PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE

ACROSS

1 Fuel dispenser

8 Lord’s home

14 Made untidy

20 The Beatles’ Rigby

21 Coated with gunky

stuff

22 Box up

23 “Sk8er Boi” singer

making an exit?

25 Stir to action

26 Go kaput

27 Italia’s capital

28 Very sad tune from the “Sir Duke” singer?

30 Stephen of the

screen

32 Very big bird

34 Seattle-to-L.A. dir.

35 Jaded

36 Hazard encountered by the “Thank U, Next” singer?

42 By birth

44 Diatribe deliverers

45 Many a stencil user

48 Dog in “The Thin

Man”

52 Consent (to)

53 “Lean on Me” singer makes twisting movements?

55 Pub potable

56 Unit of petrol

57 “@” signs

58 Total up 59 Cambodian money

unit

61 Part of QED

63 Actor Carroll O’—

64 “Grease” singer’s big

country home?

69 Subway system named after the “Careless Hands” singer?

72 UFO crew

73 Czech-German

river

75 Infirmity-free

76 Leah’s father, in the

Bible

77 Ellipsis part

79 “That’s someone —

problem!”

81 Lacking hair

85 Webpage for devotees of the “Don’t Speak” singer?

88 Spain’s peninsula

90 Morays, e.g.

91 Creator of body designs Splash, as cooking oil

Stanley Cup org. Person painting a portrait of the “All My Ex’s Live in Texas” singer?

96 Port in Iraq

100Hawaiian strings, for

short

92

93 94 103 Binge-watching aid,

in brief

104 Part of R&R, in

brief

105 “Toxic” singer dissects a sentence?

110 Soothe

112 Cut (off )

115 California city

116 “Hound Dog” singer’s noisy pet dogs?

119 Totally ruins

120 Ornamental tuft on a

hat

121 Funeral tunes

122 Set of nine

123 Dior dresses

124 Jean Arp or Max

Ernst

DOWN

1 Neuter, as a horse

2 Jai —

3 Pay to a fired

worker

4 — gow poker

5 Not marked, as a

test

6 Not stereo

7 People studying to

be docs

8 Suffix with Sudan

9 Deli dish

10 Brand of 103-Across

11 Despot Idi

12 Ministers (to) 13 Sword parts

14 Honey drink

15 Clothe

16 Angry look

17 Sweatbox

18 Twisty turns

19 John of plows

24 Dalai —

29 Freshens up

31 Key in

33 Dark

36 Snatch

37 Relay, say

38 Prior to

39 “Dream on!”

40 Rarefied air

41 Map no.

43 Botch it up

46 Poets’ Muse

47 Q-U linkup

48 Make up (for)

49 Redirect, as a train

50 Choir voice

51 Jetsons’ dog

53 Actor Ferrell

54 “— in peace”

56 Hawaiian string, of a

sort

59 Lisa of “Soap Talk”

60 ICU tubes

62 Painter’s studio

63 Cartoon pic

64 Dijon dance

65 Off to — start

(behind)

66 Insult in print

67 Toronto Maple —

68 Unleash on 70 Syngman of South

Korea

71 Family VIPs

74 Make drunk

77 Contact by phone

78 Many a time

80 Fine fiddle

81 Singer Midler

82 Constitution part establishing the executive branch

83 Whoppers

84 Pub missile

86 Final degree

87 Refusals

88 Hoppy brew, for

short

89 Drove fast

92 Wandered

93 C.S. Lewis’ fantasy

world

95 Tony winner

Judith

96 Back half of a 45

97 Chef ’s cover

98 Five plus two

99 Lift

101 Iota follower

102 Flynn of film

106 Mail out

107 Highway rig

108 X Games airer

109 — gin fizz

111 Actress Ward

113 Rich rocks

114 Hushed “Hey!”

117 Trio in “mammal”

118 Links org.