PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE

DROP OUT by Frank A. Longo

ACROSS 1

5

10

Dish list Attorney — Tidies up with a broom

16 Even score

19 Salt Lake City team

20 Stock market

disaster

21 Audrey of “Amélie”

22 Hostelry

23 Arrive like rain

25 Goof-ups

26 Many a pro bono TV

ad

27 Enclose, as a yard

28 Fail to complete a

task

31 Brand of candy

wafers

34 Lose power

35 Considering

everything

36 Become a

responsibility for

44 Grove growth

45 1965-69 veep

Humphrey

46 Simile center

47 “Veni,” in English

49 Home of the

Dolphins

50 Blow it when success

is very close

57 Bitter conflicts

59 Totally wreck

60 Navy leader 61 “Ararat” actor

Koteas

64 Indian queen

66 Escargot

67 Poking tools

71 Stop being noticed

75 Spyro — ( jazz group)

76 Pipeline problems

78 Boat deck wood

79 Suddenly bright

stars

81 Stray

84 Say a Hail Mary, say

86 Considered

comparable

91 Collapse

95 Fierce look

96 Holy city of Islam

97 — -Z (totally)

98 — Mae (loan offerer)

99 “Superfood” berry

102 Be overlooked

107 Flag sewer Ross

109 La.-to-Mich. dir.

110 Seize forcibly

111 Fizzle out, as an

endeavor

116 New word

121 Bullfight cry

122 View with

astonishment

123 Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle?

126 Set- — (sharp fights) 127 Car radiator

protector

128 Baseball great Buck

129 Bubble maker

130 Rubble maker

131 Made tamperproof

132 Surprise attacks

133 Out of kilter

DOWN

1 Bungle

2 Raison d’—

3 Vegas light

4 Gomer Pyle’s org.

5 Most sore, as

muscles

6 With 32-Down, Dick

Tracy’s cover-up

7 — Vegas

8 Query

9 “— you do it?”

10 Baby on “Family

Guy”

11 Time merged with it

in 1990

12 Currency of Austria

13 Princely prep

school

14 Left, at sea

15 Raw fish dish

16 Gratuity holder

17 Shoe part

18 Empower

24 Largest of the

Canary Islands

29 Strange

30 Going into

32 See 6-Down 33 Kick out

36 Units of resistance

37 Opposite of day, in

Dijon

38 Ski lift variety

39 Hot-rod engine

40 Oz lion portrayer

Bert

41 Family gal

42 Bi- cubed

43 1982-2005 Saudi

king

48 “— the word”

50 “Likely story!”

51 Cries of discovery

52 Perjurer, e.g.

53 Former U.N. head

Kofi

54 Hauling cart on a

farm

55 Jungle den

56 “— En-chanted”

58 “Xanadu” band, in

brief

62 Astern

63 Curry of the NBA

65 Oath reply

67 Alan who played

Pierce

68 Have a bawl

69 Soft rock?

70 Minor battle

72 Long-eared hopper

73 Rd. crossers

74 “Chi- —” (2015 Spike

Lee film)

77 Fill up fully

80 Sweetums 82 Savoir faire

83 Engrave

85 “Awright!”

87 Penne — vodka

88 Bath powder

89 Actor Estrada

90 Poor grades

92 Road goo

93 An Aleutian

island

94 — scale (mineral

hardness gauge)

98 Executes a “Page

Up,” e.g.

99 — and Costello

100Sri Lanka,

formerly

101 Certify (to)

103 Red-tagged

104 Part of USA

105 H.S. proficiency

exam

106 “The Father of

Geometry”

108 Safe robbers, in

slang

112 Suffix with silver or

table

113 Capital of Samoa

114 Give a whoop

115 Get an — effort

117 Apollo’s org.

118 State bluntly

119 Apparatus

120 Glimpse

124 Comedian

Gasteyer

125 Luau handout