San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
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.