PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Auxiliary professor 8 Nickname for baseball great Ruth
15 Cultural value system 20 High-fashion clothing 21 Knows someone at the company, say
22 Reluctant (to)
23 “Wait, my rant isn’t finished ...”
25 Private, as desires 26 Agnus — (lamb figure) 27 “Cool beans!”
28 Down dinner
30 Look lewdly
31 2018 war documentary directed by Peter Jackson 38 Composer — Sebastian Bach
40 Hamilton/Burr confrontation
41 Era upon era 42 Turndowns
43 Stati — (America, in Italian)
44 Stage design
47 La — Tar Pits
49 Gp. opposed to leather 51 Made a habit of taking risks
54 Actress Cuthbert 57 French for “summers” 58 Bible book after Micah 59 Dwell at
61 —Ops (CIA mind games) 62 Coffee holder
63 In love
67 Big name in candy wafers 68 2011-13 Fran Drescher sitcom
71 Give it — (try)
74 Paris’ Champs- — 75 Certain scanning device: Abbr.
76 St. crossers
79 First book section 81 Former UN chief Boutros Boutros- —
83 Stool or pew 84 Milk container
85 Just a tiny bit
90 Op-ed writer Maureen 91 Art of Erté
92 Once existed
93 Eldritch
94 Links gp.
96 Canon camera brand
98 — part (role-play)
100 1996-2002 sports sitcom 101 Song phrase following “See you later, alligator”
107 Amazes
108 Daddy’s boy
109 Prague citizen
110 Victor’s hand gesture
113 Prefix with type or plasm 115 What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle
121 Lot units
122 Countering an attack by missile, e.g.
123 Pundit Huffington
124 Hockey feints
125 Fill with more inventory 126 Like soon-to-be-unveiled tech
DOWN
1 Mil. school
2 Finished
3 She won a Tony for “Hurlyburly”
4 Stage actress Hagen 5 Pious sister
6 Actor Hume of “Cocoon” 7 Heads, to Henriette
8 Iota preceder
9 Novelist Robbins
10 N.Y. hours
11 Cranky cry
12 Singer DiFranco 13 Stanford- — test 14 Occupy
15 — Lilly & Co.
16 Until this time
17 “Just one moment” 18 Verdi opera 19 Tears to bits
24 “Told ya so!”
29 Recurring themes 32 Detests
33 Author Blyton
34 Oil, informally
35 Dweeb’s kin
36 Cassini of 20-Across 37 Quick quip
38 Minty Kentucky Derby drink
39 — last legs (about to collapse)
44 Biting turtle
45 Ordinal suffix
46 Like so, informally 48 Correo — (Spanish airmail)
50 — over (satisfied for the moment)
52 “Movin’ —” (sitcom theme song)
53 Tube prizes
55 Brand of fruit drinks 56 Year, in Brazil
60 Signs up
62 Multilevel structure for Fluffy
64 Suffix with chlor- or fluor65 Model Cheryl
66 “ER” or “CSI”
68 Get a move on
69 Lead-in to “So sue me!” 70 Caesar’s 202
71 N.C. State’s NCAA div. 72 “— Na Na”
73 Toiling away
76 Fetching
77 Certain surrealist paintings
78 Eye maladies
80 Funds
82 Sly — fox
83 Tortoise’s top
86 Calf product
87 Caesar’s “Behold!” 88 Campus mil. program 89 Singer Halliwell 94 Underside of a dog’s foot 95 Liftoff stress
97 Hebrew horn
99 With 106-Down, North Pole surrounder
100 Cling (to)
102 Perfumer Lauder
103 Absurd
104 Missouri’s — Mountains 105 Toon pic
106 See 99-Down
111 Kin of -ette
112 Novelist Jennifer
114 Pre-CIA gp.
116 “— a girl!”
117 Fabric dye brand
118 Retired NBAer Ming 119 Vote down
120 “True —” (“Indeedy”)