FIRST THINGS
ACROSS
1 Fixes securely
7 Jumped right,
on a keyboard 13 Preventive shot 20 Acquire via work 21 Mountain cabin design 22 Borderer of Peru
23 Four “first” things 26 Council meeting for
ecclesiastical business 27 Millions of years (var.) 28 Ladybug feature
29 “I’d rather be
somewhere ___” 30 Prosperity
32 Goblet part
34 Modern English song,
“___ With You”
36 Butler or Aykroyd 39 Win, lose or ___ 41 Forbidden scent? 43 Award for Allison
Janney
47 A wading bird 49 Coordinated and
quick-footed
52 Snap producer 55 Myrna of old
Hollywood
56 Four “first” things 60 Walked the floor
61 A coin for some
62 New entries to society,
briefly
63 Caesar’s brutal day 64 Online periodical 65 “Who ___ you?”
66 Who has visited Mars? 68 Titled anew
70 ___ down (loses weight) 73 Towered over 77 “Nevermore” claimer 79 Super wet, as ground 81 Morning step-on 82 Spelling of
“Beverly Hills, 90210” 85 “Hard ___!” (ship
command) 87 Three-piece ensemble 88 Palindromic ideology 89 Five “first” things 94 “Long, long ___ ...” 95 Fireplace
96 Bizet opera character 97 Is litigious
98 Certain Jamaican sect
member
100 “An apple ___ keeps ...” 102 Sash relatives
104 Explodable letters
105 Los ___, Calif.
108 Ducky shade
111 Egyptian goddess
with horns
113 Carve, as into
memory 116 Driver of Miss Daisy 118 Sect suffix
120 Fine net for veils 124 Four “first” things 128 Bliss
129 Good-natured and
mild
130 Providing help
131 Like yet-to-be
developed land
132 Way to thicken
a lawn
133 U.S. cabinet
department
DOWN
1 Breakfast serving 2 Pieta figure
3 Source of fiber
4 Fund, as a scholarship 5 Like transferred
property
6 Indian sir
7 Sprinter’s
destination 8 Roundish hairstyles 9 Announcer Musburger 10 Hound variety 11 Typography widths 12 Agnus ___
(mass prayers) 13 Copperhead fluid 14 Type of pain or angle 15 Hockey’s Stanley, e.g. 16 Citadel students 17 Word with teen or
matinee
18 “___ as good a time ...” 19 Fish-loving eagle 24 Andalusian capital 25 Dope-y place of old 31 Quick horse 33 Medieval war
club
35 Thing to be repaid 36 Ladle, e.g.
37 Going up in
flames
38 B vitamin type 40 Cirrus cloud
formations 42 Halftime
entertainers
44 Hunk of dirt 45 Best-of-the-best
46 Bar whiskeys 48 Screenwriter’s
description
50 Garden bulbs 51 Artist’s frame 53 Personify
54 Plant new crops 57 Plant swelling 58 Fashion
dressmaker
59 Male peregrines
(var.) 65 Plant in the spurge
family
67 Far beyond
unpleasant 69 Avoid, as capture 71 Storybook ending,
sometimes 72 Cathedral topper 74 Spread, as a search
party
75 Desired dice roll 76 Hate 78 Cornhusker’s
place
80 Salk’s 13-Across
target
82 Alpine lift 83 Korbut of
gymnastics 84 Little bounding
Australians 86 Founded,
engraved 90 Lentil-based
Indian dish 91 Steps leading to
the Ganges
92 Rare ape
93 Raised speaker’s
platform 99 Gauguin’s
island
101 Has cravings
103 Attends a meeting
(with “on”)
106 “And ___ you
have it!”
107 Made sounds of
admiration
109 Sharp, narrow
mountain ridge 110 Tightly twisted
thread
112 Blue shoes material of song 113 Tan relative
114 “Better you ___
me!”
115 The po-po
117 Ga. Tech. grad,
perhaps
119 Acted like
121 Haven for big
wildlife
122 Weak
conclusion? 123 Touchy and
oh-so-sensitive 125 Use a knife
126 Passing
grade
127 Not among
Scots