San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
ACROSS
1 Give a right to
8 Eye narrowly
14 Choir songs
20 Dog collar
attachments
21 Ends of bridal paths
22 See 1-Down
23 Refrigerator, stove
or dryer
25 Warship fleet
26 Over yonder
27 Designer Gucci
28 Lhasa — (little dogs)
29 Mega Stuf cookies
33 This second
35 Legendary figure in
a 1999 horror film
39 Azaleas are
members of it
43 Not quite
44 Dutch beer
45 — the line (obeyed)
47 Sturdy tree
48 Slimy gunk
51 Shaft of light
52 Common allergy
trigger
55 Condiment spicier than its yellow cousin
59 On — with (similar
to)
61 Big name in dog
food
63 Born
64 TV announcer Don 65 Riddle
68 Strep-treating doc
69 Person giving out
prizes
71 Eight of their last names are featured in this puzzle
76 Egg-hiding holidays
77 Gridiron stats
78 Punctual
79 Sominex or Unisom
rival
80 Passing vote
81 As many as
82 Big lamb cut
86 Common weed of
North America
90 Universal donor
blood type, in brief
93 Shark feature
94 Ending for alp or salt
95 Architect I.M. —
96 Red Sea canal
98 Get there
100Hive house
103 Suburb of
Minneapolis
106 June bugs, by
another name
110 Poetic “always”
111 Yule songs
112 Post-teen
113 Squeaks (out)
116 Ticked (off )
118 Spring back
120 Kentucky Derby
venue 126 “Little Women”
author
127 Wanness
128 Cry upon getting
there
129 Joined (up)
130 Baby hooters
131 Vain person’s lack
DOWN
1 With 22-Across, film “nightmare” locale
2 Teachers’ gp.
3 — Mahal
4 Equal: Prefix
5 Walloped
6 Foliage bit
7 Barcelona’s land, to
natives
8 Bud
9 Director Kazan
10 Plus others: Abbr.
11 Music genre for TLC
12 Chachi’s last name
on “Happy Days”
13 Mao — -tung
14 Free TV ad, for short
15 Drink inserts
16 Target of
antiperspirant
17 Minimal
18 Bordeaux wine
19 Secret store
24 Grads’ event
29 Fictional Scarlett
30 Plan a new route for
31 Cushy class 32 Mel the Giant
34 Jokester
36 Solo
37 Mosque officiant
38 Streaming set-top
box
40 Viral misery
41 Soft throws
42 “— out!” (ump’s call)
46 “Death Be Not
Proud” poet
48 Avant- —
49 Mandate
50 Smells
53 Exhales wistfully
54 Pack firmly
56 Cleaning tool in a
bucket
57 Muscle jerk
58 More citrusy, say
60 Mary Lou of
gymnastics
62 One suffering for a
belief
66 Atom studier Bohr
67 Leb. neighbor
68 911 gp.
69 Susan of “Spring
Fever”
70 Nintendo console
71 1974 dog film
72 Artificial silk
73 “Orange — New
Black”
74 Thoughts
75 Taken with
80 “Two Guys and —” 81 Operated
83 In flames
84 Courteous
85 Midleg joints
87 Sheriff Taylor’s
tyke
88 Mess-free
89 Take to court
91 Jug handle
92 Pa’s pa
97 Last letter
99 ‘16 Olympics site
100Flowering
101 Small dress size
102 Cowboy’s whoop
104 — pot (sinus
cleaner)
105 Early tourney round
106 Safin who won tennis’ 2000 U.S. Open
107 She sang the hit
“Hello”
108 New Mexico’s state
flower
109 Brain protector
114 — Stanley Gardner
115 “Nae” sayer
117 Red Muppet
119 Inc., abroad
120 U.S. Navy noncom
121 Divs. of days
122 Lyric verse
123 Film director
Craven
124 Little peeve
125 Hog hangout