PREMIER CROSSWORD / TAKEN IN
ACROSS
1 Alabama city
6 Change to fit
11 Kind of port on a PC
14 Seizes the attention of 19 Follow behind
20 First half of an album 21 Salada drink
22 Roll back to 0
23 “Hitchin’ —” (1970 hit) 24 U.S. version of a cue
sport
27 Argonauts’ quest
29 Screening airport gp. 30 Lead-in for Rooter or
tiller
31 Israel’s main airline
32 Motorist’s 180, slangily 33 Common seabird with
black wingtips
36 Doc wielding a penlight 38 Chou En- —
40 “— la vista!”
41 — Aviv
42 Chess piece four squares from the king at the start of the game
47 Alternatives to inns
49 Wife’s father, e.g.
50 Left on the dinner table 52 Arid African expanse 56 Small drinks
57 Keep — profile
58 Egypt’s Anwar
61 Experts
62 Mooing herd
64 Cars move up and
down in it
68 Fleur-de- —
69 “Yes, yes!,” in Spain
71 Land in the ocean, to
Yvette
72 Iraq’s locale
73 Group of two
74 Certain injury from an
arachnid
78 Gives 10% to the
church
80 See 96-Down
81 Dragster fuel
82 Guesses at JFK or SFO 84 Iowa city
86 Printed notice with no
pictures
89 Newly capped tire
91 Makes a sock, say
92 Old buddies
95 Inmate who’s broken
out
97 African cobra
100 Staples Center, e.g. 101 “Aw, shucks!” 102 Pantry pest
103 Baby who doesn’t need a pacifier, perhaps
106 Actor Mineo
108 Spoken
112 Sorvino of
“Mimic”
113 I love, to Livia 114 It connects to a car engine’s water pump
118 People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle
121 Barbera’s collaborator in cartoons
122 Borden’s
“spokescow”
123 Actor Romero 124 Common
bellybutton
125 Rear- — (car
accident)
126 Banana oil or
benzoate
127 Secret U.S.
govt. group
128 Big name in
insurance
129 Deck out
DOWN
1 Rocket part
2 Flynn of old
Hollywood 3 Boxer Ali 4 Iraq’s locale 5 Sheltered from
the wind 6 “Have — trip” 7 How faint memories are
recalled 8 “Zip- — -Doo-dah” 9 Father, in French 10 Chinese calisthenics
system
11 Thespian great Hagen 12 Popular Nissans 13 Certain guitar player 14 Miracle- — 15 Corporate shake-up,
for short 16 Invite on a date 17 Scarab, e.g. 18 Leisurely walk 25 2.0 grade 26 French edict city of old 28 Granola bits
34 “Help Me, —” (1965 hit) 35 Fancy party
37 Boise-to-spokane dir. 38 Lerner’s collaborator in
musicals
39 Wanted-poster abbr. 42 Grafton’s “— for
Quarry”
43 Single-wheeled circus
prop
44 U.S.-MEX. border city 45 Gives a judgment about 46 “Dogtown” singer Yoko 47 Paradise
48 Persian king
51 “The Hollow Men” poet 53 Scholastic
54 Simply won’t
55 Apropos of
57 Et — (and others)
59 Week- — -glance
60 Mexican dish 63 Baking qty.
65 Petrol quantities
66 Jacob of social reform 67 Roosted
68 Exam for future attys. 70 “Here Comes the Hotstepper” singer — Kamoze
75 Campus mil. group
76 Hair highlight
77 Gaggle birds
79 Like direct combat
83 Sea- — Airport
85 IRS form info
87 Iraqi, for one
88 Back fish fin
90 Singer Des’—
91 Jeong of “The
Hangover”
93 Liselotte of the LPGA 94 Revenues 96 With 80-Across, Silicon
Valley city
97 PIN money?
98 Hucksters’ helpers
99 Stickler
101 The “g” of e.g.
104 Ike’s wife
105 Screw up
106 Glossy fabric
107 Bewildered
109 Concerto part
110 Actor Ed
111 Get versed in
115 Sup stylishly
116 Lacks being
117 Emu relative
119 Slangy suffix
with “two”
120 Gp. for tooth drillers