PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Gender-inclusive pronoun phrase
8 Recording on a cassette 14 Drab military wear 20 Jostled, in a way
21 Fill with love
22 Wear away
23 1987 Nicolas Cage crime comedy
25 Evening party 26 Second-string sports squad
27 Screw up
28 Revered Fr. woman 30 Singer Anita 31 “Absolutely!”
32 1991 Denzel Washington drama
39 Certain Slav
40 Novelist Gay
41 “Help!,” asea
42 1999 Russell Crowe comedy-drama
47 Tango move
49 Actor Linden
52 Wear away
53 Cribbage pins 54 Voluntarily
56 Messy sort
57 Executive nix
59 1961 Elvis Presley romantic comedy
61 Take an ax to
62 Amigo
63 Got close to
66 Ronstadt of song
67 1978 Maggie Smith comedy
71 Pretend to be 74 Pontificated
75 “— Miniver”
76 37-Down container 79 1984 Harry Dean Stanton road movie
82 Maple fluids
84 Jesting Jay
85 Tablelands, French-style 86 Org. looking for aliens 88 Deserve
89 Ecol. or biol.
90 Film bomb
91 2004 Olsen twins teen comedy
95 “General” on a Chinese menu
97 Even (with)
99 Fleming and McKellen 100 1991 River Phoenix drama
105 Morning times, in brief 108 — avis
109 Dusting cloth
110 Talking- — (lectures) 111 Smack the baseball hard 113 Flaxen-haired woman 115 Fictitious college whose name would be fitting for this puzzle
121 Apple media player
122 Quiz show fodder
123 Designed to fit most people
124 Argon and radon
125 Shiny fabrics
126 Ingredient in emollients
DOWN
1 Well-seasoned, in a way 2 Fill with joy
3 Some theater awards 4 Parks who stayed put 5 Pool contest
6 Pullet, e.g.
7 Slips past carefully 8 Naturalist Irwin 9 DiFranco of song
10 La —, Bolivia
11 “I believe,” to a texter 12 Prefix with profit 13 Holds firmly
14 DJ Casey 15 “Watchmen” network 16 Melodious
17 Reality TV family name 18 Paragon
19 “Adios!”
24 Skill, to Cato 29 Many a ’60s T-shirt
33 Sale bin abbr.
34 Antlered deer
35 Get lippy with
36 Sort
37 Soup veggie
38 Road paving materials 39 Wild guess
42 Net fabric
43 Harvard rival
44 Pack away
45 Germane
46 “Il Trovatore” heroine 48 German “I”
50 Caustic liquid
51 Sister of Luke
54 Amigos
55 Tot’s injury
57 Kilmer of film
58 Director Roth
59 Soft cheese
60 Brings about
62 Relayed
64 Epochs
65 Wee colonist
67 Reality star Jenner, familiarly
68 Actor Jamie
69 Sports arbiter
70 TeleTax org. 71 Downloads for iDevices 72 Class taken after trig 73 Like turncoats
76 Land of Lima
77 Tending to the matter 78 Lavish love (on) 80 Fraternity “T”
81 Writer Welty
83 Inhaled stuff
84 Eye part
86 Smack hard
87 Literary Jane
88 Studies as a secondary focus
91 Like sailors’ mil. branch 92 Ecol. monitor
93 South Korean compact car 94 — -jongg 96 “— Way” (Proust novel volume)
98 Dark periods
100 Head honcho
101 Crimean port
102 Part of UPI
103 “— my pleasure”
104 “Cock-a-doodle- —!”
105 “... to fetch — of water” 106 Actress Gaynor or McCall
107 Artist Jan
112 “You never had — good!” 114 Bad grade
116 — pro nobis
117 Ignited
118 VII octupled
119 Yang’s partner
120 Genetic ID