THE PREMIER

ACROSS

1 Cries noisily 5 Stuff in steel 9 Horse cousin 12 Often-smoked food 15 U.K. neighbor 18 “As above,” in citations 19 Extremely deep sleep 20 Pavarotti of opera 22 U.S. neighbor 23 Make every effort to be obliging 26 Vivacity 27 Mosaic work 28 — -TURN (road sign) 29 — Mason (asset management firm) 30 BLT offerer 31 To any extent 32 Revolution of Triton with respect to Neptune 36 Author Anaïs 37 Twosome 39 Not tidy 40 Two-pip card 41 Pressing it moves a cursor to the previous character 46 Shorelines 47 Off the shore 48 Justice Sotomayor 49 Program using “.doc” files, for short 52 Mu — pork 54 Horace Greeley’s advice for American expansion 60 Huge aid 64 In base eight 65 She’s a star aria singer 66 Palme — (Cannes film award)

67 Bus driver’s order 73 Ship like Capt. Nemo’s 74 To — (exactly) 76 Marisa with an Oscar 77 Cadences 79 Irritate 85 Suffix with hell 86 More pasty 87 Horse opera 89 Arthur of tennis 93 Singers Idol and Ocean 96 Sticker message on a rented VCR tape 99 At full speed, old-style 100 A deadly sin 103 “Patience — virtue” 104 Pro vote 105 Do a 180, say 110 Rapper with the album “Press Play” 112 Old Italian stage actress Eleonora 113 1953 Leslie Caron film 114 “— always say ...” 115 Jeopardy 116 “— my fault” 117 Parent’s mind game with a child (or what you have to use to solve this puzzle?) 122 Even score 123 Guys rowing 124 Smartphone downloads 125 Suffix with well 126 States, informally 127 Singular of “Mmes.” 128 Beltway VIP 129 Watery castle protector 130 Once, in olden days

DOWN

1 Bro’s kin 2 Strange things 3 Former Fed head Ben 4 Little 5 “Ugh”-worthy 6 Bird of myth 7 Muscat resident 8 Honcho 9 Lager cousin 10 Nissan Rogue, e.g. 11 Bawls out 12 Irritable from being ravenous, slangily 13 Lay — (really fail) 14 Wild crowd 15 Stimulus 16 Vote in for a another term 17 Lapses 21 Notions 24 Ralph — Emerson 25 1921 Karel Capek play 30 Feared a lot 31 Author Seton 32 Bull in a ring 33 Cockney’s residence 34 Often-smoked food 35 Stenches 38 Actress Andress 42 Do laundry 43 Jillian of TV 44 Spanish aunt 45 Relatives, informally 46 Light bed 49 Mixed breed 50 Zest or Ivory 51 “Ben-Hur” director William 53 The woman 55 “Understood” 56 S.Sgt., e.g. 57 Yearn (for) 58 Female cell 59 Talks idly 60 Yrly. gift-giving time 61 Greek “I”

62 Heightened 63 — dish (bio lab item) 68 T. — Price 69 The “E” of EMT: Abbr. 70 Snide snicker 71 Sixths doubled 72 Method: Abbr. 75 “Liberté, —, fraternité” (France’s motto) 78 Bangkok citizen 80 “Bye Bye Bye” band 81 Exclamations of surprise 82 “Sk8er —” (2002 hit) 83 Assembly line labor org. 84 Tpk., e.g. 88 Actor Idle 90 Parachute user 91 Unmindful 92 Online bidding site 93 Roving robbers 94 “Gotta go” 95 — faire 96 ’50s prez 97 Not pos. 98 “Raider” Ralph 100 Previous convictions 101 Little brooks 102 Tough-totranslate phrases 106 Composer Edward 107 Opposite of 104-Across 108 Tea-growing Indian state 109 River giant, for short 111 Dunne of film 115 Covert “Hey!” 117 — Kippur War 118 Half of a bray 119 Wolf Blitzer’s channel 120 Clean air gp. 121 Q-U linkup