PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 Short leaps 5 “No — español” 10 Crammed 16 — Paulo 19 Milky gem 20 Like much pond scum 21 Shoelace tips 22 Feeling sick 23 Luciano Pavarotti had a famous one 25 Verity or falsity of a proposition 27 Gershwin or Glass 28 Physics Nobelist Niels 29 Maine city 30 Camera part 31 Choosing a “lesser evil” candidate at the polls 35 Central rd. through town 37 Moral climate 38 Bana of “Troy” 39 Scary ghost, say 40 Encounter 41 Any of 12 spinal bones 46 Couple 47 Advocate of a lawless state, archaically 48 Document allowing passage through a country 55 Phillies’ div. 56 Astrologer Sydney 61 Clevelander, e.g. 62 Faux pas at a dinner table 64 “My Baby” rapper of 2001 66 Fisher’s lure 67 Creeper in the bignonia family 71 Football player Junior 72 Types, as data 74 Ample, in dialect 75 Cooling appliance, in brief 77 Singer Lewis 78 E. Coast ocean 80 Amount of seawater that periodically rises 83 One feeling sympathy 86 Bank claim 87 Fastest speed of a freely falling object 94 Twirl 98 Six Nations members 99 Festive party 100 School, in Somme 101 Finally 102 Central cavity of the brain 107 Did pool laps 108 Black-and-white cookies 109 Alternative to Levi’s 110 Large Brit. lexicon 111 Lower-leg blood vessel 114 10 things featured in this puzzle? 117 Dir. from Ariz. to Ky. 118 “Burnt” color 119 Cries loudly 120 Castle trench 121 Playa — Rey 122 Paper Mate competitor 123 Amtrak train 124 Norway port DOWN 1 Huge seller 2 Function 3 Spirited style 4 — -pitch 5 Ruination 6 Hawaii “hi” 7 Female rap fan 8 Fond du — 9 Heady quaff 10 “Hud” actress Neal 11 “Glee” actress Dianna 12 Held tightly 13 Like a very low-carb diet 14 Archaic verb ending 15 “seaQuest —” (1990s series) 16 Feature of the word “thumb” 17 Father or son auto-racing star 18 Fake fat 24 MLB stats 26 Flared skirt 29 Of the ear 32 Little tyke 33 Edition: Abbr. 34 “... cup — cone?” 35 Podcaster Maron 36 Writer 39 Found on this page 41 Sullies 42 Huge seller 43 Redenbacher of popcorn, for short 44 Erin Burnett’s channel 45 Frankie with a falsetto 46 Ad Council ad, e.g. 48 Sauna wear 49 Arles’ river 50 — -surface missile 51 All-female club’s policy 52 Classic PC 53 Apartment building VIP 54 “— we all?” 57 City in Iraq 58 “Would you like to see —?” (waiter’s question) 59 Draw a better bead on 60 Path 63 Spitting sound 65 “Megan —” (2017 biopic) 68 Lassos 69 Up to such time as 70 Hook-and-ladder co. 73 Canoeist’s challenge 76 Scam 79 Bible book after Exod. 81 Foe of Liston 82 Enkindled 84 — the finish 85 Wider than local 87 Saluted prior to drinking 88 Interweave 89 Tag anew 90 Florida port 91 Filmmaker — von Trier 92 Antiquated 93 Cleveland hoopster 94 Chem., e.g. 95 Pennsylvania resort range 96 Not lawful 97 Really must 100 Once, once 102 Ex-senator Lott 103 Poet Heinrich 104 Kemper of “The Office” 105 Sam of “Dead Calm” 106 Thompson of “Selma” 108 Broiler, e.g. 112 African viper 113 False story 114 Bygone Pan Am rival 115 Wet/dry — 116 “As I see it,” to a texter