PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Swing by

6 Sop up

12 Fez or beret

15 General — chicken 19 Preface

20 “Hello” singer Lionel 21 Santa — winds

22 Eight, in Berlin 23 Alternative to potstickers 26 Trevi Fountain city

27 Golf prop

28 Requiring lots of attention 29 L-P linkup

30 “— Up My Heart” (1997 *NSYNC song)

32 Call before the court 35 Touchy topic

37 Skit-filled NBC show, in brief

38 Texas-Louisiana border river

41 Three, in Paris

42 H.G. Wells’ Doctor Moreau, e.g.

46 Penetrating

47 Get older

50 Give off

51 Shaggy’s nickname for his dog

52 Pollen lover

53 Actress Perlman

54 “Life Is Good” rapper 55 Letter after pi

56 212 degrees Fahrenheit, for water

61 “Yup”

63 Big Apple sch.

66 Alpha Sig, e.g.

67 Speaks from a soapbox 68 Right after being baked 72 Fake: Prefix

75 Stalagmite site

76 Camera type, in brief 77 Acting award

81 Brand of hard cider 84 Google Play download 86 Tokyo sash

87 Prefix with byte or ton 88 Suffix with Euclid

89 An ex-Trump

92 Fix typos, say

93 Plus more: Abbr.

94 $5 bills, in slang 96 Intense controversy 99 “That doesn’t ring —”

101 Regressed

102 — -la-la

103 Group of warriors in “Kung Fu Panda”

106 Church part for the clergy

110 Chant

111 Boxing great

112 Flummoxed

115 Suffix with Motor

116 British prep school

117 Oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants

122 Swedish soprano Jenny 123 ’50s prez

124 — Mae (HUD corp.)

125 Yo-yo part

126 Lucy’s guy

127 Toon Flanders

128 Villains’ looks

129 What nine key words in this puzzle are synonyms of

DOWN

1 Panorama

2 Entomb

3 Navigate

4 A Gershwin brother 5 Male tabby

6 Eve of old TV

7 — one’s time

8 Missile in the Gulf War 9 “Heavens!”

10 Shred

11 — Stakes (horse race) 12 Kayak cousin

13 “Gemini Man” director Lee

14 Grazing land

15 “Proud Mary” star — P. Henson

16 Makes the Billboard Top 40, e.g.

17 Of a resistance unit 18 Artery insert

24 Like Brits

25 Pertaining to

31 Black, to Poe

33 Aide: Abbr.

34 U.S. “Ltd.”

35 Female sib

36 Dutch artist Jan

38 — -Cat

39 From — Z

40 Lettuce type

42 Option list

43 East Asian nanny 44 Platter

45 — Lodge (motel chain) 46 Actor Harvey

48 Heredity unit

49 Wolfs down

52 Malaise, with “the” 53 Horse colors

55 Little — (the Ocean State) 57 Proposal

58 Original NYC subway line 59 State exec.

60 Before surgery, in brief 62 “Star Trek” lieutenant 64 Agave plants

65 Salt Lake City native 69 Additionally

70 Fertilizable gametes 71 Chimp’s kin

72 Book division

73 Vexed state

74 Dairy case containers 78 Musical finale 79 Somewhat

80 Act of liturgy

82 Film units

83 Uses a trowel

85 Noodles in peanut sauce 90 Battle (for)

91 Additionally

92 Israel’s Abba

94 Vast stretch

95 Large tuna 96 Wild rants

97 Gorilla, e.g.

98 Historic time

100 Olympic swimmer Matt 101 Actress Taylor

103 Grazing land

104 De-knot

105 Renowned

106 Asteroid found in 1801 107 Chocolate drink

108 T-man Ness

109 Big dipper

112 Comic Meara

113 Rake prong

114 Mix, as paint

118 Luau guitar, for short 119 Martini liquor

120 Longtime CBS series 121 30-day mo.