PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Mails a dupe to 4 Peak in the Cascades 10 1975 shark thriller 14 Lost intensity 19 “You — here” 20 — -Davidson 21 Saab of fashion 22 Stare angrily 23 What planes are in when they’re taking off and landing? 25 “Heck!” 26 MetLife rival 27 Nepal locale 28 — Pérignon 29 Climb a rope right after waking up? 31 “Which of you is good at copying signatures?” 35 Poker pro Ungar 36 Beholds 37 Houston hockey team until 2013 38 Ancient Aegean land 41 So-so 43 Furlong divs. 44 Spectral hue 48 Big tree branch used to decorate a shop? 53 Big computer of the 1940s 54 Frustrates 56 Delhi coin 57 Tame some mean dogs? 61 “— girl!” 64 Uno + uno 65 Anniversary unit 66 AQI monitor 67 Four of — 68 Skill, to Cato 69 Law degs. held by the Obamas 70 Comment when a surface only allows for a glossy finish? 75 — Friday’s restaurant 76 Dot in la Seine 77 Off-limits acts 78 Wad of gum, e.g. 79 Carrie’s “Star Wars” role 80 Prefix with soul 81 Beer head 82 Fashionably stylish grain husk? 87 Big boo-boo 89 Tactics 91 Writer Nin 92 Spiced tea brewed in a business workplace? 95 Multi-vehicle crash 97 Church bench 100 Fed. crash-probing agcy. 101 Tear-eliciting vegetable 103 “Nowhere Road” singer Steve 105 Nailed 108 Happy — lark 110 Ensnared by a tree branch? 114 Bit of gear used by a videography student? 118 Simple tune 119 Ames’ state 120 John Belushi catchphrase 121 Flubs it up 122 Apt phrase spelled by the deleted ends of this puzzle’s theme answers 125 “It’s — of the times” 126 Seven days 127 Parthenon goddess 128 Trump 129 Antsy 130 Uses needle and thread 131 Gym class, briefly 132 Some hosp. cases
DOWN
1 Bread seed 2 With 47-Down, snow cone’s base 3 Promgoers 4 “— La La” (1964 hit) 5 Writer of 104 symphonies 6 The long — the law 7 Replay view, briefly 8 Actor Lange 9 Mate’s “yes” 10 Sci-fi knight 11 “Sadly ...” 12 Telegrams 13 Hill bigwig 14 “Holy moly!” 15 Sneeze response 16 Take a soak 17 Bert’s pal 18 University bigwigs 24 1993 Texas standoff site 29 Toon pal of Stimpy 30 Zap, in a way 32 Black — (very dark) 33 Oil field sight 34 Boo-boos 39 Nile goddess 40 P.R.’s ocean 42 Wear down 45 Small peeve 46 Lah-di- — 47 See 2-Down 49 Honshu port 50 Software reviser, e.g. 51 Peach State 52 Wiesbaden native, e.g. 53 Vase handle 55 Like some citrus tastes 57 “Goodness me!” 58 Kind of lettuce 59 De-intensify 60 “Eh” marks 62 Little birdie 63 Big bang producer 67 Prefix with valent 70 Contaminate 71 Furthermore 72 Cell stuff 73 Energy 74 Boozer 79 Many oz. 82 Slay 83 Rodeo miss 84 MS-to-MI dir. 85 Lac liquid 86 Grow mature 88 Investigation discoveries 90 Philosopher — -tzu 93 Morales of film 94 Scott Pelley’s milieu 96 Shiba — (dog breed) 97 Preceding 98 Bow-making material 99 Software running in browsers 102 Tenet 104 Keep — on (don’t reveal) 105 Turn to try for a homer 106 Small oil container 107 Have home cooking 109 Side (with) 111 Actress Rigby 112 Eagles’ kin 113 Actress Rich 115 Zilch 116 Work group 117 Pleads, e.g. 122 Track unit 123 Verb suffix in the Bible 124 “Gnarly!”