PREMIER CROSSWORD
CLEAR COMMUNICATION
ACROSS
1 NATO has a special one for spelling out words over the radio 9 Architectural
wings
13 Provo people 20 In a lying,
faceup position 21 Sticky stuff 22 Kind of energy 23 Moniker for
novelist Ernest 25 Dig up
26 Apt. overseer 27 Yoko of music
and art
28 Singer Waters 30 Puente of
mambo
31 Road coater 34 Weed B- — 36 Marriott, e.g. 39 Doesn’t lack 42 Often-dried
fruit
44 Diarist Anaïs 46 “Caveman diet” 47 Messy roommate on “The Odd Couple” 51 Dune locale 56 Chicago hub 57 Dot on some
transit maps 59 Gave a coif 60 Suffer ruin 62 Admonish 65 “Hello” singer 66 Cast off skin 68 1992 Guns N’
Roses hit 70 Extermination
target
73 Civil rights icon
Parks 76 Hoagies 77 Extermination
targets 78 Method of measuring ocean depth
83 Boy actor in 1937’s “Elephant Boy” 85 Raccoon kin 86 Alluring attributes
89 “No doubt!” 93 Trig topics 95 Dependent
97 — -ground missile
98 Barely beats 101 Doing certain
ballroom moves 103 Spanish bar
appetizers 105 Born, to Luc 106 Plant pouch 107 — Zedong 108 Very thin material for book pages
113 Steelers’ gp. 115 Mu — pork 117 Normandy city 118 Doctrine 120 Internet ID 122 Symbol of innocence
126 One revising
something 129 Portrayer of Jax Teller on “Sons of Anarchy” 133 Act as arbiter 134 Symbol of innocence
135 Brazil’s largest
city
136 Soul
137 Amply skilled 138 Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle
DOWN
1 Deadly vipers 2 Island feast 3 Musical mark for “extremely softly”
4 “Drive South”
singer John
5 Le Duc — (1992-97 president of Vietnam) 6 Nectar lover 7 Sailors’ saint 8 Knotting up 9 Ovum
10 Actor Rob 11 Averse (to) 12 Whale’s halfrise out of the water
13 Island guitar 14 “Sn” element 15 Suffix with
prop16 Shrubland 17 Sunny lobbies 18 Mafia’s Frank 19 “Danke —” 24 Around 12 p.m. 29 Greek H’s
32 In a new way 33 Backboard attachment 35 Sentra maker 37 Grasslands 38 Actor sharing
top billing 39 Backboard attachment 40 Tennis’ Arthur 41 Injury vestige 43 Yak it up 45 “That’s false!” 48 Pupil of Plato 49 French noble 50 Rule for homework time, perhaps 52 Operated by water under pressure 53 Brand of fat
substitute 54 Ignited anew 55 Blissful sites 58 Bakery buys 61 Hoagie
63 Coll. in Dallas 64 Wanes 67 Football’s Flutie 69 Hollywood’s
Morales
70 Praline bit 71 Cut-rate, in
adspeak
72 Thick carpets 74 Show filmed at 30
Rock
75 Hebrew month 79 Daytime nap 80 “How — Your
Mother”
81 Pitcher Ryan 82 African nation whose capital is Conakry
84 Boil briefly 87 Very angry
88 — -Caps
90 Hat edge
91 Italian peak 92 African nation whose capital is Lomé
94 Lava or Dial 96 NFL scores 99 Stymied
100 Sticky stuff 102 Some small batteries
104 Japanese green
tea
108 “Veni,” translated 109 Monikers
110 Skillful feats 111 Navel type 112 Fixed-up building 114 Brittle 116 Arm bones 119 Like giraffes 121 Emmy winner
Remini
123 “Sometimes you
feel like —” 124 African nation whose capital is Bamako
125 Coll. hotshot 127 Football’s Marino 128 Lister’s abbr. 130 Caviar source 131 “Yoo- —!” 132 1995-2006 TV
channel