PREMIER CROSSWORD
JANUARY 1 FUN ACROSS
1 Drag race vehicle 8 Schuss, e.g. 11 Stinging flier 15 Contributed 19 Halloween mask feature 20 Hoodwink 21 Falco of TV 22 Leave off 23 Tendency toward chaos 24 Fido’s noise 25 * Star of the 1950s TV series “China Smith” 27 BLT seller 28 Naval forces 30 — Field (Mr. Met’s home) 31 * Getting tired 34 Baby bird 38 Evergreen with red arils 39 Actress Polo 40 Stephen of “V for Vendetta” 42 Young moray, e.g. 43 Cowl wearer 45 * Hope when the situation is desperate 51 Mosque official 54 Scrooge portrayer Alastair 55 Minerals in thin sheets 56 * “Vanity Fair” novelist 61 “One World” musician John 65 Holders of frozen cubes 66 Girl in the fam 67 “Insecure” actress 69 — Hawkins dance 70 Astonishment 73 E’en if 75 Actor Bridges 76 Fathers 79 Auditing gp. 81 Was disgusting to 84 Deep desires 85 * Period superseded by automobiles 89 Ragtime pianist Blake 90 Aficionado 91 Large cut 92 * Three-part novel by Gertrude Stein 98 Green-light 102 Removal of restrictions, for short 103 RV refuge org. 104 Six-legged marchers 107 Suffix with Carol 108 How Alaska is populated 111 * Town crier’s cry 116 Cab cost 117 “It takes two” dances 118 Agents, in brief 119 * “The Price Is Right” host 123 Happy dance 124 Net, as earnings 127 Ames’ state 128 Saturate 129 Bullfight yell 130 Dissimilar 131 Legal equal 132 Brontë’s Jane 133 Despite this 134 What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically
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1 Honorarium 2 Writer Rand 3 Lay in place 4 Tossed 5 “Relax!” 6 Of Swiss mountains 7 Playa del — 8 Climb up 9 Divided Asian land 10 Get by logic 11 Joins closely 12 Org. for cavity fixers 13 Thereafter 14 Counterparts of manis 15 Cousin of a chimpanzee 16 Poehler of “Baby Mama” 17 Fight (for) 18 Zeta follower 26 Pronounces 28 “Just my opinion,” in a text 29 Supermodel Banks 31 Fitness locale 32 Early auto 33 Award for U2 34 All-time low 35 Creeping vine 36 Once called 37 Fido’s threat 41 Intertwine 44 Tartan skirt wearers 46 Suffix with owl or wolf 47 Vardalos of Hollywood 48 Sierra, Yukon and Acadia 49 Trendy berry 50 Shells out 52 Boggy areas 53 Motorists’ gp. 56 Very thin, as clouds
57 “It matters to me” 58 Escorted from outside 59 Org. with bag screeners 60 The whole — and caboodle 61 Fox-sighting cry 62 Jagged, as a leaf’s edge 63 “When I Need You” singer Leo 64 Hopper of old gossip 68 Fake coins 71 Not fooled by 72 Previous to
74 Globe 77 Ergo 78 Japanese noodle type 80 In no danger 82 Playwright O’Neill 83 Links letters 86 Dangerous 87 Vetoing vote 88 Genetic stuff 89 Spider’s hatching pouch 92 NFL goals 93 With it, in old slang 94 Lyricist Gershwin 95 Battle with spongy balls 96 “So funny!” 97 Light beams 99 Actress Alley 100 Even a single 101 “— -haw!” 105 Regal seat 106 Playground fixture 109 Wipe clean 110 “Bad, Bad — Brown” 112 Delight in 113 Nimble 114 Big name in thesauruses 115 In a fitting manner 117 Small kid 119 Chip topper 120 Fish spawn 121 She-sheep 122 Mug handle 124 Bit of word wit 125 Rap sheet abbr. 126 Boomer’s kid