THE PREMIER
PAIRS OFF
ACROSS
1 Gallery display
8 Bits of fabric, e.g.
14 “Quit that!”
20 Low-cost and inferior, informally
21 Apple ad catchphrase
22 For a short period
23 Actress Freeman who lived in a European gambling mecca?
25 Cello relative
26 Classic Ford
27 Animated one, in brief
28 Like some radio shows
30 Cereal grass
31 Palmist, e.g.
32 General —’s chicken
33 Two-masted sailboat painted bright red?
35 Oahu beach
38 IV flow
39 Land of ska
43 King or czar
47 Fluctuate
51 Really hurt the feelings of?
54 Aquatint, e.g.
55 Quaint newspaper sections
56 Very little
57 Enter gently
60 Actor Ron
61 Golf club
62 Saints’ org.
64 Like someone who has moved to America again?
66 Coup group
68 Like a black chimney 70 Nothing, in Latin
71 Parasite on a passenger flight?
74 Mil. rank
75 Sonar sound
78 Groom’s vow
79 Hound breed
80 Laugh loudly
82 Cut off with scissors
83 T-man Eliot
85 Be too busy for a health-resort visit?
89 Stun guns
92 Go to bed
93 Acclimated
94 Essence
96 Making a snug home
98 “Alice” waitress who specialized in serving Dad’s soft drinks?
104 Styled after
105 Peat source
109 Indisposed
110 Sporty Chevy
111 Clay lump
113 Vixen’s boss
114 Sight-related
116 Apt getaway spelled by this puzzle’s missing pairs of last two letters
119 Get even for
120 Follows
121 Discharge an egg
122 Usurer, e.g.
123 Typists in trials
124 Rode a bike
DOWN
1 Zeniths
2 — Island (part of New England)
3 Edgy
4 Ocean filler
5 German car 6 Ocasek of the Cars
7 Of the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” poet
8 Fodder storer
9 “Move it!”
10 Bighorn male
11 BP gas brand
12 Carrier founded in 1927
13 La — (opera house)
14 Rescuers
15 Hostess classic
16 “So that’s your game!”
17 Stove light
18 Of a pelvic bone
19 Extra inning
24 Chess piece
29 Classic Ford
32 Burrito’s kin
33 Very little
34 Sword sort
35 Nintendo game consoles
36 Not engaged
37 Petty of NASCAR
39 Actress Ryan of “Boston Public”
40 God of love
41 Bikers’ competition on a dirt trail
42 In no key, musically
44 Take — (plop down)
45 Actor Keach of “Man With a Plan”
46 Errand, e.g.
48 Most hard and cold
49 Rights gp.
50 Reasons
52 Poking tool
53 Essence
58 Monogram letter: Abbr.
59 Final degree
62 Papa’s ma 63 Edible fruit part
64 — choy 65 Rap genre
67 Chest protector, of sorts
68 Holey utensil
69 Musical piece for eight
71 “— life grand?”
72 Brain flash
73 Old autocrat
74 Slalom, say
76 Neck area
77 Alum
80 Bygone days
81 Former foes of Navajos
82 Forest buck
84 Labor Day mo.
86 Madre’s boy
87 Postal slot
88 Actress Best of “The Man Who Knew Too Much”
90 Chest protector, of sorts
91 Thieving type
95 Dress border
97 Southwest art mecca
98 Foe
99 Antipasto bit
100 Cindy Brady player Susan
101 Goes very quickly
102 Facade
103 Mature nit
105 “The Practice” actress Sokoloff
106 “Barry Lyndon” star Ryan
107 Situation
108 Filled fully
111 Singer Laine
112 A smaller amount of
113 Valuable sire
115 Conjunction in Cologne
117 Wordplay bit
118 Actress Best of “Nurse Jackie”