PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE

ACROSS

1 Neighbor of Croatia

7 Pakistan’s largest

city

14 Rajiv or Indira

20 For only the price of

production

21 Rarely used golf club

22 Aleve rival

23 Spectators’ loud

cheers

25 Sizable sofas

26 Angled

27 Southeast Kansas

city

28 River islet

30 Beginner’s painting

class

31 Sousaphone, e.g.

33 Loaf flavored with a

certain fragrant herb

39 Incorporates

gradually

43 Hitter Griffey

44 Having a basic knowledge of arithmetic

45 “The Wild Wild

West” actor

47 São — (largest of the

Cape Verdes)

48 Actress Jessica

49 — parmigiana

50 Hi- — image

51 Golfer’s peg

54 Vote in favor

55 Clarinetist Shaw

58 Wander 62 Temporary, as a

committee

63 Creator of Oz

65 Neighbor of Croatia

66 Acquiesce,

figuratively

71 Virgil epic

72 Noted Deco master

73 Paper opinion

pieces

74 Many a song by

Journey or Chicago

77 Eight x five

78 Knight’s title

81 Suffix with journal

82 Alley- —

83 Flatware item

85 Ho-hum thing

86 Hurl

89 Site-to-site transfer

of data

93 “Glass half full”

attitude

96 JFK posting

97 Deprived of parental

care

98 It’s east of Croatan

Sound

101 “The devil — the

details”

102 Cure- — (panaceas)

103 Alabama-to-Illinois

dir.

104 Per unit

106 Pound pen

110 Popular videosharing service 113 Apt thing to drive on while pondering this puzzle’s theme?

118 Villa

119 Fine-food fan

120 Turn to ice

121 “Get —” ( John

Travolta film)

122 Chooses

123 Hurled

DOWN

1 Fishhook part

2 Siouan tribe

member

3 Read hastily

4 The Rhine flows into

it

5 Thermal or lateral

lead-in

6 Initially

7 Germany’s Helmut

8 Lend — (pay

attention)

9 — center

(community facility)

10 Make public

11 — -Magnon

12 “— I supposed to

know?”

13 Darjeeling or pekoe

14 Gallivant

15 Darth Vader, in

boyhood

16 CNN political

commentator Ana

17 U.S. capital’s vicinity

18 Allude to 19 Not alfresco

24 Drink mixer

29 Fact

32 Atop, to poets

34 Gumbo vegetable

35 Fasten shut

36 Terminus

37 Vocalist Sumac

38 Ask earnestly

39 Ask earnestly

40 Golf target

41 “SOS” band

42 Tyro

46 Born, on a society

page

50 Lively frolic

51 Sousaphone, e.g.

52 Oklahoma city

53 Self-help writer

LeShan

55 Go off script

56 Old Valerie Harper

role

57 “Mazel —!”

58 Ill-mannered

59 Up until now

60 “I Am Woman”

singer Helen

61 Mined metals

62 Supermodel Wek

63 Minstrel poet

64 Social insect

66 Some antique autos

67 In time past

68 Gather in

69 Depend on

70 Mo. in spring

71 Exist 75 Unlace, e.g.

76 Having vulgar

interests

77 To and —

78 Imminently

79 “Dies —” (hymn)

80 Comic Foxx

83 Salty Greek cheese

84 Neighbor of Yemen

85 Boils a little

86 Wild West sheriff ’s

badge

87 Med. plan

88 Comic actor

Mayall

89 Minister’s study:

Abbr.

90 “Love Story”

novelist Segal

91 Switch to second

gear, maybe

92 Chi preceder

93 Speechifies

94 Buff up

95 Chat with

99 Steal

100John of lawn

tractors

105 Fruit drinks

107 Wows

108 Stare

109 Stared at

111 Ex-Giant Mel

112 Lock go-with

114 Crooner Damone

115 Here, in Arles

116 Fizzling thing

117 Miracle- —