San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
ACROSS 1
7
12
Hoover, e.g. Hertz rival Military vehicle for recon
20 Roma’s place
21 Go into a major tizzy
22 Worth of a security
at its face
23 Rare musical gift
25 Being filmed
26 Aug. follower
27 Feel awful
28 Tree’s anchor
30 Sandbox toy
31 Elicitor of a rave
review
39 Newton and Asimov
41 Beats of life
42 Klutzy sorts
43 Naiad or dryad
44 Plant swelling
46 Ben of “Zoolander”
49 Mint quality
54 “13th” director
DuVernay
55 Styne of song
56 TV spots
57 Vaper’s item
58 How-to unit
59 Catch sight of
60 Ostrich’s kin
61 Big name in
cosmetics
64 Big bees
66 Rainforests and such 69 Round one of the
corners in Monopoly
72 Mets’ div.
73 Vast span
74 Awful review
77 First-aid plant
78 Purplish berry
79 Derby, e.g.
80 Buffalo’s county
81 Aladdin’s monkey
pal
82 Excellent etiquette
88 Wasn’t penned up
90 Levi’s, e.g.
91 Start
92 Singer Celine
93 Green sushi
condiment
96 “M*A*S*H” actor
David Ogden —
97 Famed Steelers play
of 1972
102 Cole Porter’s “—
Love”
103 “I got — in
Kalamazoo”
104 Toothpaste tube
inits.
105 — kwon do
108 O.J. Simpson trial
judge
111 Activity that will be unsuccessful when applied to this puzzle’s theme?
117 Hans Christian —
118 JFK Library architect 119 The Beach Boys’
“Help Me, —”
120 People giving
rubdowns
121 Printer brand
122 Motto
DOWN
1 Big cheeses
2 Suited to —
3 Goldfish and minnows are members of it
4 Samuelsson who got the winning goal in the 1991 Stanley Cup
5 Driver’s 180
6 Large parrots
7 Cider fruit
8 Chou En- —
9 Picnic pest
10 Emceeing aid
11 Earthy hues, to Brits
12 Satirizes
13 Division of a long
poem
14 Tolkien brute
15 Coll. in the Old
Dominion State
16 Home of the NFL’s
Bucs
17 Symbol of a fresh
start
18 Gold-related
19 “Royal,” in 20-Across
24 Up to, in brief 29 Metal in rocks
32 Small error
33 German for “eight”
34 Design detail
35 — wrestling
36 Strategy
37 Quaint newspaper
section
38 Primary
39 Dressed for nightynight
40 IHOP topping
44 Result
45 — Moines
46 Autograph: Abbr.
47 All tied up
48 Sharp knocks
50 “You are not!” retort
51 Noble acts
52 “All booked up,
sorry”
53 Model Tequila
58 Catch sight of
60 Liverpool loc.
61 Purple flower
62 — acid (fat
substance)
63 Irish actor Stephen
64 Allowance
65 Sizable vase
66 Put to work
67 A single time
68 Sports sides
69 Early TV host Jack
70 “Dark Angel” star
Jessica
71 Healthy intellects 74 Introducing
75 Broadcaster
76 Aeries, e.g.
78 Big primate
79 Clutch sitter
80 Film scorer
Morricone
82 — -Z (old Camaro)
83 List of options
84 Partly open
85 Neuwirth of
“Cheers”
86 Nonclerical
87 “Me? Never!”
89 Husbands-to-be
93 Tots’ haulers
94 — discount
95 Smartphone pic,
often
96 Railing sites
97 Sunni’s faith
98 Animated 2016
Disney film
99 After a time
100Sup at home
101 Adobe Acrobat file
106 Forever — day
107 “Manhattan Beach”
novelist Jennifer
109 Sooner than,
poetically
110 Sch. in Terre Haute
112 Gig hookup
113 FedEx rival
114 Zodiac lion
115 Dallas Stars’ org.
116 “Yabba dabba —!”