PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Grappler, backwoods-style 8 Skylit courts
13 Astronaut Wally
20 “The Stranger Beside Me” true-crime writer
21 Flowers in the iris family 22 Some sweatshirts
23 Swift warship for law enforcement?
25 Finales
26 Makes mother’s milk 27 Comic Radner
29 “How about that!” 30 Lugosi of “The Raven” 33 Hefty books
34 Defectively built flatbottomed boat?
36 Pumpkin’s color 38 Resident of Tehran 40 Makes a choice
41 Light, speedy boat transporting Oreos?
45 Just barely
48 Indian state known for silk
49 United
50 In a smoothly elegant way 53 Neon, e.g.
56 French mime master 59 High-sterned ship orbiting Earth?
61 “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Andy
65 Central Canadian tribe members
67 Upscale hotel quarters 68 Small combo 69 Discovering a sharpbowed rowboat?
74 Safe, at sea
75 Do a tally of
77 “Get what I’m sayin’, man?”
78 Zealous
80 Paint a passenger ship? 83 Soapmaking solution 86 Auditing org.
87 Message on a tombstone 89 Kabuki sash 90 Enthusiasm
95 Prison, in London
96 Very fast ship decorated with shrubbery?
99 Coll. reunion attendee
102 Father Sarducci of old 3-Down
104 Quick-witted
105 Racing boat with lots of mollusks attached?
109 Fill with joy
113 Lyric verses
114 Billiards stick
115 They make up molecules 116 Abstruse
118 Reproductive organs
120 Sub-sinking ship full of aquariums?
125 Lay aside
126 Bert’s pal
127 Introductions
128 In clothes
129 Actors O’Neal and Reynolds
130 Says “OK”
DOWN
1 Jay-Z’s music
2 Year, in Portugal
3 NBC skit show, in brief 4 Indian Ocean island nation 5 — Brasi (role in “The Godfather”)
6 One voted in
7 Book page opposite a verso 8 Severe
9 Samples something 10 Singer Diana
11 With 13-Down, thick glacial mass along a polar shore
12 BB shooter
13 See 11-Down
14 Magazine publisher Nast 15 Wannabe surfer
16 Exiled Amin
17 Key into a cash register 18 Acting king
19 Good traits 24 He-sheep
28 “— may be so bold ...” 30 — Raton
31 Lovers’ deity
32 Neighbor of Thailand 34 Clayey fertilizer
35 Herd of seals
37 “— a break!”
39 Gave a new interior design to
42 Welsh canine
43 Mom’s bro
44 Ball supporter
45 Org. for cavity fillers 46 Doc’s warm treatment 47 “For” votes
51 Like thrift store goods 52 — facto
53 Sly deception
54 Prices to play
55 Variety of trapshooting 57 Spot’s noise
58 Etching liquid
60 Husband of Eva Perón 61 Actress Keanan 62 Enthusiasm 63 Gold-fancying king 64 Boxers’ event
66 Waffle brand
70 No, to Nikita
71 Torres with 12 Olympic swimming medals 72 Antique item
73 “Hooray!”
76 “Guilty” or “not guilty” 79 Onetime TV host Philbin 81 Debut on Wall St. 82 Zippo
84 Woofing pet
85 Actor Vigoda
88 Olympic skier Mahre 91 Meeting building regulations
92 Tater
93 Head, in Metz
94 Mining strikes
95 Big inits. in SUVs 97 Certain deer leather 98 Hamlet’s duel opponent 99 Peace treaty
100 Shutter piece
101 Fidgetiness
102 Valuable rock
103 Long, loose outerwear 106 Nitpickers split them
107 Olympic skier Mahre
108 Sprayed, with “down” 110 Mining strikes
111 Downed
112 Electric car producer
116 Sicilian resort city
117 Investments for later yrs. 119 Home: Abbr.
121 Suffix with budget
122 — and yang
123 Doc for head colds
124 Blog feed format inits.