PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE

ACROSS

1 Wish-granting spirits

7 Greek vowel

12 Records file

20 Punch combo

21 Splotchy GI garb

22 He played Al Bundy

on TV

23 Planners of campus

events

25 Often-pickled red

vegetable

26 Atop, in poems

27 Lena of “The

Reader”

28 Latin “I love”

30 Patron saint of

sailors

31 Brotherhood

39 Capital of a Mexico

state

40 Hard to find

41 Burdened

42 Travail

44 Political campaigners

for a particular issue

50 Wonderment

53 Dragon in “The

Hobbit”

57 Suffix with racket

58 Not at all tight

59 Medieval protectors

of trade

63 Icebox

65 Boise’s state

66 Gel in a lab

67 By means of

68 Claimed psychic gift 69 Regulators of a moral

code

76 Bath fixture

79 Printer fluid

80 Years on end

81 More devious

85 Surfs the internet,

e.g.

88 Fighters of animal

cruelty

92 Madison Ave. contact

93 Sea, in Paris

94 Corrective eye

surgery

95 Pitching star

96 It consists of 13-player football teams

100Aspirin target

103 Japanese alternative

to massage

104 “Carpe —!”

108 Newspaper of the

USSR

112 Managers of houses

in a subdivision

118 SpaceX founder

Musk

119 Formed a lap

120 “Leave — the pros”

121 Anna of fashion

122 It has Cut and Copy

commands

126 Apt playing card for

this puzzle’s theme?

131 Company VIP

132 Barrymore or Waters

of “Pinky” 133 Consignment shop

deal

134 “I have no idea!”

135 — Dame

136 A whole lot

DOWN

1 Become lenient

2 Intestine: Prefix

3 Of axons and

dendrites

4 “— be my honor”

5 Ram’s mate

6 Prince, e.g.

7 Eye-related

8 Philippine capital

9 One-sharp musical

key

10 Sticky gunk

11 Hit — (run into some

trouble)

12 Urbane

13 Fruity drink

14 Foot part

15 Busy crawler

16 Artsy cap

17 Garlicky mayonnaise

18 Replay speed, briefly

19 “Your Song” singer

John

24 Whole lot

29 Ice cream drink

32 “Tsk!”

33 — -friendly

34 She was Mrs.

Gorbachev

35 Stephen of “Still

Crazy” 36 Nuptial oath

37 Buddhism branch

38 Point of view

43 K-O linkup

45 Toon frame

46 Fish eggs

47 Seep out

48 Wields

49 Crime doer

50 French bud

51 Join nuptially

52 Pitching stat

54 Sharp as —

55 Popular Aussie boots

56 Avocado dip, for

short

60 Fidel’s cohort

61 Sweltering

62 “... sad and dreary everywhere —”: Stephen Foster

63 Suitable

64 Disloyal sort

67 Ivy and kudzu

70 Go in haste

71 Electees, e.g.

72 Diner offering

73 “— Lisa”

74 PC key

75 Gin inventor

Whitney

76 Ski lift type

77 Pakistani language

78 Tennis’ Björn

82 Positive vote

83 And so on: Abbr.

84 Dark loaf

86 Fly trapper 87 Jazz’s — Gyra

88 Mecca-to-Medina

flight

89 Country east of Arg.

90 Little drink

91 Giraffe’s kin

93 Be certain

97 Actor Ayres

98 A, in Berlin

99 Self-help author

LeShan

101 Lyric-penning

Gershwin

102 Ballplayer of D.C., in

brief

105 Apple computer

camera

106 Bible book before Job

107 Mark with

multicolored spots

109 Optical

110 Exact look-alike

111 Licoricelike seeds

112 Listens to

113 Classic song

114 Actress Shearer

115 PC key

116 Dutch painter Jan

117 Dove’s call

123 Roman 1,200

124 Biblical verb suffix

125 — de plume

127 Figure skater

Midori

128 To’s partner

129 Company VIP

130 Timothy Leary’s

drug