San Francisco Chronicle (Sunday)
PREMIER CROSSWORD PUzzLE
ACROSS
1 Outermost layers 9 Most current
15 Tips, as one’s hat 20 “Yes, it’s obvious” 21 Artemis’ twin
22 Bow missile 23 TNIOPWEIV
25 Gaze
26 Web selling
27 Joking sort
28 Stew globule
30 2021 U.S. Open
champion Raducanu 31 Bern’s river
33 “Auld Lang —” 35 TNEMPIUQE
39 Rely on
42 1998 Masters
champion Mark 44 Beach sites 45 HTWORG
50 Eases
51 “Ex’s & —” (2014 Elle
King hit)
52 Toronto loc.
53 Ruby and garnet 57 Large crucifix
58 PDQ cousin
60 Scale amts.
61 Creepy
62 Stew or coffee
holder
64 DOIREP
69 Sweet bun
73 Minor error
Was a threat to POLFPILF
“My Gal —” (classic song) S-shaped moldings Fizzle out
Not at all firm Has no entity Belgian river Part of SPF Grayish hue
Ebb ECNADIUG
— Harum (“A Whiter Shade of Pale” band) Truly loves Filmmaker Jonathan or Ted
103 LAISUM
106 Gab
109 Old Russian space
station
110 Shoemakers’ tools 111 — chi
112 China’s Long March leader Authoritative declarations
One of the singing Braxtons TIUCRIC Bother badly Affected sort Small naval vessel group
Shell out 74 75 78
79 80 81 83 87 88 89 92 94 97
101 102
114
117
119 125 126 127
128 129 Suddenly regain
focus
130 Kind of bicycle
DOWN
1 [not my error]
2 GI tour gp.
3 She played Frigga in
2011’s “Thor”
4 Sci-fi bounty hunter
Boba
5 Razor brand
6 Spiced teas 7 Prematurely
8 Pigs’ place 9 California wine area 10 Monument
inscription 11 Finished first 12 NFLer Apple 13 Skiing locale 14 Printer ink 15 Wagner’s “—
Rheingold”
16 Big name in taco
shells
17 Encloses in a border 18 Layout
19 Vows
24 “You — one!” 29 Sporty scarf
31 Doing battle 32 Retort to “Am not!” 34 Says “OK” to
nonverbally
36 Long stretches 37 U-Haul unit
38 Long stretch 40 “Five-card” or
“seven-card” game 41 Erstwhile flight inits. 43 Prefix with skeleton 46 Christie of mysteries 47 Dwelling place:
Abbr.
48 “Licence to Kill”
actress Talisa
49 “To recap ...”
53 Take revenge 54 Stonestreet of
“Modern Family” 55 Light coin
56 Bird feed bit 59 Throb
60 Brown songbirds 61 Poet — St. Vincent
Millay
63 “Love Me, I’m a
Liberal” singer Phil 65 J. Cole’s music 66 “Consider This”
network
67 “— recall ...”
68 Curl up cozily
69 Guy into hip-hop, in
old slang
70 Tattered garb 71 Slush Puppie
alternative
72 Finish
76 Prehistoric beast, in
brief 77 Simple card game 82 Not at all near 84 Safe to take a dip in,
say
85 Tennis player Osaka 86 Jazz pianist McCoy 88 Break up
89 Page or gofer
90 Exit angrily
91 — Majesty
93 Kind of PC screen 94 Comic punch
response
95 Devoid of joy 96 Indoor design 97 China pieces 98 Cover again, as a gift 99 In recent days 100 Diagnostic med.
image
104 Lawmen Wyatt and
Virgil
105 Use as a bed
107 Confuse
108 Attach with string,
e.g.
113 Farm-related prefix 115 Army beds
116 Voyage
118 “— be a pleasure” 120 Airport uniform
abbr.
121 Sales agt.
122 To the rear
123 Land in eau
124 Itty-bitty bit