Premier Crossword: Discrete Characters

ACROSS

1 Broken stone for paving

8 Big petroleum company of the past

15 Actress Talia 20 Erstwhile empress of Russia

21 Very narrow, as a road

22 Got the lead out? 23 Decision to award Eris’ apple to Aphrodite

25 Blah feeling 26 NHLER Bobby 27 Upset infant’s sound 28 “Look, mice!” 29 Least severe

31 Stein drinks 34 Original lion-logo

film studio 38 Arriver’s declaration 40 — buco

41 A Nixon daughter 44 City northeast of

Toronto

48 To wit

54 Cascara and red ash are members of it

58 Deem worthy 59 Poet Rich or actress

Barbeau

60 “Yang Yang” singer Yoko 61 Painting in the Louvre

63 San Luis —

64 Doc bloc 66 Shoveled

68 Boots out 69 Hardware pieces for attaching shelves to walls 74 Wrinkly-faced dog 77 Wallach or Manning

78 Outlaw

79 Similar to

82 Diner offering 84 Ancient

86 Sits to appear on

the cover of, say 90 Pest control

company

91 Hovel

94 Shredded, as

Parmesan

96 Takes care of 97 1980s game

consoles

98 Honolulu site

100 Snazzily dressed 103 2011 Steve Carell

rom-com

111 Sphere

115 Port near Buenos Aires 116 “Louisville Lip” of boxing

117 Jeff Lynne’s rock gp.

119 “Is that true about me?”

120 Scope of influence 121 The “AA” and “BB” of an AABB scheme

127 Din

128 “Hamilton” composer Linmanuel

129 City grid parts 130 Lace snarls

131 Ends of sonnets 132 Phrase with no repeated letters (like each of this puzzle’s seven longest answers)

DOWN

1 Dead-end work position 2 Sky-blue hue 3 Corps core 4 Uru. neighbor 5 Not well lit 6 Over again 7 Take care of 8 Oozy gunk 9 Lacking in nourishment

10 Skunk Pepé of cartoons

11 Like crumbly piecrusts 12 Rowing blade 13 Reggae’s — Kamoze 14 Best Musical before “Phantom” 15 Silvery fish 16 Dharma follower 17 Private 18 Recycle

19 Fixes up text 24 Son of Odin 30 Holy relic

32 Lake of TV talk 33 Hit hard, biblicalstyle 35 Novelist Uris

36 “— get it!” (“Oh, makes sense!”) 37 Sacred song 39 Violinist Hilary 41 Kind of ski lift 42 Very impolite 43 2012 hit for Flo Rida

45 Calif. air hub 46 Advertising leaflets 47 Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie —” 49 “Stop!,” asea

50 Stags, e.g.

51 Film director Kazan 52 Intense desire 53 “For” votes 55 Doing Atkins, say 56 Do-fa linkup 57 “Get what I’m saying?” 62 Atlanta-to-akron dir.

65 Suffix with pent67 Chitchat

69 Apple or pear 70 Offer a view 71 Permit 72 Sphere

73 Mafia bigwig 74 Hazy air stuff 75 Mister, in Münster 76 “Lonely Boy” singer Paul

79 At a distance 80 Sets of points, in math

81 Torah holders

83 — pork (Chinese entree) 85 Sleuth: Abbr. 87 Purse part 88 Nitrate, e.g. 89 Ration

92 Pick- — (refresher) 93 Bygone bird 95 Verb before “thou,” perhaps 99 Words after man or sergeant

101 With, to Luc

102 House speaker after

Ryan

103 Metallic sound 104 Novarro of silent

films

105 H.S. science class

for college credit 106 Roster of least-sought-after celebs 107 “Eleni” director Peter

108 “— your disposal” 109 Group trying to sack AQB

110 Swiss chocolatier 112 Like — in headlights 113 Ton of, informally 114 Bette Midler’s “Divine” stage persona

118 Alibis, e.g.

122 Go quickly

123 Divs. of eras 124 Propane, e.g.

125 In favor of 126 Knee’s place