PREMIER CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Disparage 9 Nassau’s nation 16 Spot’s pal 20 Old gas giant 21 Acre native 22 Mac OS X is based on it 23 Lucy’s hubby creates a portrait of an Egyptian Nobelist? 25 Sitar master Shankar 26 Doesn’t split 27 First-time Net surfer 28 Classic cookie 30 Enshrouded 31 Singer Cline dupes singer Ross? 36 One in a tippy boat 41 Grin widely 42 Baker’s — 43 Spaghetti that smells and tastes terrible? 50 Aviary abode 51 Company with a spokesduck 52 Big name in champagne 53 “Faust” playwright 55 Like a sure-tosucceed proposition 57 Impart fizz to 58 “Drop — line sometime” 61 Slightly 64 Declaration from one who abducts alley prowlers? 68 Food-conducting plant tissue 70 Author Levin 71 Third note in the A major scale 72 Soreness causes shaggy ox to lose focus? 79 Iowa city 80 Use a rocker 81 Fetus holder 82 Brother of Gretel 84 Eugene O’Neill’s “The — Cometh” 85 Like quilts 86 Gravitates 90 Additionally 93 Salsa can be found on the platter of munchies? 97 Sonnet writers, say 99 “99 Luftballons” band 100 Valuables 101 Model Banks opts not to take Tums?

108 Slap handcuffs

on 109 Pop’s mama 110 River in Russia

111 “— bleu!” (French “Holy cow!”)

116 Kazan with three Tonys

118 Observance “shuffled” in this puzzle 123 Put a fork in

124 Provider of funds 125 Dog flea, e.g.

126 Match up, as timepieces

127 Like grasslands

128 Some small pooches DOWN 1 Gin mills 2 Release 3 “Livin’ La Vida —” 4 Totally gross 5 Playthings 6 Highest-rated 7 Tropical vine 8 Author T.S. 9 Gradually 10 Talking biblical beast 11 Wk.’s 168 12 Org. aiding stranded motorists 13 French red wine 14 Happy as — 15 Locales 16 Dog covering 17 Befuddled 18 Discovers intuitively 19 It causes rust 24 Thumbs-down votes 29 Like 1 or 3 31 Nose around 32 Koppel of news 33 Jail sentence 34 Mental pictures 35 Skye of film 36 Civil War org. 37 Anti-moonshine org. 38 Naught 39 Ad infinitum 40 Kitchen utensil brand 44 Berserk 45 Mozart’s “— Fan Tutte” 46 Marsh plant 47 Categorize 48 Rend 49 Assails 54 Attentiongetting calls 56 Restricted 57 Give — on the back 58 What to call a lady 59 French I verb 60 Nile biters 61 Downloads for iPhones 62 Asian cuisine 63 Came to rest 65 Vardalos and Long 66 Bit of a circle 67 Huts in the Swiss Alps 69 Concern of a PTA: Abbr. 73 Big hauler

74 Web, to a fly 75 Altercations 76 “— Leaving Home” 77 Exhibit ennui 78 Court star Kournikova 83 Deer kin 84 Greek vowel 85 Collection of busts, e.g. 87 “Is” pluralized 88 Turner of a rebellion 89 Part of MS-DOS: Abbr. 90 Suitability 91 Allegiance 92 Certain Slav 94 Mermaid site 95 “Maisie” star Sothern 96 Ill-bred dude 98 Tax form ID 102 DJ Casey 103 Asinine

104 — visit (dropped by) 105 Mastery 106 Grouses 107 Near the hip 111 Game with 32 cards 112 Admin. aide 113 Roman 402 114 $5/hour, e.g. 115 Glimpses 117 “20/20” airer 119 Doze (off) 120 One and one 121 Basilica seat

122 — -Magnon