San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
ACROSS
1
Old-time crooner Julius
7 James — Garfield
12 Taxing org.
15 Old news-paper
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
100Waterloo 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
100Easily 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 )