PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Sleep out in a tent
7 Nutrition std.
10 Fishing throw
14 Alpaca’s kin
19 “Moonlight” actress Harris
20 Suffix of element names
21 Analogy words 22 Ancient Athens or Sparta, e. g.
23 Construction vehicles with tilting beds
25 Chooses a finger over a pacifier
27 Before, in verse
28 “The Raven” writer
29 German art songs
30 Qatari capital
31 1920s-’ 30s American mobster
36 Young lady
38 “Bali --”
39 Slugger Gehrig
40 Plant swelling
42 How food is often fried
44 Title dragon of a ‘ 70s kids’ show
50 Silly sorts
53 French suffix with jardin
54 Neighbor of Venus
56 Fish- tailed males of myth
57 Hi- tech “appt. book”
58 Radical type
60 1040 org.
62 Suffix with ball or bass
63 Roman 901
66 Northern French river
68 Roofing piece
70 Essential ( to)
72 Stiff- bristled bath item
74 Dazed from a heavy blow
76 Incentive
77 GI no- shows
79 Small needle cases
80 Suffix with Canton
81 Turkey Day vegetable
82 GI R& R center
83 Racecar fuel
85 Articulate
87 River crafts
89 “Cool beans!”
91 Get weary
92 No- bake pie base
96 Some heirs’ cash sources
99 Concerning kidneys
100 Brooklyn art institute
102 Granola bit
103 Big bush bird
104 Apiece
107 Brand of popcorn with peanuts
114 Part of UTEP
116 Deep and hoarse, as a voice
118 -- de toilette
119 Hugs, in a love letter
120 “Painful to face the reality!”
122 Speechless from shock
126 Very mad
127 Actor Liu of “Shang- Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
128 Mined matter
129 S ance state
130 Stocking fiber
131 Padlock part
132 Oozy gunk
133 Alternatives to Cokes
DOWN
1 Stopped
2 Pacific island republic
3 Sky streaker
4 Band blaster
5 Sch. in Cambridge
6 According to
7 Big name in photocopiers
8 Blue Devils’ sch.
9 Mornings, in brief
10 Inhabitant
11 Tennis great Arthur
12 Seven- card poker variety, e. g.
13 Marisa of film
14 Vinyl albums, in brief
15 Booming
16 Liquor
17 Russia’s Gorbachev
18 Tears into
24 Scannable ID in a market
26 “It’s cold!”
29 U. K. “Inc.”
32 Sleuth’s aid
33 Great athletes get elected to it: Abbr.
34 54- Across orbits it
35 Headed out
37 Compared with
41 Daisy relatives, for short
43 Mother Teresa, e. g.
44 Place for a fanny pack
45 Censors, as part of a text
46 With 122- Down, rodent with a barklike cry
47 Ready
48 Ankle bone
49 Eurasian mountains
51 Horse to bust
52 Suffocate
55 Homer, e. g.
58 Not for sale
59 Matt of “Friends”
61 Taken- back auto, for one
63 Village People album with the song “Y. M. C. A.”
64 Kind of roof with four sloping sides
65 Sort
67 Addition total
69 “Eureka!” moments
70 As originally placed
71 Minions’ leader in “Despicable Me”
72 Fresno- to- L. A. dir.
73 Gossipy tidbit
75 Pertaining to an arm bone
78 Got the gold
82 Gorbachev’s fed.
84 How- -- ( DIY manuals)
86 “Of course!”
87 Nashville awards org.
88 Great elation
90 Rebuke to “Brute”
91 Ballet attire
92 Entered stealthily
93 Wed again
94 Anomalous
95 Affixes to a corkboard, e. g.
97 Cargo weight
98 Relatives, informally
101 Test out
105 Frau’s “Alas!”
106 Pulverize
108 Prefix with biology
109 Tiny role
110 Wheel middle
111 Verbs’ counterparts
112 Spherical bacteria
113 Improves superficially, with “up”
115 Filmmaker Preminger
117 24/ 7 sources of $ 20 bills
121 Cackling bird
122 See 46- Down
123 Inits. at Indy
124 Half of sei
125 Jay- Z’s genre