PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Jacob bought his birthright 5 City in Pennsylvania 12 Hooting avian

15 Factory type

19 Pibb — (soda brand) 20 Kenya’s capital

21 Foot digit

22 Vicinity

23 U.S. president ordering steeds to turn right?

26 Have a strong desire 27 Ending for cyan28 Turns sharply

29 Winter footwear item 30 Styx and The Stones 31 More suspicious 33 Inclined positions

35 “Da Ali G Show” star — Baron Cohen

36 Taken in food 37 Women’s suffragist keeping an apiary?

42 I, to Freud

44 Speak wildly 45 “Absolutely not!” 46 “Dallas” actress fancying blue birds?

53 Lumber tool 54 Underworld

55 Disprove

56 Otherwise called, in brief 57 Some city planners

60 Big, ornate cupboard 62 Send off

63 Historic time

64 Tuskegee University founder steeping beverages? 71 Kitten’s call

72 Gal pal, in Paris 73 Receptacle in a kitchen sink

75 Trees with very light wood

78 Performed

79 Car parker

82 Road runner

83 Fruit drink

84 “Hidden Figures” actress growing podded vegetables? 87 Placed in a carafe 91 “Point taken”

92 — Lanka

93 Sci-fi writer going on cruises?

98 Split-off religions

102 New Hampshire city 103 Quiet spells

104 Govt. aid for a start-up 106 Ballet dancer’s rail

107 Lamarr of old films

108 Coup — (overthrow) 110 Rosemary player Farrow

111 “SOS” quartet

112 “Gone With the Wind” producer piling up debt?

116 Hog’s food

117 “Is” pluralized

118 One ousted

119 Have a strong desire

120 Voluptuous

121 Have a strong desire

122 Deep bows of respect 123 They precede omegas

DOWN

1 Many an alimony recipient 2 Sports domes

3 Haul in

4 Old Egypt-Syr. alliance 5 Year, in Paris

6 Pilsners, e.g.

7 Arena section

8 Mined metals

9 “Ni-i-i-ice!”

10 Spurs’ gp.

11 Website for finding homestays

12 Lazy or useless

13 Refuses to

14 Table support

15 Old Testament prophet 16 Steam locomotive, in old lingo

17 Listen supportively 18 Dawdles 24 Show clearly

25 Heap affection (on) 30 Swung sticks 32 Generational treasures 33 “— talk?” (Joan Rivers catchphrase)

34 Prefix with discrimination

35 — -cone

38 Europe-Asia border river 39 “Don’t — didn’t warn you!”

40 Runner or writer Packer 41 Conifers with red arils 43 Israelites

46 Old TV’s “— Na Na” 47 Basil or sage

48 Sailor’s saint

49 Razz

50 Tibetan monk

51 Pair for the slopes 52 Sacred vow

57 Summits

58 Assns.

59 Novelist Hawthorne 61 Big furniture retailer 62 She baas

65 “And there you have it!” 66 Muslim ruler

67 Verdi opera

68 It’s a thought

69 Musical work 70 Post-WWII alliance 74 Prefix with discrimination

75 “Ali — and the Forty Thieves”

76 Cutely nerdy, in slang 77 Format for presenting films in video form 79 Stamps on passports 80 Copycat

81 Onion relative

84 NFL goals

85 Jack’s hill-climbing partner

86 Counterfeit

88 Remedial regimen 89 Debussy’s “Clair de —” 90 Before, to Browning 94 High dice roll 95 Quattro carmaker 96 Astronomer Tombaugh and aviator Cessna 97 Value highly

99 Funnies

100 Meditative Chinese martial art

101 Some reptiles

105 Cubes of hay

106 Perch’s kin

107 Rabbit’s kin

108 Ten: Prefix

109 This, in Spain

112 24-hour span

113 Lab eggs

114 Actor Wheaton

115 Short snooze