Premier Crossword: Municipal Application

ACROSS

1 “Cabaret” performer Sally 7 Allowable 15 Egg-beating utensil 20 Carey of pop 21 Red wine, in Rouen 22 Sonja on ice skates

23 Start of a riddle 25 Western flick, in old slang 26 Like arias and anthems

27 “Go back to zero” button 28 Halloween’s mo. 29 Titan orbits it 30 Other, to Juanita 32 Bible book before Jeremiah 34 Kingly title 35 Perp pursuer 38 Riddle, part 2 43 Giraffe’s kin 45 Writer — Hubbard 46 1998 Disney musical set in China 47 Riddle, part 3 52 Rubber-stamping item

56 No, to Nabokov 57 Worn-down pencils, e.g. 58 Raise, as a building

61 Pie — mode 62 Maestro Kurt 64 Actress Debra 66 Second-rate flick 68 Riddle, part 4 73 Within easy reach 74 Sports facilities 75 Rudely brief 76 Chomp on 77 Begin

78 “Der —” (Konrad Adenauer’s nickname) 80 General

— chicken 83 Canonized Italian

theologian 86 Riddle, part 5 90 Composer John

Philip —

93 John Candy’s old

skit show

94 Bath sponge 95 End of the riddle 102 — -Ops (CIA

tactics)

103 QED part

104 Nobel-winning

“Mother”

105 Sleep furniture 107 Paid a visit 109 Feline cry

110 Credit card draw

113 Beef quality grader: Abbr. 117 Old arcade company 118 Riddle’s answer 121 Like a wellpitched game 122 Audits, as a

course

123 Actress Fawcett 124 Vestige

125 Mini-dictionary 126 Having soft,

loose flesh

DOWN

1 Sporty German cars 2 Honolulu’s island 3 Dark brown songbird 4 Insider talk 5 Unit of corn 6 Shepherd formerly of “The View” 7 Giant in car rental 8 Funny — (racehorse) 9 Tech news website 10 Suffix with west 11 San Luis —, Mexico

12 Florence native, e.g. 13 Self-obsession 14 Rock’s — Leppard 15 Horse halter? 16 Circuit-cooling device

17 Get a gut feeling about

18 With 39-Down, John Muir was its first president 19 Unit of corn 24 Briny bodies 29 Movie critic Gene

31 Taunt in good humor 32 “Money

— object” 33 Lead-in to puncture 35 Mccarthy lawyer Roy 36 Allowable 37 Sidewalk materials

39 See 18-Down 40 Meal scraps 41 Phone book listings: Abbr. 42 Skillet or wok 44 Wall-breaching bomb

48 “Movin’ —” (“The Jeffersons” theme) 49 Most chaste 50 Group of brainiacs 51 Therefore 53 Store selling latex

54 “That is — ask” 55 “— Yankees” 59 Conger, e.g. 60 Like pizza 63 Articulate 64 Girth

65 Here, in Arles 66 Life story, in brief

67 Table — (pair’s seating) 68 “— -Team” (2010 movie)

69 Cole — (footwear brand)

70 Tony winner Hagen 71 Citrusy 72 Amish “you” 77 Like prurient material 78 Joking Johnson 79 Tax 81 Clumsy sorts 82 Hotel visit

84 Mysterious 85 Hulk player Ferrigno 87 This, to Juan

88 I, to Merkel 89 Inuit vehicle 91 Cow or hen 92 Letters sent by plane

95 Pour, as wine from a bottle 96 Speechifier 97 Steinway rival 98 Really must 99 Sneaker brand 100 Lyft rival

101 Accompany to the airport, perhaps

106 Old Toyota 108 Chomp on

110 Penta- plus four 111 — about (roughly) 112 Big Apple blaze-control org. 114 Balkan native 115 Lacking color 116 Lacking color 118 Chinese menu abbr. 119 Family gal 120 Comrade