PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Outermost layers
9 Most current
15 Tips, as one’s hat
20 “Yes, it’s obvious” 21 Artemis’ twin
22 Bow missile 23 TNIOPWEIV
25 Gaze
26 Web selling
27 Joking sort
28 Stew globule
30 2021 U.S. Open champion Raducanu
31
Bern’s river
33 “Auld Lang —” 35 TNEMPIUQE
39 Rely on
42 1998 Masters champion Mark
44 Beach sites
45 HTWORG
50 Eases
51 “Ex’s & —” (2014 Elle King hit)
52 Toronto loc.
53 Ruby and garnet 57Largecrucifix
58 PDQ cousin
60 Scale amts.
61 Creepy
62 Stew or coffee holder 64 DOIREP
69 Sweet bun
73 Minor error
74 Was a threat to 75 POLFPILF
78 “My Gal —” (classic song) 79 S-shaped moldings 80 Fizzle out
81 Not at all firm
83 Has no entity
87 Belgian river
88 Part of SPF
89 Grayish hue
92 Ebb
94 ECNADIUG 97 — Harum (“A Whiter Shade of Pale” band)
101 Truly loves
102 Filmmaker Jonathan or Ted
103 LAISUM
106 Gab
109 Old Russian space station
110 Shoemakers’ tools
111 — chi
112 China’s Long March leader
114 Authoritative declarations
117 One of the singing Braxtons
119 TIUCRIC
125 Bother badly
126 Affected sort
127 Small naval vessel group
128 Shell out
129 Suddenly regain focus 130 Kind of bicycle
DOWN
1 [not my error]
2 GI tour gp.
3 She played Frigga in 2011’s “Thor”
4 Sci-fi bounty hunter Boba 5 Razor brand
6 Spiced teas
7 Prematurely
8 Pigs’ place
9 California wine area 10 Monument inscription 11 Finished first
12 NFLer Apple
13 Skiing locale
14 Printer ink
15 Wagner’s “— Rheingold” 16 Big name in taco shells 17 Encloses in a border 18 Layout
19 Vows
24 “You — one!”
29 Sporty scarf 31 Doing battle
32 Retort to “Am not!” 34 Says “OK” to nonverbally 36 Long stretches
37 U-Haul unit
38 Long stretch 40 “Five-card” or “sevencard” game
41 Erstwhile flight inits. 43 Prefix with skeleton 46 Christie of mysteries 47 Dwelling place: Abbr. 48 “Licence to Kill” actress Talisa
49 “To recap ...”
53 Take revenge 54 Stonestreet of “Modern Family”
55 Light coin
56 Bird feed bit
59 Throb
60 Brown songbirds
61 Poet — St. Vincent Millay
63
“Love Me, I’m a Liberal” singer Phil
65 J. Cole’s music 66 “Consider This” network 67 “— recall ...”
68 Curl up cozily
69 Guy into hip-hop, in old slang
70 Tattered garb
71 Slush Puppie alternative 72 Finish
76 Prehistoric beast, in brief 77 Simple card game
82 Not at all near
84 Safe to take a dip in, say 85 Tennis player Osaka 86 Jazz pianist McCoy 88 Break up
89 Page or gofer
90 Exit angrily
91 — Majesty
93 Kind of PC screen 94 Comic punch response 95 Devoid of joy 96 Indoor design
97 China pieces
again, as a gift 98 Cover
99 In recent days
100 Diagnostic med. image 104 Lawmen Wyatt and Virgil
105 Use as a bed
107 Confuse
108 Attach with string, e.g. 113 Farm-related prefix 115 Army beds
116 Voyage
118 “— be a pleasure”
120 Airport uniform abbr. 121 Sales agt.
122 To the rear
123 Land in eau
124 Itty-bitty bit