PREMIER CROSSWORD

INITIAL WORKS

ACROSS 1 Japanese verse 6 Milky white

gem 10 Memo opening 14 “Eight Is Enough” actor Willie

19 Game show announcer Johnny 20 Novelist Victor 21 Have a bawl 22 Freshly firm 23 Comedy that should have starred W.C. Fields?

26 Big town, in Italian 27 Sorority “T” 28 With 103-Down, parked it, so to speak 29 Televises 30 Ejection 31 Modus — 33 Novel that should have been written by T.S. Eliot? 35 Hosp. parts 36 Some pizzas 38 Purge 39 Romantic comedy that should have starred B.D. Wong? 43 Épée, say 45 Ethyl ender 46 “Sprechen — Deutsch?” 47 “Very funny!” 50 Yes, in Ypres 51 Tree juices

55 Harpoon, e.g. 57 Off- — -wall

59 Drama that should have starred E.G. Marshall? 62 Muscular power 64 Calgary’s province 67 Roof tiles 68 City in Italy or California 69 Song that should have been sung by B.B. King? 72 Roasting rod 73 Baseball game part 75 Catches slyly 76 See 70-Down 78 Pamphlet that should have been written by C.S. Lewis? 81 Pull sharply 83 Kitten sound 84 Lamb raisers 85 Gorged on 86 Golfing unit 89 Depot abbr. 91 José’s “day” 92 Nerd’s kin 94 Song that should have been sung by B.J. Thomas? 97 Most hip 101 St. Francis’ birthplace 104 Comp — 105 Memoir that should have been written by A.A. Milne? 107 Bible book after Ezra 112 Soprano Nilsson 113 Michael of “Superbad” 114 Ex-veep Stevenson 115 Raptors’ org.

116 Some Afrikaners

117 Piece that should have been composed by J.S. Bach? 120 Atlas closeup 121 Tehran’s land 122 Meadows 123 In good pitch 124 Twisty turns 125 Motown’s Marvin

126 Dunaway of “Chinatown”

127 Exacting DOWN

1 Instructional book

2 Take — of faith

3 Give credit where credit —

4 Walloped in a boxing ring 5 One-piece bodysuits 6 George Burns film 7 Mischievous 8 Taj Mahal locale 9 Mauna — 10 Spinning 11 Female futurist 12 Short-winded 13 Photo — 14 Impeached 15 Defunct record label 16 Glove’s kin 17 Acid-alcohol compounds 18 Not dense 24 Stoppage of a plaintiff’s legal action 25 Satirist Mort 30 Well drillers 32 Bro., for one 33 Writer Janowitz 34 Scrub clean 37 — -jongg 39 Mrs. Truman 40 Thus far 41 Morgan Freeman film

42 Post- op program 44 Affliction 48 Chamomile drink, maybe

49 Temple table 51 Bite quickly

52 Way of thinking 53 A South African capital 54 Pt. of TBS

56 Makes hazy 58 Em lead-in 60 Poet Angelou 61 Too

63 Big tippler 65 “Muy —” (Spanish for “very good”)

66 Teeny- tiny 70 With 76-Across, choose not to take part in 71 Customary 73 Driving peril 74 Chews on 77 Tarkenton of football 79 Nixes a dele 80 Wide shoe width 82 “The Firm” novelist John

87 Hitters’ stats 88 Put down, to P. Diddy 90 Sales slips 92 Takes off a roster

93 Wages before overtime 95 Lohan of film 96 Funny Carrey 97 Hack driver 98 Edible bulbs 99 Cruel woman 100 Stowe’s slave owner Simon 102 Sacred place 103 See 28-Across 106 Infiniti rival 108 “Family Ties” mom 109 Hole- — 110 “Li’l —” 111 “The Creation” composer 114 District 117 Lively dance 118 Pixieish sort 119 Crude house