PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

EXPANSION TEAM by Frank A. Longo

ACROSS

1 Horse house

7 Talked about

16 iPhone buys

20 Medieval weapon

21 Stimulus

22 Garbanzo, for one

23 Kids’ writer who was

a frequent flier?

26 North Carolina

university

27 Ca++ or Cl

28 Make up (for)

29 Architect who loved

internet chatting?

38 “Oh yeah? — who?!”

39 That man

40 In a chair

41 Rural tract

42 Helper

43 Not round-trip

47 Three, in Italy

48 1999-2004

Oldsmobiles

50 Mystery writer who

was a constable?

57 Give the right

58 Actor Arnaz

59 Old Japanese

governors

60 Classic toothpaste

brand

63 Org. supporting

sober motorists

65 Env. alerter 66 Novelist who had a

law degree?

73 Pear center

74 Litigant

75 Extensive,

informally

76 Vehicle often traded

in

80 Actress Rae

82 Chess ploys

87 Showman who rehabilitated injured people?

91 Song that Kim sings to Hugo in “Bye Bye Birdie”

92 Long span

93 Third-century pope

94 Alpine goat

97 Test facility

98 Grinding tool

101 “— ’er rip!”

102 Anonymous guy

103 Comedian who did

plumbing work?

108 Soda giant

110 Obama health law,

for short

111 Camp shelter

112 Actor who was always providing precedents?

122 Casino cubes

123 Has as a goal

124 Really must

125 Suffix with novel 126 Sticks firmly to a

decision

127 Prized violins, for

short

DOWN

1 Health club

2 Actor Cruise

3 Part of IPA

4 Visorless cap

5 Boxer Ali

6 Former inmate

7 Awful racket

8 — jiffy (PDQ)

9 — -fi

10 Bright red

11 Remove the cargo

from

12 Bee attack

13 Moral lapse

14 Actress Best

15 French article

16 Slightly

17 Nancy in the House

18 Gave a lousy review

of

19 “Gesundheit”

elicitor

24 Kitchen pests

25 — tai

29 “God willing!”

30 Curtain fabric

31 Fuse, as ore

32 Dole (out)

33 Sheriff Wyatt 34 Ending for bed or

home

35 Vogue rival

36 Hammerhead ends

37 Sun orbiter

42 Jokingly

44 Nintendo game

system

45 Second part of a

play

46 Barks of pain

48 In the thick of

49 Eye, in Spain

51 Extinct

52 Deep regret

53 Old autocrat

54 Tone down

55 —’acte

56 ID for the IRS

61 Rejections

62 Keenness

64 “Lah-di- —!”

66 Joke around

67 Harold of the

Manhattan Project

68 Boston team

69 Keyboardist John

70 Dull and heavy

71 Ex-Yankee Hideki —

72 Shortstop

Garciaparra

73 Half-pint

77 The Bengals, on

scoreboards

78 Fast Amtrak train

79 Morocco’s capital 81 “Am not!” rejoinder

83 “I’ll return very

shortly,” in texts

84 As a whole

85 Fixed the pitch of

86 Actor Jimmy

88 Brain section

89 — and crafts

90 Part of IPA

94 Hamper

95 Withdrawal of the

U.K. from the E.U.

96 Await

98 Printed circuit board, as for a laptop

99 Brings joy to

100Comics’ Kett

103 Reddi- — (dessert

topping brand)

104 — to go (fired up)

105 Plants with fronds

106 Map extra

107 Old-time anesthetic

109 Captain Hook

henchman

113 “Deck the Halls”

syllables

114 Suffix with novel

115 Transcript fig.

116 AOL or MSN

117 — low ebb

118 Pithy remark

119 Toothpaste box inits.

120 “Inc.” relative

121 — Alamos