PREMIER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Affliction 7 Really shout 13 Wine vessels 20 One of the Nixon daughters 21 — Vision (eye care chain) 22 Weird sort 23 Serious crime 24 Carol about holiday cheese? 26 Strip of weapons

27 “... or — thought” 28 Look as if 29 Trickle out 30 Guy who can do any interweaving style? 35 Ribeye, e.g. 36 Particular mag. edition 37 Writer Anaïs 38 With 60-Down, BB gun 39 Sorority “T” 41 “This tastes way better than coffee, tea or ale”? 50 Toon pics 53 Suffix with southwest 54 Spring month 55 Comfortable 56 Czar who was not inordinately cruel? 62 “Look!,” in Latin 63 Person being examined 64 “What kind of fool —?”

65 Set sail 68 122-Down officer: Abbr. 69 Doughnut filling that’s an exchanged commodity? 74 Wane 77 Easily available 79 Petri dish site 80 Got totally used up

82 Tennis great Nastase 84 Politician Gary propping himself up against something? 89 Actress Helena — Carter 92 Verdi’s “— tu” 93 Prefix with chic or resort 94 2010 Apple debut 95 Enigmatic clodhopper casting spells? 101 Bride’s vow 102 Wye follower 103 List-curtailing abbr.

104 Anna of fashion 107 Light lunch, maybe 111 People purchasing decorative rolling car parts? 117 Israeli carrier 118 Touch on 119 Talking- — (lectures) 120 Canine cord 121 Tall fence surrounding a pugnacious dog? 126 Improvise 127 Forms a liking for 128 Brezhnev of Russia 129 Kazakhstan’s capital, until 2019

130 “It finally makes sense” 131 “The Munsters”

actress De Carlo 132 Less fresh

DOWN

1 Peak near Tokyo: Abbr. 2 Concert sites 3 Purple flowers 4 “Put — in it!” 5 Dandie — (dog breed) 6 “Hurray!” 7 Tape holder 8 Filmdom’s — B. DeMille 9 “Hurray!” 10 Be off-base 11 Boxer Laila 12 Soccer star Lionel 13 Shows up for 14 Actor Sandler 15 Aves. 16 Main monk 17 Denmark’s — Islands 18 Fictional Doolittle 19 Streamlined 25 Poet Hughes 27 South Carolina river

31 Hi- — (stereos) 32 Tote or duffel 33 “— Bravo” 34 Nice scent 35 Hard fat 40 Atty.’s org. 41 Has no life 42 Eye, to poets 43 An hour past midnight

44 Pat lightly 45 President after Harrison 46 Ale relative 47 Incurred a lot of, as debt 48 Key on a PC 49 Tiny 50 Quote

51 In a dead heat 52 Roping in 57 High- — 58 Ares’ mother 59 Livy’s “I love” 60 See 38-Across 61 Pro at CPR 66 Polar hazard 67 Bedouin, e.g. 70 Doc who may scrape wax 71 “Abou Ben —” (Leigh Hunt poem) 72 Sheep cry 73 “Li’l” guy 75 La — Tar Pits

76 Longtime senator Robert

78 Soda brand 81 Depilatory brand 82 “Big Blue” 83 Mauna — 85 Suffix with cook or trick 86 “Totentanz” composer Franz 87 Acutely cold 88 Coveted annual prizes

90 Part of DNA 91 Irate

96 Illegal punch

97 One of 18 on a course

98 “So icky!” 99 Gambling site, for short 100 Optometrist, oldstyle 104 Action hero Steven

105 Like grizzlies and kodiaks 106 Hoffman/Beatty film

107 Three more than quadri108 Fake name

109 Hanukkah potato treat 110 Pulitzer winner Edward 112 Central point 113 Milan’s land 114 Had a meal at home 115 One-named singer of “Royals” 116 Gossipy type 118 Choir female 122 Adm.’s milieu 123 Charge (up) 124 Aussie leaper 125 Resting place 126 Had life