San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
“JANUARY 1 FUN” by Frank A. Longo
ACROSS
1 Drag race vehicle
8 Schuss, e.g.
11 Stinging flier
15 Contributed
19 Halloween mask
feature
20 Hoodwink
21 Falco of TV
22 Leave off
23 Tendency toward
chaos
24 Fido’s noise
25 * Star of the 1950s TV series “China Smith”
27 BLT seller
28 Naval forces
30 — Field (Mr. Met’s
home)
31 * Getting tired
34 Baby bird
38 Evergreen with red
arils
39 Actress Polo
40 Stephen of “V for
Vendetta”
42 Young moray, e.g.
43 Cowl wearer
45 * Hope when the situation is desperate
51 Mosque official
54 Scrooge portrayer
Alastair
55 Minerals in thin
sheets
56 * “Vanity Fair”
novelist 61 “One World”
musician John
65 Holders of frozen
cubes
66 Girl in the fam
67 “Insecure” actress
69 — Hawkins dance
70 Astonishment
73 E’en if
75 Actor Bridges
76 Fathers
79 Auditing gp.
81 Was disgusting to
84 Deep desires
85 * Period superseded
by auto-mobiles
89 Ragtime pianist
Blake
90 Aficionado
91 Large cut
92 * Three-part novel
by Gertrude Stein
98 Green-light
102 Removal of restrictions, for short
103 RV refuge org.
104 Six-legged marchers
107 Suffix with Carol
108 How Alaska is
populated
111 * Town crier’s cry
116 Cab cost
117 “It takes two”
dances
118 Agents, in brief
119 * “The Price Is
Right” host
123 Happy dance 124 Net, as earnings
127 Ames’ state
128 Saturate
129 Bullfight yell
130 Dissimilar
131 Legal equal
132 Brontë’s Jane
133 Despite this
134 What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically
DOWN
1 Honorarium
2 Writer Rand
3 Lay in place
4 Tossed
5 “Relax!”
6 Of Swiss mountains
7 Playa del —
8 Climb up
9 Divided Asian land
10 Get by logic
11 Joins closely
12 Org. for cavity
fixers
13 Thereafter
14 Counterparts of
manis
15 Cousin of a
chimpanzee
16 Poehler of “Baby
Mama”
17 Fight (for)
18 Zeta follower
26 Pronounces 28 “Just my opinion,” in
a text
29 Supermodel Banks
31 Fitness locale
32 Early auto
33 Award for U2
34 All-time low
35 Creeping vine
36 Once called
37 Fido’s threat
41 Intertwine
44 Tartan skirt wearers
46 Suffix with owl or
wolf
47 Vardalos of
Hollywood
48 Sierra, Yukon and
Acadia
49 Trendy berry
50 Shells out
52 Boggy areas
53 Motorists’ gp.
56 Very thin, as clouds
57 “It matters to me”
58 Escorted from
outside
59 Org. with bag
screeners
60 The whole — and
caboodle
61 Fox-sighting cry
62 Jagged, as a leaf ’s
edge
63 “When I Need You”
singer Leo
64 Hopper of old gossip
68 Fake coins
71 Not fooled by
72 Previous to 74 Globe
77 Ergo
78 Japanese noodle
type
80 In no danger
82 Playwright O’Neill
83 Links letters
86 Dangerous
87 Vetoing vote
88 Genetic stuff
89 Spider’s hatching
pouch
92 NFL goals
93 With it, in old slang
94 Lyricist Gershwin
95 Battle with spongy
balls
96 “So funny!”
97 Light beams
99 Actress Alley
100Even a single
101 “— -haw!”
105 Regal seat
106 Playground fixture
109 Wipe clean
110 “Bad, Bad — Brown”
112 Delight in
113 Nimble
114 Big name in
thesauruses
115 In a fitting manner
117 Small kid
119 Chip topper
120 Fish spawn
121 She-sheep
122 Mug handle
124 Bit of word wit
125 Rap sheet abbr.
126 Boomer’s kid