Premier Crossword: Having Flitting Thoughts

ACROSS

1 One of Chrysler’s K-cars 11 Imaginary

21 Lack of

refinement 22 Open to

discussion

23 * Golf format not based on the number of holes won

24 * Part of an internalcombustion engine

25 Take an ax to 26 Ornate wardrobe 28 Nice ’n Easy

product

29 Shin locale 30 Stumblebum 33 Austrian cake 34 Up on the latest 37 “Binary” singer

Difranco

39 S. Amer.

country

40 Much like 41 Calculus pioneer

Leonhard

42 Hot temper 43 Scanned ID in a

market 44 Cartoon pic 45 Twist, as in a

hose

47 Dark deli loaf 48 City haze

49 The Browns, on

sports tickers 50 Volunteer’s

response

52 Star pitchers 54 Getz of jazz 55 List-curtailing

abbr.

56 Brief letter 57 Roofing material 59 Like an old apple’s consistency 60 Bit of a script 61 Fear greatly 63 Longtime operating system 64 Spanish pot 65 Blackthorn fruits 66 Supplement 67 Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the five starred clues 69 Trousers

70 Car navig. aid 72 Owner of Wordperfect 73 Cato’s “I love” 75 Brainteaser 79 Sacred spots 81 Soviet spacecraft series 86 “Lord Jim” novelist Joseph 87 * Buyer’s final figure

88 Membrane covering a lung 89 Creole cooking pods 90 Temporarily stylish thing 91 Take to court 93 Leash, e.g. 94 Tony winner Schreiber 95 Roofing material 96 “It’s so-so” 99 Winter illness 101 Director Preminger 102 Roof part

103 Mine car load 104 Yoko of art 105 Shark part 106 Sped

107 Genesis twin 109 Small stream 111 “Smooth Operator” singer 113 * Vessel for crustacean fishing

117 * Removes tenderly, as a lover’s tears 122 City in central Illinois 123 Hawaii’s nickname 124 Super-corny 125 Occupancy levies

DOWN

1 Talk smack to 2 Like official public statements 3 Freed from federal restrictions 4 Give off light 5 “Look, mice!” 6 Ripen

7 Lil Jon’s genre 8 Around H’wood, e.g. 9 French card game 10 Actress Jane 11 One asked to attend a party 12 Less remote 13 Eye creepily 14 Thanksgiving mo. 15 Summer, to Jeanne 16 Form a lap 17 Tough 18 Many a virtual bidding event 19 Ork, Krypton or Melmac 20 Lion’s home 27 Paris airport 29 “Righteously” singer Williams 30 Desk wood

31 Pseudonym 32 Groups for devotees 34 Vast Asian mountain system 35 Satirical device 36 Tent securer 38 Straight up, in a bar 46 Reeves of “The Matrix” 48 Fair booth 51 Straight up, in a bar 53 Sutured

54 Like altruists 55 Singer Fitzgerald 58 Obtain by threatening 59 Singer Rita 62 Church teachings 65 Film holders 68 Rock’s Clapton 71 Launching platform

74 Star athlete, for short

75 Place to learn, in Lyon 76 Smartphone company

77 The opposite way 78 Cemetery plot

79 Animal trap 80 Pack full 82 Information group for analysis

83 Big name in car cleaning products 84 Speechify 85 “Thwack!” 90 Remote 92 Moniker for a Yale student 95 Coverer of a bald spot 96 Unlike gods 97 Brian of Roxy Music

98 Pipe with a flexible tube 100 Open, as a

Ziploc bag 108 Band blasters 109 Renege (on) 110 Drug bust unit 112 Mgr.’s helper 113 “Wait a —!” 114 “In your face!” 115 Actor Saget 116 Singer Rita 118 Toping sort 119 That girl 120 Supped

121 “Definitely!”