PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Bell sounds

6 Headwear for the slopes 12 Dinner, e.g.

16 Truckload

19 Politico Palin 20 14th-century sculptor Andrea

21 Impala, e.g.

23 Pairs figure skater who won 10 consecutive world titles [2014]

25 Frozen cube producer 26 Figure skater Michelle 27 “Hack My Life” channel 29 Pooh creator

30 Stimulus for a reaction 34 “The Greatest” boxer [1996]

36 Spanish gold

37 Alley Oop’s girlfriend 40 “Please reply” abbr. 41 Barrett of Pink Floyd 42 Australian sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters [2000]

46 Fabled man? 50 Confounded

51 Tiny division of a min. 52 First female figure skater to land a triple axel in competition [1998] 56 Sportscaster Bob 59 Nearly dried-up sea 61 Shot glass 62 Uninteresting

65 Prefix with athlete 66 Imitator

67 Opponent

68 Peace activist Yoko 69 What this puzzle’s featured athletes did in the years indicated

74 “As I see it,” to texters 75 O’er and o’er

76 Stared at

77 NHLer Bobby

78 “It comes — surprise ...” 79 It’s hit in a fiesta

81 Lavish dance 82 “Up in Smoke” persona 84 Phoenix Suns point guard who was the 2005 and 2006 NBA MVP [2010] 86 Not on time

88 Pope’s crown

92 Trial excuse

93 1950s-’60s champion decathlete [1984]

96 Here, in Paris

99 Icelandic literary saga

101 Some jazz combos

102 Solder metal

103 Alpine skier voted Canada’s female athlete of the 20th century [2010]

108 Salad endive

111 Go places

112 Monte —

115 Physically fit

116 All by oneself

118 Hockey player voted Canada’s male athlete of the 20th century [2010]

123 Windshield condensation clearer

124 Major South Korean airline

125 Twinkie filling

126 Suffix with Japan

127 Award for Mel Brooks 128 Hankered

129 Braga of film

DOWN

1 Sorority letter

2 Musical gift

3 Meyers of TV

4 Sri —

5 Wrap over the shoulders 6 Financial backer

7 Joke around

8 Lacks entity

9 What fur is

10 Per — (by the year) 11 Flawlessly

12 — tai

13 Slept in tents

14 Top players

15 Helping theorem 16 Writer Alice B. —

17 Not in private

18 Water nymph

22 Placed

24 Like a — sunshine 28 VCR format

30 — -Cola

31 “I smell —!”

32 Little children

33 Thing at the end of a foot 35 To no — (in vain) 38 Reduced by

39 “Botch- —” (1952 hit) 43 “Notorious” screenwriter Ben

44 Ex-Rocket Ming 45 Without instrumental backup

47 Stay a while

48 Large bay window 49 Porker

52 Artist Chagall

53 Some horror film helpers 54 Mortise insert

55 Maine city

57 Singer Gwen

58 Jogging gait

60 Actress Tara

62 Radar spots

63 Ceiling

64 Make up for

66 — nitrite (vasodilator) 67 Game similar to baccarat 70 Ritz or Hilton

71 “You bet!”

72 Social circle

73 Singer Bobby

80 Director DuVernay 81 Back of a 45

82 Suffix with prank or mob 83 Ordinal suffix

85 Scottish port on the North Sea

87 Sternward

89 Concerning

90 Muddy up

91 Diarist Frank 93 Skedaddled

94 Voicer of Olaf in “Frozen” 95 Award for Mel Brooks 96 Not outdoors

97 Brings about

98 Wages

100 Nov. follower

104 251, to Ovid

105 Matzo’s lack

106 Arrive at

107 Wipe clean

109 Baldwin and Waugh

110 Back in style

113 “You ain’t —!” (“Amen!”) 114 Put — act

117 Uninteresting

119 Arizona-to-Kansas dir. 120 Buddhist sect

121 Chiang — -shek

122 Singing Sumac