PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Audibly
6 Mission --, California 11 Spill the beans
15 Golf coups
19 Perceive
20 -- Good Feelings
21 Many a “Hee Haw” character
22 Boxing event 23 Involuntary leg reactions 26 Stimulate
27 -- yung (Chinese dish) 28 Rocket downer, for short 29 Relative of a tank top 31 “O Fortuna” composer Carl
33 Some arm muscles, informally
35 No. on a road sign 36 “And that’s that”
37 Note that recommends a job applicant, e.g. 43 Wood-dressing tools 44 Pigsty stuff
45 In the thick of
46 Dark, gloomy rock genre 48 Fast, sporty auto
51 “My treat”
52 Greek “S”
54 Face cover
58 WWW address 59 Longer-than-normal prison term
62 Cat breed
65 Region
66 Long-unshaven
67 What “have solved” is in, in terms of grammar
73 Ad awards
74 Utilize a Juul device, e.g. 75 Aided in evil
77 In bed
83 Yoko of the avant-garde 84 Utters
85 Stimulate
86 “Dame” Everage 87 Cleric’s home 89 Oregano, e.g.
90 Telly watcher
91 “Help us!”
92 Cat food brand 96 Innermost parts
103 Cuba’s largest city
105 “Norma --”
106 Get it wrong
107 Cel figure
108 Fir or spruce
113 -- Lingus
115 Cato’s 1,101
116 Monopoly expense
117 2020 drama thriller film 120 El --, Texas
121 “Why should -- you?” 122 Concur
123 Carried, as a load
124 Loads
125 Stitches up
126 Lunchtimes, often
127 Pack-toting equines
DOWN
1 Solicit
2 “The Raven” maiden 3 Done just a single time 4 Purpose
5 “It’s -- vu all over again” 6 Pests like rats and roaches 7 Rile
8 Lobed body parts
9 “Piano Man” singer Billy 10 Proposed for consideration
11 Nominal military promotion
12 Poshness
13 Cain’s victim
14 Plagued (by)
15 Treated badly 16 Congress’ Alexandria Ocasio- -17 University of Oregon’s city
18 Spirited horses
24 Abated
25 Riga native, old-style 30 Old Iranian ruler 32 Disaster relief gp. 34 Insufficient
38 Futuristic sci-fi play of 1921
39 Single-named supermodel 40 Mortgage claim
41 Case for ova
42 Italy’s capital
47 Beige
48 Gloomy -49 Level just below major league
50 Lucidness
51 Plow beasts
52 Feudal peon
53 Concept, in Calais 54 Signified
55 Jennifer of “The Switch” 56 Lint catchers
57 Lock partner 59 Memphis-to-Atlanta dir. 60 Has the gumption
61 Fare- -- -well
63 Feline cries
64 Cato’s “to be” 68 Cathode-ray picture producer
69 Oom- -- (tuba sounds) 70 Sword type
71 “Ciao!”
72 Samantha Bee’s station 73 “NCIS” network
76 Stag’s mate
78 Prior to, in odes 79 Opposite of south, in France
80 That girl’s
81 Fix text
82 -- nous (in confidence) 87 “The Simpsons” bartender 88 Admin. aide
89 With 118-Down, do a surfing stunt
90 Brewski container 91 Fastener fitting into a nut 92 Helper in the Himalayas 93 Lace into 94 “OK, but still ...”
95 Red Cross founder Clara 97 Film director Lubitsch and physicist Mach
98 Liver spread
99 Wipes clean
100 Actress Suzanne
101 Epoch of the first whales 102 “Blade” star Wesley
104 “-- a jealous mistress” 109 Jennifer of “Zero Dark Thirty”
110 “So nasty!”
111 Hence
112 Architect Saarinen
114 Singer McEntire
118 See 89-Down
119 Boxing wallops