San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)

PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE

- CAPITAL-GRAMS by Frank A. Longo

ACROSS

1 Slogan

6 Like horses offered

for breeding

12 “You played well!”

20 Knot on a tree branch

21 Like Lowell’s “day in

June”

22 Anomalous

23 Creature in the

Philippine­s’ capital?

25 Former British prime

minister Benjamin

26 Geronimo or Cochise

27 Voting “no”

29 Final inning, usually

30 Best Picture of 2012

32 “El —” (1961 epic film)

33 Horse-drawn carriage

in Angola’s capital?

37 Sobieski of the screen

39 — Plaines

40 Olympic swimmer

Tom

41 Skating couples in

France’s capital?

44 Like charged atoms

45 Pear variety

49 Melodramat­ic

50 Privy to

51 Massey of old movies

52 Affliction for some

war vets

56 Mineo of old movies

57 Pollen-bearing organ from a flower in Iran’s capital?

60 Golfer Hale 62 Insect’s egg capsule

64 Boise loc.

65 “State Fair” actor

Ayres

66 Ring thrown at a peg

in Ecuador’s capital?

69 Public square in

Bolivia’s capital?

72 Abbr. on a navy

vessel

73 Website ID

74 Showed up at

76 Narratives

77 Feudal lords in

Greece’s capital?

80 TV captain Jean- —

Picard

83 Big shindig

84 Has to have

85 Like a desert

86 Workforce newcomer

88 Harper of “No

Country for Old Men”

89 Doughnut-shaped

91 Small parasite in

South Korea’s capital?

96 Primitive-based kind

of diet

97 “OB-viously!”

98 Striped stinkers

99 Comedian in

Lesotho’s capital?

104 — Fridays (eatery

chain)

106 “Fancy —!”

107 Flared dress

108 Feudal toiler

109 “Who — thunk it?!” 111 Said “OK” to silently

115 Gym sweatboxes in

the Bahamas’ capital?

119 Intimate chat

120 The second “S” of

KISS

121 Prez Roosevelt

122 Back spot for a rider

123 Madrid’s land, to its

natives

124 “It’s nobody —

business”

DOWN

1 “Gigi” studio

2 — roll (hot)

3 Scarlet bird

4 Libyan port

5 Cantina pot

6 Popular beer from

Japan

7 Not flabby

8 — Lanka

9 Mexican meat dishes

10 Ariel’s planet

11 Letter before epsilon

12 Rove (about)

13 Kimono sash

14 Clip- — (some ties)

15 1996 presidenti­al

hopeful Bob

16 Bit of salt

17 Modify

18 Island south of Sicily

19 Nobelist Root

24 Says “OK” to

28 Tabby not leaving the

house 30 Swiss peak

31 Singer Chris

34 Part of DKNY

35 — Baba

36 Fond du —,

Wisconsin

38 Kin of -ette

39 Like a desert

42 Drivers’ org.

43 Brand of coolers

44 Fills the lungs

45 Deli staple

46 “So chic!”

47 Allergic outbursts

48 Hot wax may be a

part of it

50 Pluralized -y, often

51 Ill-suited

52 Pleasantly pungent

53 Fiduciary figure

54 Moves with a rustling

sound

55 Morse click

57 Best Picture of

1997

58 Actress Long

59 Timber tool

61 They often precede

verbs

63 Experience­d via

another person

67 String after P

68 Final: Abbr.

70 Target of the Salk

vaccine

71 Petri dish site

75 Doc’s Rx

78 Paper VIPs 79 Palace area for

women

81 Country south of

Braz.

82 Fahrenheit

alternativ­e

86 Snarky laugh

87 Deer relative

89 Letter before

upsilon

90 Ending for schnozz

91 “Time to ride the

waves!”

92 Beat in a mano-amano

93 Releases from one’s

grasp

94 Jamaican music genre

95 N.J. hours

96 Gussies up

97 Removes some

rodents

99 Stately home

100 Solitary

101 Album’s first half

102 Ewoks’ forest moon

103 Detect

104 Creator of Tom

Sawyer

105 Dutch cheese

110 Past due

112 Female goat

113 MSNBC anchor

Cabrera

114 Vietnamese holiday

116 Mud bath site

117 Lime drink

118 Method: Abbr.

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