PREMIER CROSSWORD
JOINED FOR A PURPOSE
ACROSS
1 Wish-granting spirits
7 Greek vowel
12 Records file
20 Punch combo
21 Splotchy GI garb
22 He played Al Bundy on TV
23 Planners of campus events
25 Often-pickled
red vegetable
26 Atop, in poems
27 Lena of “The Reader”
28 Latin “I love”
30 Patron saint of sailors
31 Brotherhood
39 Capital of a Mexico state
40 Hard to find
41 Burdened
42 Travail
44 Political campaigners for a particular issue
50 Wonderment
53 Dragon in “The Hobbit”
57 Suffix with racket
58 Not at all tight
59 Medieval protectors of trade
63 Icebox
65 Boise’s state
66 Gel in a lab
67 By means of
68 Claimed psychic gift
69 Regulators of a moral code
76 Bath fixture
79 Printer fluid
80 Years on end
81 More devious
85 Surfs the internet, e.g.
88 Fighters of animal cruelty
92 Madison Ave. contact
93 Sea, in Paris
94 Corrective eye surgery
95 Pitching star
96 It consists of 13-player football teams
100 Aspirin target
103 Japanese alternative to massage
104 “Carpe —!”
108 Newspaper of the USSR
112 Managers of houses in a subdivision
118 SpaceX founder Musk
119 Formed a lap
120 “Leave — the pros”
121 Anna of fashion
122 It has Cut and Copy commands
126 Apt playing card for this puzzle’s theme?
131 Company VIP
132 Barrymore or Waters of “Pinky”
133 Consignment
shop deal
134 “I have no idea!”
135 — Dame
136 A whole lot
DOWN
1 Become lenient
2 Intestine: Prefix
3 Of axons and dendrites
4 “— be my honor”
5 Ram’s mate
6 Prince, e.g.
7 Eye-related 8 Philippine capital
9 One-sharp musical key
10 Sticky gunk
11 Hit — (run into some trouble)
12 Urbane
13 Fruity drink
14 Foot part
15 Busy crawler
16 Artsy cap
17 Garlicky mayonnaise
18 Replay speed, briefly
19 “Your Song” singer John
24 Whole lot
29 Ice cream drink
32 “Tsk!”
33 — -friendly
34 She was Mrs. Gorbachev
35 Stephen of
“Still Crazy” 36 Nuptial oath
37 Buddhism branch
38 Point of view
43 K-O linkup
45 Toon frame
46 Fish eggs
47 Seep out
48 Wields
49 Crime doer
50 French bud
51 Join nuptially
52 Pitching stat
54 Sharp as —
55 Popular Aussie boots
56 Avocado dip, for short
60 Fidel’s cohort
61 Sweltering
62 “... sad and dreary everywhere —”: Stephen Foster
63 Suitable
64 Disloyal sort
67 Ivy and kudzu
70 Go in haste
71 Electees, e.g.
72 Diner offering
73 “— Lisa”
74 PC key
75 Gin inventor Whitney
76 Ski lift type
77 Pakistani language
78 Tennis’ Björn
82 Positive vote
83 And so on: Abbr.
84 Dark loaf
86 Fly trapper
87 Jazz’s — Gyra
88 Mecca-to-Medina flight
89 Country east of Arg.
90 Little drink
91 Giraffe’s kin
93 Be certain
97 Actor Ayres
98 A, in Berlin
99 Self-help author
LeShan
101 Lyric-penning Gershwin
102 Ballplayer of D.C., in brief
105 Apple computer camera
106 Bible book before Job
107 Mark with multicolored spots
109 Optical
110 Exact look-alike
111 Licoricelike seeds
112 Listens to
113 Classic song
114 Actress Shearer
115 PC key
116 Dutch painter Jan
117 Dove’s call
123 Roman 1,200
124 Biblical verb suffix
125 — de plume
127 Figure skater Midori
128 To’s partner
129 Company VIP
130 Timothy Leary’s drug