PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
INTERPRETING ALL THE SIGNS
ACROSS
1 Friendly and cheerful 7 Custard apple relative 12 Peevish state
16 Air gun ammo
19 With no secrecy 20 Caribbean resort island 21 Physiques, for short 22 Suffix with east 23 Door-bashing device 25 Working hard
26 Grazing field
27 Politician Alexandria — -Cortez
28 Bud Light mascot Spuds MacKenzie, for one
31 A verb often follows it 34 Vex
36 Winning tic-tac-toe row 37 “Hoarders” channel 38 “Full House” acting pair 41 Sideways-moving arachnid
43 Judo teacher
44 Test taker
46 Sailors, informally 47 “The Villain” actor Jack 50 Gain’s offset
51 Ignited
53 “If I Only Had the Nerve” singer
59 “Ka-POW!”
60 Me, in Lyon
63 On — with (equal to) 64 One of the Kennedys 65 Org. with merit badges 67 Leaning
69 Mother of Jesus 71 Things to step on in washrooms
73 Moon that’s home to the Ewoks
74 Top-secret U.S. org. 75 Dialect of Aramaic
76 Ad biz award
77 French article
78 CEO’s deg.
80 Flashy, diving soccer move 82 Put a flaw in
83 Dog in “The Thin Man” 85 Hockey’s Phil, to fans 86 Manufacture
89 Leaned back
93 Negev’s land
98 “Fatal Attraction” Oscar nominee
100 Feta, for one
103 Official order
104 Prevarication
105 Spiral-shelled mollusk 106 Rep on the street
107 Luxury writing implement
110 Eye ring
113 Rhinoplasty doc
114 Nastase of tennis fame 115 Halibut, sole and flounder
120 Beatified Mlle.
121 Madams’ counterparts 122 Eldest of the Musketeers 123 1998 Masters champ Mark
124 One of the Kennedys 125 Hug’s partner
126 Century’s 100
127 All 12 of its symbols are featured in this puzzle
DOWN
1 Dollop
2 Clean air org.
3 Court divider
4 Chants
5 Actor Baldwin
6 Vega’s constellation 7 Grill-marked sandwiches 8 French forest region 9 Brand of faucet filters 10 Cry like —
11 Bank bought by Chase, for short
12 Govt. advances for momand-pops
13 Opposite of destined 14 “And When —” (1969 hit) 15 Certain high-heel feature 16 Go-Go’s singer Carlisle 17 Offspring producer 18 Ones entrapping 24 “Vidi,” in English 29 “Slow” primate
30 Bonnie of blues rock 31 Antis’ votes
32 Corrida cry
33 Sailor’s org.
35 It runs on a 52-Down 39 — -do-well
40 Bill of tennis
41 “Hurry it up!”
42 Actress Ward
45 Balm additive
48 Female grad
49 Chatty birds
52 Apple buy
53 Went spelunking 54 Think aloud
55 Prison units
56 2012 Ben Affleck thriller 57 Turkish money unit 58 Bitterly cold
59 Adherents of an Iranian religion
60 Thousand: Prefix
61 — acid (fat product) 62 “There, there”
65 Georgia politician Bob 66 Michael of the band R.E.M.
68 Small nail
70 “— la Douce” 71 Drink-related party abbr. 72 Suffix with micro- or kaleido75 Read quickly
79 “I’m c-c-cold!”
80 Start to wake
81 Light snack
82 Small rodents, jocularly 83 Sore feeling
84 Slumber
86 Star of “I’m No Angel” 87 Slower than allegretto 88 Like bootees 90 Cream-filled pastries 91 Big head
92 Contributor
94 Covered anew, as a book 95 — Lingus
96 Suffix with Senegal 97 Guided
99 In harm’s way
101 Transversely
102 Those people
105 100-buck bill
108 Roman 1,052
109 Auction website
111 “The Wizard —”
112 Celeb’s ride
116 Radio host Charlamagne — God
117 “Bali —”
118 Epoch
119 Small pouch