THE PREMIER
ACROSS
1 Puck surface 4 Transparent 9 Nick of “Weeds” 14 Urged (on) 19 Source of bean curd 20 Figure skater Sonja 21 Luau “hello” 22 Thousand: Prefix 23 Soft leather sewn over fabric tears? 26 Poker entry fee 27 Elevate 28 USMC rank 29 Tabby that’s a national government’s mascot? 31 Peace Nobelist Wiesel 32 Sounded like a cow 34 Antarctic penguin 35 Enticingly beautiful mugs? 40 Braininess 43 How distant stars shine 44 White-rayed flower 47 Trevor of “The Daily Show” 48 Port on the Gulf of Mexico 52 Poet Doolittle who did all of her writing in her boudoir? 55 Caspian Sea feeder 56 “Don’t leave!” 59 Easily spread cheese 60 Put decorations on your phone, then dial someone’s number? 66 Ticked by 71 Warrant 72 Wearing a fancy crown 74 Verdi opera 75 Maker of Galaxy phones 77 Crustacean that’s most active just before sunup? 79 “Exile” New Age artist 81 Falco with four Emmys 82 Notion, in Nantes 83 Black hole sucking in everything around it? 90 People lamenting 93 $$$ spitterouters 94 Like clipped sheep 95 Consumers 97 Tooted 100 Smug know-italls shoplift? 106 Having its petroleum imported, as a nation 109 Cosmic path 110 “My treat!” 111 Subtract the cost of an adhesive roll? 115 Bruin Bobby 116 Red-eyed songbirds 118 Actress Donovan of “Clueless” 119 Shopping containers holding more sinful items? 122 Salk of the Salk vaccine 123 Modify 124 Cliff nest 125 Luau gift 126 Viewpoint 127 Insolent 128 Norwegian money 129 Reno-to-L.A. dir.
DOWN
1 Emanates 2 Duo 3 Lashes’ base 4 See 87-Down 5 Shoved off 6 Rocker Brian 7 Use a fan on 8 Steinbeck novella, with “The” 9 “Platoon” war zone, in brief 10 Snowman in “Frozen” 11 Box in an opera house 12 Silents star Bara 13 Mollified 14 Mummify 15 Former New York City mayor Rudy 16 Antifreeze compound 17 Kazan of filmdom 18 By — of (owing to) 24 God, to Henri 25 Baldwin of “Still Alice” 30 Apt., e.g. 32 Brunch quaff 33 “My man!” 36 Roman 401 37 Quirky habit 38 Brake part 39 Male title of respect 41 Smidgen 42 “— Na Na” 45 Bawl 46 Days of old 48 Lipstick units 49 Action venue 50 Female title of respect 51 Ancient Roman lower class 52 Via automobile 53 Director Forman 54 Moor shrub 57 It blasts 58 Take — (swim or bathe) 61 Given a hint 62 Singer Loggins 63 “Rules — rules” 64 Worker filling a cargo hold, say 65 Spearhead 67 Great risk 68 Begin to fail 69 Bugs bugger Fudd 70 Ninnies 73 Imbiber’s hwy. offense 76 P.E. places 78 Most recent 80 “Makes sense now” 83 Chitchat 84 Map no. 85 Editing 86 Adoption of a cause 87 With 4-Down, cooking reality series 88 Uno tripled 89 Prefix with spore 91 Dadaist Jean 92 Prefix with thermal 95 Toni Braxton’s “— My Heart” 96 Swizzle stick 98 Totally cover 99 Speck 101 Yank who wore #13 102 Wine stopper 103 Genuflects 104 Overplays it 105 Actress O’Shea 107 “— the best of times ...” 108 Boxer Ali 111 — vu 112 University in North Carolina 113 Agts.’ cuts 114 Just makes, with “out” 116 Narcissistic 117 “Makes sense now” 120 Suffix with cook or mock 121 “My man!”