SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Europe’s “City of Light” 6 Part of NEA: Abbr. 10 Kailua Bay’s island 14 Evil being
19 _ acids
20 Greet the day 21 Muscat’s country 22 Maine university city 23 Bisquick or Betty Crocker product
25 Be deemed acceptable 27 Capital of Turkey
28 _ -Free (contact lens solution brand)
30 Floor of a fireplace
31 _ Cruces
32 Iranian money unit 34 “Tortilla Flat” co-star Hedy
37 Apiary buzzer
40 Mardi _
42 Singer Duane or
Gregg
44 Steel-gray element 47 Jazz guitarist with 20 Grammys
51 Dessert named for soprano Nellie
53 Big online brokerage 54 Took off
56 _ Na Na
57 Brilliance of success 58 Makes diluted 59 Social-climbing whiz kid
61 Letterman’s rival, once 63 Recognize
64 Actress Kosarin or skater Ivanova
66 Yule songs
68 Clumsy sorts 72 1950s-’70s legal drama 76 Hitter in a horseback sport
78 Besides that
79 False name 81 “Hamilton” face-off 82 Grassland
83 “Sula” author Morrison 85 Athlete like Simone Biles
88 Miss Daisy player Jessica
90 Eyeliner flaw
93 “La Cage aux Folles” actor Tognazzi
95 Rooney or Kate of film 96 Warship with two banks of oars
97 What letter carriers carry
100 Grass cutter with an engine
102 Epoch of the first horses
103 Entraps
105 Meg of “I.Q.”
106 Genetic helix
107 Little sister of Bart and Lisa
109 Poet Pound
111 Sit-up targets
114 Mexican inn
117 Divan, e.g.
119 Like smooth orange juice
122 “Yeah, that’s about right”
126 Newspapers, magazines, and such 128 As a result of
129 Huge heads
130 Shredded
131 Newsy notes
132 Fable writer
133 Pond critter
134 Henchman helping Hook
135 Appropriate time to solve this puzzle?
DOWN
1 Like Vatican affairs 2 Kitchen range brand 3 Skating sites
4 Ancient Andean
5 Fly like a kite 6 Amazement
7 Pago Pago’s place 8 Aircraft that can land on snow
9 Following
10 “Alley _”
11 Docs’ gp.
12 Rosh _
13 Auto racer Al
14 Full of gloom 15 Formerly, archaically 16 Insect-repelling pellet 17 Dollar bill
18 And not
24 Dojo activity
26 Windy month
29 With 45-Down, bad sign
33 “Sort of” suffix 35 Piece of gig gear 36 Baton-waving director 38 Actor Idris
39 Coup d’_
40 Govt. agent 41 Morning warning for sailors
43 Rival of Uber
45 See 29-Down 46 “Don’t lose your head” 47 Where pooches get pampered
48 Close behind, as a dog 49 Judges evaluating cases, e.g.
50 City on the Rio Grande 52 Shout
55 Tic- _ -toe
59 Element with a 235 isotope
60 Knock sound
62 J.D. Salinger title girl 65 Somalian-born supermodel
67 Long-used maxim 69 Totally original
70 “I want some grub!” 71 Obedient dog, at times 73 Spin
74 In progress
75 Big Apple team, on scoreboards
77 Longtime Nissan model 80 “So yummy!” 84 Algerian port
86 Neck’s scruff
87 Had as its source 89 Elvis _ Presley
90 Went fast
91 Earth orbiter
92 Those who’ve broken free
94 Dashboard fuel indicator
96 Journalist Gumbel 98 Air Force officer Curtis 99 Chou En- _
101 Blunder
104 Home: Abbr.
108 Guys writing jingles, say
110 African nation renamed in 1997
111 Poet W.H. _
112 Airship type
113 Muscle twitch
115 Bus driver for Bart and Lisa
116 Go no further
118 Chooses
120 Fail to include
121 Buttigieg of Biden’s Cabinet
122 BlackBerry, e.g., in brief