PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
RULING PARTY
ACROSS
1 Gilda Radner character on “Saturday Night Live” 9 Certain martial arts surface
16 Just OK
20 Enthusiastic reply to a request
21 Raised, as a building 22 Central point
23 British ruler applying veneer?
25 Violent anger 26 Nutrition Facts category 27 Brewed beverage
28 Great Plains tribe
29 The Devil
30 Nile goddess
33 Turkish ruler’s pungent condiment?
38 Quaint office transcribers 41 Sleep study diagnosis 42 Regarding
43 Something a Frenchkissing Arab ruler has? 46 Small sailboats
51 Nuptial vow
52 Really smell
53 Kind of tide
56 China’s Zhou — 57 Actress Perez
59 Hindu ruler’s radio signoff?
65 Secretive U.S. org. 67 Tehran’s land
68 Jug handle
69 Skye of film
70 Save the Russian ruler from tumbling to the ground?
75 Actors Mineo and Landi 77 Car club inits.
78 Coin-op hole 79 Thesaurus entry: Abbr. 80 Afghan ruler caught up in a tornado?
85 Stared in amazement 89 Agate playing marble, informally
90 Lingo suffix
91 Greek money 93 Brewed beverage
94 Exam taker
96 Very easy task for a Muslim ruler?
102 Many a war vet’s affliction
105 Behave badly
106 Yellowstone gusher 107 English ruler making mouse sounds?
111 Bomb part
112 Liquid- — (Drano rival) 113 Electees
114 Iowa college
116 Louver strip
120 Hula —
121 What’s revealed by taking an X-ray of a Persian ruler?
127 Shower affection (on) 128 Butt forcefully
129 Waters north of Australia
130 Went swiftly
131 Visits during a trip 132 Car mileage recorder
DOWN
1 Son of Willy Loman 2 Tibet locale
3 Bat very gently 4 Emerging
5 Actor Studi
6 Herr’s “Alas!”
7 Sits tight
8 Writer Rice
9 Pa Clampett
10 Arg. neighbor 11 Last mo.
12 Golfer Lorena 13 Volcano in E. Sicily 14 — Fables
15 Six-pt. plays 16 Shredded bit 17 Pontificate 18 Fructose, e.g. 19 Yoked yaks 24 Utters breathlessly 29 Oral 31 Most vinegary 32 “Understood”
34 Sch. in the Granite State 35 Director Ang
36 Mai — (drink)
37 UFO pilots 38 Commotion 39 Commotion
40 Actress Mireille — 41 Singer Paul
44 Ending for cash 45 Comedian Hart, casually 47 Hoosier State
48 Building story 49 Part-goat god
50 Where it’s at
54 “It’s — real!”
55 Boast
58 Irritated
60 Big name in peanut butter
61 Break out in —
62 Actress Berry
63 Set to a slow speed 64 Bow shapes
66 Berry of Brazil
70 Some mollusks
71 Loathe
72 Oohs and —
73 “Lord, is —?” 74 Precursors of embryos 75 Brief parody
76 Cry of woe
81 Person crying
82 Golf gizmo
83 Kind of tide
84 Used a spade
86 Cronies
87 Model Macpherson 88 Doe or stag
92 Spaghetti sauce brand 95 GPS calculation 97 Egyptian — (cat breed) 98 Cold cubes
99 GPS calculation
100 Grape cluster
101 Visual insult
103 Slope-hitter’s headwear 104 Energetic sort
107 Small sailboat
108 Citation
109 Officiated on the diamond
110 Vessel used to lure Uboats
111 Foul-smelling
112 Profs’ degs.
115 Maestro Klemperer 117 Strong desire
118 1940s film critic James 119 “— she blows!”
121 This yr.’s grads
122 Hosp. VIPS
123 “Give — try”
124 Obtained
125 Med. group
126 DVD- —