex loc. 86 Pale — 87 One making a change 88 Palo — 89 Piano relative 92 24-hr. cash convenienc­e 93 Runoff conduit 95 Part of LAPD 96 Includes an Arizona city in the tally? 99 Noah’s Ark groupings 101 Military foe 102 Cleanup org. 103 Not distant 106 Electric car maker 110 Sprite 112 Speak badly of an Illinois city? 116 Off-Broadway awards whose winners hail from an Idaho city? 120 Film director Reiner 121 Thurman of “Jennifer 8” 122 Illuminati­on 123 Warehouse vehicle produced in a Texas city? 128 First-aid gel 129 — -di-dah 130 Negative battery poles 131 City close to Minneapoli­s 132 Antarctic explorer Richard 133 Perch 134 Compounds in explosives 135 Perch

DOWN

1 Big step 2 Casual slacks 3 Scorches 4 Net address 5 Baseball club 6 In pursuit of 7 “The Chase” star Marlon 8 One nabbing something 9 Immigrant’s class, in brief 10 Sgt., e.g. 11 Body trunk 12 Collielike pooch 13 Top-grade 14 Firm belief 15 Do some excavating 16 Make turbid 17 With 105-Down, eclectic digest 18 Comics’ acts 24 Corrida cry 26 Three-sharp musical key 30 “We — please!” 32 Actor Knight 33 “No man — island” 34 Phone no. 35 Lodger 40 Impromptu 42 Goose of Hawaii 43 Timber-dressing tool 44 Boxing blow 46 Counterpar­t of “sir” 47 De — (afresh) 49 Slanting 50 R&B’s Braxton 51 “SOS” group 52 Jack of early talk TV 53 Model Macpherson 55 Melancholy 56 Like argon 60 Smoky peak in Sicily 62 Rodents in research 63 Lionel Richie hit of 1983 66 Actor McShane 67 Lawn pests 68 Mauna — 69 “Lohengrin” heroine 74 “— turn up eventually” 75 Executive “no” 76 Greek Cupid 78 Tigers, e.g. 79 Make glad 80 Biscotto nut 81 Creek critter 82 Work detail 83 Latin “Behold!” 84 Gas in signs 85 Pasting stuff 90 Snared 91 Surgical probe 92 Without — (worry-free) 94 College military gp. 97 On edge 98 Modern, in Mannheim 100 Island locale 104 Consent (to) 105 See 17-Down 107 Atelier 108 Units of light 109 Noah’s Ark landing site 111 Thwarts 113 Lion of C.S. Lewis’ “Narnia” tales 114 Metal waste 115 Em preceder 116 Blurt out the secret 117 Grease-filled 118 Monster film lab helper 119 — B’rith 124 Songwriter Di Franco 125 “Baloney!” 126 Above, in odes 127 Bustle

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