San Francisco Chronicle (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CHARACTER-BUILDING by Frank A. Longo
ACROSS
1 Huntsville’s state
8 “Dig in!”
13 Watched a child for
pay
20 Recuperate
21 Bodily trunks
22 French writer France
23 1983 film for which Robert Duvall won Best Actor
25 Hold within
26 — -Ball
27 Bullring cry
28 Illegal trade medium
30 Common med. scans
32 The Beatles’ “I’ve Just
— Face”
33 Folk singer DiFranco
34 Many a morning
bowlful
39 Preview release of a
new product
44 Hardship
45 Vid shooters
47 Relative of “BTW”
48 Further
49 Actress Blair
50 “Spamalot” creator
Idle
51 Brimless cap
53 — -to manual
54 High roller
58 Per the norm
60 GQ, e.g.
63 Entre —
64 Other, in Acapulco
66 Rich, nutty cake
67 Iraqi, e.g. 69 Tulsa’s largest suburb
74 Chap from Chelsea,
e.g.
75 Thumbs-ups
77 “Call Jane” actress
Kate
78 Oven knob
80 Sun — -sen
81 Sentimental songs
84 Coin worth two
quarters
88 Defunct U.K. record
label
89 Long (for)
91 Active sort
92 Aussie buds
96 Rational
98 “Phooey!”
99 General — chicken
100 Music genre for Brian
Eno
102 Ali Baba’s password
105 South American marmoset with a tufted tail
107 Knight, e.g.
108 Drifts about
110 Beehive State team
111 Something barely
recalled
115 Here, in Lyon
116 Knight, e.g.
120 Crated up
121 Cavalry soldier without heavy weaponry
125 Arranging in rows
126 Emollient plants 127 Arbitrary change of
mind
128 A bit firm, as cooked
pasta
129 Snake killed by
Hercules
130 Word that can follow the starts of 11 answers in this puzzle
DOWN
1 Part of B.A.
2 Onion cousin
3 Oxy 5 target
4 Be a sign of
5 “Hail, Nero!”
6 French sea
7 Large, ornate
wardrobe
8 Raison d’—
9 Member of “The Squad” in D.C., for short
10 Family group
11 Futile
12 Italian sculptor
Andrea
13 Reverse side
14 Abnormalities
15 Daiquiri fruit
16 Rare-earth element
17 Drench
18 “I cannot tell —”
19 Circus shelter
24 Alternatively
29 — latte (kind of
espresso) 30 “The Mugger”
novelist Ed
31 Subj. for a theologian
32 Done in, as a dragon
34 Euro divs.
35 Often-refined
resource
36 IM giggle
37 Word before luck or
struck
38 Farmland unit
40 Model Banks
41 “Take your time”
42 Zagreb’s land
43 — -Packard
46 Rival of Burger King
50 Word with salts or
Downs
51 “I’m f-f-freezing!”
52 Boy pharaoh, for
short
55 Hunk
56 Prefix with tax or
charge
57 Greek “H”
59 Weep audibly
60 “Possibly”
61 Tourist’s aid
62 Fuel conduit
65 Zeal
68 — Paese cheese
70 Madeline of “Mixed
Nuts”
71 Age
72 Often-refined
resource
73 Retail store’s
beginning?
76 Declare 79 Italian luxury cars,
for short
82 Postponing of
military service
83 Je ne — quoi
85 Dupes
86 Lucy’s Arnaz
87 Picnic spoiler
90 Weaponize anew
93 William Shatner’s
“—War”
94 Propyl ending
95 Hog haven
97 Trap in a net
99 With a bit of crying
100 Capital of ancient
Syria
101 Mrs., in Metz
103 Substitutes (for)
104 Dough
106 “That hurts!”
109 “Mon Dieu!”
111 Greek salad cheese
112 Blue dye
113 Chilled
114 Border
115 “— miracle!”
116 Mr., in Berlin
117 Send out
118 Indy 500, e.g.
119 Lacking width and
depth, for short
122 That lady
123 “Vengeance” actress
Issa
124 Jacuzzi site