Premier Sunday Crossword February 19, 2023 Answers

1. NATO has a special one for spelling out words over the radio 9. Architectural wings 13. Provo people 20. In a lying, faceup position 22. Kind of energy 23. Moniker for novelist Ernest 25. Dig up 26. Apt. overseer 27. Yoko of music and art 28. Singer Waters 30. Puente of mambo 31. Road coater 34. Weed B- — 36. Marriott, e.g. 39. Doesn’t lack 42. Often-dried fruit 44. Diarist Anaïs 46. “Caveman diet” 47. Messy roommate on “The Odd Couple” 51. Dune locale 56. Chicago hub 57. Dot on some transit maps 59. Gave a coif 60. Suffer ruin 62. Admonish 65. “Hello” singer 66. Cast off skin 68. 1992 Guns N’ Roses hit 70. Extermination target 73. Civil rights icon Parks 76. Hoagies 77. Extermination targets 78. Method of measuring ocean depth 83. Boy actor in 1937’s “Elephant Boy” 85. Raccoon kin 86. Alluring attributes 89. “No doubt!” 93. Trig topics 95. Dependent 97. — -ground missile 98. Barely beats 101. Doing certain ballroom moves 103. Spanish bar appetizers 105. Born, to Luc 106. Plant pouch 107. — Zedong 108. Very thin material for book pages 113. Steelers’ gp. 115. Mu — pork 117. Normandy city 118. Doctrine 120. Internet ID 126. One revising something 129. Portrayer of Jax Teller on “Sons of Anarchy” 133. Act as arbiter 134. Symbol of innocence 135. Brazil’s largest city 136. Soul 137. Amply skilled 138. Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle

1. Deadly vipers 2. Island feast 3. Musical mark for “extremely softly” 4. “Drive South” singer John 5. Le Duc — (1992-97 president of Vietnam) 6. Nectar lover 7. Sailors’ saint 8. Knotting up 9. Ovum 10. Actor Rob 11. Averse (to) 12. Whale’s half-rise out of the water 13. Island guitar 14. “Sn” element 15. Suffix with prop- 16. Shrubland 17. Sunny lobbies 18. Mafia’s Frank 19. “Danke —” 24. Around 12 p.m. 29. Greek H’s 32. In a new way 35. Sentra maker 37. Grasslands 38. Actor sharing top billing 39. Backboard attachment 40. Tennis’ Arthur 41. Injury vestige 43. Yak it up 45. “That’s false!” 48. Pupil of Plato 49. French noble 50. Rule for homework time, perhaps 52. Operated by water under pressure 53. Brand of fat substitute 54. Ignited anew 55. Blissful sites 58. Bakery buys 61. Hoagie 63. Coll. in Dallas 64. Wanes 67. Football’s Flutie 69. Hollywood’s Morales 70. Praline bit 71. Cut-rate, in adspeak 72. Thick carpets 74. Show filmed at 30 Rock 75. Hebrew month 79. Daytime nap 80. “How — Your Mother” 81. Pitcher Ryan 82. African nation whose capital is Conakry 84. Boil briefly 87. Very angry 88. — -Caps 90. Hat edge 91. Italian peak 92. African nation whose capital is Lomé 94. Lava or Dial 96. NFL scores 99. Stymied 100. Sticky stuff 102. Some small batteries 104. Japanese green tea 108. “Veni,” translated 109. Monikers 110. Skillful feats 111. Navel type 112. Fixed-up building 114. Brittle 116. Arm bones 119. Like giraffes 121. Emmy winner Remini 123. “Sometimes you feel like —” 124. African nation whose capital is Bamako 125. Coll. hotshot 127. Football’s Marino 128. Lister’s abbr. 130. Caviar source 131. “Yoo- —!” 132. 1995-2006 TV channel