PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 He drew “Li’l Abner” 7 Stands up to 13 Disdainful lip-curler 20 Roving vacuum cleaner 21 Delphi diviner 22 Lilting song syllables 23 Big mollusk of Antarctic seas 25 Birds such as emus 26 Box gently 27 Golf stroke 28 Ending for enzymes 30 Cue or clue 31 From quite a distance 32 Big tree of California 37 Per routine 41 Super-slow 42 Red-haired biblical twin 43 Big dissimilarity 46 Rarely 51 “Bam!” chef Lagasse 52 Choler 53 Nashville’s Grand Ole — 55 Gutter place 56 Work over 57 Big fuss 58 Trump’s wife after Ivana 60 One laying down asphalt 61 Big project 66 “I’ve got it!” 69 Motor oil brand 70 Actress Meyers 71 W-2 org. 72 Boise-to-Las Vegas dir. 73 Big military counterstrike 80 Author Loos 81 Revolt 82 Cloud setting 83 Jazzy singer — James 87 Coke, e.g. 88 Deviate 89 Boxing legend 90 Knocks off 92 — Nevadas 94 Big job 98 “Nay” caller 100 Slaughter of baseball 101 Categorizes 102 Big pickup in an exhibition 107 Pot builder 108 See 86-Down 109 Yank’s home 110 Nativity scene trio 111 Gulf country 115 Facial looks 118 Big home loan 123 Hillary’s peak 124 Kindle 125 More greasy 126 Snuggles 127 Robbing jobs 128 Requisite

DOWN

1 Pop-up paths 2 Lariat end 3 Coke, e.g. 4 Love, in Peru 5 “NewsHour” network 6 Two-choice grading system 7 Melancholy 8 Once, in the past 9 E-help sheet 10 Hosp. section 11 Drug mogul Lilly 12 Biggish car 13 PTSD part 14 Big D.C. lobby 15 Dig into 16 Former state secretary Root 17 Secant, e.g. 18 1985 Kate Nelligan drama 19 Worshiper of Jah, in brief 24 “Two and — Men” 29 Church part 31 Q7 carmaker 32 “Friday the 13th” staple 33 Eisenhower, informally 34 Objectivist Rand 35 Unhurried 36 “— Sera, Sera” 37 State firmly 38 Unaltered 39 Well-trodden 40 Thurmond of politics 41 Ross of politics 44 Classic canine name 45 Power strip attachment 47 Plumbing problem 48 Bette of film 49 Cakes bake in them 50 Form a union 54 Infrequently seen thing 57 Coulomb per second 58 Big wall painting 59 Deep blue dye 60 El —, Texas 62 Big continent 63 “Scream” network 64 Totally dislike 65 Prefix with oxide 66 Heap up 67 Capital northeast of Vientiane 68 Parenthetical remark 74 Symbol on many flags 75 Gives off again 76 River in Spain 77 Rizzoli’s TV partner 78 Similar (to) 79 “Nifty!” 84 Russian ruler of yore 85 PSAT part 86 With 108-Across, demands much (of) 88 Fan blade 89 Hectically 90 Skillet alloy 91 Apart from that 93 Squealer 95 Opposite of old, in Ulm 96 Pop’s bro 97 Dance that “takes two” 99 Believes (in) 102 Master 103 Antipasto bit 104 Snouts, e.g. 105 Opening 106 Kingly Indian 107 Willie of “Charles in Charge” 110 Over half 111 Stare at rudely 112 — of honor 113 “A Death in the Family” writer James 114 Uncool type 116 Salon stuff 117 Suffix of dialects 119 Ending with script 120 Me, to Fifi 121 Greyhound fleet unit 122 Game draw