PREMIER CROSSWORD

Disorderly creatures

ACROSS

1 Old-time crooner Julius 7 James — Garfield 12 Taxing org.

15 Old newspaper section 19 On cloud nine

20 Having fine granules 21 Refilled to the brim 23 Nocturnal burrower

wearing clothes? 25 “Rocky” star

26 French “a”

27 Taking after 28 Semiaquatic reptile that’s

really zealous?

30 Big spotted cat released

from jail early?

34 Doc treating laryngitis 35 Orig. texts

36 Sports official 37 Interprets

39 Antifraud org.

42 1990s Toyota coupe 45 “MCQ” actor Gulager 46 Ready- — (precooked) 48 Region

49 Tesla’s Musk 50 Lobe-finned swimmer

turning red?

54 Pioneering email co. 55 One-eighty

56 Mini-guitar

57 Elizabeth — Browning 58 Spiny anteater on a leash? 64 Put in very hot water 65 Solid ground

66 Actor Wallach

67 Seat winners

69 Florida city

72 Quark’s place

74 Very small monkey from

the red planet?

79 Rhine siren

82 “Sliver” writer Levin 83 “Emma” has two of these 84 Slalom, e.g.

85 Whip-tailed marine

menace going off course? 90 Bard

91 Composer Khachaturian 92 Fix up, as an old house 93 Hard wood

94 Actress Blair

95 Kid’s amuser

96 Eighth Greek letter

98 Mil. bigwig

99 Irish dance

100 Waterloo marshal Michel 101 Wheel-spinning rodent that’s a Bay State college mascot?

108 Large lizard from northern

South America?

112 Dialect suffix

113 Penny prez

114 Electric circuit component 115 Mimicking bird that’s

predatory?

119 Classic typewriter brand 120 TV show blocking device 121 Text alterer

122 Trait carrier

123 Enervate

124 Latin abbr. meaning “and

the following”

125 Sailor’s morning warning

DOWN

1 Starting boost

2 Actress — De La Garza 3 More scarce

4 Gambling parlor, in brief 5 “Look here, too,” in a

reference

6 Befuddles

7 Doc’s gp.

8 Shut-eye site

9 Dust picker-upper 10 Take — of faith 11 Actress Loy

12 “Agreed!”

13 Campus mil. gp.

14 Zoned (out)

15 Ignited again

16 2004-11 Laker Lamar 17 Bluefin, e.g.

18 Unbox, e.g.

22 Schemes

24 With 31-Down, it doesn’t

bode well 29 Like the verb “go”: Abbr. 31 See 24-Down 32 Humdinger

33 Aussie birds

38 “… three men in —”

39 She starred in “Room” 40 — Actress (award for

39-Down)

41 Thai currency

42 Serenity

43 “Hi,” in Hilo

44 Nonpolluting power source 45 Bonnie’s pal

46 — torch

47 Linear, briefly

48 Sahara’s land

50 Agent’s cut

51 “Say what?”

52 Seize

53 Spruces up

55 Sinful

59 Group of PC gurus

60 Hard wood

61 Covert org.

62 Actress Long

63 Actress Jillian

68 Fajita meat

70 Was keen on

71 Singer O’day

73 “Don’t tell — can’t!” 75 Singer Coolidge 76 Chi-town daily paper 77 Singer Janis

78 Novelist Tan

79 Future atty.’s exam 80 Other, in Oaxaca 81 Pertaining to

86 “Return to reality!” 87 Seaworld whale, once 88 Leaves

89 Vent vocally

90 Sty animals

94 Greenish citrus drink 96 All wound up 97 “Regency” hotels

98 Pie charts, e.g.

99 Quartz type

100 Easily duped

102 Presnell of “Fargo” 103 Legislate

104 That girl

105 Petite pies

106 Kindle buy

107 New attempt

108 Sailor’s quaff

109 700-mile-long Congolese

river

110 “The check — the mail” 111 Ninth Greek letter

116 Game draw

117 Trio before R

118 Free (of)