PREMIER CROSSWORD / NINE FLEET
ACROSS
1 By means of
4 Seizes suddenly
9 Niche religion
13 Cousins of rumbas
19 Noah’s craft
20 Zellweger of “Bee
Movie”
21 Assistant of
Frankenstein
22 Mount where the
19-Across landed
23 1987 comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter
26 Set fire to
27 Streisand musical film 28 Diner relative
29 Portion (out)
31 Part of “GWTW”
32 Mosque God
35 Black-and-yellow
stinging insect
39 1993-2004 Chrysler
sedan
43 Thing to fly in the wind 44 Pertaining to
45 Seat in a bar
46 Seat in a church
48 Things
52 Give new weapons to 54 Fluctuate wildly
56 Cole — (shoe brand)
59 Curious pet
60 Gift label
61 Pro- — (some tourneys) 64 Sport fish also known
as “little tuna”
68 “Them’s the breaks!”
71 Title word before
“Inferno” or “Peak”
72 Came to rest
73 Atlanta daily since 2001 77 “Game of Thrones”
actress Chaplin
78 Charlotte — (Virgin
Islands capital)
79 Turning out
80 Windy City airport
84 Adobe Acrobat file
85 “— believer!”
88 Almond-hued
89 Actress Olin
90 Plaintiff
92 Turns toward
94 Darling child
96 Perceive
99 Imitated a sheep
102 — -pedi
103 “It’s My Turn” singer
Diana
106 Small, floating
cephalopod 109 Device used in
cardiology
113 Actress Eve
114 Everything
115 Venus de —
116 9-to-5er’s shout 118 Of a junction
point
122 Gazed angrily 124 Principle of
capitalism
129 Showing on TV 130 Work to make 131 Second-largest
city of India
132 — out a win
( just prevail) 133 Distant
134 Californie, par
exemple
135 Stellar hunter 136 Abbr. that can precede nine key words in this puzzle
DOWN
1 Fluctuate
2 “Dies —” (Mass
hymn)
3 Similar
4 Car radiator
covering
5 Toon pal of
Stimpy
6 “The Ice Storm”
director Lee
7 Plastic pail or
shovel, say
8 Toxin fighters
9 Form a rough
judgment of
10 Vanity
11 With 15-Down,
flimflamming guy 12 “Lady and the —” 13 Rum cocktail 14 Evita’s land 15 See 11-Down 16 Big name in faucet
filters 17 Solemn vows 18 Expensive 24 Veteran 25 Casual statement of
sympathy 30 Comic shriek 33 Fleur-de- — (iris) 34 Kitchen pest 36 Fabric flaw 37 Bardic verse 38 Rainy
39 Juicy gossip 40 Draft-eligible
41 Coercing
42 Edifice topper
47 “Let’s suppose ...”
49 Like the study of
habitats
50 County in the
Bay Area
51 “Undo” mark
53 Bryn —, Pennsylvania 55 Info that’s not up to
date
57 Pub spigot
58 Preposterous
62 Domestic
household
63 Hit hard, as the
brakes
65 Airline to Copenhagen 66 Apnea-treating doc 67 Abel’s brother 69 Blacklisting org. of the
1940s-’50s
70 Petting zoo animals 73 2008-12 Mets pitcher
Santana
74 Roman 151
75 Suffix with planet
76 Petty quarrel
77 Eight: Prefix
81 Doled-out share
82 French inn
83 2021 is one
86 Diner list
87 Sale rack caveat
91 Pursued speedily
93 Key related to C major 95 Bungle
97 Lead-in to center or
dermis
98 Do lunch
100 Gift for music 101 Clunker
104 Wee bit
105 Note above fa 107 Very strong
108 One of a bowler’s
targets
109 “Horrible” cartoon
Viking
110 Actress Kemper 111 Fire alert
112 Credit card lure 117 — -Chinese
119 God, to Gigi
120 Inquires
121 Some blue jeans 123 Brazilian city,
in brief
125 Hamelin pest
126 Slice of time
127 Yale attendee 128 Pi-sigma link