PREMIER CROSSWORD Corner to corner

ACROSS

1 Fishhook end

5 Neophyte

9 Negate

15 “Kapow!”

19 “— Ben Adhem” (Leigh

Hunt poem)

20 Whole bunch

21 Opposed (to)

22 Nevada city on I-80 23 Mild-flavored lettuce 24 Dawn’s direction 25 Common corsage flower 27 2019 buddy-cop actioncomedy film

29 Leaning Tower city 31 Co-avenger with Electra 32 Wooden shoe

34 Bestow

38 Feedbag grain

39 Jaguar, e.g.

41 “It’s not — deal”

43 Guy who helps people get

out of jail

48 Attila the —

49 “I pass,” in cards

51 Bic — Stic

52 Add up to

53 March 15, e.g.

55 Emperor before Caligula 58 In the direction of 62 Unsafe

64 Convent VIP

65 Quilt, e.g.

66 Small bouquets

68 Monkey in “Aladdin” 69 Die-hard devotees

70 What this puzzle’s solver does when filling in the upper-left to lower-right diagonal?

74 8-11 p.m., Tv-wise

78 Exec’s deg.

79 Tattle

84 Old Russian revolutionary 85 German for the verb “love” 88 Sheer fabric

89 States of oneness 90 Filename display area 92 Not far at all

93 GQ or Us

94 Send forth

96 Some pinschers, for short 98 Completed

99 Male sibling by birth 105 Asian fusion restaurant

chain

106 Taxing org.

107 French body of water 108 Like an ode

110 Marjanovic of the Rockets 112 Memory loss

116 Like eyesores

118 Citigroup alternative 121 Item for surfing on one’s

stomach

125 Work for

127 Impose — on (forbid) 128 Arm bone 129 Princess Beatrice’s mom 130 Ran away

131 1967 Peter Sellers film,

with “The”

132 Casual tops

133 Brines, e.g.

134 Lays (down)

135 Spin — (do like Spiderman)

DOWN

1 Streisand, to friends 2 Slightly

3 Vigorous quality

4 — Gump Shrimp Company 5 Mechanical-looking dance 6 Pro vote

7 Rub roughly

8 Sight-related

9 Beach hut

10 “Selma” director Duvernay 11 Lincoln loc.

12 Boohoo

13 Canadian gas choice 14 NBA star James

15 Twists to pull free

16 Sun output

17 Poker cost

18 Hardness scale inventor 26 Take in a novel, e.g. 28 Abba of Israel 30 Boohoo

33 Leg bone

35 Popular office plant 36 Building wings

37 Hitting stat

39 Bird sound

40 Video’s counterpart 42 Last name of the Bee Gees 44 Eight-armed creatures 45 The second Mrs. Trump 46 Actress Eve

47 Bird homes

50 Cheapen

54 Enjoy a slope

56 Mcentire of country 57 Lead-in to a proposal 59 Bake-off needs

60 “As if that — enough …” 61 Pooch sound

63 Aden citizen

65 — -de-sac

67 Composer Erik

69 Ocean floor

71 Mouth or face, slangily 72 Rescue squad VIP 73 Upscale Swiss watch

brand

74 — tuckered out

75 Of kidneys

76 “The Princess Bride”

character Montoya 77 The Engineers’ sch.

80 It’s charged

81 Knotted like shoelaces 82 Huxtable mom on TV 83 Goat groups

85 Limber

86 Black, in verse

87 Honcho

90 Mambo king Puente 91 Ricochets

95 Janitorial tool

97 Deli heroes

100 Last Greek letters 101 Actor Arnaz

102 Court filings

103 Pianists’ exercises 104 Road semi

109 Staff symbols

111 Addis —, Ethiopia 112 Be up against

113 Yard pest

114 Not any

115 Aid in crime

117 New Haven university 119 Local theater, informally 120 Door handle

122 Iron —

123 Iron —

124 Tear

126 No longer in the mil., e.g.