The Spectrum & Daily News

SUNDAY PREMIER CROSSWORD

DROP OUT

- BY FRANK A. LONGO

ACROSS

1 Dish list

5 Attorney __

10 Tidies up with a broom 16 Even score

19 Salt Lake City team 20 Stock market disaster 21 Audrey of “Amélie” 22 Hostelry

23 Arrive like rain 25 Goof-ups

26 Many a pro bono TV ad

27 Enclose, as a yard 28 Fail to complete a task 31 Brand of candy wafers 34 Lose power 35 Considerin­g everything

36 Become a responsibi­lity for

44 Grove growth 45 1965-69 veep Humphrey

46 Simile center

47 “Veni,” in English 49 Home of the Dolphins 50 Blow it when success is very close

57 Bitter conflicts 59 Totally wreck

60 Navy leader

61 “Ararat” actor Koteas 64 Indian queen 66 Escargot

67 Poking tools

71 Stop being noticed 75 Spyro __ ( jazz group) 76 Pipeline problems 78 Boat deck wood 79 Suddenly bright stars 81 Stray

84 Say a Hail Mary, say 86 Considered comparable

91 Collapse

95 Fierce look

96 Holy city of Islam

97 __ -Z (totally)

98 __ Mae (loan offerer) 99 “Superfood” berry

102 Be overlooked

107 Flag sewer Ross

109 La.-to-Mich. dir.

110 Seize forcibly

111 Fizzle out, as an endeavor

116 New word

121 Bullfight cry

122 View with astonishme­nt

123 Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle?

126 Set- __ (sharp fights) 127 Car radiator protector

128 Baseball great Buck 129 Bubble maker

130 Rubble maker

131 Made tamperproo­f 132 Surprise attacks

133 Out of kilter

DOWN

1 Bungle

2 Raison d’__

3 Vegas light

4 Gomer Pyle’s org. 5 Most sore, as muscles 6 With 32-Down, Dick Tracy’s cover-up

7 __ Vegas

8 Query

9 “__ you do it?”

10 Baby on “Family Guy” 11 Time merged with it in 1990

12 Currency of Austria 13 Princely prep school 14 Left, at sea

15 Raw fish dish 16 Gratuity holder 17 Shoe part

18 Empower

24 Largest of the Canary Islands

29 Strange

30 Going into

32 See 6-Down

33 Kick out

36 Units of resistance 37 Opposite of day, in Dijon

38 Ski lift variety 39 Hot-rod engine

40 Oz lion portrayer Bert 41 Family gal

42 Bi- cubed 43 1982-2005 Saudi king 48 “__ the word” 50 “Likely story!”

51 Cries of discovery 52 Perjurer, e.g. 53 Former U.N. head Kofi 54 Hauling cart on a farm 55 Jungle den

56 “__ Enchanted” 58 “Xanadu” band, in brief

62 Astern

63 Curry of the NBA 65 Oath reply 67 Alan who played Pierce

68 Have a bawl

69 Soft rock?

70 Minor battle 72 Long-eared hopper 73 Rd. crossers

74 “Chi- __” (2015 Spike Lee film)

77 Fill up fully 80 Sweetums

82 Savoir faire

83 Engrave

85 “Awright!”

87 Penne __ vodka 88 Bath powder

89 Actor Estrada

90 Poor grades

92 Road goo

93 An Aleutian island 94 __ scale (mineral hardness gauge)

98 Executes a “Page Up,” e.g.

99 __ and Costello

100 Sri Lanka, formerly 101 Certify (to)

103 Red-tagged

104 Part of USA

105 H.S. proficienc­y exam 106 “The Father of Geometry”

108 Safe robbers, in slang 112 Suffix with silver or table

113 Capital of Samoa

114 Give a whoop

115 Get an __ effort

117 Apollo’s org.

118 State bluntly

119 Apparatus

120 Glimpse

124 Comedian Gasteyer 125 Luau handout

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