PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Ran after
8 — oil (trendy marijuana extract, for short)
11 Old TV ET
14 Feudal peons
19 More ill-bred
20 Loaf in a deli
21 Palme — (Cannes award) 22 “La Traviata,” e.g. 23 120-Across #1
25 “Over here!”
26 Sieved, as potatoes 27 Folk rocker DiFranco 28 Drink holders 29 120-Across #2 31 120-Across #3
36 Suffix of enzymes
37 Don effortlessly, as shoes 38 Toxin-fighting fluids 39 Functional unit of a kidney
42 Wield a saber or foil 45 Sky twinkler
48 Stray calf
49 120-Across #4
55 Plead
56 Cabinet chief: Abbr. 57 Muse of poetry 58 Mimosa tree, e.g.
62 “Put — Happy Face” 64 DiCaprio of “Titanic” 70 120-Across #5
75 More furtive
76 Possess
77 Gets the impression 78 Core belief
81 Light tan
84 Groom’s vow 85 120-Across #6
94 “Take —” (“Jot this note”) 95 Water spigots
96 Extort money from
97 Fit to reside in
100 Architect Saarinen 103 Island near Bora Bora 107 Rage
108 120-Across #7
113 120-Across #8
116 Male sweetie
117 Day, to Juanita
118 Totally lost
119 Bruins’ Bobby
120 What this puzzle literally provides eight times 124 Wee
125 Hitter’s stat
126 Single-named R&B singer
127 Erase
128 Some Canadian gas stations
129 Tot’s “piggy”
130 Bible translation, e.g.: Abbr.
131 Lobby sofas
DOWN
1 The Sims or Minecraft, say
2 Muse of astronomy
3 Fast part of a river ride 4 Govt. stipend
5 Adm.’s org.
6 Brain wave test: Abbr. 7 Harry Potter bully Malfoy 8 Burial vaults
9 Poet Percy — Shelley
10 — Moines, Iowa 11 One-off, as a committee 12 Lerner’s songwriting partner
13 Skillet
14 Ilk
15 Grand-scale
16 Give new energy to 17 Region prohibiting slavery prior to the Civil War 18 Made unhappy
24 — -Puf (facial sponge) 29 Really hate
30 Suffix with serpent 32 Resist boldly
33 Singer Lisa
34 City in Sicily
35 Once, once
40 Word file alternative 41 — polloi
43 Syringe amts.
44 Stretch (out)
46 — Lingus (Irish carrier) 47 Writer Dahl
49 The Beatles’ “— Work It Out”
50 Tequila plant
51 Sacred image
52 Big Apple address abbr. 53 Sch. near the Rio
Grande
54 Axes, e.g.
55 Scrooge’s outbursts 59 U.S. spy org.
60 Fluid in a pen 61 Anxiousness
63 In times past
65 Scot’s denial
66 Novelist Rand
67 Varnish stuff
68 “Judge —” (Stallone film) 69 — buco
71 Artist Jan van der — 72 “Nola” composer Felix 73 Actor Wilson
74 How much ’90s music was recorded
79 LAX info
80 High-quality
82 CSA soldier
83 Web address
85 Certify
86 The “E” of UAE 87 Overturns
88 Singer Sumac
89 Word before goblin 90 Employed
91 — bad example
92 Split
93 Ritalin treats it, for short 98 Science writer Willy or ESPN anchor Bob
99 Urge strongly
101 Kind of steak
102 Like some headsets 104 Chemist’s “I”
105 Brief pang
106 For a really long time 109 Muscle car booster 110 Macabre
111 Interval
112 Is really angry
114 Lotto variant
115 Deposits, as eggs
120 License-issuing agcy. 121 Palindromic file suffix 122 Fitting
123 Cashew, e.g.